The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1875-05-08
Our Home Situation.


The course Of the TiRdicator lu-
ring the time of the efforts to bring
about an adjustment of the difficult
ties under which our State had suf-
fcred so long. was what we consider
cd to be for the true interest of our
people. We think it to be our duty
to now inform our friends that we
fail to sec any point for them, in this
compromise business, and Kellogg
has gone from bad to worse in his
appointments for ,parochial and city
officers for Natclitochcs. The wishes
Of the taxpayer has not been con-
suited, in fact, his treatment of the
white citizens Of this parish has been
insulting in the extreme. Our rcti.
tons, remonstrances and just rights,
have been received with GOODNESS,
or have been UNDECIDED.
The removal or attempted removal,
Of the lawfully elected and commission
ed Police Jury, is the straw that broke
the Cancels back, and now Mr.. Kel-
logg is at direct issue with our peo
ple-an issue we have tried to avert !;
have warned him and his friends what
would occur, and now he and they
can make the most of it. The Payne
Police Jury shalt serve, and the De-
Vargas city government UUl be H.
s;a11co, nor will any attention be paid
to any other by the people.
All along for almost year past,
we have told Gov. Kellogg and these
people, that we intended to protect
ourselves from the spoilation of the
Radical plundcrers, and that deter
mination is fixed. In the interest of
peace and to carry on our part of the
adjustment, We have not acted in on.
position to the appointments made
for this paisl', but when it is attempt-
ed to foist upon lis an ignorant Po-
lice Jury, and 4 direct eudeayor is
made to take from Us the control of
our municipal affairs, it hears upon
its face the intention to plumber, and
we intend 10 prerent evils this time,
not to cure them as we did before.
All these acts, totally unbcconling
any party or any individual who de-
size good government and a quiet
situation Of affairs, tend only to ex.
aspemte the white people, and \ is
our solemn conviction that the day
Of the rule of the besotted and the
ignorant has ended. The white citi-
zen who is the representative of the
wealth and Intelligence Of the coun-
try must be consulted, and unless we
mistake the temper of our people,
they Mow intend to force Gov. Kellogg
to pay heed to those circumstances
they have so long and so vainly stroye
to bring to his mind.
Blunt and Pierson may run Natclli-
toches parish, but we doubt it very
much, and they will have an oppor-
tunity very shortly to determine the
extent to which the whitc people Of
Natchitoches rill yicla.
a people cxasperated by tie ipjus.
ticc Of such men, insulted, lied about,
plundered, are not in a fl mood to-
be trifled with, and we say, and do
50 calmly and after much reflection,
that attention, serious attention, had
better he paid to our demands me
ask nothing but justice, and as a,fsee,
enlightened and intelligent people,
IRE intend to assert those demands.
lfreform is can't and means a change
of robbers, it is we'll we should know
it at once 81 that we may "sit our
house 10 order" to meet the invaders;
50 far, the miserable farce Of adjust.
ment has been amusing, but tho play
has worked itself into a serious fea-
ture, and when the result is fully
shown to the people, Natchitoches
will do as she did in 1874, take care
Ut her own interest, and protect her
own people at whatsoever cost.
The action nf fav cnlinctor Ducl