The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1875-03-27
Our Self Denial.

We Of Louisiana in accepting the
result of the arbitration Of the House
Committee place ourselves before the
American people in stronger light
than before, much as our situation
then demanded their sympathy and
assistance, for we submit to tho pres
cnt condition of things to escape the
threats of worse to come, knowing
that a people, and especially ours,
who have suffered and borne 50 much,
cannot lie induced to quietly and
without resistance yield to the taunts,
threats and violence Of the Federal
government, which has with low and
spccious cowarlice and for party
ends, dragosned over, not only us but
tho whole South; in fact the admins
tration III its conduct towards Lou
isiana has exhibited all that mean,
malicious and grovelling spirit which
has for ages characterized the people
in whose veins flow the rich ~ blood
Of the high minded Puritans.
We are satisfied that the President
would not stop short Of our utter an
initiation to accomplish the end the
party he represents has in view.
The world is apt to place a wrong
construction upon the motives which
actuate the Republican party in
Southern legislation; no feeling 50
generous as that Of real sympathy for
the poor negro prompts them to the
enactment of Civil Rights bills, that
may the utteranee of their lips DO but
buried in the cayerns of their hearts !;
hearts callOus to every feeling of mer-
cy to a former foe whom they have in
their power, and hearts full of cring-
ing, fawuing subserylency to any
thing like power that will cost them
money to oppose is that bitter and
malignant hatred to the South and
her white people. This, and this
alone, is the "ruling PASSION that
brings forth the mean and lying
utterances of a Morton and the
"sheet-iron thunder" of a Logan.-the
last in war to buckle on his sword
and the first in peace to cry murder.
1t is true that We might contend
against this ''sea of troubles and by
opposing end them," but we have
ties and interest which demand at our
hands q sacrifice of our feelings, and
we foreso further active resistance,
not from feelings of the unjustness of
the cause, but for fear of the issue of
a dead future, whose results we
"know not Of" .
Louisiana bound hand and foot,
and subject to the outrageous pillage
Of a mercenary horde of thieves back
ed by the strong arm Of a protecting
government, was q sublime specta-
Gle, but Louisiana, feeling in her
heart of hearts she can no longer
peaceably resist the minions who de-
grade and insult her-Louisiana, then
quietly submitting is a spectacle, we'll
worthy tho consideration and ap-
plause of the world, and impartial
history will vindicate the business of
her claims, and Heaven the mercy Of
her conclusion.
Over US stands Grant, tho Constltu-
tional representative of the people,
with the drawn sword of extermina.
lion, and We a. Americans, are left but
the choice to submit or be destroyed /;
We have reached the wall, and one
more stab would bring armed resist.
ance, which the demagogues Of the
North would DO but too happy to use
as the ''first gun at Sumpter," to ride
again into power through seas of
blood.
After having passed through tho
trying and troublesome scenes of the
past six years, our people arc deter.
mined to leave no action untried to
ecure themselves the blessing of good
government through peaceful means:
'racticing that God-like virtue of
elf.denial, our people are to-day
more to be respected by the true lover
# the Republic and the Constitution
md our situation cries more loudly to |
hem for assistance, than when we
esisted by all the power We had at
ommand, save that Of direct con-
lict with the Federal authorities. |
We question the possibility Of any |
'ther people being able to succeed as |
vell as ours have done thus far in
ieeping clear of the many opportuni.
lee Grant has placed before US to |
'ebel; sad experience has taught Us |
wisdom, and the wrecked hopes, tho
mined hopes, Of our lost cause are |
arguments too potent in our minds 70 |
'e misunderstood. Peace at any