The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1875-05-22
Democracy and Radicalism,

Northern, State and Manlclpal elec-
tons, all tend to encourage the DEM
ocracy in Il high degree.
New Hampshire, although the third
term and Southern outrage business
were severely denounced, and the
contest made squarcly anti-adminis-
tration, the republicans lost when it
came to National affairs, and in the
State election, had nothing to Drag of.
But Connecticut, swamped as it
were, the entire concern, showing
that the mighty tidal wave was still
sweeping on, Notwithstanding indie
penoents and others, whose hate for
Democracy in the abstract would
make them almost lose their liberty
before they wonld acknowledge the
business and patriotism upon which
those principles We're founded, made
haste to tell the world that the over
whelming victory Of the Democracy
could not be attributed to the "sound-
ness Of the doctrines they enuncia-
ted," but that the people were stirred
of the rule of radicalism."
Even so, but at the same time why
has not this movement, this "tire-
some affair."" been checked Still
the mighty wave rolls on and threat
ems to ingulf all parties, all men in
it's march; the march Of the Done and
sinew Of the country, tired Of the
worship of false Gods; tired of jack
a-lantern patriotism; wearied and
worn ont with jobbery and thleving
in high places, to a return to first
pyinciples--those principles for which
the founders of tho Republic con
tended, aud which they left for our
enjoyment. 49,
Much has been said and much
more written about progressive par
ties'-"men of advancing ideas;" in
fact Of all those new theories, whose
practice for the past few years have
wrought such mighty change in hu-
man affairs, and this pet party Of the
American people has been extolled
to the sky, as a part and parcel Of
the mighty dreams Of Mills Vaughn
and Huxly. This republican party
has been shouted over, praised, and
even worshipped by Americans in the
madness of the hour, as a thing Of
God-like attributes and power. How
sad must be the awakening from this
rose-tinted dream !; what must be the
feelings Of those whose faith led them
| to PROSTATE themselves in the dust
before this bright shining idol, to see
it stripped Of the thin painting with
which human imagination, human
bigotry had enveloped it, and it stood
forth to the gaze Of the common horde
in all it's naked deformity, reekipg in
the MONDAY sun of honest, healthy
public opinion, the thing, that like
the wooden horse of Troy, we were
upon tho point of demolishing our
walls to admit within the citadel of
our liberties,
All the good the Republican party
has done this country has been more
than reqmted by the horrors of its
reign-by the indignities, outrages
and debts it has heaped upon the
people. The genius Of the age might
have demanded the abolition of slave
ry, but nature itself would shrink
with horror from the murder and pill
lage of the Southern people, and the
destruction Of the liberties Of the ,rhites
Of the entire Union to accomplish It.
History will accord no blame to
Robespierre and Danton, for their &C
ton III demanding and asserting the
liberty of the French people 7; but all
christians consign the memory Of
these men and their followers, to
eternal obloquy for their reign of
blood and terror; no matter what
causes might have existed; no mat
ter how much Frenchmen might have
suffered, all the moral world must
ever be shocked by such barbarous
retribntion as that which was meeted
out to Louis XVI and his mobiles.
Will impartial history not consign to
the same fate those, who, from a false
spirit Of philanthropy, augmented by
a bitter hatred to the South, would
consign to a worse fate ten millions
Of whites, their own flesh and blood,
in granting freedom to four millions
blacks = IS ~ ~
The bitter and malignant pereecu-
ton fostered and kept alive in the
breast of the American people by
this Republican party, has spent it.
self, and the eyes Of all, now being
open, behold the yawning chasm Of
despotism at their feet. To follow
| further fhe man1ntns If fL;o nortr