The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1875-10-16
The Only Vital Question.

II the Democratic party is not sue
cesstal this coming Presidential cleo
ton it will he because of their owl
self wi'led foo!ishness.
The issues before the American
people arc perfectly plain-so plain
that all attempts to subvert them are
mlpable, and easily understood. This
bus'a'boo finance question is only
intended by the Republicans to de-
tract public attention from the vital
questions of the hour-whether we
shall continue in power the rulers of
the past eight years, who have viola.
ted every principle of,he government,
or that they be replaced by consti.
tntional party. We admit that the
Democrats of Ohio have gone raving,
insanely mad, like children, over a
question that has no possible bearing
upon the point at issue, and tile Rad.
icals of that State, as we'll as of the
eutire South, feel correspondingly
elated with the hope. that some such
mania may seize the mind of the
white people thereby covering
up a tangible, living reality, under a
poor weak abstraction.
If the Bourbon element in New Or
leans dcre atilict this people with such
an Issue for next year, no punisl!ment
cOnll he fO Orent f." ",'V" cVltne.
They should bear in mind that ty-
ranny can be exercised by friend as
well as foe, and that retribution will
come to each, from those who have
been outraged. Louisiana must be
sared must be redeemed, not only
from the rule Of radical politicians,
but the people must take charge, put
ting back the self CONSTITUTED
moparclIs" that are ever ready to per-
,sh-at the rate of ten dollars a day,
from among them.
The campaign Of 1876 in Louisiana,
will be bitter and vital upon it hangs
the fate of the whites of the State
the question is Authorization or not (;
that ignorance and vice shall rule, and
virtue and Intelligence depart. This
is the whole Issue in a nut shell, and
no outside abstractions-can, or will
divert the mind of the well.inten1ing
citizen from it. There is no politics in
Louisiana now, nor has there been for
the past eight years, nor will there
be, until that issue is settled, how
ever much, some may desire it. The
fight is for race supremacy, and We
must be plain spoken about it.
This is to lie a State governed by
its native white intelligence, or q
wilderness given over to the bowling
rautings of the ignorant blacks and
their attendant vultures, the white
skinned Carpet.baggers and Scala
wags. .-....
Ames, villain as he is, has sounded
the key note-"whites or blacks must
rule" That's the point, and no
amount Of "swash buckling," licking,
maud'iag soldering, can cover it up.
We fight corruption, South, combin.
ed with stupidity-North, the fight is
against educated rascality. We fight
the b|undeling 'highwayman, that in
open day, pistol in hand, demands a
"stand and deliver !"-they, the learn
ell doctors Of the trade, who with fin.
ishcd tools, enter, take and depart.
We desire to see all the Conserva.
tive Journals in Louisiana come out
plainly on this mattcr-many Of them
have been ''slarring around"< and
"complemerting" enough to make the
white people disguised, and moreover,
we want to see people .cut," socially,
such pinks Of thievery and outrage as
perambulate the public streets Of our
cities, towns and villages. What
good, in Gods name, comes from as
ISOLATION with thenl7 Have we not
respectable men of onr own class to
associate with, without hunting up
these miscreantsf
Come down to the "pan rock" and
stick their, light it out on the main
line, ard victory is certain. Sloshing
out on feeble skirmishes will loose men
aud gain no victory. ,.s .-.
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