The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1876-12-09

sistng ia not nor can It be maze 10
appear revolution. On the contrary
when individuals, to whom are del'
cqated certain powers by the people,
overstep the prescribed bounds, it is
the delegate that rcyolts not the SOW
creighton the sovereign can nerer be
in rebellion. We hold and on the
hypothesis defy an answer, that the
whole Republican fabric of this or
any other Democratic or mixed gov
ornment rests upon the right Of resist
ancc. There con be no quibbling
over such fact. For in our own hearts
the impulse springs up uncal]ed for
to resist any encroachment upon what
we know to be our rights.
Lord Brougham says: "The right
of resistance is the foundation, and 1t
is of necessity the foundation of all
popular and mixed government" The
encroachments of tho ruler upon the
rights of the subject, his ruling in
defiance of law, and trampling upon
the liberties rh;ch the constitution Sc
cures the people is a full justification
of resistance to his authority"
And further he says:
"As the people cannot resist by TIE
form of lac because the ruler is sup
posed to set it at defiance, so he can
not constrain the people by these
forms when their proceediu gs are d.
together lawless."
We could quote authority ad l'6'
tum but this is sufficient for the points
| We desire to illustrate. The Sun ant
Herald admit that the act in count
ing 10 Hayes is arbitrary fraudulen
and revolutionary 1.-THE latter We take
it is the fatal admission in their ar
NOR of argument for submission) bu
they add that "the people must sub
mit' because peace is paramount t
liberty. Tho deduction is total,
unatural and 80 revolving to common
intelligence as to be almost disgust
ing.
Resistance is the foundation of thi
government and when that right an
power is yielded the government end
and nothing can be better establishe
than the fact that if the America
sovereign (the people) submit for tn
sake of quiet to this rude sundering {
the constitution with the hope
defeating their delegated rulers
1873 or 1880 they are undone.
No 1873 or 1880 election morn wi
ever come for them-nor should
For We contend that if the poop
now submit now yield the basis
their government, resistance, thu
should be, for the sake Of quiet al
; submission, centralized as fast as pc
, sible and bound in one strong go
eminent under the mailed hand
some ambitious master with the grea
est speed.
4 Rome might have existed as a n
g tionality even until now, had she b
oblit Grated the hooking forms Of Il
republic at once instead of paradi
6 them to catch the demagogues of Il
% people for a hundred years after t
n republic had persisted. 1t was t
?, corpse of the republic unburied a
q left to foster the live body of the pr
70 pie that destroyed the Roman matte
10 atty more than the barbarous HI
y did.
B. Mexico would have been pacific
~ day as we'll as mortal, had her g
eminent been either strong despot
,. or a pure republic. The death
70 nationalities does not come from
q. forms of government, but it is b
Of mockeries that hAye no strength
If power and are but ballow imi
v ton.
Id Nothing is more ridiculous than
y. argument of the Herald and
as based on the "form of law" L
Iss Brougham sweeps away all 6
10, trash as these journalistic state1
dish up when he says, as We have
- ready quoted, that the "peope can
~ resist BY the form Of la,c," and how '
~ also this answers that appeal to
~ ballot box in 1873 and 1880.
~ The Delegated Power has set
defiance the law and the proceed
had uuder the "forms Of /
~ thus far in Louisiana, South Caro-
SC aud Florida are altogether nu