The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1876-07-29
Still UnterriAed.

than no was two winters ago IN new
Orleans. At that time the atmos.
phcre IF Red River was tmpregnated
with assassination, now it is the at
m"sphere Of Little Horn. The Red
River seat Of slaughter was three or
four hundred miles from New Or
leans, the center Of butchery at pres
ent is FIVE or six hundred miles from
Chicago. Little Phil doesn't stand
on a matter Of 4 hundred miles Or 80.
He is Just as fearless in Chicago to-
day ~ he was in New Orleans nine
teen months ago. That's the kind Of
IL hlooi.tu6 Little Phil is. Little
Fhil believes that presence Of mind is
Il good thing, bnt absence OF body a
much better thing. Set him down
anywhere between two and three
hundred miles distant from the scene
cf gore, and he is prepared to trans.
act business with the intrepid calm Of
bank director in the bosom Of his
back office. Little Phil: received
heavy shock during the first two or
three days of his sojourn in New Or
leans. 1t wss when he sent that
thrilling dispatch abont Myers
Myers Of Natclitoches, who was the
first and subsequently, became the
regular exhibition victim of ostra'
crism in 1874. About 1907 II O'Clock
on the second night after bis arrival.
it'll. Phil heard a ghostly knock at
| the door and, on answering, with
many miseiyings, "C"me ill.," he was
straigl,tway confronted with an az:
partition 80 torn ard crnmpled
and travel.stained and terror
stricken as to cause lump to
rise high MP in his threat and lis
eyes to gain at least twenty per cent
in circumference. It was Myers.
MYERS who had been Ostracised about
seven months previously and had
Geeu living ever since in great peace
and comfort in New Orleans: What
passed between those two will never
. 6e disclosed BY US, but Myers must
, have come very cruel game Oh the
, conflding, whole:souled Mick, for ue4!
, day 4 most pathetic telegram startled
! the United States with tile tale 81
t Myers woes and prosecutions, hair
l breadth 'scrapes, ard grisly accident'
f BY food and field. "A victim ta'
t Just made his escape from Red River
t the Hon. Judge Myers, etc.," wrote
/. poor little Phil In great emotion
J. Bnt that was the last time his nerve
e weakened. After that he preserved
e a dauutless front against all the as
Z eassination and impresnation Of ke'
d River atmosphere that could be pu
}. On tissue paper. !.
% Things are different now, though i
all fearless and unterri6ed respect
}. little Phil is just the same. He hold
,e his ground in Chicago, notwithstaod
10 ing the very dreadful and cantanke
is rons behavior Of Sitting Bull, az
l. sends messages to Gen. Sherman
ID which there ia not the faintest syml
pr tom of agitation or incoherence. Il
re last report states that he knows nott
IL ing abont the matter, being too II
e, distant from the spot. H. further n
,e marks that he thinks he'll let Croo
II and Terry take care Of themselves
ut he has always done heretofore. Ii
IN tie Pills composure under the
ct alarming circumstances is truly wo'
H. drous. When We look back on tn
not bellicd little mans record Al
sum up lis usefulness and honor
the country, We feel that somethi,
must be done to except him from Il
Ky ordinary law Of mortality and pr
ed serve him forever to tile nation. Ev
If. ~ time We think of him there
ed Chicago, almost unprotected, ind
~ ferent to the perils Of Crook and Tt
Il. ~, and behaving with lis habitu
ial recklessuess and daring. our impul
ms is tn ask the President to move b
further East-somewhere near t
bis Soldiers Home or Sing. Sing, vile
I'd. we can feel at ease about him. II
he is too much intrepidity for us.
icl want it checked up before tllei
,l,t bloodslled.-N. 0. Bulletin.