The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1876-08-26
Communicated.
Holly GROVE, Vernon Parish

get your nowsy Journal regularly at
this point in future, perhaps you will
permit US to occasionally commnni-
cate with your local fields through
the columns Of the VlyD1CAToR.
We live here in .nbont the fairest
mart Of Vernon parish. The lands on
Anacoco aud Sandy creek are decided.
II fertile the health remarkably good.
We have excellent water, superior
timber, and the social standard Of
Holly Grove community is as high as
auy in tho South. The recent rains
have removed q dispirited air THAT was
beginning to settle on the faimers, from
contemplating the parched condition
Of their crops; but now vegetation
reviving under the influence Of sea-
sonable rains, begins to assume the
rich garb Of healthy verdnre. The
unpromising prospects have vanished,
and the appearance of cotton already
warrants reasonable expectations
corn will produce a fair average to
the acre this year, the quantity raised
will exceed the yield Of previous
years considerably !; muct more land
than usual, having been devoted to
its cultivation. Rice was suffering
for rain, however, its condition was
by no means hopeless, and moder-
ate crop. will yet 10 harvested.
People are all Democratic by charac.
ter here. We trust such will he veri-
fed ut the polls in the approaching
election. The sopbistry Of claiming
to be true, uncompromising Demo.
Gratis, and then having the effrontry
to depart from the plain platform Of
duty, and, impelled by sentiments Of
individual gratitude, or actuated by
calculating motives of personal OK.
pectations, vote for ooe Of those men
who have filed their pockets with
plumber from the public revenues.
Such . policy will be fatal to all hopes
Of general reform, and instead of re.
deeming aud wrencl,iog the State
from the grasp Of the tlespoilers, who
have been ruling aud enriching them.
selves for the past eleven years, while
provoking an internal ferment, and
imposing an oppression that has ex-
cited the wonder and sympathy of the
whole Democracy Of America-it will
permit them to moro firmly fix
tho vulture taIons Of their rapacity,
in the vitals Of Louisiana's euslaved
industry. Let the bond Of union he
ce,neuted in a mighty fellowship-a
sweeping brotherhood, that will hu,l
from control, the power that has been
grinding tl'e1poor working white man
= leveliiog down the safe guards Of
his prosperity, and wipiug out his
constitutional rights and guarantees
exalting over him the ignorant i'm.
piemeuts that carpet baggers employ
to disseminate political confusion, and
scatter the seeds of implacable enmi
ty between race and color, through
tho dows. troddsn, the once flourish:
ing State Of Louisiana. The party In
control have filled their pockets with
plumber, the land with embarrass-
u,eut and hard times. No people are
~ much IN debt ~ the people Of Lou.
isaua there 10 not substance enough
left to supply such another set Of
delinquents as have ruled since the
war. Some Of their ill-gotten gains,
and ito corruptiug power, will be dis
persed with . lavish hand to maiutain
the hold tl,ey have. The Democr attic
path to victory will be ambushed
with obstacles. The polls will I've
beset With every obstacle, device. and
deceit, that money can secure. With
out iuAexible harmony, and earnest
zeal, Democracy can not achieve the
overthrow Of Radicalism in Louisiana
therefore, 10 the approaching con-
test, there 10 . high duty for every
honest, industrious man 20 perform
FIR every man in favor Of an early
return from the effects Of oppression,
nisrule, and corrupt legislation
with an iDvipeible determination to
discharge this duty-with one single
impulse, without passion, without
sectional hate, or personal aspira.
tons. Unanimously rally round the
standard bearers Of Democracy and
tho Democratic party will again re-
sumo ito rightfal supremacy. The
country will be redeemed, it's people
re.emffanchised with all the rights Of
free men-relieved from the load that
crushed aud oppressed % long, aud
restored once more to the prosperity
Of days long gone BY.