The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-03-03
Our Own Good Blades Must Win
the Rest.

our reasons for being so sanguine OF
the ultimate triumph of the Nichols
government, when we were particu-
|arly blue under the entire Tilden-
HAYES contest before the Electoral
commission.
But few prrsoD> ask MS the reason
for this feeling within us, for it is
shared by the many. In all The con-
tests against wrong, outrage aud OPP
preston made by our,pcople, one fatal
obstacle to success stood in their way,
according to our Judgment that oh-
irct was the vont Of reliance on ou''
oun in1iri'un' t0orts. In other words,
we went into each aud every contest
since the war prcdicatiug victory
upon "torciyn intervention" The
great Northern heart of the Demo
cratic party was to be stirred to its
depths with sympathy in our behalf
and they were to come, like the hero
in the play, to our rescue from living
death. We were to suffer and be
faithful, and in the end the Northern
Democrats were to right Our wrongs
1t is true that the lIndicdtor and
other leading journals Of the State,
notably the Shreveport Times, de-
nounced this intervention policy AS
criminal, which would be productive
of no good, and insisted upon the pol
icy of st|f.te|iancc ; still, with the
force of reason, logic and every day
instance on orr side, orr words fell
unheeded or were rrbnkcd as "vio.
lent and impracticahle." Time, which
sets all things even, has conclusive|l
proven the wisdom of that policy of
self reliance aud VIC are at last con-
frontcd with the Louisiana question
and it's settlement, stripped of at the
velk reeds and puay logic of the hcSi-
tator or the coward. Hence orr rea-
sons for being sansuine of the sue
cess of Governor Nichols and his
government in this State. That gov
eminent has its foundation in the
hearts of Louisiana's virtuous pco-
pie and its strength is in their brave
right arms. We have never yet be-
Iieved in the moral courage Of the
boasting Radical party. There al
ways seemed to us a leven of old
fashioned bluff in its swagger, and
when we almost rose in arms against
further oppression in 1874, the bot
tom went ont Of their vain glory,
showing conclusively that up to the
drawing Of the sword they were Hec-
tors but the least CLEAN of the steel
make them the veriest cravens. We
of Louisiana have nothing to lose by
resistance-every thing by snbmis-
sion and history has taught rs, that
a people once reduced to that extrem-
hy-despair- are invincible. There
is nothing for us to do but he calm,
firm and determined, which we feel
assured we will DC. Pay not one
dollar to Packard, recognize him or
his officials in DO way; and go fur
Their than this, pay to Nichols all
tores due, recognize and sustain his
officials in every act even at the cost
of blood, and there is no more doubt
of his final and mphant success
then there is that God reiyns.
We are prepared to to our part in
this snstenance and have been fol
fonr years past, and we feel fully as
sured that seventy thousand white
men in Louisiana are with US, heart
and soul. Our leaders have our con-
fdence and we theirs, and if Nichols
sun sets in Louisiana, its last rays
will guild with solemn grandeur the
ruins of a mighty commonwealth
bathed in the best blood that now
warns che veins of its virtue.