The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-02-24
Depend Upon our Arms.

Confronted at last with the fact
reiterated time after time in these
columns, that the people Of this State
must alone solve the difficulties IN.
der which they groan, it does not
strike dismay to our hearts nor should
it cause moments fear to any NOR.
tai within the borders of our State
who lay claim to the name of MAN.
The fable We have referred to more
than once, of the clark and the farm
er" has been illustrated in every par.
ticular, as We said it would be, and
one By one those who intended to
profit by our troubles and m'sfortunes,
which not feeling they con1d not real
ize, turn their backs upon US and
leave us to our fate.
We glory at last in that fact. Now
we will be free certainly If We are
but half as true to our interests ~ We
have been to those who instilled a
hope of succor for rs through their
intervention. That We are equal to
the task before rs that we will come
out of the contest victorious and COW
cred with honor and glory, We doubt
not for a moment. Governor Mich
oils and his party in this Stats hold
a power in their hands which once
hurled at their enemies will end no
one can tell where. 1t may be that
the whole country would become In.
volved in the fray and amid the NIGH
ty throes of Louisiana's people strug-
Cling, not for liberty alone, but for
life-existence, may topple to its fall
the already rotten structure of Anne.
rican government. Such being the
case, it is duty we owe to ourselves,
to our families and to our sacred
bonors, which We have pledged in
this contest, to lurl upon them that
bolt should they not promptly and
unequivocally recognize our right to
manage our domestic concerns with.
out the interference Of Federal pow
er. BY this action We will teach the
coward|y Democrats of the North a
lesson in heroism they may yet profit
by-teach them that although they
may suffer the rule Of President
made such by the most consummate
>il1ainy, the most outrageous fraud
ever perpetrated, We here do not in
tend to submit to State Governor
made by the same means. 1t re.
mains will, ourselves to say whether
we take Packard or a Military GOV
eminent. And the military govern.
ment that rules this State be one in.
deed-no pepper blockade will answer
the purpose. Garrison flags must
float upon the breeze in every neigh
borhood, and tho tread Of armed Fed
eral soldiers must measure to the
drum beat over every foot of our soil.
The puny, cowardly hand of radical
government must not he seen but the
army must conquer first and then
gorern. While that c"nqnering is
being done, let US do our duty-tirst
put to the lamp post or the limb every
scoundrel who has fed and fattened
upon our liberty and our snstenance
let no cowardiy radical hound es
cape the retributive vengeance of
justice let a thousand armed Brutus-
es be ready each with dagger to
plunge it 10 the heart, black with
crime aud infamy, Of some fiend who
has Knocked and degraded Us through
these bitter, bitter years. When
this is done then confront those hire.
1ings who obey the behests Of power
and bid them that welcome, q desper-
ate people driven to despair ever mete
ont to their despoilers-the welcome
the lioness gives the hunter when her
lair is invaded and her wbe]ps butch.
cred.
Let Us make it a day dark as that
upon which the veil of the Temple
was rent 10 twain, for those who
would conquer Us. Let us make Lou
isiana a garden or a desert.
T, Haller's Stove emporium
keeps Herndon's Patent Churn.
List ofArfi!als at Principal Hotels
Burdick,S House.
J. E. Messi, Grand Ecore. La, B.
R. Scott, parish ; J. A. johnson, par
ish ; W. H. Hnghs, Evansville, Ind;