The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-09-22
Bradley Not the Suns Meat!

The last sensation is that it is pro-
posed by the Democrats to appoint
special commission at The coming ex-
ira session to investigate the charges
that Associate Justice Bradley was
"unduly int1uenccd' pending the de-
ci>ion of the Electoral Commission,
the object Of the inquiry being an
impeachment. The Democrats, Of
the South at least, have some more
important topics anl projects on hand
just now, and we are afraid that they
wont find time to inquire about
Bradley. Tie is tho Suns own pecu.
liar mr"t, and lie may as we'll be left
i'll tive hands of that own peculiar
iourna'.-N. 0. Democrat.
Macanlcy tells us, that the reaction
in tvor of Charles Of England, af-
ter Parliament had partly corrected
the abuse of power by men repre-
scnting the tyrant Charles, was 80
great that the English people came
near losing their liberty thereby. In
other words, Macanlcy, Nngent and
Clarendon, leave us the impression
that virtue IN Office in those days had
begun to he sneercd at as a sentiment
unworthy of cultivation; happily,
however, for mankind, and more 50
for Constitutional government, lamp
den and Pymm, were powerful enough
to check this growing tendency to
embrace the monster vice, whose
frightfnl micn had been so often be-
held as not to terrfy.
Are We not very nearly in the same
condition as England, so far as re-
CARDS Constitutional abuses, was in
those days? And is not this reaction
dangerous to our liberty and to so.
ciety?
We know the Editor of the Demo-
crat too well to impucn his motives,
bnt we must beg to differ with him,
when he says the "South has more
important topics on hand Just now"
than the punishment or disgrace of
vile officials. No more important
mission could or can be assumed by
a people than a correction of Con-
stitntional abuses, or the punishment
of those who, high in official position
have violated the laws of the land.
and the rights of the people. The
efforts and success of 1Iampden and
his colleagues will be referred to with
pride and honor so long as time lasts ; |
they resisted the King in his VIOLA
tion of the Constitution, when, had
they consulted their case and per-
haps listened to tho promptinss of
personal interest, it would have been
best to have yielded.
Bradley is not "thc Suns meat - on
the contrary, lie, aud al connected
with him, deserve, not only the exc
Grafton of Americans, but condign
punishment for the foul wrongs per.
petrated ly them under the guisc of
an honorable compact. Let Bradley
he the "meat' of all honest citizen.
of this country let us, while build
ing up our fortunes, build up at the
same time pure and honest civil So
ciety, for we can rest assured there
will be no real prosperity until this
purity in government takes place.
Above all, we beg Southern .jonr-
nails to discard this growing tenden-
cy, confined hitherto to tho "loyal
North" to sheer at virtuous patriot
ism, and to laugh down any thing
that is not based on money. We
least expected such expressions from
the Democrat, hence onr protest, ut.
tered more in sorrow than in anger.
President Hayes. dctacto, is
coming South to give us an op-
port''nity to show him a little
Confederate ''gush.' The repub
licanism of our fathers is sadly
degenerated when "all creation
turns out to pay homage to a man
who takes an office through a
violation Of the Constitution and
the rights of a people-and who
appoints such carcasses as Tom
Anderson to office. But then he
is going to give us the Pacific
Railroad and the Mississippi
Levees, and that is the modern
salve for "laceratcd liberty and
wounded honor"
We think the Tribune is wrong
in it's abuse of Stanley Matthews
and the Communistic Republican
plantform of Ohio, A careful
study of the State platforms of
all the parties, Republican, Dem.
ocrat, Greenback, Workingmen,
&c, will show them to be specious