The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-06-23
The Dead Republicans

For q number Of years IN future the
if not for all time, Republican party
success in the South is n matter OF
And this is not all,
the formation of any new party, OF
which We have head so much of late,
is a mere Pigment that can never have
shape or power as long as the memo
rcs of the wrongs of Rcpublican'sm
exist in the South.
Our people know too well from bit
ter experience the storm that awaits
them outside the kind shelter OF the
Democratic ark, and the mild blrat
of the new party lamb will not call
them thcrcfrom SoOu.
Rcpublicansm North may be res
pcctablc-it may have men i'll its
ranks who are honest politically or
personally, but we are sorry to say
that the end of tie party wi i:h rc"ch.
ed the South has rendered our pco
pie quite sccptical on that point. We
have heard great deal of the talk
indulycd in by sentimental people,
about political dishonesty and per-
>unal honesty ~riI;ng in the same
human carcass, bur-paldon us, we
can't swallow it.
At the South, however, there can
he no danger of q rash uttcrance in
CHASING the whole array as thieves
and hunmcrs of the scvcreSt sort
The local scamp is of the down at
hccl-onc -Suspcndcr order, and he
bears the distinctive mark of y pick
pocket in his shabby gcutccl cantcr
through the streets Of our villages.
We have yet to hear Of a single Re.
publican in Louisiana who has not
stolen himself or what is worse, aided
and allotted those who did ; and as
for regard for the lights of the tax
payers or a white man, their property
or their libclty-no sane man will at
tempt to defend the republican party
here on that score.
The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph mildly
puts this little prod into the radical
corpse:
The so callcl Republicans arc in
despair over their own inventions in
South Carolina, Florida and Louis
lana, They say they will never sec
daylight again in those States. be-
cause they had ".Grrd them p' fo'
permanent occupation, and all these
contrivanccS have been turned over
to the enemy. The constitution OF
these States, artfully framed under
national Radical auspices to make
Democratic success impossible, now
work against them, and they arc
caught in their own trap. In these
States neatly every local officer is al
appointcc of the Governor, al evel
honest election and canvass of vote
2 is altogether at his mercy. VIVA
, chance, then, for the Radicals. unles
! the Democrats are Il great deal mor'
just and liberal than they were J
The delicious irony of the last sen
tcnce is quite refreshing and can D.
made more pointed when illustrated
in this way: A burglar engaged il
( leprelating upon yonr property ha
{ inst been driven from your house, an
not being satisfied with the booty Q
his first raid, not to say any thing {
Z a whole skin, ne endeavors to rctur
y through the window but is me
promptly by the frowning owner
when your eentlemauly burglar re
quest admission simply to argue til
: point and explain the visit. Justice
is what Republicans South do nc
Y want. If they had a lingering desiI
for the solitude of the penitentjar
@ perhaps they might.
q No. The Republican party Sout
4 is not only dead, but the stencil of il
, y,llainics and its outrages will al
~ send to heaven and fill the nostrils {
q decent people with loat!ins and di:
" gust for years to come.
What is more the Democratic pal
% ty is stronger to day in Louisian
r. than ever it was. Its solid, yigorou
t oy9vess're!mcn arc.in charge now, an
,e the future political campaigns in tn
!. State will be like the rush of Lee
l. army-irresistiblc and crushing.
in The rural people will not tolera
ID repnblicanism for a moment, ar
-, What is more they would he quick
-" smash any thing of a 'new part.
is concern that might happen to sprir
VI M for fear that it was radica!ism
n disguise, in which they would not
!. far wrong.
~ We think the purchase Of juror al
n witness certificates by the Distri
e Clerk or his deputies reprehensible
"a say the least of it. No officer of tn
re parish who is authorized by law
re issue scrip of any kind has any NOR
J. right to speculate in it. The fact