The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-03-31
Abstracts and Realities.

Political opinions that do not en-.
brace the end of material benefit,
are not worth entertaining or fighting
for: seems to be the idea now days.
This departure from the old time
"kncr. hrrcchcs and bag wig patri
otiSm: when political opinions
were simply founded on ethics and
abstracts. may hr startling to the
,uauy, who have hitherto trnl earth
with head in high clouds; hnt t. the
plethora of pocket, who desires to
lend. aud tive poverty. Stricken, who
must borrow and have no security. It
"sur|ls ucr," to say the least Of it.
The South is in curious position
with regard to this question, and We
think the next year or so will rather
Stal'le some people, who vii! witness
changes they Ito not now dream Of
For many years; in fact since the
foundation Of orr Government, alb
stract questions were all that the
brilI;aucv of our intellect driunr.l to
contend for. Tie CalhounS. the BEN
TONS. the Haynes, the le 'jami"s, and
the Havi>'S of the South, advanced
from orc sublime and hcantiful pie
tu,r to- another: they presented with
hulniny "rac" the Sil'lc1 emp Of
ethics 70 the lips Of the governed.
who. when attempting to quatf the
realities which those lips Of cln1Hencr
told them was to flow. they found.
like Hated in his woll Of chance,
that they fought but for the golden
linin" of a cloud which melted in
thin air At the near approach. As
butterflies upon CANDY wing, We hnt.
tered from flower to bud, and drank
nothin. but the distilled dew, while
the busy bees of the North, loaded
themselves with natnrt', sweets.
The war was 4 contest for an alb
strart, and its >rSnlt burst the
whole array Of bubbles.
Amid the ruins Of the pageantry of
the past, will be found a few p"|iti-
clans who yet mourn over those de-
parted nothings but the great ma
iority of Southern people, grown to
manhood in poverty, and schooled in
AL tie wants the b|undcrs of ON
fathers created for us, look on life
from Il different attitude to those
mourncrs at the tomb Of the dead
past.
70 us, the past is only lesson
it's follicS to he avoided. its goods to
be repeated, We have no moments
to waste in regrets of what might
have been, when we know the world
moves on and we must move too or
lie crushed. We feel now firmly
convinced that the errors of our faith
crS can he corrected and we are 90
inc to do it.
Had they left us as "tlc benefits
of this great and glorious govern
ment, which they honc!cd, Die! and
roads. Of Canals, CT Levees, of deep
sea .1ettieS or Ocean steam lines and
Pnhlic buildings and Banks, and
Bonds, how much better woull it be
to stop starvation, than all the glory
and chivalry We now inherit.
There is no use Disgusting the fact,
that we arc on the eve of a political
disruption as to parties, which will
shake the faith Of many Il "dear Old
sonl" in the Instability of human af-
fairs :" Notwithstanding which, the
world will move on, the Constitution
DC reverc'l, and the Union preserved.
The new school will combine all
that which material moralists want: or
rs Col. Sellers wonld say, "wc will all
tie loyal to the tlaG-and the appro.
priations."
With the Republicans, since the
war, there has been "ahstracts in
obliged in also notwithstanding they
kept an eye on the River, Harbor,
and improvement Bi||-those ab.
st1acts were the "bloody shirt" and the
"ni gyer."
These Republicans are practical
fellows. AS is shown by the "vcar-
about they made when the majority
shook them up last November. The
"hloody shirt was folded, and the
"niss"r" was dropped so quick that
no one has yet heard that poor bone
of contention elite" They saw
the card; they graspel it quickly,
and in the play they are more than
likely TO be as much astounded at
practical results rs their opponents.
We shall see, with the swing of time,
what we shall see.
This pidlling after Hayes is not