The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-05-25

NEW ORLEANS, May %, 1873.
EDITOR OF INDICATORS:
Noting with great pleasure the una
bated zeal with which your paper advo'
Gates the right, regardless of what is
falsely called popular condemnation"
but which is really the roar Of the ring;
sters," 1t has occurred to me that you
might like to place before your readers
some account of matters and things po-
litical in this great city, as well as OF
how majority of us city folk think ana
feel in relation thereto. You know we
are on the eve of the opening OF new
political campaign, the political horizon
is not very pleasant one, and little
self-examination may not be bad for the
soul. There is mud in our own political
pool, the people generally cannot see to
| the bottom, but the spectacles OF expla-
nation and discussion may aid them
somewhat. ..
In order to better understanding, it is
we'll to take something of retrospect
tive view. There is an old latin proverb
-erperientia docet but am entirely sat
isfed that there are many very lntelll-
gent people who are incapable OF being
taught by experience. With such, the
Interest experience means simply
"well. NAV be things will turn out better
this time"
Another reason for retrospection is that
il NAV arouse us to efforts to open our
ewes and see ourselves as Others see us.
Standardization is a dangerous thing in
individuals, and fully as dangerous in
communities of men.
| do not propose to go further back on
our political track than the fourteenth OF
September, 1874. For years previous to
that day we had been struggling in all
ordinary ways against usurpation, des-
potism and spoliation. Day and night
the brains of men were busted i'll devils"
ing "peacefu" and "legap means o
3 deliverance from the oppression that wa
9 on them. l worked freely with my tel
low citizens, but l always told them tina
y there was but one remedy for force. ant
9 that remedy was force. Warmothlsn
4 and Kellogism meant simply brute force
= and that exercised by unmittlgate'
. brutes, and to talk Of overcoming it b.
u "legal'' means, or through the majesty Q
Q the ballot box was mere twaddle. Thi
Is conclusion had long been reached b
. others than myself, and it forced itse
y on the minds of so many at last that 0
h the fourteenth of September, 1874,
4 found open expression in armed revo
d and the easy overthrow Of the cowardl
miscreants who had so long lorded
over Us. No man could have watche
J. our long agony more closely or wi:
. more of interest than I did, and through
10 out all it was as plain as the nose on
o. mans face, that the whole strength
1T the enemy lay not by any means in hin
"a self. On the contrary, he had alwa,,
= powerful allies from the ranks of OF
III own people-1st, from the "money po'
= or" (the banks, brokers, insurance COZ
t. pauies, &C., that deal in every species
~ evidence of public indebtedness, good, b
- and indifferent.) 2nd, the social!
1t representative element" in politics.
ly element that knows not what it is to
If actuated by stern principle, that moe
- principle in other men, and that believ
y in always accepting the half loaf, ev
D. if they have to fill tho hollow space
,a their bellies with husks.
~ Isay that these combined classes
10 men were worse than a dead weig
ce around the neck of the people at lar!
a Their lnatural timidity had its bale
influence over others, and their acti
dealing in any and every description
at paper issued from State or City, by I
al thieves in office, impaired strength
~. the enemy that they could not otherw
:, have hoped for. Of course, thu
a. were exceptions to the rule l have in
y" Gated, but they only served to illu'tr'
! what stern virtue is, and to keep ht