The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-09-28
John Young BROWN ON DANA.
"rhc Rag.pcker Of Nasty Critters and
Eashi.hzoak of the American
Press"
, ScAWING DISSATISFACTION.

The Sut editor make a rufIianl y at
tack urolsmy integrity but the mode
has been Suggested and the weapon
supplies ly another. The hand do.
ing this Is unknown to me. | know
it howe tr, to be that of an assassin.
He stanis cloake1 in the background.
Unde, be present light can not re.
cognizehim. have not even u sus
picion of his identity. | know his
ncfalms purpose is the destruction
of my character, and feel that |
shall ftlic him.
Tbs rditnr-the miscrcant - has
ial>itel the Record he has suppress
ed twtS: has supplied statements
havig no foundation in truth when
cverncccssary for his malignant pur.
pose and which are the vonomous off,
sprng of his own develish invention.
The editor of the New York Sun is
an lShmaelte.
H. eliminates the living and the
dead. SANDER is the palladium upon
" hrh he feed. His character af-
It"nl> subject for dissection rare in
its loathSnmencSs and its offensive
hess increases wherever the knife of
the surgeon explores it. There is
mthing generous or gentle in his ma.
mrc. lie is a stabber. Manliness,
ruth and justice he knows not. Cold,
hcartlrss, venal and malignant, he is
dc stalwart Bashi- bazouk of the
American press, but without the cour
ICE of the savage. Tie is the rag
picker of the nasty cutters. There is
lmcthod, however, in his mi>anthropy,
bnr he makes his malice minister to
his ava1irr. For il price he will tap
y ; filthy sewer of scandal and till the
IumnS of his Journal with its slime.
Mic pauders to the vilest tastes of hu
panity. Shonld his occupation fail
PIN, he would not hesitate, if neces-
sity pinched, to turn Fagin and live
If the ftlonious Industry of Artful
dodgers. Had he lived in the days
ot\ I.onis Nv, his peculiar genius
v,N have fitted him for a headman,
or a I';~.H"r for fnr Pare q" CERT
y, in, noah'@r1 like Tor pitiless deeds
,r .nc lntllcNr>'"t hchauchery. Child
,ood, from s"r vt instincts. would
shnn. as the honor, vt manhood must
abhor HIM. Cowal1ire can 90 with
its money and its faIS"hoods to the
Sun and have scattered vide any
defamation of its enemy. This editor
is no friend of the South. No one
was more distressed than he at e"'an-
c1pation from bayonet rule OF Lo'is-
LLAMA aud South Carolina. lie care
As much for them as he does for TIN
Turk. HIS Democracy is a false pre-
tense, He favors distm bancc. dcIlght'
! ip confusion. and has never cham
pi,nrh Jaw, order and peace k"v'n
now about fraud aud usnrpatlon, II
mistake not, his journal was anon
the first to finch from the resolntlo
to follow the affirmation Of Tllden
election to its logical conclusion, lea
where it might, and the lack OF unit
of purpose on this proposition cause
the adoption of the electoral bill.
| do not know him-nevcr saw h''
but, if he is not indifferent to ever
sentiment of dccency and fair dea
inc. he will rctract the charge ne III
made against my integrity beh''
him is a man with a mask.
| wish to add that, in my votes ia
winter on the vexed question OF q
electoral count, was in compa.
with a majority of the Southern II
nresentatives. Every Democrat
! Congress, save nineteen, voted I
] the electoral bill. When the Coz
! mission betrayed US, to have ke
A HAYES ont would not have put Illd
1 in. felt that good faith, as we'll
, rood policy, required the execut'
= Of the bill, and 50 voted. Tilden "
| (not surrendered or betrayed. On
|. 9th of February, when had
interview with Mr.. Foster, Tide
chance was gone-hopelessiy lt
OF The issue then was the carrying
Of the count. Who doubts thls1
the act of 1892, is IS provided tina
Sin case of remora', death, resig"eti.o,
;uobijiu of both President ana v
President of the United States, the /
jdcnt of the Senate ) or, II there IS III
then the Speaker Of the House OF no.
sentatives, for the time being. sllaii
~ President until the disability II
moved, or a new President elected"
There is no provision in the co,
tutiou or laws for any one to ac'
President lease Of a failure to G
one. Had the dilatory schemes
d the flllibusters succeeded, this
tincencv would have been a Gov
mrnt without a head. All W
have been chaos, and those who
rushed the country upon this &C
ZION, would have been confronted
,'h 70 the united Republican party, IN
u th to nnssession of the Government
,rip. army, navy, treasury; all Its
Pills, and arsenals-tne oena'o "uu
Re- canital under their control-an
elied the Legislature Of the Northern
Doo;6c States Republican save