The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-08-03
the State from the Ignorance and fury

labor The amendments, as we
have said, are the result of an extra
ordinary and illegal compromise.
Democrats, Conservatives. Radicals,
lottery men, white men and negroes
combined in a determination t" de-
feat Il convention aud to carry through
the amendments with fraternal cor
liality which must continue to excite
tho greatest establishment OF the pnb'
lie. A bill to incorporate a fire COM
pany could hardly unite SO inc"ngru"
ous support as did those twenty
one amendments, radically changing,
in many Of its most important feat
ures, the organic law of II g eat State.
But these amendments themselves
indicate the cohesive principle of the
combination which was organized in
their support. We fluid that while
something has been conceded to re-
form. concessions have been made,
and principles of the highest impor-
tanco abandoned, in the interest of
combination.
In the first place neither an act of
the Legislature was passed nor an
amendment submitted to the people
for repeating the charter of a single
monopoly. 1t Is provided indeed that
10 monopoly shall be created in the
future-a brave concession, indeed,
to a suffering public-but all the ex-
listing ones are permitted to continue
their pernicious existence.
This was the condition on which
the lottery and its allied rings gave
the support OF their tools in the Leg
islature to the amendments, or rather
we shuuld SAY this was the basis on
which the scheme of the amendments
was founded, for the lottery and the
rings. apprehensive of the people,
devised and worked up the job. Thus,
though slice has been taxed off the
salaries of few officials to please
the people, the lottery and other mo-
nopoIits are left to flourish and fat
ten on tie taxpayers aud the credul'
ous dupcs who are tieeced for their
I support to the amount of over a mil
lion per aunum. Happy, triumphant
monopolies
The most obnoxious article III the
bayonet e.lict Of 1868 were left un-
touched, for the purpose of concillia'
ting such of the Radical negroes as
the lottery could not control. The
clauses enforcing mixed schools still
remain intact in all their force and
J beauty to become 4 subject Of strife
whenever designing and ambitious
men among our own people shall or
ganize an anti. Democratic party and
attempt to enlist the support of the
!. negroes Ly calling for the enforce
D ment of this obnoxious provision o
? the constitution. 1t is folly to urg'
that this question has been settled
and will be reopened. 1t will not be re
f opened aud that before the election
in 1880. Indeed, if the negroes ant
r Radicals in the Legislature, to com
t maud whose corporation articles l3;
d aud 1856 we're left untouched, did no
attach great importance to them, why
we're they not obliterated from tn
constitution 1t was against thes'
very articles that the Democrats g
Louisiana, in 1868, protested, ia thu
name of Almighty God, and which
the more decent Radicals of that tim
e denounced III onmeasnred terms. VI
y know the strife aud decentralization
!. these articles have created 10 the past
o aud We know that when we agai'
}. have two parties i" this State, as "
a will have soon, each struggling 70
q the negro vote, pledges will 10 mad
: by the candidates Of both to carr
}. out these articles, and that then ther
J. will he amongst rs a more powerful
q and certain tendency toward "soc'a
Il equality" than could be produced j
'e century by all the civil rights bl
1t that were ever enacted. People VII
is are able to pay for the education d
v their children will withdraw the'
it from the public schools. Bnt tn
?. poorer classes will be forced either
o educate their children with the M
l. groes or permit them to grow up
n ignorance.
ct Thus we have shown how the con-
of promise through which these amenC
meuts were passed was effected,
lr far as tie moDopoIies and the RAJ
pr icals and negroes were connected.
at few Observation-Disclosures were a
jc lured into the compromise by IL
r. embodiment in the amendments
a sume of the reforms this paper hs
II suggested, and which are calculate
X to reduce in a measure the expeus
|y Of the State. Altogether the who
er amendment scheme was comproni'
III in which the monopolies and rings 8
in all they wanted !; 10 which a surre'
IT. der was made to the worst and mo
he dangerous prejudices Of the negroe
~ and in which the people got very Ii
es tie.
Of Let this obnoxious compromise
n repudiated by the people, and let {
It's Democrats at Baton Rouge pledge Il
or Democracy to a constitutional col
ventiOn.
c: POLITICAL ASSESSMENTS IN WAs1
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~ departments for funds to aid in the a
ey preaching elections, the Secretary
he the Republican Congressional Coz
ch mittee caused a circular to be dist
N. buted among the clerks and 9th.
ug informing them that, as the rul
a. render difficult their absence duri
Of Office hours, an arrangement has be
3D. made with the Treasurer to be q
TO specified bank from to 5 P. NJ: to
NJ ctiye contributions from thOse in (