The People's vindicator., 1879-02-15
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government can and will arrest Den. ).
ocrats 10 droves and drag them fton,
their families and homes to THE oity
to undergo tho embarrassment, OF.
pense and modification of . criminal
prosecution when it shall be man.
ifest that Federal judges, jaries, mar.
shals and prosecuting ol6eers hsva
been appointed and instructed y con.
vict, or to persecute to the 6ttSnt
there arc Thousands Of men who, t1lh.a
or than be subjected to such rialu al n
suaerings will abstain from .sny pas,
ticipation 10 politics, and viii a6aa:
don tho fold to tho opposition. ZOE 's''
No more effective, extensive' asa
disgraceful schemo II intimidation, n
coold be devised /; and yet ssnstpts,
and Representatives. 10 Congress-,
hundreds OF newspapers and thou..
sands and Thousands of Radical Ro.F
publfcans oil over the land sro repie. =,
sentating it % = measure for the2pro- >,
lection Unconstitutional government.
The protests of our people are scarces
" heard they are drowned IN tbeia a
wild babble and ferce denuuciatieoe Il
of tue passion iDfiamed populace And y
press Of the North. For tho purpoec ="
Of maintaining, or rather, ,tre1toffnG .
tho supremacy of the Republican pafS .
ty, the Federal Administrations; oal
its courts and officials are atrikine at T.,
the dearest rights and interests Of -
South Carolina and Louisiana. To-
restore that supremacy . fearfal csimos'i
is being attempted. The civilisatiose .
Of these two States is to be destroyed g,
it necessary; the value of their pron- ~ :.
erty is to be annihiIated their bcf.'4
ders are to be made too inhospitablua,
for Intelligent, enterprising, free white,
men to live therein. Tho wbite, pso. :.
pie are to be forced, under tho penal.
ty ofcriminal prosecution to submit
to the domination Of tho ignorant and
brutal negro rabble, led BY white,,
men Of the mesnest character: Such, :.
are the ends which are aimed st u
in these persecutions BY q codrt u
gsnised and instructed to peesson1>I.
and convict Democratic and Coserya-. :,
tive citizens Of Louisiana BY tho scoro
and by tho hundred, ,Dsrosq
The most bigotted partisan, Who
knows anything Of tho whiel and
black races Of this State, and jfst&S
character Of tho uusorapaloai anies
who control and lead tho latter, 0aol;s
be convinced that, even granting that,
tho whites have committed come octs
Of violence, there has been : Reayal0w
Of wrong on tho part Of tho n6gs6e1ra
that oil tho violence Wa not peepo,.i,
trated BY Christian and enlietals1,.
men, with business and property 10.
terest at stake, and that tho ienofauR,'
debased aud brutal negroes we're ilT
all and every instsnce in tho fighlo,t
And yet We do not find among, (he in.r,
dtcted parties . single Republican.
white or black. The only men VIZ"
have been indicted are white Gs62
and Democrats or Coueervaeiveessd
Does not this fact alone; prove, tbaAx
they are prosecutions, or rather ppli.
tical persecutions, instituted tot b3il.'G
tical purposes and 30 ovetawe oda snd
timtdate tho white citiseas oe,LetiDsi,i
ians J Why could ,gek, the, pa6ked~.
grand jury indict come Of tho fe3Ieal
negroes who opened tho 6ght " ii C:1s
edonis, IN Caddo /; of soms'of'vAAw
who were op Ia arms, Who Arst t6hJr.
The white citizens Of Tepsss /; or sopA =.
of those who, for ton years, have kept >,
the parish Of Natchitocheo 10 tufmSlf
md on the verge Of civil var Shlu air..
these agitations and riots could thnIes
Federal grand jury hear Of no,vhite ~,
Or negro Radical who had . crimiaal
part in) these tumultsl Could H."
district attorney learn Of no wit6obasJ
Dsve those Who wore able Aeoroas)
against Denocratsf Yea, ,bat. ,tAaA. "a
would have beep against tho .inakiue."
lions from WAshington thve u Ro1kkcw
not have been In hatmosyb Win <1D6Isaa
theory Of tho. proseeutiuos, Ebieh,tareS
% intimidats Demoosats, and not; fo,w
indicate outraged jastios, .a aa.,.a s
Bat these prosecutions, inopircd, ~ :
Ehe basest Of motives and purouo s9''
With q shameful recklossuess of law.
usttce and tho publlc iutecoo)es ca.
not succeed in tie State. Evea Q
partisan jury and % sudaeiops, poussr
1are not convict = single ons Of lheoa :, =
non, 10 defiance Of % enljRhtoned -
md free opinion. Tho constitat3S11f pa
cannot Be abolished IN LoatsiAns GhalA
south Carolina theit peeplsnn nadp.ao
Tho victimes of tho igooreaoe, ~, ;.
malice Of . negro. rabble, ahd, their =
material interests destroyed " 1h1'HS
prostitution of tho courts 1udi tbS'og
overthrow Of tbe'lsWo. iisI,| % anoi,isog
A day or two sinoe Senator TakAlas!as
n Rapidee, introduced . series, ,of ~,
|olatione in tho Senate .prote6tih9
lgatnet tho interference of tkSono oss
,ral courts with the jafiedie(36osO e,ia
he State courts. 6suaeer BcooaSNfeur,
ered - . substitnte . preamble, ond,
os0lpttons, now pending. in the Sa..s
70. These should b pesCed d dAS 1ss
= ie tho Imperative and aolsa6 al ssm
y . the representatives of To Dslo6 val