The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1879-03-15
Press Comments on the Verdict.
Not Guilty.
n n. Democrat.

n 0. Democrat.
"The barbarism belongs to the govern
mept. and the civilization belongs to
the people. Then l say that this '"c"",
.ro,is state of things cannot continue and
f We do not determine it with wisdom,
ere long We shall find it ended with VIC
lence., The same author from whom
We quote the preceding, says: The
whole Of history shows that all great rev.
olutions have been produced by dispro.
norton between society and its institu-
tons" II the illustrious Englisilma,'
from whom flowed these utterances lived
in our day. and had been discussing the
prosecution ofthe people Of Natchitocl'es
lust concluded in the United State Court,
the infamous laws on which they were
tried, and the brutal and malevolent
shirt which inspired it, he could not have
used more appropriate and graphic Ian
puape. "The barbarism" Of the prosecl'
tons belongs to the Feaeral Government
But the civilization which rendered it i'm
possible for partisan court. organized to
convict. and q vindictive prosecuting at.
torDey. determined on humilating, dis
grazing and running his nci gbors, to
send to the Penitentiary the leading cit.
liens of a whole parish for the crime Of
being Democrats, belongs to the people
from the body Of whom could not be
drawn q jury that would consunl'nate
the infamous purpose Of the government.
In the prosecution of the forty-nine
citizens of Natchitoches, in violation Of
Law aud decency, the government has
been involved in an outlay Of about one
hundred thousand dollars. But this is
small item. The prosecutions have
cost the people Of that parish more than
one hundred thousand dollars besides.
During the last two months plantations
aud farms have been abandoned by their
owners, to obey the writs Of the United
States marshals, and the laborers, with
out director, or without contracts, have
sought other fields of labor. "There
will be no crops made in Natchitoches
this year." said Blunt three weeks ago in
the Custom-liouse, gloating over the
damuable raid the United States Mar
shall, with his writs from the United
States courts, had made upon one of the
fairest sections Of this State. More than
y hundred Of the best citizens Of that
section were here, absent from their
homes. under arrest, while Mr.. Leonard,
the law officer Of the government, God
save the markv' and other Federal Of
ticials were drilling ignorant or bribed
witnesses, and bringing the trickery OF
infamous laws to convict them by a
stocked Jury and send them t" the Peni-
tentisre for having beaten Man Wells for
Congress and elected gentlemen and DEM
ocrats to the Legislature Of Louisiana.
There will be no crops made in Natchi-
toches this year," smilingly observed
Blunt. And why did Blunt say this:
Because the citizens Of NatchitOches, in
.tead Of taking him, after his ten years
Of incendiary teaching, and hanging him
to the first tree they came 10. permitted
him, in their humanity aud conservatism.
to live aud Become the tool Of damnable
conspiracy, connected in Washington and
entrusted to the Federal court here, to in
timidate the white people of North Lou.
isians and disorganize aud destroy the
party Of the state. This, in
the language Of Chatham, was the bar.
barism Of the government. But tho
partisan conrt, the stocked grand jury,
the furious and determined prosecuting
officer, the army Of Federal lnarshals,
the vill,anous aud illegal laws, the whole
moral influence Of the Federal admins
trstion and Of the Republican leaders OF
tho country combined, failed to influence
, jnrv of twelve honest men to do their
dirty work and the verdict of''nOt guilty."
pronounced by the foreman of that jury
yesterday morning, indicated the civili-
cation Of the e0ple, and while freeing
from arrest the citizens of Louisiana
wrote over the names and records of all
;he men engaged in this business, from
he high vt to the lowest, INFAMOUS"
Aud now. is it not time for tue people
# this State to consider the gravity of
'uch proceedings on the part Of the Fed
raj government AZ those which, thou gh
bis time brought to nonght have nearly
uinetl two or three parishes of this State
md filled them with CONSERVATION and
BY these scandalous prosecu.
ions the government has sYnandered
learlv one hundred thousand dollars Of
DO peoples money it has robbed men
lusble to bear the loss, Of a. much more.
u their esgerness to prosecute, the
rand jury indicted . man long since
|ead. Tho melevolence Of tho hounds
ngsged in tho Republican conspiracy to
'reak up tho Democratic party in Lou
sisns pursued their victims into tho
rave itself. In three parishes Of Louis.
ana mothers. wives and daughters have
wed for six weary weeks in suspense
nd agony. The telegrsphic wires from
lew Orleans to NatchitOches have been
oaded with messages Of fearful sOlici-
nde, expressing in brief but graphic
lords the love of hearts wrnng with
sar and agony. What language can
escribe the scenes in these remote parish
, of our State when husbands, sous and
rothers were summoned from their
ONES to he tried by partisan court for
their families from outrage
nd their property from destruction
Wives chung around the necks of their |
in terror; sisters wept and
,others trembled and bowed their faces !
, their hands. And through all these |
ing weeks these women, sitting by their |
isolate hearths, have wept and hoped |
nd longed for the end, while the sleek,
'ell fell, round bellied officials of the gov
rument drank and laughed and eat as
hoy drilled tho ignorant negroes and de.
ased white traitors in tho perjuries they |
ere to commit for the purpose Of send
q these citizens of Natchitoches to the |
for being Democrats.
But now the end has come aud there |
re glad hearts around the hearths of
atchitocbes to night, and tender and
wing hearts are preparing the glad |
'elcome for the men who have been
by "free government" for
Ding their duty. Through the Red Riv.
valley, and through this whole State,
az, through this whole broad republic,
'herover there are men who love jnstice,
nd courage, and civilization, and Christ
nifty, and hate wrong, and cowardice,
nd tyranny, there is rejoicing. And
D~ering before The honest verdict of
Telve citizens Of Louisiana, cringes and