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The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1879-10-25
Are These People Abased !
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Elsewhere we print q communities
ton whose signature will DO recog.
ni2ed a. that Of one Of tho foremost
experts IN the cotton trade in this
The writer, Mr.. Edward
Atkinson. Of Boston, points out the
remarkable facts that the cotton crop
OF the current year Was the largest
ever raised In tho South; that tho
ten crops OF 5000, both years 10:
were nearly ok and q half
million bales greater than the ten
crops OF $780,, tho largest ever
raised BY slave labor: and that tho
increase 10 progressive, tho last i've
crops being nearly four million bales
greater than the last i've crops be.
fore the war. He remarks that -
tho negroes supplied almost oil the
labor which planted, tended and
saved these great crops, Southern
white men ought 70 see that this H.
Dor, tho cheapest and for ito pur.
poses tho best 10 the world, IL Q force
they cannot ignore. The Southern
States cannot, he thinks, afford 70
permit these col0red laborers 70 be
abused or cheated.
He is right; but We incline to 60
somewhat further than he. It seems
TO 70 thata population which produ.
cee 90 constant and % great q crop
ts not abused. II the negroes OF tho
South were really 10 the cad condi.
ton 10 which It pleases some Of our
Northern politicians to represent
them, II they were murdered, op.
pressed. robbed and cheated every.
where. It 70 not possible that they
would produce now Q greater cotton
crop than tho largest under slavery;
that tie crop should be- increasing
steadily year BY year, and that, b.
sides tho cotton, they should pro.
duce also, - they do, q larger amount
than ever before OF their own food
supplies.
ID short, the statistics which Mr..
Atkinson sends 10 60 very tar to die.
prove tho accusation0 brought
against the South OF general oppree.
sion and abuse Of tho blacks. We do
not, OF course, doubt that there ere
instances, probably numerous cases,
10 which the negro cultivator 10
cheated, or robbed, or unjustly dealt
With. Northern papers ara full OF
complaints OF Northern and white
laborero who ore also Wronged, often
10 ways which It 10 difficult to pre-.
vent, and tho ignorance and, more
than that, tho Wasteful and unthrifty
habits Of tho Southern negro expose
him peculiarly 70 become tho prey
OF sharpero. But In the fact Of the
immense and continually and eteedi'
" increasing cotton crop It 10 non:
sense TO assert that there 10 genera!
terrorism, oppression or cheating q
tho blacks. We advise tho republt.
cans to give up that point In th6ir
argument.
But We advise tho Southern whites
also 20 pass laws tor tho more etrin'
gent projection OF tho black labor
ers against mon who cheat them Out
OF their earnings. Il they neglect
that they may some day eco . resl
exodus Of tho blacks, which would
be . very embarrassiqg event to-
them.
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There u . German proverb which
|oeyo that Take It Easy and Live
Long 90 bgothegS.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1879-10-25

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that were folly: but what q nan ~
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Good Republicans and bed Democrats
IN. O. Democrat.1

The dtsgru1tled old PICAYUNI per.
sists in its Wild and scattering dis.
charge Of small shot. That Ring"
wont let the old creature rest or
sleep. 10 Alcibiades WAS robbed OF
bis necessary slumbers by the lau.
rels OF 4tltiadee. Let It not be i'm.
e9tned. however, that the disaster Of
Baton Rouge has crushed the spirit
or hopes OF the PIC. It rises, like
old Anteus from bic contest With
Mother earth, with renewed strength
aud vigor.
It reneWs Ito pledge TO take care
Of the ring, and TO flnd private eta.
tons TOR the engineers Of the ma.
|chiue.''
This renewal Of vigor and hopeful.
ness hes been effected by the dlscoy.
cry OF the plot OF tho Radicals to
carry our State elections on tho nov.
81 basis Of opposing good Republi.
cans to bad Democrats" It thinks
this Q very formidable and danRer.
Gus strategy.
It can only be frustrated by beat
ing tho ring 10 ito parochisl nomina.
ti0ns. The Wolid South can only b
maintained thereby, The Pic cur.
renders on the State nominations and
falls back on tho parochial. II what
10 called tho ring, which is only 3
word for the overwhelming Demo.
cratic majority, should DO suffered to
choose members Of tho Legislature.
city judges, sherids. ooroners and
recorders Of MORTGAGE and convey.
aneee. then ts oil gone: tho cold
South % broken, tho presidential
victory lost, and the Radical party
10 restored to power IN this State.
Tho PloAYunE undertakes to pro.
vent this BY crushing tho Democratic
majority, ID at the ring. Solitary
ana alone 1t assumes this task With
ell tho courage OF 6Orattuo 1t tho
bridge. It he's been encouraged BY
Ito disastrous renc0ntro o. Baton
Rouge. 1rreconcilably opposed %
oil combinations, It threatens 10
victors With Z new combination OF
good Democrats and bad Radicals
agsinst bud Democrats, such % have
been put In nomination ct Baton
Rouge, and will certainly be nom.
mated for the parish omcers. The
logic OF the PICAyUNE 70 a. bad % ito
sptrtt.
Il has indorsed and approved tho
nominees ct Baton Rouge. It even
eul0gizee them, but protests that
they were elected BY Ito imaginary
ring. ii, however, the same organ.
tzstion should, in like manner, dare
to have Q voice In the choice Of the
candidates for parish officers. then 1t
intimates Ito willingness TO initiate
tho renegade 6paniard who opened
the gates to tho Moors that IL tho
early ages came from Africa to over.
run and occupy Spain.
With good Republicans to lead
them, the Radicals would be prefer.
red TO the great Democratic army,
led by the bad Democrats who have
incurred the ill.will Of this irritable
old dame. There 10 no other alter.
native, should tho P1CAYuNE tail 10
Ito special care and undertaking, 70
defeat the so.called ring but to sub.
init TO tho conquest Of this Radical
invasion, led BY good Republicans.
All depends on the ability Of the Pic
to execute this trust and fulfill this
contract. We spprehend that ito
success In this venturee0me and 10.
borious enterprise will hardly equal
that Of Miss Matte Potts In her r..
cent walking achievement.
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East Feliciana casts its nine votaa
for Hon. T. B. Lyons.
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LATEST
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HOME NEWS.


Tho firm of 7. & A. Tirrell, Boston,
Mass. dealers in hides, he's stopped
pavment. Liabilities $3.50, 000,of which
$4,000 is due to one firm in New Or
leans, the balance to the trade III this
city.
Hugh Dunning, a planter living near
Atlanta, Ga, was fund on Sunday
morning near the city fatally beaten. 1t
is supposed he had been robbed.
The will of the late Gen. L. W. Sher-
man who died few days ago at New
port, Il. [ shortly after the death OF his
wife. leaves Sc, 900 to colored woman
who had been in his family since his
marriage. and was formerly domestic
in the family of Governor Shannon, of
Kansas. George G. Mason is appointed
guardian of the Generals son, who, at
twenty-one, obtains control OF $lOO,OOO
worth of property.
The senate select committee to inquire
into the alleged frauds in the late cleo,
ton, Mr.. Wallace, chairman. will hold
a meeting to examin witnesses, lnclud-
ing ex. secretary of the Senate Gorham, on
the subject of assessment for political
purposes, one of the points embraced in
The resolution under which the so-called
Teller committee, now reorganized with
Democratic majority, was appointed.
Ninety-four Democrats, thirty-three
Republicans and seven fusionists, have
been elected delegates to the Louisiana
Constitutional Convention.
AIr. Vanderbilt has Awarded the con-
tract, and that work is to be commenced
the first week in April, for tunnelling
the Detroit river. The price is stated to
be 81, 50O,O 600. 1t will extend from Stony
Island to Anderson, not distance of
thirty-seven hundred feet, with double
arches FOR double track, eighteen feet
high and fifteen feet wide.
FOREIGN.
The British Government has excepted
the tender of the Eastern Telegraph
Company for laying submarine cable
20 South Africa. The route is by way of
Alden, Zanzibar, Mozambique, Delagoa
Bav and Natal 1t will connect with the
whole of the eastern system of telegraphy
extending to India, China and Australia.
A special dispatch to the
Standard from Pesth says : can aftiu-
ent of the Koros river has burst the
dyke and inundated large territory.
Devavanya, with twelve hundred lphao-
itants. is threatened with ruin. Titel
will scarcely escape the terrible disas-
ter. Water is breaking over the dykes.
The soldiers and laborers, who are at
work strengthening them are exhausted.
The Marquis of Landsdown moved in
the British House of Lords resolution
regretting that an ultmatum calculated
to produce immediate war should have
been presented to the Zulu King with
out authority from the responsible ad-
visers of the government, and that war
should have commenced without ade-
quate preparation. The resolution was
rejected.
Warlike preparations continue be-
tween Chill and Bolivia, and that Chill
will have to fight both Bolivia and Peru
seems to be a foregone conclusion.
Should the Argentine Republic be pre-
cipitated into the contest, it would go
hard with Chill, the model republic of
South America.
Grant has been invited to visit the
king of Siam.
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able, or great width necessary Tor the
full development Of the tree:
J.DE BARTH SHORE.
[Soaheraa California HorticuIta'r'st'
Daily globe., 1879-01-24

not pay for its maintenance, but they are
equally satisfied that it would be folly to at
tempt to maintain steamship lines for COM
mercial purposes at the public expense. AL
though America pays more freights than any
other nation in the world, we have practi-
cally no commerce. This is not due to an
indisposition to patronize home industry
but rather to the fact that we have
had no American ships to patronize
for many years. If such ships
were built and equipped as other
ships are built and equipped, it would soon
be found that they would not lack patronage.
They would, in fact, be remunerative from
the day they were launched, for patriotism
would dictate their maintenance at tho ex-
pense OF vessels of foreign construction. A
commercial marine owned in this country
would be profitable without question, and
the suggestion of subsidizing it is utterly
untenable. What ought to be done by Con,
gress is to remove the restrictions now i'm
posed upon the purchase and building OF
vessels. By SO doing the ship building in
dustry would soon revive, and in less than 8
decade American commerce would be trans.
ported across the ocean in American bot.
toms.
Daily globe., 1879-01-24

ScHURz thinks he has achieved a victory
over the whole army in his recent contro-
versy with certain officers of it. In alluding
to the order of the war department. closing
the discussion he said to friend:
This is the only way to get out of it. The
circumstance that my letter appeared in the
papers cannot have disturbed the generals
much, considering the fact that l saw Gen,
Sheridan $ last TWO letters first in the papers
and that the last one was sent to me with a
printed synopsis intended for the newspapers
attached to it. But Gen. Sherman evidently
wants Gen. Sheridan not to write any more
letters.
The truth of the matter is that the public
would never have known that either Schurz
Or Sheridan had written any letters or called
each other hard names had it not been TO,
the newspapers, and it is doubtful if eithe,
of the parties in interest would have heard
of it either. 1t was more from desire tc
see themselves in print that they engaged II
the dispute at all.
Daily globe., 1879-01-24
THE NAVY AND OUR COHYERCI;L
MdRINE,

Senator Blaine must be credited with a
few sensible remarks relative to the naval
appropriation bill. He called attention to
the fact that there is in the navy one officer
for each three men. and suggested that the
proper way to reduce the expenses Of The
department would be to reduce the number
Of officers. A navy was only useful as all
aid to commercial marine, and that is
something this country does not possess
He suggested that three or four millions of
dollars might be saved on this appropriation
bill, and devoted to an effert to extend the
commerce OF the nation with South America
or other foreign ports. The first part of his
suggestion is good one; the last part wholly
indefensible. We have no doubt whatever
but large amount of money can be
saved by cutting off useless officers in the
navy and stopping the construction of vessels
that are only destined to rot on tho stocks
Or to be beaten to pieces at wharves and
docks. The fact is that the United States
needs nothing more than nominal navy.
A few vessels for duty in European and Asi-
attic waters may be necessary as matter of
form-to inspire a wholesome fear of our
prowess in the seni-barbarous nations south
of the Mediterranean and on the eastern
Asiatic coast. But for any other purpose a
navy is worse than useless heavy expense
to the nation, without any corresponding
benefits. We cannot impose upon any en-
lightened nation with the pretense that we
have navy, for the pretense is altogether
too thin.
To save the present expense of the navy
would be good thing, but to fritter it away
in suhsidizing steamship lines would be as
great mistake as to sink the money in rot
ten hulks, as has been done in the past.
The public are sasia6ed that the navy does
Daily globe., 1879-01-24
CUSTER'S CHAMPION.

Whitaker Dissatisfied With the Scope of
the Present Reno Inqu;ry-A Senate In
vestigation Asked for-His Charges
Against Benteen Retracted.
Especial Telegram to the Globe
CHICAGO, Jan. 23.-Frederick Whitaker. OF
Mount Vernon, N. Y, who makes the charges of
cowardice against Reno, which are now being
investigated arrived here last night to give in
his testimony. He says be has come to Chica-
go safely in the hope of securing justice for
the memory of Custer by bringing to light the
whole truth about the battle Of the Little Big
Horn, and the campaign in which the General
met with his death. Since have been here I
have became satisfied that the scope Of the
present inquiry, and the orders by
which the court is limited, are too
narrow to insure the revelation
OF all the facts bearing on the question of who
is responsible fer the Custer disaster. I have
therefore made application for further anG
fuller investigation in the highest tribunal of
the country, the Senate of the United States.
and private letters from Washington assure me
that the application will in all probability be
granted"
MIR. Whitaker has heretofore publicly
charged Mr.. Benteen with a disobedience cf
orders on that day in that he did not ride more
quickly to Custer s support, as ordered. He
now says he is satisfied that Benteen is wholly
blameless for the disaster of the Little Big
Horn. He makes this correction in Justice to
the living and dead.
Daily globe., 1879-01-24
THE ANNUAL FARCE.

The standing Legislative committees and
a goodly number of other members, will visit
the prison at Saltwater to-day. Their COM
ing has been heralded in advance and every
thing pnt in as good a shape as possible to
receive the law makers and create the i'm
preston that all is well. OF course the
visitors to-day will not ascertain anything
which is not of rosy hue. There has been
an annual junketing party to the Saltwater
prison ever since the State has had an ex-
istence, and history makes no record of a
single adverse point which any of these
visitors has ever discovered.
So far as the business management Of the
institution is concerned, the standing
committees have never attempted to
inform themselves. Even if they
desired this information they could
not obtain it in the single day devoted to the
trip. So far as the tSeatment of prisoners is
concerned, it is absolutely impossible to OBJ
tain anything tangible on this junketing
tour. Such information as is desirable
cannot be obtained within the prison
walls. No pledges of immunity or pro-
lection can make the. men who are confined
in Saltwater speak. They know that they
are in the power of those placed over them,
and that no matter how strenuously mem
Der Of the Legislature might wish to pro-
tect them, he cannot do so save during the
brief period of the visit. The humbug and
farce Of these visits lies in the uniform re-
ports that all is we'll, that everybody is hon
est and humane, and the interests of the
State are carefully guarded. The farce be-
comes so great as to be almost crime.
Daily globe., 1879-01-24
TIE REPUBLICAN 4NIAALS IN NO.
IiON.
On the 9th of January the following edi-
tOrial appeared in the GLOBE:


1iON.
On the 9th of January the following edi-
torial appeared in the GLOBE:
''The GLOBE desires to go ON record with the
statement that Gov. Pillsbury is candidate
or reelection. The GLOBE means an aggres-
sive candidate, anxious for the place. Other
gentlemen of the Republican persuasion of
faith desirous of the honor and the ct cateras
connected with the Office of Governor of Mime
sofa will govern themselves accordingly.'
After rejecting upon this announcement
for a couple of weeks, the Republican organs
suddenly become aroused and announce with
much flourish of trumpets that Gov. Pills
bury is candidate. The small souled post
master at Winona makes the surprising dis
covery and Bill King and Dave Blakeley take
air pipes in little squeak. They are all so
happy to think that Pillsbury wishes to
browse about in pastures green for two
years longer.
While Pillsbury is slow and sluggish, those
who think he is unambitious are greatly
mistaken. He has fixed his eye on tie U.
$. Senate and, strange as it may seem, be-
lieyes he can be elected. When Washburn
came upon the field it looked little dark
for the Governor, but the exposure of Wash
burns corruption will drive him in disgrace
to private life and Pillsbury has no longer a
local competitor. It is quite likely this fact
which leads the Governor to boldly enter the
list for the third term. with Washburn per-
manently shelved and only Mcmillan to plot
against, he sees an opportunity for reaching
the summit of his ambition.
There were certainly implied, if not posi-
tive pledges, when the Governor was last
nominated, that he would not be in the field
again. Until the GLOBE announcement of
the 9th, it was generally thought that Lieut..
Gov. Wakefield woald step up one notch in
the ladder of fame. He will still endeavor
to do SO, but he has the Governor and his
army of appointees (notaries public)
to contend with. The GLOBE looks
on with great complacency. A row in the
happy family is always delightful, and some
times profitable to the opposition. We trust
it will rage with all the vigor which present
appearances indicate.
Daily globe., 1879-01-24
SALTWATER NEWS.

Fourth anniversary of the Sons of HERMANN
ceiebrated Tonight at their hall.
Preparations are being made for ball at
the Free Masons' hall tuesday evening, Feb. 4.
The firm of Hersey, Bean g. Brown. are TAX
ing an inventory of stock, and Eugene Smith
finds it almost impossible to emerge from the
exhaustless number of figures representing
logs, lumber, horses, etc.
Sheriff Pratt. of Faribault county, arrived
yesterday with two candidates for the peni-
t>ntiary. Patrick Lyons, assault with dan
gerous weapon, three years and six months, and
Patrick Sullivan, larceny, one year and six
months.
The attendance at the literary entertainment
at the Universalist church Wednesday,, was
very small. The entertainment, however, was
good in every respect. There will be no en-
tertainment next Wednesday on account of the
Naiad Queen,
Daily globe., 1879-01-24
Reports to the Committee of Seventeen.

The committee of seventeen held a meeting
Wednesday evening" at which the committee
on streets, lamps, sidewalks, etc., reported,
giving figures showing the steady increase
IN expenditures for these purposes,
criticising the loose, extravagant
and inefficient manner in which
the public Improvements have been made, and
suggesting how, in the opinion of the commit
tee, changes could be made to the benefit of the
city.
The committee value of real estate and
personal property and the tax levy of 1873 re-
ported the total value of city property
So, ,459,909, of which sS67,22 is
personal property, and upon which the
tax levy for 1878 is $4,000, a smaller amount
than for any of the preceding five years. The
| school district expenditures from January II.
1873, to January IL, 1879, were S12, ,654 63. The
D., bonded Indebtedness of the district is 546500.
Inc total county expenses; January l, 1875 to
January l, 1875 $50, ,036.71; of which 90, s41. .48
was for support of poor, and $1,000 for officers
salaries. The bonded indebtedness of thu
courts is $1s,750, all falling due within three
years, while some are already over due