Piney Woods planter and Amite union literary reflector. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1838-1838, 1838-04-07
La GRANGE, HEAD QUARTERS.
ApriL, 81. 1888.

FESLow-SoLDIERs AND CITIZENS
again tender You my services for
Major General Of the lst Division of the
Mississippi Militia, composed Of the coun-
ties of Wi kinson, Amite, Pike, Marion,
Perry, Green, jackson end Hancock, and
owing to ti.e deranged condition OF the mi
iitia law Of our state; regret that could
not have reviewed you, which would have
superseded the necessitv of addressing
you through the medium Of a Circular.
AS 1t is custnma ~, and my political OPT
MONS NAV not be generally known thro'-
out the Division, Twill, therefore, give you
brief sketch Of them. am AMI have ev-
cr been opposed to the doctrines of Multi
fication and secession, and while acknow-
ledge the supremacy Of the Union upon
: subjects which IRE placed by the Con-
-. rtion under the care of the General
Covo -ument, dsdain the appellation OF
- 'ssiom man. No, FeIkow-Citizens,
!. a. Northern States interfere with
u 80 opulation, which it appears
eur b. ON nus to do without paying US
sney ar. ""M' pockets, and with our own
Their ,tatu,es and constitu-
hunting up mustv time for arms-re-
tons, then will be The or death. In such
Observation-Disclosures ,ly en- its own
q case each state must i, VS. upon this
militia. Such are my vie, ';tical oues-
subject, and upon all other pol with the
tions | have always been ranked at the
republican party. My wish is, til. heen
blood of our fathers may not have nd
spilled in vain, but that the General a.
State Government may move on together,
with that union and harmony SO much de-
sired by Washington, and other heroes of Pi
the revolution.
Fellow Citizens, in 1918, when this MI
was enyeloped in the dark clouds of
Of savage warfare, was boy of eighteen n;
years of age. in the State of Tennessee, -
nv services, and marched with III
the Hero of New-O Orleans to the deserts Of
Alabama, and there, on the plains OF M
| witnessed the fall of three 4;
hundred of those merciless Indians, who r
had murdered our brothers ana sisters. at y,
Fort Minis. The hardships and sufferings en-
Of that campaign were borne by me in
common with those who gained the laurels. II
Since thai time have been twenty years y
in trying to discharge the duties ct a field "a
and general officer. d'
mention these services, not as claim "a
upon my Fellow-C Citizens, for ! was only
doing my duty, but i mention them to
show that have not been deaf to the call "
of my country, and have had some little to
experience as a soldier and officer, and ia
ought to know what duties belong to each .
of those stations, and am truly sorry that ''
| have not had an opportunity ofpartici-
aating in the battles Of the Florida war, II
tor ifthe United States would turnlsh me OF
with two thousand men of my own cholce' n,
and three hundred grey-hounds, ana Two :
hundred bulldogs, lpledgc my scalp 70
drive every Indian out Of the Territory N
thirty days. :.
With these views submit ny prefer
sions to the people Of this Divis'sn. mt 4
is your pleasure to re-elect NE to INC Oh
flee Of Major General, | assure you, Of my d
hest endeavors, faithfully to discharge my nj
duty. and if,not reelected, l shall Cordial le
sly submit to your decision o,
Respectfully, ,>,>,,NcrAM ta
A. p. CUNNINGHAM :