Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-05-08
PROPOSALS
For publishing in tie cityof Jackson. Miss,
a ,ccehly newspaper, to be called
The MthrOM,
PROPOSALS

EDITED BY AARON LINDSEY AND BENJAMIN F. STOCK
TON, AND PUBLISHED BY BENJAMIN ALBERTsoN.
TtSHE great contest is over The people have de-
n cided by great majority almost unprecedented
in the history OF country that they will have a
change of men and change of measures. Emerg-
ing as we from the depth of that gloom into
which unwise and corrupt men have thrown us, it be-
to proceed cautiously and surely in the steps
which shall take towards return to the prin-
ciples essential to our prosperity and greatness
From the indications which the recent elections have
given us, we cannot doubt that thorough reform in
the federal government, throughout all its ramfca-
l0ns, will take place, and to such reform the South
will yield hearty support. But in Mississippi
there are other and more important interests to be at
tended to than the of the federal government,
the prospects of General Harrison's successor
Great and manifold the evils which have been
inflicted upon us by the measures of Mr. Van Buren,
we have suffered yet more severely by the course
which his friends and supporters while in the control
oil our state government, have pursued The cleo
ton of General Harrison to the Presidency will be
of little advantage to US if the men who have pros
ttated credit abroad and rendered our state
government an object of ridicule and contempt at
home, suffered to continue to miSmanage it.
Earnestly impressed with these opinions, we shall
devote our energies, in an especial manner, to the
correct information of the public the subject of the
situation of the State, its liabilities and its resources
and the best means of applying the latter to the Ii.
quidation of the former As auxiliary to This
great work of public reform, shall devote large
pOICIOH paper W connected more I'M
nedately with the private interests of the planters
who constitute the great of the people of the
State The state of the cotton market, the incidents
which may effect it, the improvements in its cultiva
ton, viii receive large share of our attention. and
in Connection with the same subject shall devoted
unreasonable space to those matters ofdomestic econ
omy which have been too much neglected in MISSISSIPPI
pi.
In the indispensable duty Examining the conduct
of public men, shall avoid the abusive tone which
has of late so much disfgured the public press Diff
ference of opinion does not constitute crime in our
eyes, nor shall we treat it such We will endeav-
or to discuss principles fully freely and fairly, and
conquer our adversaries with the sword of truth
the only weapon which the freeman is authorized to
use in his contests with his countrymen. Facts will
be stated candidly and impartially. We have no de-
sire to belong to party which requires alsehood to
support it, and will dissolve all political
with that to which we are now attached
than misstate missrepresent facts to sustain it,
With this faint outline of our Intentions we sub
NIT our proposals to the subic in the hope that they
will meetis appreciation, and with determination to
do all in power to merit it.
The first number will be issued on or before the first
of January next The price will be FIVE DOLLARS |
a yea PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Persons holding SUBJ
scrption lists will please forward the names before
ME paper is issued I
Jackson, November 2Sth 1910