American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1867-11-16
RADICAL RECONSTRUCTION
A Precious Comic sion.

For the benefit of those of our read.
ers who favor the Congressional
plan of reconstruction in the State OF
Mississippi, We publish the following
letter to the New York Erening Post
with the comments of the National
Intelligencer thereon:
Pursuing mad and unprincipled
career for Office and plumber, the Rad,
icals would seem to have lost that
decent regard for appearances which
10 the homage rendered by vice to
virtue Let the reader note the ex
tracts we give below from a letter
written to the New York Erening
Post. (Radical,) and which We find
published in the New York Tribune
Of the 1st instant, without one word
of comment OF criticism:
TfCKsBURG, September Is, 1867
It is now, conceded by the rebels
themselves that the majority of black
voters in Mississippi will exceed 20
600, 1t is scarcely to be doubted
that their%6te tilf be given solid for
the Republican party. This fact be-
ing conceded, gives the highest cen
sequence and significance to ali the
dOings of the organizations that con-
troll the exercise of this great political
po,oer. In this view, the meeting of
the State Republican Convention at
Jackson last week has become a mat
ter of the greatest moment. 1t per-
fects the organization Of the party
for the State, and enables the few
leaders who control it to pull the
wires simultaneously through the
sixty counties of Mississippi.
1t is undoubtedly an evil that a few
men will control this immense vote Of
the freed people. But it is an Incl
dent Of the situation, and it could
not well be otherwise. 1t is proba-
BILE that five men will rule MissiSsip-
pi, and it is especially unfortunate
that these men are not our best men.
Nothing is more natural than that
adventnrers, for selfish ends. should
seize the party reigns, and drive the
whole machinery of the party. But
the certainty that they can succeed
only as they work in harmony with |
Republicanism, will prevent them
swerving from the policy of the par
ty. Policy will make them act as
if they we're honest, and shut out |
many dangers into which selfishness
might otherwise lead them.
Hero we have, from a Radical
hand, Al eye and ear witness for a
leading Radical organ, portraiture
OF the working of the Congressional
plan of reconstruction. If there is
or could be anything, more
truly Internal than this scheme, We
have yet to hear of it. give men,
and those, it seems, none of the best,
are 10 be sole masters of a great
State, with its hundreds of thousands
of people! Over sixty thousand he.
groes, they WELD absolute control"
and with these are to dominate the
white race, We are to have q new
slavery, and that more complete than
The system lately in force; and of
this slavery, hundreds of thousands
are to be the victims, the negroes the
Instruments, and 1--we" unprinci,
pied Radical scoundrels the benefici-
aries. The only check on these, it
seems, is "policy," and this, it is
hoped by the somewhat enthusiastic
writer, will make them "act as III
hey cere honest They are not
honest" it seems. Five knaves are
o rule Mississippi, by the aid of the
Aud this, it is said, is /
necessary to "curb the spirit of the
ebellion."
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