American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1867-07-27
VOICE FROM THE YA1o6 VALLEY

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YAzoo COUNTY, July s, 1867.
sa. Nm Editor: Referring to my last
letter, ! take up the further copsi0'
erationof the subject of recoIsttoe-
ton. W
Ifmy collection serves n18rightlp
NO bad convention in TIM Stat e u
Angdst 1865, to reconstruct this
State, under the guard of .Eederal
bayonets'in pearly hands and Radi,
cal saving grace. AS soon sasRwe
could "cut and dry the work assign
ed to us, it was speededs through
with lightning velocity. We were
then happy and ,gloriously recon,
structed! We then had a time hon
ored civil government and federal
relation, said our wise men aud doc
tors. Freedmen's bureaus and mill,
tary satraps no longer lorded it over
helpless conquered and ruined PEG
pie, said the then reconstructofs OF
the State. We were to have GAS good
as had representatives, good, II ue,
redeemed and holy, in Congress. Ali
hail, Columbia, happy land II Our
invaluable friends, Amos II. john
ston, James I. Harrison, J. w. q.
Watson, Richard Cooper, Lock E.
Houston, Jason Niles, Il. Fl. Saunders,
FL. F. Johnston, L. p. Cooper and T.
Goliah Crawford and others, had eve
rything right, brushed away the
clouds, opened our benightetlA eyes,
and presented to our poor vision the
beautiful, bright, calm and glorious
sun of the future, and q reunion (nig-
ger sloshed On) altogether lovely.
They made the Constitution in the
marked image of the Radicals and
their grand high priest, and gave it
Il black but uplifted countenance,
and said they heard the Radicals say
of it: "This is our beloved son, in
whom we are we'll pleased Eo-
Nat Franklin, Robert IS. Hudson.
f. j. Malone, Thos. Marshall, j. II.
Maury, George l.. Potter, Alb. Reid,
Col. Reynolds, II. 4. Saunders, @.
SWEET and j. 81. Wilson protested,
and said this was all a delusion, and
that this ready and hasty surrender
and suppliancy was but the prelude,
invitation and guaranty to further,
other and more intolerable demands |;
that the Constitution was q black
image and had a down.cast counte.
nance, and was an unlovely son, in
whom nobody was pleased.
Now, who was right and who was
wrongf "u.|-H.IE
There is q journal of these things
that everybody should read. From
that moment to the present, the flood
gates have been opened, and deman
the most degrading and infamous
have poured in torrents on our heads.
These Radical doctors discovered in
that quick performance our geat ex-
cellence in taking the prescribed ply
sic, and that We would take arsenic
or prussic acid as readily as salts, if
it were prescribed, and hence have
prescribed a large and deadly dose of
poison, and say that We can take it
or not. convention or no conventional
Our good, physlc-taking friends and
nurses say, Come up, all We fiends
of Rebeldom, and take it quickly it
will kill very dead, but If we don't
ta gk aott it 18th BB ny lylIc ' E1lfer ali q
This further prompt manifestation
of excellence to swallow fatal and
deadly doses has stimulated Drs. 7.
Stevens and Go. to prescribe again as
\ condition precedent to our final
death and dogs burial, to-wit: That
we appoint them executors of our es-
tates, and live in death throes and |
1gonies, until they even close out the
business, and then we can die and |
be damned to us. Our good physic-
.aking friends say, "Come up, and
et us take that too, in eternal graft
,ude and remembrance of our skill
'ul, kind, sympathizing, attentive and
generous physician, DR.. Stevens, and
others it is all for the best and
night be worse !"
o! what hopeful, bright-sided set
,ur econstructionists are! But where
Ire our representatives in Congress =?
,ur boosted free and civil govern
nents our frecdmen's bureaus and
satraps? the bayonets in
yearly hands and saving gracef Who
las been fooled, deceived and wrong
d. -
Two years have rolled their pond
rous wheels of famine, want and OPP
ression upon our necks and wounds,
nd are added to the mighty volume
f time and infamy. Our represent
tives went to Congress, performed a
lonkey show, paid their own expens-
g, came home, died out, and left a
ig vacancy that can't be filed. They
ave not been seen or heard of since
hey had departing force applied to
heir exit from Washington, though
believe All-Corn was lately heard
by few, in Memphis. "
Where is ourboasted free and civil
tate Government! Her laws and
ffices annulled and set at nought
ew and strange laws enacted by a
,reign and absolute monarch and
espot imported and travelling cara 1
ans and missionaries ransacking !
very corner swearing in the negroes
nd swearing out the white. men. 4
he State don't know whether she is 1
cad or alive but she does know she d
on short rations and heavy taxes, 4
I'd is subsisting and lingering and r
=, ,r,,;sb;no. ~, Tho orur.1 he chat fall