The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1868-05-30

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forth men who vers Ksows " " IN.
eligible n shies7 I hInk not. II
can be nothing bu. q SUICIDAL roIe
rev 10 elect men 10 represent Ne vhe
will b. cent hack 10 Ne Al the ssssm.
bling NJ The Senate and Legislature
with their fingers 10 their mouths !
The Constitution expressly forbids
any officer elect from taking his seat,
ercept he be a Jacobin), unless he
was q private soidieri In the Copfed-
crate army. If our ticket could be
elected BY an OVERWHELMING ma
jorisy--wish their present disabilities
hanging over them-what could they
do for usY NOTHlNGii Worse
than that they could just step aside
and let the "next man who was In
The race, "a Jacobin, Of course,) take
the position lie was ELECTED to MI |
That Is Just what II all amounts to-
nothing more, nor nothing lessl Mr..
Brady Is the only man on the whole
ticket who Is ELIGIBLE. As for this
Senatorial district, our nominee for
the senatorship, like those for the
State at large, might just as well be
running on the Radical ticket as on
ours, so far as utility Is concerned.
Suppose the Constitution is carried,
and a majority of Democrats are
elected 10 the Senate and House Of
Representatives-and about HALF Of
said Democrats are excluded on &C.
count of ineligibility, WHO WILL DE
10 BLAME? The people, / say, will.
l do not pretend to say that this can
be done LEGALLY, but il will be the
case, nevertheless. Can our people
learn nothing from experimentation
having tried the Radicals in 1866, on
almost. this same, identical issue
This view Of the matter looks tolera.
bly, broad, but | fail to see il in any
other light at present. To be ineli'
: gible is to insure defeat, even il elect.
ed! That is the whole thing in q
nutshell. All that we can reasona'
bly, hope for is that the bogus cousti'
, tuition may be defeated-not that W,
may have representatives. We can
not expect to "gather grapes ofthorns
or figs Of thistles" If we r Sc
blind to our own vital interests as u
try to relieve ineligibility without thu
power of doing il, and should b
crushed in the attempt, II will be no
body's fault but our own, and w
shall richly deserve all that the Rad
icals may choose to heap upon US
They have given us one chance race
as il were, for our lives, and if tn
!, ineligible, sos-vorrse and wrsE(y
heads Of the land are TO be permitte'
to put forward men who cannot serve
!. l pray that the enormous and degrad
. ing consequences may rest upon thei
heads. And still further. What d
the private soldiers, who are alon
eligible, think of this suicidal policy
: Will they strive to elect men VIII
cannot take seats, when they them
selves are ignored in the whole trans
action by their now political infer
ors? Will they attempt to exalt III
; men who lorded Il over them durin
:. the war, to the exclusion of the PR
vArE SOLDIER rho aloae, Of all oth1
|. cun take his seat u dsctedf / kno'
: well that they will do no such thin
Il and they ought not to do i. II u
Z State Of Mississippi sinks into III
lap of Radicalism, il will be the Eau
!. Of 3 few disfranchised individuals
each locality, who assume to know
, things, and nominate men whom th'
4 KNOW, If they have common sens
could not serve if elected Poop
= Of Pamela county, and Of the who
= State, let me tell you that disfranchi
I ed p~estifosgers can never win in sh
n racs, and Is they will stick TO o
ut ideas Of their own greatness, the
y counscls are utterly worthless. Th'