The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-13
INTER ESTING LETTER FROM
OUR SPECIAL COEsRES- :
PONDENT.
OXFORD, June IL, 1868.

OUR SPECIAL COHsRES-
PONDENT.
OXFORD, June IL, 1868.
Editor Clarion Gov. Humphreys and Col
Hooker arrived here this evening after filling
| the appointment of to-day at Holly Springs
They will address the people of this county
| tomorrow. ,..
should have begun where | left off in my
last letter, written just before the speaking
| at Coffnth. told you in that letter that
Tishomingo county was all right. saw
nothing either during or after the speaking
| to produce change in thaO opinion, formed
| by what had seen and heard in other parts
of the country.
At Corinth is to be found the head and
the foot, the beginning and the ending, of
the "so-calle6" Anti-Radical Reconstruction
party of the State of Mississippi. There
| they have their strength, which is day by
day decreasing. Twenty-Five of the misled
white men of the place openly avowed their
| intention to vote against the Constitution
| after they had heard the able. eloquent and
conclusive arguments of Gov, Humphreys
| and Coils. Hooker and Falconer 1t had been
their intent ton to vote for the Constitution
] and the Democratic nominees. These gen
tIemen told them that tney came not to sell
| ct votes for themselves. but to show up tn a
/ Constitution in all its hideousness aud de-
formity. There will not be five hundred of
| these votes cast, all told, and the Democrats
win register five hundred new votes in the
county, Col Falconer and Capt. Townsend
to 11ILa wi 10 fnG nd Inn
ton, on the evening of the 8Jh INST. They
| reioined us yesterday at Holly Springs, aud
| brought cheering news. There are no Anti
Radical. Radicals at Iuka and but few white
Radicals not more than half a dozen, They
had a warm reception, aud a rousing meeting
there. To-day we again part company, they
returning to Tishomingo, Again let me as
sure you that we need have no fears about
TishomIngo. Every true man is at his post
and she will weather thel storm of RadI-
calism triumphantly. The few who have
gone astray carried none with them. They
!, are even now regrettin9 their course. More
than one told ME that they knew they were
in bad company, aud wonId get out if they
knew how. | could give their names if l
would. / told them the issue was plainly
drawn, and those who are not for us are
against u.s. that they had no time to loose if
they ever intended to rejoin their own race
in this struggle; that they could no longer
claim that they did not know what they
called reconstruction is called radicalisn
elsewhere in the State. " 7fat rs.a -..e 5r
We reached Holly Springs yesterday even
ing, aud from nearly every one we heard an
account OF the atfray. on the day of the
Grand Radical pOlC-lCOlC at that place
Although every correspondent that has writ
ten from Holly springs has given account
of it, L VIII write a condensed one.
7 A ter the leaders had spoken, Nelson G..
Gill, Seargent-at-arms of the uefunct black and
N VENT fhonDht III oS him .
leader of the Loyal league in Marshall county
10 give the negroes. what he called "some
plain ia k !" He did not attempt discuss the
, supp. sed merits of the Mulatto Constitution,
but conte tie himself by ahusiug the Demo
Gratis party, and DemCcra as ind viduals
= and the white people o. the South. general.
ly. He told how he had ran for his hfe before
a Democrat mob, in Jackson. And then he
said, $ ont believe any of their promises.
wouldn't give curse Tor them, They al
j g all liars. have caught them in many, my.
{" self. Every one of them VIII LIE to you,-
|" Ny fir lends, have but few more remarks tC
"mtk Ike" - II +.
; Col Geo. B. Mayors one. armed ex-Con
federate soldier-who Was standing near, u
I | this point. j 4rked stick from negro, jumpet
, upon the stand, and b gan to thrash him, say
y ING, .'Now! Cd I'm L III nix you will STOP
now" The negroes neal he stapd. began t
throw brickbats One of them stru k CO. NJ
4 | with a sick. About fourteen Democrats rush
ed in to his assistance and mounted the stand
one Was knocked off by negro. Al this lin
q the Radicals began to >Camper; Clark of 9aZoo
jump, off the platform and broke his leg
e Dr. Compton, who is attending on him, say /
was done by a fall, aud not blow. Some g
| The negroes remained, and when our friend
q retire d. Gil, who had armed himself, moVe'
!" up Wi his forces, and took possession. Tier
h | might have been more trouble, but the miitar.
: came up, and Gill was told that he ha con
enough towards raising row, for one day
an hat h'muSt disperse his valiant loyal1sts
: That night, the Radical leaders W. re az " e
!. that ntv would not he molested, unless the
repeated Sips experiment, and they tried t
J. | I'VE another black crowd gathered. but Oil
not u ceeu in getting together hore than :
), of the truest of the clan. Nor is, of Port Gil
son, spoke. dividing time With DIR. Compton
: who had been taken along a. body-guar,l.
Fiotrnoy, OF Pontctoc, knowing how nue.
> he deserved to be used roughly for the speec.
}, he had made--in which be said he hoped an
F. tx ect d to see the day when the ladies' OF tn
!, two ia es would walk he streets of Ill IL
Springs "rm and arm, and their child ren woui
sit on the same bench at school, and study i
b. the same Dook-eould not stand the raeke
!, and took the first train for home.
To-day i again had the pleasure OF seeing
# cordial welcome extended to Gov. HUM hrey
;, and Col. Hooker. The town was throTgt
= with citizens of the country among whom
j. met many personal friends, " homI had kno y
on the far off fields Of Virgin when the
- We're members of tire nth Mi Valun:e ers.
There is good deal of excitement in Ma
y shall; over the Registration Capt. Townsen
% called ont to me. as the omni bus rolled on
: the depot--ss Democrats 200 ahead.v The lea
sanguine of our friends pnt our majority
d 00O-while others run it up to 1000; 90 SUI
10 pose we may safeiv rely on 500.
!. This letter is quite long enough. and wi
10 leave the glad. tidings have totel Of Lafa.
4 ttte, tor my next. III. Is.