Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-12-27
MISSISSIPPI.
Why the Conservatives Failed The
Appeal" Again Endorsed.
SPRINGPoRr, PANOLA CO., MISS.
December cath, 1869.

December 24th, loOy.
Editors Appeal: Permit one Of
your subscribers to express his grad
| tication at the wise, just and sensible
article. contained in your editorial OF
/ the 10Th inst, on the situation IN Miss
! issippi. The writer of this has been q
/ close observer Of the political move
ments and jugglery OF certain Would
/ be leaders of the people during the last
| several months, and at the same Jliiie
a reader of the appeal, and had ne uh-
/ dertaken to have given an expression
| to his own sentiments and views from
l the first initiation of the sO-caIled Dent
movement up TO the close OF the eiec-
| ton, he could not have expressed
them half so well as they We're eX-
| pressed in your repeated editorials.
/ The truth must be admitted that the
Democratic and Wing parties were
most efectually sold by the notorious
/ if nOt) immortal one hundred ana
/ thirty-hve gentlemen, selt-constltuteu
aud appointed leaders Ofthe state, VINO
/ foisted upon the people the Dent ticket,
composed almost entirely OF carpet
! baggers from other States; whilst the
AlcOrn ticket, representing the eX-
/ treme Radicals negroes and alI), were
] genuine native eMissisSippians to the
/ manner born" We could easily have
/ elected a portion of our congressman,
and a large minority, if not majority
/ of the Legislature, whose moral lnf1u-
/ ence would have been great indeed IN
/ that body, and who could and would
have done much towards neutrallZinS
/ the mischief and evils that body VIII
| now inflict upon US without a voice
| to be raised in protest even against
/ them. Ii viii not do TO say that MI
norities exercise no such influences,
/ for the writer knows well, from many
/ years experience as member Of dlI-
/ ferent deliberatiYe bodies, that they
always do. But tits by no means GER
| tain that we would have been in 4 mi
nOrity had we done as we were pre-
I pairing quietly to do, tO-Wit: to run Il
straight Out-and-Out Conservative
/ ticket, OF our most conservative and
capable men, VINO had been least often
sive to the Federal Government and
were eligible to seats in the dil-
1 feFent bOdieS-the people indica-
TING, as they were doing in a
most quiet manner, their prefer
.
men to become candidates lot tha
several positions to be filed, all Of
which was defeated and completely
overslaughed by the so-cailed Dent
movement, and the Jackson COnyen-
ton nominating him brought about
the address of the afOres,e,...... one nun
dred ana thirty-Gve "immOrtaf gen
tlemen. The motives Of these gen
tiemen may have been patriotic and
praiseW0rthy, but it via be difficult
to make some OF their iellOW-citiZens
believe so. The State and the people
were completely sold, and the c0nse-
duenCeS 0I The sell fearful, as time
will develop. The election III this
district was completely in the hands
of the CqnserVat.yes-the people had
indicated their preferences ICr the
most important positions, in the man.
{ ner above referred to, and everything
was moving quietly along to sure and
certain success when this 'addreSS" of
the one hundred and thirty-five "im-
mortals' fell Ikea bOmb-shell, break
ing the ranks, spreading confusion,
and foretelhng tG some oi Us, at least,
who, like yourself, pointed il out,
certain disaster and u9!eat- Oh, but
it was a most egregi0us biunder, and
indelible political shame, that the
State and her interests should
be thus sacrificed by a few at
expense of the many? You have
since exposed the whole thing most
ably, and l return you, for one, heart
felt thanks for sO-dOing. The writer
could ada much more to what has
been said, but it is not his object to
write newspaper articles, but simply
to lender you his thanks for the clear
sighted and sagaciOqs exposition you
have made Of the iamentable situation
OF poor, stricken, crushed and down
trodden Mississippi, who can lind a
parallel only in poor old South Caro-
lima and her negro government. God
help us. WARTON.