American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-10-02

ment. These are the great planks i'll
both pIatforms--read them who
doubts. SO, it is apparent to every
one that there is no issue at all e
tween the Sweet-enders and the Bit 4
ter enders the point to be decided
is simply very diSgraceful and I'M
dignifed scramble for office. But
the great, the import, climacteric
difference is between the thoughts,
principles and consciences of the
true peop'e of Mississippi and the
avowed doctrines of Black Republi-
canism, whether it be called "Nation-
al Union" or 'HRadical' for the mail
telance Of the little remnant of
States rights, the tattered relics of
the federative American system of
government, or for the destruction
of these legacies of freedom and the
ENGRAVING of the principle of central
ization-oligarchical or monarchical
power--upon the fundamental stat
utes, the organic law of the land, the
Federal Constitution. The only
chance for the adoption of this
spawn of Republicanism-the XIV.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in having it en-
dorsed by Mississippi and Texas. 1t
is already virtually defeated every
where else, and the Radicals look on
with eager eyes and bated breath to
see the proud people of Mississippi
endorse it, and write with their own
hands the word CRAVEN Oh their own
brows, and mark the bar sinister on
the shield of their State. Men Of
Mississippi, disappoint them. With
out your ratification, tie amendment
returns home to roost like a c1rse
on the heads from whenceit sprat 6.
With your endorsement, it may be-
come law of the entire land, and in
after yearsyour childreu's children
will blu shforvery shame at the knowl-
edge that you were I" weighed and
found wanting deserted your
colors in the hottest of the battle,
and betrayed the only cause that
could have saved you.
What incentive are YOU offered to
ratify this inf;lmyP Simply the false,
lying promise that by so doing a Ger
tain class of your fellow citizens will
be cnfranchised and your State adj
mitted to Congressional representa-
ton. We say lying promise, and we
mean it; because it was made to
Virginia, she believed it, and belied
her record, by accepting it; but, 20
far from being now admitted into
the Union, strenuous efforts are ! g
ing made, with alas! every prospect
of success, to keep her ''Out i'll the
cold until she will consent to stand
at the Radical stove in the great
national sitting room, at Washing
ton and she will be kept out unit
she is frozed into submission, or til
Pennsylvania and Ohio shall send
her some glowing Goals to warm hel
chilled and bleeding frame.
But some say, How can We help
ourselves I! Is is not the best We
can dor' NO; it is not. What par
ticle of good can it do you! Poo
Virginia-bOught and sold and hu
inflated - stands as the pitiable EN-
bodiment of the answer-N0Re
: The harm it will do you, we have
, already mentioned. How can W,
help ourselves p BY voting agains
Alcorn and Dent, or any man %
men of any party that proposes it
, adoption by giving on the 30th o
T, November, long and hearty ech,
, to the shouts of victory that will gour
from thousands and tens and hun
dreds of thousands of Democratic
:, voices mid the hills and valleys o
D Pennsylvania and Ohio, and shall
shake the lettering Republican fab
riG to its foundation, on the 18th ant
= 18th inst: " Down with Con
u gression usurpation." If you vot
J. for any candidate of any party tina
e proposes to adopt this document
G YOU just say by that vote, 'Congres
a is right; the National Legislature
has the authority to make domesti
laws for the States and when
g voted against the constitution las
year. | WAS simply doing wrong b.
o putting the State to the expense G
g having it submitted You stulti
fl yourself; you endorse Congres
i sioIml tyranny you admit that tn
9. negro and the Chinaman is bette
# than yourself and the intelligen
q white immigrant you encourage Nel
a England rapacity you leave a lega
cy Of political slavery to your poster
; ty amd-thdt's all.
!: +. S.-We aiiiX to this article tn
t. opinion of that political prophet
II the sage OF Independence Hall-Iloi
!. ~. II. Stephens, on this subject. II
says if this chime against law mus
VI I've committed, that Southern me
should not be perticeps crimt~iS:
e "If Liberty is operisb, let it periS
If at the hands of the North; no Soutl
. man should he a partalier of til
/. crime. Wherefore nothing con
- he more base than ratiiicatiO
) of the fifteenth amendment, undt
h the impulse Of threats from Congress
I. Military rule may come; hut nriitar
= is better than self degradation. 4
/. undegraded, though oppressed pei
pie may still preserve some hope {
y ultimate liberty and good govern
'e Incnt--but a sc!l.degradcd pcopI
Il. a people lost to shame, to honor, an
q personal respect, are not worthy
!. their liberty, even if a hope OF itS re-
u tOration could penetrate souls whiC
A. AZ hair oru acgnr1 havo suff,rat a