Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-09-09
NomINATTON IN MIssIssIPPI.


NOMINATION IN MISSISSIPPI.
The Conservative Republican Conven-
tion met at jackson on yesterday, and,
after organizing, the name OF Judge
Lewis Dent was put in nomination, and
received on first ballot two hundred and
twenty votes, the aggregate number OF
forty counties in the State. The Hon.
E. effards, after some little opposition,
was declared the nominee for Lieutenant
Governor on the same ticket. These
gentlemen will doubtless be elected to the
Offices for which they have respectively
beeu nominated. The reason is obvious
wby we come to such conclusion, for
the people in Mississippi, as did the
people of Virginia and Tennessee, to some
extent. prefer and adopt the choice OF
tbe iess of two evils. When speaking OF
the peopIe in Mississippi, we mean the
white Democratic portion of the popula-
finn. who are alone vitality interested in
tbe future of the Slate. The carpet-bag
scalawae, extreme proscriptionist will, in
almost every instance, support General
Alcorn a deserter from the Confederacy
and reyiler of his own people. From
the close proximity of Tennessee to
that Of our sister State, Mississippi,
we feel acutely every pang of pain that
ia Gent to the heart Of her people. Our
fortunes, to great extent, are to- be
shipped in the same life boat, and any
calamity that should befall the noble and
pstriotic people of this section will come
with equal severity upon us. We SIN
cerely hone that the home of Jefferson
Davis and S. S. Premise, with host OF
martyrs who once lived within the lluiio
of the State, may be freed from the oppres-
sor's tread and the mailed hand OF the mil
itary despot. These people, by supporting
Judge Dent for Governor, are not sacri-
6cipg principle in so doing They are
exactly in the condition of one held
down by a superior, who, with knife at
che throat of the unfortunate, demands
that be shoald consent to terms then die.
tated by the iyrant. When the good
people of Mississippi may, by accepting
terms of the Northern ysndals, get rid OF
their present government, in every
respect distastefnl TO her citizens. they
then, like Tennessee, may talk of correct
ing the abuses of the last four years.
What we would eight against is the
demoralizing influences of certain sheets,
who would endeavor to force the people
60 accept the situation, as they term 1t,
in good faith. The people in these OPP
pressed districts should act when COM
PEELED as directed By the military, but not
believe that they are doing Coos service
in thus performing a compulsory deed.
They should let ell their doings be gov
erned by reason, so as to accomplish the
most from the materials placed within
reach. If it is utterly impossible, held
down as they are by the military, to
elect Democratic ticket, do as
advised by Gov. Brown, Of that State, in
letter to Judge Dent at Washington, and
that was to 20 with the Conservative Re-
publicans for the time, BECAUSE 1t cant
be helped; but to remember thet the
Democracy do not surrender their prin-
ciples and are not in the future bound By
the precedent which they are forced to
make in this instance. There is nothing
wrong in this, for the people OF these un-
reconstructed States are compelled to do
things that, if left TO their own free
choice, would be far from accepting.
Bat the time will come in the
history Of the Southern country,
and that, too, at no distant dsy, when
the people 10 this section would
scorn to do what they are now, Of neces-
sity, anxious to perform, to lessen the op-
pressive burdens laid upon them by the
northern Egyptian taskmasiers. Let US
preserve our faith intact, as did the Is
raeltes on their journey out Of Pharaoh's
land to the one of promise, where every
one may worship the living and true
God Of principles without fear of moleS-
ts,ion from Grant aud bis self deGled
host