American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-07-17

Alcorn Running the Eggleston Ma
chine.

Gen. Alcorn spoke again in the
capital on Thursday night, to repair
the breech on his own side which his
violent and bitter, but egotistical
and stupid TRADE, had made, during
the Eggleston Convention.
His last speech was worse than his
first. 1t was the lowest and most
disgusting effort which has yet been
made to arouse the prejudices of the
blacks against the whites. W it'll
little more pretension to style, 1T was
a reproduction of the vile speech
which Henry Mayson delivered
short time time ago in Brandon-on-
ly, Henry Mayson was drunk with
whisky, and Alcorn was drunk with
malice and ambition.
In 1861, it was common remark
of Alcorn, that if the Union cause
triumphed in the war, he would turn
&c outlaw take to the highways
and by-ways, with knife and pistol
in his belt, and carry on warfare on
his own hook.
But his outlawry consists only in
putting himself out of the pale of
decency in the part he is playing.
He seems actually to rejoice in utter
recklessness and to look upon the
grovelling speech he was delivering
to catch the applause of the worst
class of Loyal Leaguers, as a thing
of course. He does not appear to
have the least notion of the emotion
he inspires among other classes,
whose good opinion men will natu-
rally cOvet, who have not gone the
downward road beyond redemption.
His trade can be reported cohe-
rently no more than the jabber of a
lunatic, but there we've some points
jotted down by our reporter which
we will endeavOr to reproduce for
use in the canvass:
He claimed that the Eggleston
constitution had not been defeated
and that it would be legitimate for
Congress even yet to adopt it as the
supreme law of the State Having
advocated that instrument, and ad-
vised the Radical Convention of Nov
25th, to endorse the proclamation OF
the Committee o, Five, and aided
and allotted the Committee of Six
teen in the work which according to
Elder Lynch brought them under the
contempt of Congress-he seems
yet to hope that it may yet by some
sort of hOcus pOcus become the SUI
preme law, unshorn of its abomina
tiOns.
He villifed the people of Missis
sippi charged that they are moi
law abiding. He said that the
statistics show that ''forty murders
are committed a month'-which he
attributes to the EKu-Klux associa
tions," alleging that they have dep
related on his own private rights
4" L join issue with the Southern PEG
ple," he exclaimed, "when they sd,
they are law abiding"
In proof that they are not "loya1
he cited the election of Gov. Hum
phreys, impugning not only the fidel
ity of the Governor to his pledge o
allegiance, but of the people wht
elected him.
He was savage on the Legislator,
of 80; He abused it for appropria
ting $4,000 for the defence of MI
Davis, who was on trial for serving
the people in the public position il
; which they had assigned him.
/ Every member of the Legislatur
voted that appropriation includin!
j. L. Morris, a member of the Eg
gleston State Executive Committed
He abused the Legislature TO
electing Judge Gholson to be it
! Speaker. And in the same connec
: ton he larruped Mr.. TOombs, of Ga
} with whom the people of Mississippi
, have as much to do as the man in tn
, moon; and who, like AlcOrn himself
, is the first cousin to Bully Bottom.
, He ramInde the negroes of tn
laws passed by the Legislature in '65
to arrest the vagrancy which tn
: false pledges OF the Bureau had cl
cOuraged but he did not tell then
that the laws were repealed by til
same Legislature which passed then
, Strange enough he did not arraig
: that body for the most unpardOnabI
t of all it's acts-viz: electing him t
+ the United States Senate. That wa
2 its widest, most extraordinary an
: most reprehensible freak.
:, At this point, he left the stanC
3, and came down among the freedmen
t to tell them i'll the most cOntidentlS
c and loving style, how badly tn
whites have treated them and t
remind them that by force of nun
e bers their opportunity is ample t
revenge themselves.