American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-09-25
PEOPLE, POLITICS AND PARTIES
@? TIE PRESENT.
a Chapter on Affairs in Mississippi
Retrospective aud Prospective.

We propose, III TINS article, 10 give
as tersely as possible, a resume OF
political affairs in this State, during
the last fifteen months, and to take as
short look ahead rs accurately as |
is possible with the limited material
now before us.
Turning the minds eye backward
to events Transporting fifteen months
ago. we behold the whole State OF
Mississippi wrapt in a blaze of en-
thusaSm, such as is seldom tound in
a reasoning people; this enthusiasm
is expressed in shouts and cheers
and laudatory speeches for the Dem
ocratic principles OF government, for
their representative men or candi-
dates-and in hootings, jeerS, deri-
sion. and denunciatory (not abusiye)
speeches against Black Republican
ism ana it's representative men, ill.,
gliding l.. S. Grant, then General F.
of L. 5. military forces. We find F.
Lowery, Barksdale, Brown, y. Il. ,
johnson, &C., &C., joining, heart and
souT, publicly and privately, politi- |
cally and socially, in this denuncia |
ton of the wrong, and this effort to
establish the right; Jctlords, Wei
ford, Warner, Speed, &c, hand i'll
glove with A!corn, Eggleston, Ny
gait, Tarbell, Sc; holding the latter
up as all that was manly, noble, pa
triotic, and Radicalism as the quint-
essence of all the political and civil
virtue that is left to mankind in these
degenerate days; running on the
same platform, and with one eXcep-
tion,) on the same ticket; attempting
to force upon our people an odious
and disgusting document as the or
ganic law of our State.
We 60 forward short space: We
behold the good triumphant, the evil
defeated--Lowery, Barksdale, Brown,
johnson, &c, .iubilant and rejoicing;
Jeffords, Wotford, Warner, Speed,
&c, crestfallen, abashed, morose and
disappointed-seeking and vOwing
revenge in different degrees and in
different ways. Forward little fur
Their: Congress assemblies cOnsid-
ers the Mississippi question; is in
formed by a just Military Satrap
that the constitution was fairly de-
teated higgles over it awhile; and
at the suggestion Of Jeffords and
Wotford, warner and Speed wanted
it forced on us, We believe,) who had
been behind the scenes, and observ-
ing the drift of the political current,
had tackled about to meet it, and as
sured Congress that, by diriding Their
. enemies the would conquer-very
GraciouSly grants the generous boon
) of lettingthe furry defeated document
! be voted on again, in separate
! clauses, at the discretion of his Su
: preme Pettiness Z. S. G.
Time passes apace. Meanwhile
J0ttords and Wotford manipulate the
| eyerSeltiSh and ever-treacherous A
G. Brown, and few other more OF
less selfish and treacherous promi
nent MissisSippians, together with {
F., few Radicals, disappointed in theil
search for office; and these 6Oltint
RG?icdIs, and boiling Democrats
: what incOngruous ingredients y me
L in secret caucus, with one OF two de
luded negroes, to give color to til,
I body; constituted themselves aparty
" Fifteen men "all told" Renegade
Democrats, Boiling Radicals and lie
$ groes,) called a convention of a part,
T that had no existence except in tn
l. fifteen callers; secured this conven
ton on the 23d of June; issued
, false and deceptive platform, to de
Y lude our people; manipulated GU
q very weak Democratic Central Ey
vt ecutive Committee and the JackSo
. rule-or-ruin clique and met in cor
-. ventlon again on the Sth inst. Thei
= deception Of the weak, subsidizin,
- the vicious, and other wire pullin
arguments Knows only to themselve,
had been 80 far successful, that, i
this mongrel Republican convention
~ we see many Democrats-good mel
e. mislead by false statements, and ba
u men, brought up with lucre or prom
Il ises-mingling with the boiling RAJ
e. icals; declaring themselves Republ
nc cans toadying to a man who had u
y. other recommendation than being
re relative of U. S. Grant, (which woul
v have damned him, here, at the tim
ne with which orr article first treats
sc accepting nominations for Offices IN
~. der the constitution which so lateI
"a they had denounced, opposed an
/" and defeated advising their neigl
We bors and merfellow Democrats Il
~ it remembered, they are RepabtcaJ
e. now,) to support this party, and i
id sinuating that we who do not folio
Oh their example of deserving their c,
nj ors in the hour Of battle, are false
at our duties as patriotic c:,izGnS
t. Mississippi. Furthermore, ne amor
alous spectacle is presented in tn
convention of a man, appointed |
-, the voice Of his countrymcn one
il twenty to advise the people sand
zee the name 0Rd uader the banner
IS. Democracy" taking part as a de
'r- gate in an assemhy Of its opponent
III HlthOupll still rptuii'l.r hi. .nnniI