American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-09-18
a Nuisance.

are UCJeflnlNcu 10 SlNe us an 'hc
trouble they can appointing igno-'i ,
rant, worthless, vagabond route
agents to attend to the postal mat
ters of our roads Every day or
two n negro passes up and down the
Central distributing our
mail matter in the most careless
manner, and most of the time giving
MS no mail at al. On Monday night
last he passed down the road and
was actually not aware that he had
reached Goodman by twenty miles,
had made mp no mail for this point,
hut promised to send it back by
Tuesday mornings train, which
promise he failed to keep. If they
would give us an intelligent, ener /
e tic black man as a9ent-one who ,
Knows his business and would at [
tend to it, no one wOnld object; but |
to have Postmaster Cresswell sad I
ding upon us every filthy negro /
that has done some dirty work for
his immaculate party. is little |
more than any Of us wish to stand. |
Besides, there are some OF his white |
appointeeS no better than the color |
ed, and especially does our Postmas |
ter complain of one specimen who
has used up all his brain in growing
an enormously muStdchi6, which he
keeps BACKED to "pitchy darkness"
and which he nurses with all the
fondneSs of widowed mother for
the only offspring of her womb. 1t
is impossible TO do two things at
once, attend to mail matter and keep
every hair of an overgrOwn mus
tache in order, and we advise him
that he now looks pretty enough to
quit the mail business and go to
captivating females. ..a
IT the Postal Department can't do
better for us, it had just as well dis
continue all routes down South at
once, and see If that won't bring MS
on Bonded knee to the feet of Radi-
Goodman Star.
You are nearly there now. You've
got negro on your State Ticket, for
the important Office of Secretary. Of
State, scarcely second to Governor,
and seem to be supporting him with
a hearty gusto and rare relish. We
will venture to say that he has not a
whit better education, not a mite
more knowledge of the geographical
localities of this State, or country,
than the Mail Agent complained of
More than that, you have two or
three negro orators, imported from
other States, strolling over this, add
wishing the people of Mississippi,
white and colored," what course
they should pursue in the coming
contest. But further at every po-
litical meeting you b old, you appoint
some :"man and brother"-some
John Doe or Richard, Roe, colored,',
to advise and instruct the people i'll
their duties. r'u l'J-
Now, good Mr., Star, if you do all
this, why should you object to this
"negro +" (ah there you are old
Truepenny! if lie is one of your own
political stripe, lie is, 'ecolored," and
perhaps he is "the Honorable Mr..
Amos Drane," or "the Honorable
Mr. Sinclair-but file belongs to the
other party, presto change he is. a
negro, or perhaps IL nigger," just
dry SOY But, as we were proceeding
to say, aftiliating as you do, politl
: cally, with negroes, and thrushing
them into places of prominence AND
: responsibility, where they have nC
business, why should you object tc
these {" colored," if you please,) ap
pointees of the Government An
: swer us that, Master Brooke.
We will venture to say that this
= Tom Sinclair (why don't he call him
self st. Clair it would sound bigger
$ like Louis, Instead ofLewis,) is moi
: half as well capacitated to discharge
? the duties of Secretary Of State, al
t this Mail Agent is. to discharge hi
1 simple duties-and yet the Star i
g going to support tho one, while IL
$ opens his walls of wrath, his essene
; of gall and NORWOOD against tn
= other
| Again we must exclaim-" Oh
S consistencyw We give our con
+ temporaries whole article. He shal
a have the full benefit of the qualify
: ing clause: " if they would give IL
i an intelligent, energetic, 'blac'
# man," &c, "no one would object
L but to have p. NJ. CreSswell saddlin
y upon us every filthy negro,'n 81
Il Mark the black man. and the me
d gro.' The objection is, at last, W
VI suspect, with our friend Magrudel
# that he is a aegrO-thoueh so subtI
u is human nature that We often dC
tNANO O"lotlNNN. VIZ IL ODlCCIlO
y would be, first, that he was "ignC
N rant" and, second, that he was
W negro, who had been appointed b
II cause he ,cas q negro, to take til
e place Of an intelligent, competen
Il worthy WHITE MAN.
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4, APPIovAL.-When we took OF
re stand against the proposition to sc
N out the Democratic party, principl,
IN and all, to the "baker's dozen
fe conservative Republicans" (who
We only principles. in our opinion, we
of the " five loaves and two little fishes,
p We did SO without suggestion fro
to any quarter, or the slightest imtim
mt ton that our course would he a
u proved by any Democrat hereabou
is. We mentally exclaimed, "soital
. and alone | put this ball in motion
az and rolled her accordingly, Thr