Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-19
THE CANVASS IN MISSISSIPPI
ludg Dent as Compared with Gen.
$50 Acorn.
What AIcOrn is, was, and may be,
Elected.
Mississipplans Desire EecOnstruc
tiOn First and Reform
.a Afterwards.

CAREoLLTON, Miss, October To-
Editors Appeal: 1 was glad to see in
your paper that you expressed sympa-
thy with the Dent party in AIissis-
sippi, for all you give communica-
tions iayoring Alcorn. Your old
friends here know we'll enough where
your sympathies are. see also that
you say you will publish cOmmunica-
tions for both sides, and 1 send you
this because we want the benefit of
your circulation, and we have no fear
ofanything that can be said for Alcorn.
If Dent was against US in the war he
never betrayed rs, at least, but he
acted with his friends as was natural
for man to do. He was a Northern
man, and ne had a right to go with
his Northern friends, and there was
no call on him to go with US as there
was Wit! .Aieorn. If you don't know
1t, l VIII tell you that AlcOrn is a
Southern man born, and went fer Sc
cession in the first place. He beat
everybody on that side for while;
and he would have kept on doing it If /
Mr.. DAVIS had given him q bTigadier's
commission. That was what was the |
matter when he commenced abusing
Davis and his administration during
the war, and left bis Southern friends. !
He protested his Southern fidelity |
when be was doing all he could to |
weaken the Confederate administra- |
ton, and thus he aroused our su5-
picions, and lost our confidence long
before the war closed, as he has shown |
that we had reason to entertain them 1
ever since; and we had rather take a |
" carpet-bagger" than deserter Of his
friends, such as We esteem him to 4
b., because he cared moro for Alcern |
than be did for Mississippi. The |
only pretense of merit offered of /
any consequence, which can be |
claimed for him is that he Is a fluent |
speaker, and gifted In accomplishing
his own demagOgue ends, which We
are not very anxious for him to sue
ceed in. He has done no good for the
State, worked for himself everIpOre.
We don't know whether his leyee
system viii work. We supposeif he
could get the levees built he might
get rich by selling out his thousands
of acres of bottom lands at q high !
price; but the men who buy them
would find a Noah's food in a few
years, when the river Is raised twenty
feet over the lands by being confined
in its banks, which could not hold the
increased water without rising twenty
or fifty feet, and then could not wash
out the channel, but would only con-
tinue 10 rise and get worse and worse
and he 9niy graad seaueduct, threat
oning ruin and break ct every rise
Of its waters. The levea system, a
great many of Us are beginning TO
think, won't do much better than K
Alcorn. Judge Dent Is a good man,
and settled among us permanently and
II much our frlendas AleoFn eyer pro-
essed to be, besides being great deal !
more trustworthy, and as talented.
Men object to our platform. But no
matter about that, If we win Ia the
election We shall have a good Isegisla-
.ure, and then, after we get back in
he Union, why can't we reform
.hings as you are doing ia Tennessee2
Senter vas not exactly the man You
and Dent is not equal to some
good nien We hayo In Mississippi, but
ye want good government instead
If a Radical government, and that we
hall have five elect Dent, while il
We elect Alcorn we have nothing to
'xpect more than you would have
lad if EOu had eleets5 stQksS.. IA to
he Iaea, there may not be much diff
and we don't cars muel.s.bout
hat. We want reconstruction op
ome teTlns, and the return of civil
Rw and peace. Thes.Eian who has de-
srted to our enemies We don't Want,
10 matter whether we were right or
wrong in the war or anything else.
We have no use nor any such cattle.
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