The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-04
East Mississippi Correspondence
Another LeIfer from william.

EAST MISSISSIPPI. July Is. 1870.
Editor Clarion: l wrote TO you in June
that was going away. l have been away,
but not very far from here. When start
ed. June 2lst crops were promising, but the
dry weather has done its work most effect
ually. Corn, in this section. on ridge lands,
is very badly and permanently damaged
Cotton has ceased to grow and l. willing
The prospect is gloomy. Before the war we
rarely had drouths. Since the "break up
their visits are annual Before the war,
we missed a fruit crop about once IN ten
years. Since the war we have had only
two favorable seasons. There is something
wrong. visited a neighbor the other day,
who has some books. and asked him to loan
me volume which would explain this point,
but he has none. He said that there Is the
Ter non Scriptd, which has been violated, and
called my attention 20 some facts that am
determined to write to you To print in
THE CLARION.
First, he said something about reasoning
piori and a forti0ri, which did not exact
ly understand. This he said was in one Of
his BOOKS. and expect you may have the
same book. He spoke too, of reasoning by
analogy. Well, l must leave You to read
your large books on these things. My
neighbor said. "William, you speak OF a
revolution In seasons, made manifest since
the war. There are great causes that have
produced it. Listen: IL man eat at night
and sleep in daytime he cannot be healthy,
because he violates great law. The mind
OF such man becomes diseased through
sympathy; aud In order restore the mind.
the distemper must be traced from its ulti-
mate effects to its cause. and then apply the
remedy" "MOuntaineers." said he, ..are Pc
culiar in their physical formation, and in
the charter and quality of their minds, be-
ing shaped in sympathy with nature around.
Before the war, society aud government were
In harmony with nature and vegetation. and,
consequently, the country was blessed. l
am not prepared TO say that the great influx
of carpet baggers has had a climactic in
nuence, but wild geese always bring from
the North the coolest weather. / am pre-
pared to say, however, that il inanimate
nature even sympathises with man, as man
does with nature, il il a matter of surprise
that we have seasons at all.
LOOK at our State government. As Gov
QrnOr we have a man born at the North,
and claiming to be representative man of
the South. He Is a man without scholar
ship, yet essays the fiourishes of an educa-
ted gentleman. He is a man who IL a pro-
fame swearer, but recommends the Bible for
common schools. He is a man who has been
on all sides of all questions and boasts that
he was on the right side. He Is man that
was born in obscurity, and yet before the
war, staggered as an aristocrat. He is
man of wealth obtained from the sweat OF
slaves, which wealth he does not return to
his fellow citizens Now William that
won't do.
The Legislature of your State, excepting
about thirty men. is made up of negroes
and men, most of them very bad men, who
hate your people. Negroes are negroes.
God assigned them their station and placed
distinctions upon them as indellible as those
placed upon inferior animals. The third
officer in your State government is negro,
who is doubtless very bad fellow, even for
one of that species. Your judiciary is SIM
ply farce. Your Sheriffs and Tax coliec-
tors charge one man thirteen dollars, and
charge that mans neighbor, who owns not
half the property, forty-two dollars for
taxes for the year 1869. Citizens have not
one particle OF confidence in the officers of
the different counties. They do not believe
the officers are possessed of common de-
cency,in most cases.
Look at the messages of Gov. Alcorn on
charitable institutions. Not one word es-
capes him in favor of the Orphans of Con:
federate dead at Lauderdale. They have
been repeatedly brought to his attention,
and to the attention of the Legislature, but
all for nothing. Alco-n is voted 500 600 for
Secret Service, for implying spies on you
and your kindred, William, and although
the tallest plume In his cap is that one of
his sons is numbered with the Confederate
dead-tbat his boy won a. martyrs crown,
he 9clL not utter one aoord for the MARTYRS
has but one point, and that is "colored"
smeared about with humanity" ''ipso fdcto"
6c.--Poor Compton,
A mamoth school system for negroes on
ly, supported entirely by the white people.
is not right; it is so wrong, that IL would
even provoke an insurrection-an open re-
volt against the officers of that particular
law. How can Capt. Pease have the face,
stranger and alien, as he is-enemy as he
must be-to go among our people TO infiict
IN or1fr
pie will bear much; but there is a limit to
forbearance.
repeat, then that if inanimate nature is
disturbed by mans aft IRIS, / am surprised
that the soil yields its increase to tillage.-
The laws of society. ofthe State, ofdecency,
propriety and common sense are reversed.
and everything is affected, as far as | can see.
Do not wonder, William, if yoH see snow in
August"
i ventured here to ask my neighbor, If
there was no remedy for the ills upon US
He replied. THAT question is often asked,
and often unanswered. History teaches as
that our people will surely regain their
lost rights, If they are true TO themselves
Ii they fall away from their race and their
history as Gov. Alcorn and Others have
done, the tendency is TO death, what they
Will do L cannot say. These men who are
caught up with little State and County APP
pointments never were relied upon, when
times were good. / am couraged. Men
WHOu VIC must hAsbch III TIC past dtC ttuC
to-day.
Our leading minds are all firm. This
gives me hope. Our thing is secure. God
is true, He will do right. was forced to
leave my neighbor, but returned to ask
him one more question, as follows: What
do you think of Alcorn's appointments
His appointments are wretched, Anderson,
Brown, Leachman and Tar
bell could not be suggested to mind seek
ing for Judges learned In the Law, Simrall
and Christian are his best appointments. and
though never regarded as men of mark have
always been recognized as gentlemen; and
when noticed in the Pilot that all appoin-
tees except Hartman are pledged to Radical
ism, which means oppression and outrage,
felt sorry, wish these men were made of
the stuff that enters into young Howry or
L. Q. &. Lamar.
MY neighbor says If will call over again
he will tell me the course he thinks the
white folks ought to pursue. He said he
had talked with Judge Hamm, of Meridian,
and that the Judge saw things
l wish could see Judge Hamm.
The people used TO regard him as learned
and pure man, who was sought by high
Office which he adorned.
You had perhaps better not print this
letter, for my neighbor never authorized me
to send you a word about his views. He
reads THE CLARION and will be sure to find
hear thunder towards Jackson, aud hope
you may have shower before YOU receive
these lines. WILLIAM.
p. s. Give my love TO all The CLARION
men; Where is Mr.. Butt Hewson?
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