Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-06-11
THE BILLS.

bills are before the Legislature on
the subject Of the Public Printing.
One Of them is a general measure
under which the printing Of the
State is to be executed in the fu-
ture. The other is designed to
make special provision for settling
the account Of Messrs. Fisher d
Kimball. Now this latter has al.
ready given rise to invidious com
ment; and is made to-day, rightly
or TrOngly lce ito not pause to
consider, a subject Of attack IN a
leading Democratic Journal on the
character ofhe Republican party.
As there is no necessity, whatever,
for that bill, and its consideration
involves an additional cost to the
people, we urge upon the Leglsla-
ture that it be dropped from the
journal; and that the claims of the
former executors Of the public
printing, and those of the present
contractors, be disposed of, not
under exposure to the suspicion of
special legislation, but on the
terms and conditions Of a general
act applicable alike to ALTO the
past, the present, and the future"
We understand the HERALD to
be the Democratic journal referred
to here, and the article an editorial
of the 4th inst. The Pilot cannot
pause to consider whether the at
tack is made rightly or wrongly.
People advocating the cause Of
Radicalism never pause to consider
the iniquity Of their party meas
ures. This little matter of which
the Pilot speaks is u bill Of seven
teen hundred dollars for the print
ing in pamphlet form Of five thou
sand copies Of the State and
United States Constitution, in
which there would have been
ample profit at five hundred
dollars. When we discussed this
subject the other day We did it
somewhat in the dark, since we
had no copy Of the pamphlet be-
fore us, but since then we have
procured a copy and We find upon
examination that the work could
have been done for twenty per
cent. less than we estimated. III
that article we declared that il
would have been done in the
HERALD Office for less than five
hundred dollars. Now we fine
upon examination that there
should be q deduction Of at least
twenty per cent. from our origina
estimate. Yet the moral, the pure
the incorruptible Radical part,
propose to pay SEVENTEEN Hun
DRIED DOLLARS for that which cal
be done for between four and iiv
hundred dollars. The question
arises just here. Who is to pa.
the money to supply the demand
of these creatures? Not the Radi
cal party. The Radical party il
the State OF Mississippi does no
pay oXE.TwENTIETH Of the take
necessary for the support of tn
State. Who constitutes the Radi
cal party; The negroes and
few pauper whites (rapidly grow
ing rich by plundering the people.
These whites pay nothing, take
nor anything else. Every
thing with them is showed dee
down in their carpet-bag
to be by them carried bac
"home,' as they call the Mort
from whence they came, and wher
they should be now, If he'll has nc
been sufficiently enlarged to furnis
accommodation. In the State thel
are not ten thousand dollars {
/, taxes collected from the negroe
In this county there are over 81
thousand registered negro voter
and yet of this vast number on
. dfty.two paid taxes, and they we.
+ BARRIERS and hackmen, who cou
not avoid it. Think Of the OF
rage, the st~upendous wrong
volved in this condition Of affair
The representatives of the no
taxpaying class of ignorant II
groes now control the destinies
the State. And what do they
Plumber with unblushing etIroI
: cry, as shown in this one
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