Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-10-08
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yesterday, publishes another In.
eresting letter from General Her
nan Lieb." The General is slight
y displeased because the HERALD
las called the attention ofthe pub.
ic TO his infamous conduct.
Now, we neither choose to, nor
intend to handy epithets with
General Lieb, nor with any other
nan. Private individuals we leave
Entirely alone; but when men,
who should occupy a back seat,
will persistently thrust themselves
before the public, then they must
accept that which the public ac-
cords them. So long rs General
Lieb confined himself to the peo-
ping of the waste places Of the
South, he commanded our conf
dence and had our assistance: but
when not content with that, he be.
gun a wholesale, public dcnuncia-
ton of the people Of the South We
recognized in him an implacablc
enemy and treated him as such.
Since General Lieb, with ques.
tionable pride, refers 20 the new
condition of things set up by the
war, we presume he intends to be
controlled by the inevitable and
guided by the self. evident.
If so, we desire to call General
fLieb's attention 10 a few things
which should be apparent to the
blindest.
General Lieb desires to make a
fortune by the sale of Mississippi
lands.
Mississippians have much land
for sale and are anxious to sell it;
but war or no war, new dispense.
ton, ex-negro officers to the con.
trary, they can yet sell or not, as
they choose.
These lands belong to the white
people who are almost a unit in
political sentiment, and that senti-
ment is totally and entirely mimi
cal to the sentiments so persis-
tently kept before the public by
General Lieb.
If General Lieb had confined
himself to honest and truthful dec
laration of political sentiment, it
would have been even then ex-
ceedingly distasteful to the very
men whose patronage he so much
covets, but he assails the morals
of the people, and charges them
with being cut-throats, assassins,
thieves, rowdies, and wilful vio-
lators Of every form of law.
If General Lieb was the agent
for the sale Of lands belonging to
negroes or carpet baggers, he
would be preaching agreeable
doctrine, but how Southern born
gentlemen and landowners can so
far forget their manhood, honor,
and self-pride, for the sake Of a
few paltry dollars, that they will
continue to aid a red mouthed,
venomous, dollarless, implacable,
~traducing, ~slandering adventurer,
such as Herman Lieb has shown
himself to be, is more than we
can tell. The man Is entirely de
void Of modesty. He must have
a cheek as hard as adamant, oil
brain without sensation, If he car
come, with one breath cursing
abusing and villifying the South.
ern white people, the owners ofthC
land, while in another he can ash
them to trust him with the sale
of their lands.
The surprise is not so much con.
fined TO him as to the Southern
people, who so trucklingly submit
to 1t. Where is their pride ant
their manhood Will they per
NIT a foul-mouthed, slanderous adj
venturer to come here and "bully'
them out of the control of theil
landsY There are honorable mer
in the United States not so impla
cably embittered towards tho
South, men who are honorable
and honest, who can effect Just a:
advantageous sales of Southern
land as this would be-coercivC
foreigner, who talks so glibly
about the Constitution Gas it is.
not as it vas and who refers with
such ~senseless qualification to the