Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-09-17

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Register and the Courier Journal
"kair play Is q jewell nelahb0r,
and we don't want the G. J. double
on. for we are IN its line
OF battle, and Ike the Columbus
Index, while believing in the idea
OF HVhils supremacy" diseoun-
.tenanee any attempt to form new
parties with race 90 the dividing
lina-YazoO Banner.
Fiei fOF shame Campbelli Are
you in favor Of q longer trial Of
time servingH Time serving was
never right, but moral towards
have some times forced It to take
the place Of principle. Now don't
understand that we charge you
with moral coWardice, and fly of
at the handle, and probably in
wife rs to some festive scene in
Arkansas. We are not dealing
with you In this light, but with the
principles involved. Weakness
and cowardice have been the
milestone swung TO the Southern
neck since the war. We came out
Of the war dispirited, gloomy and
Indifferent. Radical hounds saw
this, and following Charles Reade's
advice, 'put themselves in OuI
place." and then learned that If We
began by conceding and submitting
we would continue until we would
be utterly pOwerless. Let US then
reverse the order Of things and
see what we would do II we were
hating, malignant Radicals and
while occupying this position w
could the better decide upon the
plan Of defense, and the result
would be to pledge unending war
war based upon principles which
must, If properly fOstered, be tri
umphant. We don't need TO be IL
the position occupied by the Radi
cal party to comprehend the afro
cities and enormities of Outrage
which has characterized it. TIT
people, North and South, are RICH
at heart. Once divest them o.
passion and prejudice and ther
present the record Of this part,
and they will put such verdict up.
on it as will annihilate it. But il
on the other hand we continue to
concede and submit the outrage
and wrong towards US is gilded
and ornamented so that 1t abso.
lutely becomes pleasing and at
tractive to the eye. The duty OF
the South is to strip it naked in
all its deformlty to the
public eye. Stand not upon
the order Of doing it but do it.
Concession courts aggression
while brave, manly defence COM
mands respect. Which shall we
do? Cringe and fawn2 Play the
part Of moral towards as time
servers or die shrouded in princl.
pies Of purity The life that is
dictated US is worse than death
Hesitancy will no longer avail us.
We tried time serving, fawning
and cringing last year and there
was not q man interested in the
campaign who did not hang his
head in shame at the part he was
playing. And yet it brought us a
most miserable, dire aud humili-
ating defeat. Why? Because our
political enemies saw in 1t indica-
tons Of our moral cowardice aud
1t gave them courage to ride
rough-shod over us, as they did.
Il enfeebled us because we lost our
self-respect. There could be no
enthusiasm, feryor and fire among
an honorable people where there
was duplicity, and the eloquence
Of ten thousand Prentices could
not have warmed the heart of the
sons Of Mississippi in any such
struggle. Do you desire that we
shall have a repetition of this?
You "believe in the idea Of
white supremacy but discOunten.
ance any attempt to form new par.
ties with race as the dividing line"
Then you propose to acquiesCe in
a wrong because you lack the
nerve to combat it. Do you be.
lieve in negro suffrage as a legal
right, obtained for him legality
II not, why not say SOP Why
pretend to believe what is mon
strOusly disgusting to you. The