Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-07-02

and issued, as follows:
To our FelloW. Citizens of the
United States, Friends Of Con-
StitutiOndl, Economical, and
Honest Government.
The undersigned beg leave to
call your attention to the peculiar
Importance of the elections which
take place this year, and respect
fully submit some suggestions
for your consideration. BY the
State Legislatures to be elected
nearly one.third Of the United
States Senate will be chosen.
Nearly all the members Of the
next House of Representatives
are to be elected next fall. Upon
the coming elections, then, de-
ponds the question whether the
Democratic and Conservative ele-
ment in the Senate shall be in
creased and whether that element
shall have a majority in the House
of Representatives, and, as a con-
sequence, whether We shall have o
constitutional, economical, and
honest government, or a continu-
ance of revolutionary, eNtrava-
giant and wasterul and partisan
rule: whether we shall have gen
cral, uniform, just, and constitu.
tional legislation, with reasonable
taxation and frugal expenditure,
or unconstitutional, partial, unjust
class legislation, with oppressive
and unequal taxation and wasteful
expenditure.
That we have strong reasons
to hope for a favorable result is
plainly apparent. The elections
already held clearly show that the
tide Of reform has set in with q
power that cannot be resisted ifno
blunders he committed by the
friends of reform. If they do
their duty and act wisely; If they
throw off all apathy and act with
vigor and steadfastness, there Is
every reason to hope that their
efforts will he rewarded by sue.
cess. Let there be no dissensions
about minor matters, no time lost
in the discussion Of dead issues,
no manifestation Of narrow or
proscriptivc feeling, no sacrifice
of the cause to crafty personal
ambition or resentment, and let
the best men be chosen for candi-
dates; and we may hope to see
our country redeemed from mis-.
rule.
And in this connection we beg
leave to say q word to our fellow
citizens Of the Southern States.
Do not risk the loss Of Senators or
Representatives by clecting men
vino cannot take the test oath, or
who are under the disability i'm.
posed by the fourteenth amend,
ment, whatever may be said as to
the validity of that amendment or
the test act, You may rest assured
that Senators elected by the vote
Of members Of Legislatures who
are held BY the Radicals to be thus
disqualified will not be permitted
to take their seats, and that mem.
bcrs of the House of Representa-.
tiyes thus disqualified will also be
excluded. Ii is the plaincst die
tate OF practical wisdom not to
incur any such risks. We hope
soon to see the day when all dis
abilities will be removed; but in
the meantime TO not, We entrcat
you, lose. the opportunity to
strengthen the Democratic and
Conservative force, in Congress,
a0d the possibility, nay, proba-
bility OF obtaining q majority in
thencxt House Of Representatives,
by putting it in the power of our
adycgsa.ics to overthrow or disrc-
gard your elections.
Signed
A. G. Thurman. Ohio; james b.
Beck, Kentucky; Vim. +. Hamil.
ton, Md: GARRISON W. Potter, n
Y; John ". johnson, Va. SAM
Hambleton. Md; Garrett Davis,
Ky j. ProctorKnott, Ky; Geo
Vickers, Md; S. S. Cox, n. T..
John p. Stockton, n j.; Charlie:
Haight. n. j.; T. +. Bayard, Del.
S. 5. Marshall, H.; f. Casserly
Cal. S. L. Mayham, n. Y. Thos
c. McCreery, Ky. John Morris
sey, n. T.; Willard Salisbury
Del. /; John Fox, n. T.; Daniel 5
Norton, Mimi: VIM. S. Holman
la. Sam. j. Randall, Pa. NJ. c
Kerr, Ia. Geo. W. Woodward, Pa.
D. N. Van Anken, Pa. p. VaI
Trump, o.; James Brooks, n. Y.
Stevenson Archer, I'd. Albert G
Burr, ILL.,. r. ], Haldeman, Pa.
William Mungen, o.; j. ID. Stiles
Pa; d. W. Voorhees,, ID; X
Lawrence Getz, Pa. Peter NJ
Dox, Ala; Jas. r. Mccormick
Mo; Heryey c. Calkin, N. Y.
Boyd Winchester, Ky; W. c
Sherrod, Ala. W. E. Niblack, Id.
John c. Schumacher, N. Y; O
Cleveland, N. j.; VIM. H. Bar
mum, Con-; John A. Griswold, n
Y; Thos. L. Jones, Kentucky
Fernando Wood, N. Y; Eugen'
NJ. Wilson, Min. James S. Smith
Ora J.. 4 4 nickerson. O.. Georg,