Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-09-17
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admiration among the "Outside
barbarians" as it commands from
His Excellency, the Commander
in!Chief, and his satellites Briga-
dier and Adjutant General, NJ. B!
HeWsOn, Mojor General Stafford,
Of the jackson Pilot, and the gang
of yagabonds, (Castello, ct id ON
ne geRus), whom james l, the
puissant, has appointed Brigadier
Generals. The New York World
has not only the impudence to
condemn Alcorn's "army," but
goes farther, and likens our gran
eloquent Chief Magistrate to the
great Charlatan, Jim Fisk, Jr.-we
protest against this comparison
We will not allow our valorous
Fallstaff of q Governor to be com.
pared with Grants partner in the
last years gold swindllng specula-
tion. We do not propose to have
Governor Alcorn deprecated in
The eyes Of the world. "COmpari-
sons are odorous," and the man
who compares Alcorn with Jim
Fisk, Jr,, does an irreparable in
jury to Fisk, and to the Sovereign
Prince Of Mississippi! Both are
charlatans, but Fisk is a grand
charlatan, with brains and impu.
dence in profusion, Alcorn Is a
small mounte bank, with impu.
dence in abundance, and, as an
Irishman would express it,
"a plentiful lack of brains."-
Fisk has made a single sem
tence immortal, and handed
his name down to the future
with his brief and terse an
swer to q Congressional Commit
tee, "gone where the woodbine
twineth." When all of Alcorn's
pompOus ACKNOWLEDGMENT mouth.
ings are forgotten, and he and
they have "gone where the wood
bine twineth," then Fisk and his
cesar.like answer will live in i'm.
mortal youth.
But we did not intend to dwell
upon Fisk and Alcorn, ("Arcades
AisbO,"l Ouroaly purpose being
to introduce the following crit
cism on the "Sedetary Militia p
from the New York World Of thu
9Th inst. That paper, after referr
ing to Brownlow's thieves and
vagabonds in Tennessee, and Hol
denis cut throats in North Caro-,
lima, thus discourses of Alcorn's
''pet lambs" the "Sedentary Mill.
tia," to.wit:
A particular locality. now to be
at once cursed by and congratu
lated upon the appearance of a
vagabOnd Radical militia is the
State of Mississippi. Under an
act Of the Legislature, the Cover
nor has set about the organization
of an army, and in the various
Mississippi exchanges reaching
MS are portentious indications Of
the progress Of this warlike move.
Divers eminent rogues are nomi-
mated rs mqor-generals; others
less eminent, though not less
rogulsh, as brigadiers; still less
widely known patriots as majors
and colonels; and upon the heads
of the riflrafs generally descends
a bounteous shower of captains
commissions and corporals' war
rants. All this hierarchy, and the
scum forming the rank and file
under them, are to be clad in
United States uniform and made
generally to resemble as closely
as possible the Federal artillery
sent into North Carolina by Pres
ident Grant, always saving and
excepting one amazing particular.
Heretofore it has been supposed
that any armed force, even so
monstrous q parody on soldiery
as a reconstructed militia, was
purely and essentially military,
organized for simple purposes Of
violence, and expected to be con-
versants with powder and ball
alone. It has been reserved for
the Mississippi Legislature co
nOmiae, to vary this monotony by
enacting in It's militia law that
each company organized under
the same "may become q body
polite and corporate; and such
incorporate companies may hold
real estate and personal property
to an amount not exceeding five
thousand dollars"
The pleasing spectacle, there.
fore, is to be presented us in Mis-
sissippi Of an army emphatically
organized with q heart for any fate