Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-09-05

and peaceful disposition have only been
to increase the wrath, or something else,
of Alcorn or his Legislature The latter
say
THE MILITIA
must be organized, and the proclamation
has been proclaimed to that effect. Gen
eral officers have been appointed for the
several districts, and when there is no
earthly use for them or the troops. The
people howl and cry against it. Yet,
while there is chance for the white
men to organize themselves into compa-
nies and prevent the over-running of
negro battalions and the further desc
GRAFTON of the State, they seek exemption
in the fire companies and lag along and
pay great indifference until it will be too
late for their own safety and the good of
the State. In some portions there is
some life and objection given to the pro-
ceedings of this unlawful and unjust act
of Alcorn's cabinet; but it is like the
man taking two steps forward and slip
ping back one-while some try to resist
and do good, others, and many others at
that, undo the deeds, by taking side
with the Robbers and crying aloud:
Tis right for him, or them; they had
no business doing this, Or that" In
other words, they are covered, and
covered too much for the once
good name of the State of Mississippi
to be ever resurrected. There never was
an event but what the State was equal
to the emergency, and history has never
spoken but of the daring deeds of her
chivalric sons. But where are now the
chivalric sons of Mississippi Dead
and numbered with the past. Where
are her second generation2 Echo
answer, many are helpingsthe Radicals
to damn her in the everlasting gulf of
infamy, too crayen, too selfish to yiHdi-
cate or uphold the fair name left them
by their ancestors; while others, the
good and true majority, have sought
other homes and other lands-scattered
to the four winds of the earth-some
thriving under other State governments,
and the remainder sleeping the sleep
that knows no waking On distant battle
fields Yes, men sleeping the honored
sleep on beds made them by true devo-
tioB 70 their native land, and are now
daily disgraced by The surviving genera
ton, who permit the vacant ohair" to
be befouled and occupied by the worst
God-forsaken hounds of human existence
-scalawags, or halfand-half' South
footprints should ever be
yiped from the face of the earth, and
their careasses made 70 manure the land
they have so readily damned. What has
been written, Mr.. Editors, are facts
Our Saviour has said forgive thy enc
mics, ete" We cannot do that, but We
hope some day to give them all de-
cent burial. To other thiRgs /
JACKSON,
IN compssisGp 70 other days, is com
pletely played out, using I'D ilk-slng
phrase. 1t occupies, it is true, the same
fround it did before the war, but the old
acss. the Old buildings and the old, free
hearted and eveEeStending bends of
have, to great eAtent, disaR-
Deared. Old citizens number less every
lay. The old landmarks left standing
,y the war are fast decaying, ald the
,ldness OF al things are breathing their
asst. In fact, the town has GrQwn-chil-
lren of 1860 are now gents and ladies,
Is gallant and beautiful as ever, but the
ame society that was once does not now
i've. Negroes haYe come into existence,
md while they are not admitted t6 So
.ial enjoyment with the whites, it does
lot take the former more than twelve
lours TO initiate the whites, completely
disgusting oil things undertaken BY
hem. And there, again, is your selGsh,
,lue-eyed, peck-nosed and kieked-out
Yankee from the Northern States, who
las come to steal and dishonesty earn
sopey, who also tries to gain admission;
,ut nary time eHos. If he attempts, the
rowd is broken up, and no more society
# anything else reigns. So, instead Of
he plentiful places of amusement and
be often open-door of yore, all is desc
ated and bleak-appearing ediGoes. So
much for over-rule.
Everything is dull. The Legislature
aving adjourned, it necessitated the
etirement Of several bar-rooms and
oarding-housos, and gives TO the clerks
{ the several stores and Offices more
ime to handle the brakes " Of the FIRE
ngihes, and to engage in the game Of
ase ball Two printing ofices-the
'larion, by Power 4 Barksdale, and the
'iloi. by Kimball a Co.-furnishes semi
'eekly the news transpiring. The