Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-02-26

HHHNNM E1UEMHN MaAAA utNI "
ne city hismorninF, my attention I
Is called 20 8 communication in
your issue Of the lTth, which
the facts entirely JUSTIFY me
n charging az false aud slanderOds
towards our planting community
and personally insulting toward
that individual enterprise, which
proposes the Introduction Of white
Immigrants in our midst. This
communication ostensibly propoe-
es 10 assail "agencies.D but In reali-
" Ne pointed shan Is directed at
the planting community, who are
sliginatized as capable OF any spe-
cies Oftreaehery and fraud, towards
white labOrers who are introduced.
In this communication 10 q state
ment, made BY some unknown and
consequently irresponsible parties,
who state among other things, that
they "learned while South that one
might work twelve month for the
planter, aud still be In his debt"
That plantersscharged them 10 cents
q pound for -four and other prOVis-
ions in the same proportion" and
when they attempted 10 fee from
this outrage, they we're threatened
by the parties with outrage, aud
thought they did well TO get of un-
harmed !" and these shameless fab
relations this sapient writer Is
pleased to say, she has no doubt,
are In the main true" in 81 bstance
saying that If labOrer should rely
upon q planter dealing honestly
with them, that 1t IL but SLANG in a
new shape aud in view OF these
indisputable rhetorical facts, this
classic scholar proposes that we
should not be "medly m0athed'
about the matter, but this immi-
grafton should be "sqUelched' aud
denounced by the whole "NOrth-
ern press as the slave trade in q
new shape" that il should be stig-
matizcd as u "publiC outrage an
"unho,y traffic This system Of
importation of laborcrs which has
been inaugu~ated for selfish and
l%nerccnary purposes by those who
expect to make Il pay should be
earnestly denounced, and many
other expressions equally con-
icmpUiLle and untrue. Now, my
gentle ".quelchcr,' as you do nol
seem 10 like "mcaly mouthed men,
| will give YOU 4 little plain prac.
Teal advice aud rs you do not like
a "bVsiHeSS Hdt payS,' will give
il TO you rs a gratuity-will cheer
fully do 80 when | remember
how many pro bono publ.
TO- deeds you do. Have you
50 little that Is human about you
that you are never actuatcd By a
selfish or mercCnaTy motive, but
like the good Samaritan. go over
the world dispensing your chart.
ties 10 man. The advice is that my
immaculate ''squelcher' remember
that this is u hard, suspicious world
and though it Is all just as you say
Z that you Shudder at this "unhOly
traffic" because II seems TO he a
business which is prompted by
mcrccnary motives That you
shrink from its unhOly touch be-
cause Il "pays' II is oil very beau
tiiul TO see this my kind sir-from
the tact your embodiment is a liv-
ing contradiction of that hard but
trlte old adAge that all men are by
nature depraved. Still this harsh
world, thinks with the waggish
but impudent foOtman, who meet
ing a certain Lord renowned for
his dignity and wisdom ia appear.
ance, says my Lord you must be O
great hypOcrite2' What do you
mean you rascal, was the reply
Mean my Lord, nothing but that II
Is impossible for any man to DO as
wise as you look to be. SO learn
a lesson my dear "Squclcher" from
The fooiman and when again
you start on your pious pill.
primagc Tor putting Il stop to I'M
migration" be little more human
and 4 little les, divine, don't he so
stainless anil pure. Many of us
less suspicious than this hcartless
world will readily bell We all you
say about not being influenced by
mcrginary motives. Indeed we can
now scarcely read your communi.
cation wiihou, the involuntary cx.
r.imHtiou ''ccce h0mO,' but many
imagining that you are human and
not divine might think with the
fuo'man TIA; 1t wa impossible for
aLy man 10 be rs pcriec, as you
seem 10 be-. And now, my dear
":quglcAor iiyuu will pardon an
other piece Of voluntary advice,
Il Ike the iisi, glatuitou~ in con-
7 a%idrrAtiun vi you being bcnrfactOr
10 the human race, and il Is this,
my dear rir, when You come south
with true, generous, good feeling
IN your heart 10 cast your fortune
amongst us, however we may have
differed from you in the past, we
viii forget all Ut this aud extend
to You the velvet hand of true
friendship, aud give youa true and
generous southern welcome -
But when you approach UNI
der the garb Of friendship
under whose treacherOus folds
Is worn The assassins dagger.
which would stab the landed inter
est and general prosperity to the
heart, that by the thrust some pet,
Individual scheme should flourish,
rely upon 1t that there ~ 'iifc in
the old land yet" and you will fluid
al iron hand which will strip the
garb Of duplicity and s~elflshncss
from your back, and hold you up
to tho public In all of your odious
aud deformed weakness. uypoc.
risy has but. q tlimsy and transpa-