Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-09-10

sunday. sEEIEnBER : $50.
arsmamA POLITICS.

nd fIefce burton y Atout
Governor, and it is thought a ne
afO viii receive the nomination for
Secretary of State.
The party has evinced a vast
amount Of shrewdness in this mat
Ter. Governor Smith has made
himself quite popular with all
classes, and hence he Is presented
20 secure the vote Of the compro-
misers. He Is to Alabama what
AlcOrn essays to be to Mississippi.
He has great personal popularity
and many Of his political enemies
out Of personal friendship, it is
thought, will vote for him. Thus
the Radical party hopes to secure
= good support from the resident,
whites Of the State. 1t is, however,
q most humiliating spectacle to
see such men as Smith selling
themselves and their friends to the
thieves and scoundrels who are the
leading lights in the party with
which they are associated. Love
Of Office must indeed be great
which will sustain a man in such a
questionable attitude.
Pierce Burton, the nominee for
Lieutenant Governor, is a fair
sample Of the impeCuniOus and
grasping, shame-fOrSaken carpet
bag o~alGe.seeker. His nose has
90 often had "loilty" snOrted
through It that the n~ostrels sway
to and fro like the sails Of a be-
Gained vessel. OF course he is q
thorough negrophilite. Possess
ing no shame, he is ready to in
terest himself in and perform any
low, dirty political act. The South
Is cursed with such dirty villains
from one extreme to the other,
while the Radical party, through
their acts, is burying itself be-
meath an eternal coating Of dam
nation. These panderers to the
vices, the prejudices and the igno-
rance Of the negroes, are q dis
grace to humanity, and must Of
necessity sink any party with
which they are associated. But
tits through just such wretches,
lost 10 all sense Of decency,
pride and prOpriety, that the I'M
qnitous measures of the Radical
party are effected. Through this
man It is hoped to secure all the
thriftless, ,shiftless, shirtless ad
venturers now in the State; thu
floating scum, the debris Of Radi
cal rottenness and corruption il
the natural order Of things iloa
to and cling about kindred filth
Thus the Alabama Radicals fee
that in these two selections the,
have united the native element o
the Republican party, and tn
drift wood Of Northern fanaticism
By the nomination Of q negr,
for the position Of Secretary o
State these people hope to unit
and entirely control the negroes
It Is @ well cOncocted plan
What does It do however, IfsuC
cessful, It turns the State owe
again for another term to a set o
dishonest plunderers and blood
suckers.
The duty Of the Democracy
70 meet them fairly and squared!
upon every point; exhibit thei
villanies and defy them. Put a
men Of undoubted purity; Comba
their every position; ignore an,
spurn the whole system Of mon
grelism. Deny the right Of the ne
nro to vote and the villsinous dol
larless carpet baggers to rule.
The Democracy held COnven
ton in Montgomery on the Is
instant, the result Of their deliber
atiOns we not yet learned, an,
We can only hope that It has abide'
by the following well timed AMI
sensible advice which We selec
from the Mobile Register:
'elEen must be selected who's
names will be 9 tower Of strength
before the people. The fight vii
NV be narrowed down to q strug
Is between the carpet-baggers
ssalswngs, Radicals and Republi.
cans aaa the Democratic party.
The Radical ticket nominated ID
shout e strong as they could