Vicksburg weekly herald., 1870-08-27
From the Bran don Republican,
One Mere Word About that whIR
Convention in October.

Convention in October.
The Raymond Gazette, the only
Wing paper of which we have any
knowledge in Mississippi that adj
vocates a meeting or convention
in October, dodges the question at
issue, runs off at q tangent, and
abuses the Democracy of years
ago, and reads many of the most
prominent gentlemen of the State
out ofthe party. The Major, for "a
mid-mannered man" grows furious
in his last issue, and for no other
reason save that the Wings of the
State won't commit the inexcusa-
BILE folly Of being pulled along by
two or three good-natured old
men into a Radical trap set by
AlCorn, Lynch & Co. Major
Harper must understand that the
bait was cautiously held out in
many places, and spurned by many
persons-that the white people of
the State have borne much and
borne patiently, but will never lick
the hand that heaped up the bur
dens upon them. Old issues that
can never be revived, past politi-
cal errors of omission or commits
sion, are of small import COM
pared to the outrages, oppression
and villainies perpetrated by the
party headed by Alcorn, Lynch,
Morgan d Co.
We can but smile at the thrusts
of the Gazette about our Wing
gerry! Fie, Major!-piease don't
read as ont.
In a previous article we began
with the honored name of Chief
Justice Sharkey, and went through
list Of some thirty that woulG
not be there, winding up with that
Why reproJate, Old Ben Humph-
reys. In reply our misguided
friend, Harper, says that he has
no recollection of ever seeing over
five Of these persons in q Wing
convention. Well, if Harper didn't
get acquitted with them, doubt
less they were not there, and for
the same reason are not good
Wings. Suppose we mention in
this connection q few more that
will not obey the behests and sug-
gestions Of the Gazette and Jack
son Pilot We remember in North
Mississippi, in the city of Holly
Springs, n gentleman who some
years ago was the Whig candidate
for Governor-Col. H. w. Walter
"a lawyer of distinction, q pat
riot by nature, a gentleman by
instinct, and as good and pure a
man as lives in or out of Missis-
sippi. (As a Wing how will old
Walter do for highD He 'otH not
In the Secession Convention of
1861, when your friend Alcorn
voted for the ordinance, and want
ed to build that "Chinese wall"
between the North and South. the
member from Rankin, the gallant
Jack Thornton, now at Pass Chris
tian, stood as firm as a "stone
wall"--refused to vote for or sign
the ordinance, but headed a Mis-.
sissippi regiment and was found
in the thickest of the fight. He
cW not be there.
W. A. Champlin, q lawyer of
prominence ON the coast, and his
partner, Elliott Henderson, son of
the distinguished Senator Hender.
son, both lifelong Wings, wiU not
be there.
Then there is Major L. p. Coop.
er and Judge Harrison, of Pamela,
they hare no sympathy with the
movement.
Again, such Wings as Major
James A. Chapman, of Jasper,
Judge John NJ. Floyd, of Clark,
'OiU not be there.
In our own county, we might
mention A. G. Mayors, ESQ.,, who
for years and years was the Whig
leader in East Mississippi, Col.
Thomas S. White, the Union stan.
dard bearer in 1851 I; Coils. w. d.
Bibb, W. II. Bate, John s. Dob.
son, aud many Others, al Of whom