The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-03-23
IN MISSISSIPPI.

The NaIIa w AHA SJateSHlan VI NlaiCA !,
Ith, contains the following extract ,
rom a letter written by Judge Wyche'
Washington Territory, who is on a
1isit to Mississippi: /,
81 find times very hard down South,
owing to the low price of cotton. Inc
negroes are growing more lndolent
md worthless, and the people, or at
east many of them, in the cotton
regions are growing poorer. LANDS
are cheap here, and in fact lower tina
they were a year ago.. One thing tnat
oppresses the people at the South who
own lands, is the high on the
land, imposed by a Legislature made
IN of free negroes and carpet baggers,
who have no land of their W to be
taxed. 1t is a great outrage on the
people that own the country, and Is
enough to make even a mlld-man-
nered swear. l was in Jackson, the
State Capitol, the other day, and went
in to witness the Legislature, n see
and hear the negroes put on airs anu
play the part of Law makers. Inc
scene was enough to turn a dog
.ly disguised with this GROWING
9Cll6NeLltIlt W LhulSoiAohi'
Judge wyche has always beer a
staunch supporter of Lincoln and
Grant, and a very bitter Republican,
but his experience of the actual work.
ing of his political theories has evil
| IDENTIFY had u wholesome effect. If
the entire North could for a time go
ISouth and see for themselves the sad
condition of a country in the possess
sion of free negroes, the Republican
party could never again carry an cleo
ton in a single State of this Union. 1t
is now nearly seven years since the
war ended, and the party in power
commenced t. legislate for a restora-
ton OF tranquility and the develop
ment of the industrial resources OF the
South. Seven years of legislation has
left the country very nearly IN the
position where it commenced, n
here in the Spring of 1871 we find the
absorbing question before Congress to
be a new bill, and new measures for
the reconstruction of Southern States
1.-The tinkering still goes on-one des-
MOTTO bill after another goes through
the Congressional mill and yet no i'm
movement is visible in the South, II
Radical journals and correspondents
are to be believed. When h blacks
were turned loose at the ballot boxe:
, it was confidently predicted that they
would speedily restore order and sue
: cessfully administer the local govern
t ments. That the negroes are a failur
is apparent. If anything were want
n ing to confirm the impression, tn
action of Congress and the declaration
of Morton & Co. would supplythe evl
dence. The reconstruction acts ar
r failures. or why the necessity for cor
d stantly patching them, and undoin
!. the work they have produced? n
have failed as the Democracy predlc
d ed, and as every common sense ma
l. knew they must fail, when they wei
"A first agitated in Congress six veal
IF ago. The entire troubles of the Sout
le could have been settled within 81
months by any half-dozen sensibI
men; but no, the Radical party had
1t be built up at the expense OF II
=. country; and so we have drifted frol
wear to wear, from one reconstructlo
If act to another; and now, after nearl
II - oor turmoil an
expense, we find the result to
it lust that so wildly depicted
sc Judge wyche in the extract we ha'
Given. Who, looking at this picture
II Mississippi, which finds a counterpa
in every Southern State, but can re
of in the silent depths of his heart IN
a the Democracy was right in its opp
sition to these Radical reconstruct
acts? Yet we have the same violeI
mt nnscrupulous men at the head of Il
We Senate and the House of Represent
tives still debating new, more DANCE
Gus and unreasonable measures of t
of same order. Reckless of conseque
IN ces, disregardless Of every interest
Is, the country, they live upon the m
fc |excitements and turbulence of ci'
oh disorder. Peace and order with the
men would bring with it a loss
position and occupation. The count
! " longs for rest, but it will never ha
y it while these men remain in power
to
les THE VALUE OF A NEWSPAPER
correspondent, writing from Bull
1City, says that a neighbor of his tie
him that had it not been for
'oh .spenny wise and pound foolish !