Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-04-02
MISSISSIPPI.
Origin Of Present DisoFdeFs-6raat Weuld
Have 60 More Elections 10 the South
lnfsmles Of Tax. Gaihsrers-Tbs
Story Told to Greeley.
No Federal Officer as Such has Ever
Seen ResIsted-dOWt the People Regard
The c. mIug Emplre-FlOods and
Crops.

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Correspondence of the Memphis Appeal
JACKSON, Miss, March 81, ISL
The cutlery heard everywhere in the
North just now, asserting the preva-
lence of violence and disorders in the
South, is the product of instructions
sent down to Loyal Leagues and
to Southern branches Of the Grand
Army of the Republic. Disorder in
the South at the moment is indispen-
sable to the success of Grants schemes.
He must have a pretext in the alleged
condition of the Gulf States for the de-
mand he makes contemplating his in
vestiture by Congress with power to
suspend habeas corpus, thus enabl-
ing him to prevent, or control at will,
future Federal and State elections.
These facts are well understood here
in Jackson, and the moderate Radi-
Gals openly assert the fact that out
rageous exactiOns are imposed upon
the people by lawless negrO-elected
school commissioners in order to be-
get outbreaks and popular resistance.
THIEvING SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS.
The Governor is not a party to
these schemes. On the contrary, he
deplores evils resulting from past
State legislation, by which the negroes
elect school boards whose only aim is
to gather greenbacks. After a board
is organized some sharper is made
Supervisor, and, generally, n of
Grants pimps already invested with
Federal office. No white Radical in
Mississippi is deemed respectable Un-
less he holds at least two Offices-One
state, the other Federal. The next
step after organizing the School Board
is to levy the school tax. The United
States Revenue Assessor was recently
running this machine in Monroe
county. The people had lost half
their property by the war, and such
have been the seasons that they
have failed to make crops. The
school thieves at once pronounced
for a tax of four or five per cent.
The law was irrepealable, and there
was no way of escape for the outraged,
pIundered people. They informed
this little Verres that he should leave
the county. He refused, was caught,
whipped, and then he hurried to Gree
ley to recite the piteOus story Of his
wrongs.
GREELEY's ERROR.
The thief was not resisted or beaten
as a Federal officer, but as chief of the
legaliZed banditti which, under the
name of School Commissioners, are
plundering a people already more
heavily taxed, in proportion to their
resources, than any on the globe.
UNIvERsALITY OF THE SYSTEM OF
KNAVERY.
The same system of robbery is prac-
ticed by these negrO-chOsen School
Commissioners in other counties, and
there is no relief save in the expulsion
of the corrupt adventures from the
country. Without them the negroes |
would conceive n such plans of IN
mixed knavery. A heavy school tax
was levied in this way in Clark county. |
The people are poor and the country
reproductive. These School Commits
would soon own the property
the whole country. They began to
build schOOl-hOuses, in the cOnstruc-
ton Of which the school boards are
generally interested as builders. The
people, robbed and outraged by the
unknown knaves, burned one Of the
and notified the titled super
visor that he must ''quit," and forth
with the hue and cry against KU-KluX
over the North. There are in
stances in which many of the best
citizens are forced to approve acts OF
violence to which the people resort,
in order to eXpel the harpies that
come down as collectors of Federal
taxes, and then by intriguing with
blacks are invested with one or more
State offices. 1t is in this capacity
that they are resisted, detested and
.espised. In no instance has a Fed
eral officer, as such, as l am informed
by Governor AlcOrn's Secretary, en-
cOuntered resistance Or violence.
WHY GOOD PEOPLE SUBMIT.
Very many of the best citizens are
disposed to bear tamely all these
wrongs. They say that hostility to
the system Of plumber will be pro-
nOunced hostility to popular educa-
ton, and that when one of Grants
Ofhce-hOlding pimps is also the incum-
bent Of q State Office, the North as
serts that resistance to his exactiOns
in the latter capacity arises from hos
lility to the Federal Government and
its representatives. For this reason
alone there is widespread opposition
on the part of the best citizens to
every demonstration of so called Ku-
The prOprietors of the
SbOneWall cotton mill, near Enterprise,
.mpelled by these cOnsideratiOns-ex-
planters and rebels as they
ire-Ofer a large reward for the APP
DrehensiOn of two young men who
recently burned a tax built school.
house, in the vicinity of their manu-
factory.
GENERAL FACTS.
These disturbances occur only in
counties in which enormous burdens
are imposed in the manner and by
persons here described. Throughout
he State the people are industriOusly
employed in preparing for another
great cotton crop. Grant can defeat
heir plans. By declaring martial law
le may suspend industry, beget end
ess confusion, and Lowell and the
East will suffer as deeply as these
snslaved communities.
A F~ANATICAL REBEL.
/ encountered on the cars yesterday
|. bankrupted exc Confederate soldier,
Who had been taxed to poverty, and
educed from afhuence to beggary, by
he negro laW-givers of Louisiana.
lie was we'll pleased with Grants
He would have martial
upplant civil law. He prefers the
nailed hand of despotism to the
upremacy Of African and carpet-bag
.avagery. He would have the States
destroyed because the calamity
.annot be restricted to the confines Of +,
he South. He would have these
states enslaved because the enslave-
nent of the continent is the necessary I
consequence of u subsection to the I
of a military despot. This
nfuriated rebel could e no way of 8
,scape for the South save through /
military government, then anarchy, I
hen the empire, then a counter !
Northern revolution, and then peace. I
lie proclaimed the supreme wisdom !
f Grant, who proposes to lead US Z
.vcr paths trod by all republics. !
irant as emperor would have no
peeial reason for Wronging and rob +
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