Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-10-14
The v alkcr-CIay Party.

NitoSiS' ~ u Callll-IUOh-
or on, the politics of Noxubce coun-
ty presents Il most disgracetul spec
tacic, one that is calculated 10 make
every true friend OF his country
Ugh over the shame and degreda-
ton to which the limos give birth.
The Isham Stewart party Is, in
all conscience, sufficiently ignorant,
sufficiently bcsotted, sufficiently en-
shaved. lsham rules bis poor dupcs
as ctlcctualIv AS ever the Buckra
Man did. His ignorant partisans
call themselves treemen, and yet
they obey the command Of the
League and their great overSeer, l.
sam, implicitly. His nod is law,
his word gospel; his diSinterc,tod
sacrifice Of himAeli, for eight dollars
per diem and mileage "gwino and
comm" their political saly tion.
Isham, however, has been enough
rogardfuI OF the sacrcl ri. his ofthe
white ace rs to confer upon 4 few
of their number nomination| for
some little bits of offices. The
whites Of Isham's part affect to
think they are managing HIM, yet
the smallest boy Of one Of our con-
mon schools, black or white, can
,eo that tho big oversSer. lsham, is
leading them about by the hose
using them to give body to his par
'v-to give it a kind Of respectable,
j s. in ignorance. These whites n O
the sau % that seasons tho black
goose. lsham, no doubt, loo.a with
y fa,herIy pride upon this party
colored party. lie sells himself to
the highest bidder, then takes to
bidder pstronizingly into his party
and tolls his willing slaves that he
i, ftho true blue;
But even this party Of Isham's,
founded upon ignorance and disrc-
gard Of the rights OF the intelligent
whites, is sanity in comparison
with thiS n~ew-Hodgod Walker Clay
& Co. party. Though lsham has
been thought to possess more mean
hatred towards the white ace than
any other Niger in tho county and
to intusc more of it into his party,
vet he has proposed to give some of
the Offices to that race But this
Walker CLAY. with n meanneSS that
oven Isham begins to blush at puts
out a ticket composed entirely of
niggcrs. ISham will now and then
sell himself to awhile skin and then
marnanimouslv take him into his
party, but this hcSottcd, ignorant
Niger, Walker Clay, with his ignO
rant co-spirators Wilkerson an
another Niger, propose te elect
themselves Legislators for the eoun'
tv of NoXuhcc. They do not pro-
pose to have any white sauce fol
their black goose, all niger, Niger
nigger. Walker Clay, WiIker7on,
aud their coadiutor may be as intel
lirent as most Of their race and nc
doubt are so, hut why not show
some regard for the rights Of that
little minority OF Intelligent whites
in Che county? The straws show
which way the wind blows. lShau
is going over to the white party
and endeavorinS to carry the mig
gers with him. This is the life o
the party of Walker Clay. III
thinks too many whites are gettin!
into Tsham's party. These being
facts, | have had no little astonish
lment that some white men in tn
county should lean towards thI
thorough niger party-this part,
are black us the ace Of spades, an
as ignorant rs Balkans ass. Moth
inc proves the above facts NOR
! clearly that the rapid growth c
this black party of Walker Clay
A few weeks since and Wake
Clay wat only known to a few as
, pretty good blacksmith, and hi
| party was not even an embryo !
the womb Of events-to-day ther
is not a cabin in the county b.
: where his name is familiar, and hi
t party ,oversprcads the land like
l swarm Of black lOcGsts, KEF'