New-York tribune., 1872-08-27
VOA. XXxlI. NO 9.79t
MISSISSIPPI POLITICS.
THE LIBERALS AND THEIR HOPES.

POkflNG THE LIBERAL ilNRNt'
sFRoM THR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THB TRBUNB.l
JACKSON, Miss, Aug. 17.-The prospects OF
the Liberal cause In Mississippi much better than
expected to find Them Instead OF being hopeessy in
the hands OF the Administration as generally supposed
the State is really fighting ground, and with vigorous
eforts may be carried for Greeley 1t viii unquesuoh
ably take hard struggle TO do this for there negro
majority in the State of from 1000 TO 1000, but the
liberals and Democrats by means give up the con-
EAst On the contrary they active and hopeiu ana
regard their for as fully as good as no
Of their adversares The only hope OF the Grant men
An the large negro vote, which is well dseipnned anu
organized they hold it together as well as they
have heretofore, they win be invncble, for IL all the
white in the State vote for Greeley, and none Dut
white men, Grant will have a large majority
Tho preponderance of the negro vote is
an undoubted fact, but just how much it
preponderates is question upon which u Is
Impossible TO get accurate information. State official
tells me colored majority is 10000 member OF
Congress estimates it at 16OO and the editor OF the
Conservative newspaper here is confident that does
not exceed 1000 Figuring from the census, and aoWne
enc vote six inhabitants, the white vote Is ABOUT
$1,000 and the black $4,000. giving the latter 10000 MAJOR
iy The census OF Mississippi, however Is VIGOROUSLY
inaccurate In many counties 1t was taken ny "oI''
aess fellows who filed the blanks with names Oh heEroS
shat had no existence in order TO increase theH pay
But If we admit that the negro voters outnumoer the
whites TO the the census indicates st our case
is not hopeless at least 1900 or 5000 blacks nave not
followed the carpebaggers for year OF TWO past ana
the number who viii not act with them this year VIII
be much larger. The Conservatives claim, on what aI
pears 20 be good evidence that they have 5000 coored
voters already secured before the canvass has fairly
opened and that the prospect of continued accession
from she more intelligent class of eoOred men is very
gratifying.
REPUBLICAN LEADERS DESERVING GRANT
The influence OF number Of prominent Republicans
whom the negroes have con6ded in political guides
nfpa fcad md VCh
for Greeley, cannot fail TO have some effect There Is
Judge W. M. Hancock, for example, who is acknowl
edged by the GRANTEES TO have been OF the strongest
men they had in their party He is an old resident OF
Mississippi Judge before and since the war, ana
Is said on all hands be a and honest man. He
was Chairman of the recent Congress Convention IN
this district which renOminated Col Mckee, most dis
graceful affair." beginning with two days row and end
ing in the open purchase OF delegates, who were
marched under guard from their lodgings to the Con-
vention after they had been bought lest they should
sell out q second time to another candidate. Judge
Hancocks disgust with the Grant party reached its
climax on seeing the outrageous disorders and corrup-
ton OF that occasion, and he made haste 10 get
out Of a party made up OF such material lie
is now stumping the eastern part OF the
state for Greeley 1 have seen a letter from
gentleman living in his county who writes that Han
COCK is sweeping everything before him, and that every
white Republican in the county will vote for Greeley,
and many negroes Another prominent Liberal Repub
lican is the Hon j. l.. MOrphis, Member OF Congress
from the Northeastern District of Mississippi, who
joned the movement in Washington almost at its incep
ton convinced OF its necessity by the perssteny OF the
President in keeping worthless and dishonest men III
Office in Mississippi, and by the view he got in
Washington the Of the Administration. Letters
from his District say that almost every white Repub
Ncan in IL with him. and that hundreds of his former
oOored supporters will for Greeley under his lead
ershp. NJ c. Brady of Sardis, who placed at the
head the Grant electoral ticket has also declared for
Greeley, and has written strong letter giving his rea-
sons for his Among other leading Liberals are
Joseph Bennett the present Leutenant-Governor who
writes that his County Of Rankin, which gave the Repub
hcan ticket majority last fall, will go for Greeley
and Brown this year by 800 majority; Robt
J. Alum, Chairman Of the State Central
Liberal Committee; Judge John OConnor
of Monroe County, W. IT, Vasser, present State Treasu
rer L. II. Saunders OF Atala County, and r. II. Mont
Eomery of Holmes County The accession Of such men
as these to the Liberal ranks cannot fail TO have
influence upon the colored in their respective
There is entire harmony between the Liberal Re-
pubhcans and the Democrats. The committees Of the
two organizations met in this place the 7h nOm
mated the following joint Electoral ticket:
state al Large-J L. Morphis of Pontotoc, E. JefOrds
of Issaquena. Dstricts-lst Daniel b. Wright Tip
s p Iondcs 1 H. ~ 4b Campbell Of Madison 5th. W.
NJ Hancock Of Clarke; 9th, ThOs. r. stoekdale of Pike
This ticket gives universal satisfaction and its nomi-
nation has produced thorough union of the two Organi
cations opposing Grant.
PROSPECTS OF DIVIDING THE CoLoRED VOTE.
In the river counties where the negroes preponderate
the whites often IN the ratio OF three TO one, almost
nothing can be done 20 detach them from the Grant
party They are grossly ignorant and it is useless to
address arguments them They have very little inter-
course with the whites except with few Of the very
lowest class who consort with them TO get office. Hav,
Ing the political power in their hands, they
and Of mind TO cast of thefew white allies
they have and elect but negroes to Office. This
disposition has already brought here and there carpet
bagger to grief who found that while he imagined he
using the negroes, they thought they using
hun, and they had learned the tricks OF pol
Itics they heaTtessy turned their backs upon him. In
every county where the blacks have majority their
organization perfect They have had taste Of Office
and they greedy for official honor and profit as
ever a white Their prejudices against the
whites been constantly and systematically infamed
by the carpebaggers until they come to believe
t 20 be their duty vote their former masters
would like 10 have them. In these counties there
may be few colored Of unusual intellj-
genee who read the newspapers, and are cana
bic Of some independent thinking on political
questions who viii vote for Greeley but their number
win be so small be inconsderabe. Ia Of the
northern and interior counties where the whites greatly
ounumber blacks. the is different No spos of
Office tempted the carpetbagger there, and the
groes left themselves have established much
friendly relations with the whites They brought
more 10 contact with the white people, and the result
il higher order Of intelligence their part and
greater advance iu civilization II is in these counties
that Liberals expect 10 get large coored vote In
black belt, stretching up and down the Mississippi
tbe whole length Of the state and extending back from
the forty fifty miles the negroes viii be solid for
Grant In that section a coored who should break
away from the Radical party would be in danger OF per-
sODal violence He would be denounced as traitor TO
MS race and unless be lived in town where ne conld