American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-09-14
The Barbecue at Oklahoma.
CAMDEN, Sept, 7, 1872.

Editor american Citizen
Surprising you would like to hear
from the Greeley and Brown barbe
cue at Oklahoma, Leake county, and
present your readers with sketch
OF the same, | have seated myself
to reproduce upon paper some OF
the impressions and ideas that were
made and formed upon the mind, at
least. of one attentive listener. As
a general thing. | keep away from
barbecue occasions, picnic gather
inys and tournament feats; but po-
liticai assemble es, when the policy
of the county, State and nation is
to reviewed. always felt, ought to
be constituted by all classes, all
professions and all peOple-the
Reverend, the wise, the good, the
virtuous, the true and the brave.
Not living a very great distance
from the Leake county line, reach
ed the bar becue precincts tolerabiy
early. and Pounds hundreds already
in advance of me. The old sires of
the land. the middle aged, the gal
+ LIANT young in manhood, the aged
mothers, the middle aged ladies,
the beauteous and fairy lassies, and
the little people, were all pronIlscu-
ously assembled to hear our great
and gallant Col. q. Il. Singleton
and Judge l. A. p. Campneli. In
political public speaking, l had of
ten heard our long time county man
Col. o II. Singleton l had heard
him when the line of partisan de-
marcation separated us, when he
had to meet such great Whigs and
| Native Americans as the late elo-
auent and immortal Lake; l had
heard him once in the ecclesiastical
courts of that branch of the Church
of Christ to which he belonged, and
| had heard him too on several oc-
casiors as a public speaker, Jealous
ly and argumentatively addressing
himself to the policy OF county inter
nal improvements, and L had found
! him on all these occasions as polite
and courteous to his opponent as Il
refined lady to her sutton plausible
| in his arguments, winning and tell
ing in his Jealous and eloquent
speaking, and IL very eely orator to
hold when his opponent assayed to
fasten him. From him | had antici-
patel, l expected refined, argu-
mentative, earnest and eloquent adj
d1ess. Now let me say, that all
anticipated in Col. Singleton was
met fully and freeley, and more
than that, l nov estimate him, from
his public effort at Oklahoma, higher
as christian gentleman, and log
zeal, representative and eloquent
| political debater.
For Judge Campbell 1 had drawn
no picture on my mind, l had never
heard him in my life AS Judge, At
tOrney, nor as a political debater,
| | had heard much that tame had
said about him. and / was very
anxious to hear him. Like others,
sat for hours, perfectly unclaimed
under the logic, the eloqnence and
the mastery analytical strokes in
the great speech of this great and
gifted man. | must say that the
Judge disappointed me only in one
thing, aud that was, that his cau>tic
put on the carpet Dagger was more
crude than L expected. With all
the ills .Of present citizenship in
! Madison county, | feel to he proud
that this, my county from childhood
til now. is blessed and orna;mented
by the citizenship OF such noble,
honorable aud able representative
men. | think l can say from my
own heartfelt impressions, and from
the declarationsO of others, that these
two distinguished lawyers and po-
litic2l speakers, are, to-day, nearer
the public heart than ever before.
AS ii Wing and a Native American,
| think more OF these former lead
ers of the Democratic party, since
they eSpouse the cause of Horace
Greeley.
Now, Mr.. Editor, let me conclude
by saving that all were pleased, in-
structed and enriched intellectually
on the aforesaid occasion. Harino-
ny. peace and good will {as far as [
knOw,) characterized the days pro
ceedings. As this is compliments
~ to orr great men mentioned, [
will not sign my name as usual, but
assume the title
-.# GLORIOUS.
The Dyino Wall of Bourbonism.