Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-17
MISSISSIPPI.
An Extraordinary Struggle, and an Ex
traOrdinary State Of Facts-Al-
corn Must Make a Desperate
Fight or Go Down
Forever.
Grant, Butler, Ames and Powers all
Combined 10 Destroy AleOrn-
His Resources and Only
Means Of Escape from
Utter AEnihilatiOn.
ON our special Correspondent

From our Special Correspondent
GRENADA, August Is, 1S73.-The
APPEAL published some days ago
declaration emanating from the
Friars Point Delta, Alcorn's home
organ, asserting its purpose to support
an unmixed, unqualifiedly black State
ticket. Alcorn is not a duh observer of
the course fevents, or slow to detect and
thwart the plans Of an adversary. 1t is
not known who he breads as an antsg-
onist. The power that would crush him
is inherent in brawnisr hand and arm
than is discovered in the muscles Of the
little puppet which dances or is still only
as Ben Butler tugs at the wires. Grant
may not be the third-term candidate.
Failing in this, Butler is his destined
successor, and Butler would have
two stepping-stones; one at either end
OF the Union. One is labelled Massa-
chusetts; the other, Mississippi. The
one, is white; the other, black. If
Ames, as Buffers representative, may
lead the blacks and triumph in Missis-
sippi. Butler enters the next Radical
national convention as the exponent of
the black race, and clothed with all the
rights and powers and dignities with
which Africa is invested in the eyes of
Radicalism. The negro may not be the
rudsIIl, but is the stepping-stone to the
presidency. The importance, therefore,
of this pending cunfliet in Mississippi
between Ames and Alcorn can hardly
be exaggerated.
POWERS.
1t does not signify what becomes of
Powers. He is a little obstruction in
the way of Buffers ambition, and will
be disposed Of very readily. 1t is the
present purpose OF Butler that Powers
shall have Ames's seat in the senate,
and that Ames shall succeed Alcorn
when Aleorn's term as senator and
Ames's as governor expire, as they will
at the same time, four years hence.
Thus you have a plain map of the sea
Of Mississippi politics, navigated by as
reckless and selfish piratical crews as
ever cut throsts or scuttled ships. The
presidency is the port and haven of re-
repose toward which each bloody
handed mariner steers the barque of
his fortunes, and Ben Butler
stands at the helm of the blacklist
cruiser, with the blackest flag and black
est crew, that ever cleft the waves. 1t |
is blackness that invests it with terror,
aud Alcorn finds himself abandoned
and betrayed by those whom he has
served most effectively.
HOW GRANT STRIKES.
Robert J. Alcorn, of Jackson, a !
nephew of the senator, was appointed
United States marshal for the southern |
district of this State four or five months
ago. "Bob" had supported Greeley, |
and his appointment to this office was
deemed by Alcorn's friends an assurance
of the Presidents friendliness, and that
the senator was approved by the sd-
ministrstion. Not many days ago
there came a clap of thunder
from clear sky, and poor Bob was
found, his head broken, officially de-
funct and unlike the senator, his uncle, |
utterly amazed and paralyzed by the
shock. Grant made this demonstration
and sent down this bolt from his Olymp-
US at Long Branch to rouse the atten-
ton of the negroes OF Mississippi. and
have them rub their greasy, filmy eyes
and see plainly that the government
and coming empire favors the preten-
sions of Ames Butler, and that Sena-
tor Alcorn must be destroyed. Alcorn
comprehends at once the scheme de-
vised for his humiliation; he confesses
the impossi5ility of gathering strength
from the white psrty-leaders of the
State, and that there are not enough
negroes who can be induced to cooperate
with the white masses to thwart Butler
and Grants plans for his own over
throw, and the only recourse left HIM is
an appeal to the negroes. He will get
up an unmixed negro ticket. There will
not be a white man on it. The white
people will prefer such ticket to one
led by Ames and the foreign thieves.
The negroes do not love the carpetbag-
gers, and the carpetbsggers only love
the blacks TO the extent that the inno-
cent creatures invest them with Office, |
and enable them to plunder the whites,
and now we will have war to the knife
between the straight negro ticket, !
approved by southern whites, and
set up by Aleorn in opposition
to Ames, and Powers, and
Ben. Bntler, and the carpetbaggers.
The negro forever Up with the
black man and down with the whitep'
Such is the sentiment of every southern
gentleman s0hen such a state Of facts Is
presented. And such state of facts
must be considered, or l am grievously
mistaken, by the Conservative conven-
ton of Mississippi, which sits at Meri-
dian on the seventeenth proximo.
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