The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-09-12
Remember the Primary Meeting OF
the Democratic Party, to be Held ut
each Election Precinct, on the iIth or
Atc8ber Next.

IllEN OuTlVT-JOllTHul tllUS pcItiil'htiS
stntcs the ease Of Mississippi, II situa-
tiou entailcd upon the good people OF
been selected hy ignorant negroes to
preside over It's destinies. The article
was written before the nomination
Of that coslnopollte Adelbcrt Ames, for
merly Of Massachusetts,, for Governor.
(His illustrations?) fathcr-n-law Beast
Butler, who pocketed the spoons of the
citizens OF New Orleans and afterwards
got himself bottled up at Bermuda
Hundred, Is greatly Interested in in
creasing tho debt already fastened upon
the people Of that State, and when
Ames becomes Governor We mny safely
say that IN addition TO the burdens
now being borne by the patient popu-
lace of that oppressed commonwealth,
they will be called upon to liquidate
forty million dollars of the old bonds
rcpudiated thirty years ago, when the
Government was faithfully admin
istered, and when corrupt legislation
was suniarilly met by those who pay
the expense OF running 1t:
Few States In the South have suf-
fered as much as Mississippi, Her
people have been quiet, but they have
had to endure many Ills which have
not been known either in Arkansas or
Texas. Their business has not been
paralyzed by the disorders and anarchy
Of the country, rs in the ncighborng
State of Louisiana, hut they have been
weighed down with taxation, with the
more bitter exhibition before them
that their money has been wasted in
pr0iiigate expenditure or gone to min
lister to individual rapacity.
Besides the money drawn from
people impoverished by war and the
loss Of their labor, there were dues az
cruing from the railroads for money
borrowed from the school fund created
by donations from the General Gov
eminent and now repaid by the rail
ways to be sunk In the extravaganza
Of the local government, or paid out to
new railroad schemes in defiance of the
prohibition for such outlay In the state
constitution.
One of the most grevious troubles of
thu people has been the utter defiance
of constitutional or legal restrictions
wherever the schemes of politicians or
money-getting Were in the way.
Thus, while the constitution prohib-
tied the appointment of officers from
the Legislature, Governor Alcorn filled
the offices with those who voted for his
schemes In that body, the freedom of
Legislative action was Frustrated, and
worse than Napoleon dynasty ruled
over the people Of Mississippi. When
the Agricultural College scrip was to be
obtained for tho use of the State, Al
corn was the man to receive II, and it
il said pr0tlcred to accomplish the
work for 300, hut meantime arranged
to sell the scrip without authority of
law, and deposit the proceeds to his
own credit IN Memphis, where It could
he made to bolster up his own fortunes
under some pecuniary disasters.
The profits made on this deposit,
running through more than twelve
month, were never accounted for; but
meantime, In like manner, without
authority, State bonds were purchased
nom this fund at from Ave to seven
per cent above the market value for an
Investment Of the fund. Some bonds
Of fnvorites were purchased at much
higher figures, at whose profit does not
appear. Meanwhile Civ. Alcorn rc-
signed the Govern0rship to 70 into the
Senate of the United States. and tho
singular exhibition appeared of his
successor formerly In bitter hostility
to him, becoming his friend, and by
some legerdemain the scheme for muir
chasing bonds and operating ON the
Memphis deposits seemed to be shared
III common, and tho bonds of the State
seemed to pass into the hands OF these
officers, without any regard to the
treasury Of the State, as the place do
signed by law for public funds. or any
designation In the transfer to show
that they were public property.
The channel of appropriation laid
out for this fund seemed 10 bc of little
benefit 10 the State. A new university
was started 10 please the colored voters.
aud more than half OF this donation OF
Congress was to pass into this scheme
TO sustain the officials In power. While
the interests Of the colorcd people were
only In the cause OF general and pri-
mary education, they were to be PAM
pered TO the idea OF a university edu-
tfOO mud the u,,tvoratt,, ..., s'
the Alcorn University to carry forward
his name M their great friend and mn.
tron. This scheme must be cn,lowcd
with the funds Of the State, sustained
BY the taxes upon people FRUSTRATED
by exhausting war, and the slonatIo,
OF Congress made tributary to part,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
4 similar extrayagance Increased In
costs Of the new code Of Mississippi /
aomc three tines IT, pfoner limit /