The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1874-04-18

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Such a lesson my Standardization
paper should Nc ashamed 10 acknowl.
olge, much les' presume 10 teach
The State repeats q charter ior . raii.
road fif il be ~ acknowledged by
the Republican leaders and by o. q.
French, Clr1irman Of the railroad
committed ~ tho House, to 10 a
measure Of much benefit and utility TO
the State n, large, bocausc-it is in-
sinuatcd-thc star Of Pascagoula"
made a charge Of corruption against
a member Of the House. Here Is
revenge with a vengeance. Aad we
will here parenibetically inform tie
Republican that it is not our custom
to make has,y and i'll considered
charges against any one, and thar
the charge in this instance was made
after due deliberation all after being
convinced of its truthfulness. We
knew that the parties accused graft
fed their revenge upon tae editor of
the STAR By preventing his appoint
ment as County Supt. of Education
when the law gave it to him or to
no one, and even went so for as to
have q portion of the law repealed
and we knew Capt. French had
wreaked his vengeance upon the
democratic press, for publishing char
ges against him, by pushing through
the Printing Bill, with the avowed
of breaking dowa the demo-
cratic papers but that he should
attempt to crafty, or tie State up
hold him in gratifying, his malice, to
the eXteut mentioned by the Rcpub.
licsn, exceeds belief. And we will
furthermore take occasion to inform
The Republican, as we have once oe.
fore, that its idea Of journalism, and
ours, materially differ. We pub.
lish a paper in the interest, and for
the benefit, of the white,
honest, intelligent, people of
the State, The owners of the
soil ; and to them we look Tor sup.
port. If we know of corruption in
high places, OIL among officials, we
will expose it, in the interest of our
If such charges, should he
wrongfully made, we are responsible,
aud there is a way to obtain redress
us. 1t fights for the Repub-
Iican party u, and whatever corrup-
ton it may contain, and it looks to
such measures as the iniquitous
Printing Bill 10 sustain it, aud such
'ther crumbs as the party may
upon it.
In this connection we make an Elk
.ract from the Southern States of
)kolona.
Another correspondent Of the same
,aper. Tupelo journal, is of opinion
hat the Printing bill is a sledge-
hammer lick at the Democratic Press.
"The object of this bill tito strength
n the Radical press in the State,
~ giving to them all the legal ad.
rertising, and by hat means breaks
the Democratic press. This
vas boldly declared by Capt. French
o be the object. If our p,ople are
made out, OF the material, / think
hey are. such laws as this will never
orce them to allow the Democr attic
'ress to be supplanted by a Radical
" ess."
The state has at last reached the
round of human and moral
lepravity and openly proclaims her,
a trickster and a bully. So far,
o good whether she will bully the
Democratic Press into silence, re-
Mains to be tested. We hope the
,rass will profeat NOT foahlv M no