The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1874-06-20
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Who own The coil, tbo factories and
sbopg In wbom they place The utmost
confidence a. far a. OIL business On.
gagemenls and transactions arc con-
ccrnod, on sbotn they perfectly rely
for a fair, just settlement, for their
wages, their proportion Of the crop,
or for payment In money when the
crop is sold and yet to whom they
will turn a deaf ear" when matters
political are broa he'd, and whose APP
pcals they will contcmn where a vote
is concerned. at no place, We guar
antec, in the State can q stronger
illustf alton Of this unnatural state Of
affairs be exhibited than at this
locality. We have remarked upon II
at other places up country" but here,
it has particularly been impressed
upon our attention.
Let us state the case /: Our Mills
all employ colored hands,-in some
of the mills the entire force is colorcd
in some, there is not a white man,
even the foreman being colored-
amounting to, We suppose in round
numbers abont a t4ouSand colored
men. Many Of these men have fami-
lies, they own their houses and lots,
gardens, etc, pleasantly located in the
piney woods scattered through the
settlement, they are paid off regularly
each month, and they are as prosper
Gus, contented and happy as any set
Of the class in the State or the South.
them have been raised" in
the mills and are still " orking for
their "old masters" whom they re.
spcct, and in whom they place the
most implicit confidenc-cxcept,
a vote is concerned; for let
one Of these mill mon or an old
citizen ''run" for the most trifing
office, and these negroes will band"
themselves together in a close clan"
and will vote for "the most dishonest
venal and incompetent persons in the
community" before they will
vote for their Democratic employers.
They, as the rest of the negroes
throughout the South, permit them
to be bindly led and manipu-
Iated by conspirators against Il G
common veal and civilization of the
when they know well enough
hat their elect of the white race are
lypocrites, whose professions oil
friendship for them are false and dis
and that the men oil hal race
who have pledged themselves TO sup
port their constitutional rights and
before the law, are of that
lass of honest citizens whose pledges
AN be depended on" Now, it is
line that that this condition Of al
airs, this distrust, which might have
,ecn somewhat natural and excus-
BILE at first and Immediately after
he surrender, should end /; it is time
hat the negroes we're convinced that
he Southern whites entertain no
isincImatien to accord them their
i'll rights conceded by the constitu-
ION and the laws ; it is time that the
hites, as a class, should resent such
listrust and want Of confidence and
band" Themselves together for the
ommon-wLich is their own-good,
nd for the best interests of commu-
tiles and for the welfare Of the
tate, and thus, more surely, subserve
leir own individual interests.
And therefore we call s%ttention to
Mother article from the Picay une,
hich follows, and we will remark if
lese "Home Arguments" can be
'plied by the planter, they can,
UGH easier and more e~ffectually be
oplied by the manufacturer
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