The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-08-28
The Late Election at vicksburg.

The municipal voting in Mississippi is a
dawning ray upon a dark foreground.
which brings hope and cheer 10 few. Al
least, who have gloomy forebodings Of q
continued supremacy Of negro power In
three Al least Of the late reconstructed
States.
Balefnl In every influence. that power
has brought with II waste and blight. pow
erty 10 penury, and short subsistence 10
starvation. Less deplorable IN Mississippi
than In Louisiana and South Carolina, IL
leading features Of misrule and oppression
have had the same outlines of repulsion
and disgust: and while large larceny and
minor thieving have been less scandalOus.
IN other administrations the hostility TO
the original race has wanted nothing OF
incident in partial justice and unfair dis
elimination. Robbery and theft. ii done
In sable. have had light punishment /;
and murder, il the red hand wore the
shadowy livery Of the FURNISHED sun. -
has had executive pardon interposed be-
tween the crime and It's merited penalty
No satrap has been more AT the beck and
nod Of the powers at Washington than the
present ruler OF the State, and in none has
the insidious military domination more
quietly established itself In the civil polity
Had the requisition for troops been re-
sponded TO by the detail of an armed
force. we might have had a happier count
OF ballots. with Ethiopia in ample fooiings
Of majority. With the nearer approach
of '76, what would have been done two
years ago by flash of telegraph is now
negatived i'm the prudent circumspectiOn
which looks TO new combinations and an
extended term OF rule. In the earlier
controversies overthe institution We heard
much OF White Mans Government
and il was met with sarcasm. and passed
into standing quotation in the resources
OF electioneering material by no means
poor in variety or pungency OF expression.
IL had no significance then. but il now
comes back 10 Us in an echo. and tine ques-
ton Of white mans supremacy OF Afri-
can raid and spolation waits a solution.
and its demonstration is growing hopeful.
The living agents of this most crown
ing of all crimes against popular Govern
ment, who have fastened upon the free
limbs of their own race and color the frt-
tiers which they struck from the limbs OF
the serf. must survey their work with
great complacency Of review. II il but
siHgle illustration Of the craftsmanship
which has shaped to "A contamination the
results Of the rebellion. Not having vet
the emanciDated slave TO his
heights of privilege. a civil rights bill waits
the reassembling of Congress for the con-
current action Of the lower House i'm leg
islation TO endow with particular immu-
mites class 10 whom in their governing
experience liberty has been license. and
freedom liberation 10 maraud. Desola-
ton follows its footsteps in South Carroll
ma, anarchy and usurped government in
Louisiana. and riot and ruffianism i'm Miss
issippi. 1--WE must protect the freedmen"
was the rally. ard the result has been IA
pine 10 the black race and ruin TO the eau
casian.
Deprecating as we must all conflict be-
tween the rival citizenship. il has come TO
the complexion of antagonism. not in this
election only, but through the entire
South. Its remote influences are not now
to be measured. The issue may as well
now be made up and determined. With
whom Is government TO exist With the
original proprietors or with the enfran-
chised labor Of the soil? We need not tar
~ long for reply. nor will its end be q
matter of doubt. Abstract equality or in
equality of race does not enter into its re-
suits of settlement. Intelligence il not
to be made subordinate to ignorance. nor
can permanent authority be held by the
difttt ONti TIT tuul&tltl nDtdZt. ptdiit-
ing the full enormity of the crime Of Sc
cession and rebellion. subtractIng nothing
from the sum OF its turpimde. its retribu-
ton has been fearful. Beyond the pains
and penalties of the law of treason. the
block and the halter would
have been mercy TO the lingering misery
Of Southern life under this hateful anarchy
of spoil and devastation. Helpless and
hopeless now. i'm South Carolina. Missis-
sippi and Louisiana may be emancipafed.
The old spirit of the rebellion. chastened
by the woes of its fatal errors. j. vet 10 b.
the moving impulse Of a later prosperity
and fresher growth of Improvement and
advance.
Give 10 the rehabilitated their old order.
with their purified Institutions. and pros
periiy will revisit their abandoned acres
and dilapitated towns. The old animosity
: reacting in a warmer fraternity of
brotherhood. With equality I'm the con-
iition of labor and unity Of interest. the
whole valley Of the Mississippi and its
States will be joined in a com
mon policy of government. which will
hold together by stronger tie than that
-udely ruptured In the strife Of attempted
separation. For what we have now seen.
small a il may be. I'm this election. let u
be grateful. and hopefully await fuller
and more complete reconstruction by the
peaceable remedies of the Constitution
without the intrusion Of the sword or the
of the bayonei--Nelc FORK
Sun.