New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-05-07
From Mississippi.

JACKSON, Miss, April 2j, 1874.
| To the Editor orMe Te,o National Era:
A few months have elapsed since last
| wrote for the ERA. Pressure of official bust
| ness prevented my writing as frequently as
heretofore. was indeed glad to notice your
signal victory Of the "Citizen' part of your
paper. l trust that nothing will hereafter
obstruct your aim in establishing yourselves
upon terra TRINA, and have your paper be-
| come the spokesman Of the colorcd people
| throughout the country.
must confess, Mr.. Editor, that l was in
deed panied to notice the disgracclul wrang-
lings between Messrs. Martin and Downing,
| for the leadership of the Sumner Monument
| al Association. If such disgraccfnl abuse
| continue, the object will die after its first
| breath. Mr. Summers memory is too dear to
| us to have cur men quarreling over his grave.
Would it not he for the interest of all con-
cerned, for both of these gentlemen to retire
| and let Frederick Douglass take the lead ?
| No association organized at Washington or
| any other city, can control the nation. And
| since national convention would be rather
expensive Uhough it would be the best plan)
l think each State should organize its own
association, and vote for national President,
sending the names of their choice to the ERA
| for publication, and the person who receives
the highest number of votes to be declared
as such and let the President of each State
association, be a member of the national EX-
ecutive Committee. This Committee to meet
| inf I,,1x Il;
the whole affair. This is merely rough out
line but think if you, Mr.. Editor, would
suggest some such arrangement which would
arouse the cooperation of the people of the
entire country, the monument to Mr.. Sum-
ner's memory would soon be a reality.
| The wranglng at Washington has had a
tendency to dampen the prospects of a ma
tional monument to the good man whom we
all loved so sincerely.
| Three months have elapsed since the in.
auguration of our new State administration,
and the mischevious predictions of eX-GOv-
cmor Alcorn arc falling to the ground, one
| by one. The present abuse heaped upon
our Republican candidates, as we'll as our
prominent men, is without a parallel in the
campaigns of this State. One of the most
prominent men singled out by the opposition
especially by Governor Alcorn-was Capt.
| o. c. French, the chairman of our Republic
can Executive Committee. But during the
recent session of the Legislature Capt.
French asked for an investigating committee,
and stated positively that he wished the en-
tire committee to be composed Of his politi-
cal opponents. The committee was appoint
ed, the chairman being the leading Democrat
of the gods seemed to have been appeascd,
| for autumn was followed by winter, the
midest known for many years. venture to
say, that were We to examine the shelves on
which Time stores away in succession the
passing Winters, we should have to pass far
down the icy row, before we would find one
to equal in severity the Winter of 1928,
or in mildncss the winter of 1894. This
! spring-to be referred to hereafter as the
''yainy spring'-deserves high rank among
| its distinguished contemporaries.