The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-11-18
THE eOSrLaESr VICTORY EVER
WON.

has now befallen Mississippi, and the per
feet blesssdness involved will almost mad
den for q time grieyously cursed and
',agagely wronged people. There were
never before such heartfelt congratulations
sproffered State, never private letters, so
full of rejoicing and thankfulness that the
African deity was east down from its high
i3ff affairs in its most hideous, disgusting
tmpEes. Never was such victory schieved,
never snch agencies employed in any politi
heal contest in any country on the globe. 1t
was life and death struggle, and so re-
garded by the people. No lives were ta-
ken, no violence was done, no outrages per-
petrated. If freedom from African domin-
alton could be attained without resort to
violence its avoidance was eminently desir
able; but at any cost of money and effort
first, and of life if need be, the victory was
won. 1t is needless to disguise the fact that
Mississippians have been restrained for
some years and during the recent conflict
mainly by considerations affecting adjacent
States. They have endured the Ames,e fer
jannissaries of the little adventurer whom
they loathe and hate, and whose
mastery they bore with a degree of
impatience, which Texans can hardly
comprehend, who remember the reign of
Davis and the outrages done by his name
lukes. But the government of Mississippi,
infamous as it has been, and burdensome
till property was valueless, has been para
disaical when contrasted with that of eoun-
ties and towns The cost of the State gov
erHment and of courts has been multiplied
more than fve-fold since the negro was in-
stalled in office. and the States wealth is
six-fold less than in 1861. One-sixth of
the amount of property pays sum five
times greater than when men alone voted
who supported the government. Perhaps
Rutabagaism should make a note of these
facts and reflect that by its crimes one-third
of the counties of Texas are subjected to
the very calamities from which the escape
of Mississippi makes a continent rejoice.
1t is no mere Democratic victory. No crow
ing cocks crown the columns of newspa-
pers. 1t is more than partisan triumph,
in which victory commonly signifies that
the ''outs" have beaten the sins" 1t was
q peaceful overthrow of an intolerable des-
potism, the extinction of which, however
achieved and by whatevear gencies, would
have been rational and right. But if the State
government of Mississippi were lntolerable
while the Governor was having negroes
slaughtered in Vicksburg that his party
might gain moral power abroad, mis- Lieu
tenant Governor, infinitely more highly es-
teemed than the supreme satrap, was con-
Quoting brokers' office ano sold pardons
to nenitentiary convicts and murderers.
Meanwhile counties and villages in which
blacks reign have been taxed and robbed
by carpet-baggers. and by scoundrels more
Infamous who were born and reared on the
spot, till homes were valueless and such
were social facts that decency yelled its
face and intelligence never went abroad.
There was absolute asceticism enforced by
the local domination of blacks. The rate
of county and town taxation varies from
one and a half to five per cent. on valua-
tien made by remorseless knaves whose as
sessments are regulated by bribes or by
prejudices of race or of partisanship. AL
corn gave the State an excellent body OF
circuit judges, and Ames has not been
able to remove them, but the negro
chosen magistrates AMI county and pro-
bate courts sell justice at auction,
in market overt and no white man
ever thinks of seeking justice at the
hands of an inferior court. We speak of
what we have seen ana do know, and there
fore our utter adherence of the weakness,
not to say moral cowardice, of those pre-
tending to be statesmen, who create gov
ernment for Texas and subject one-third OF
the people to social and political systems
shaped by the same agencies that have made
honest men everywhere thank God that
Mississippi is redeemed. Every newspaper
in Texas except the Register at Waco and
the dead Express asserts the blessedness thai
invests Mississippi in thrusting aside, even
for two years, a hideous, intolerable gov
ernment; and Rutabagaism looks on, never
seeing how it is cursed by each acclamatiol
that rends the heavens in attestation o.
boundless joy, excited everywhere b!
this temporary redemption of Southern
State. For month past Mississippi ba'
been veritable pandemonium. Bands
of fearful music and drums ane
ffes, even more hideous, have ira
versed the hsppless commonwealth
whisky has been poured out like water
speeches adapted to negro tastes and shaped
to capture Ethiopian fancy have disguised
decency and won votes; military compsnie
have shown their power and declared tina
foul voting would be punished with death
eannons were fred that proper moral in
fiuence might affect the man and brother
and soothe the nerves Of the crying, thiev
ing, dirty carpet-baggers and scalawags
They succumed to these benign influences
and Mississippi stands regenerated, Olsen
thralled, and shall we say it-redeemedl
1t is needless, perhaps, to look beyon'
glorious facts of to-day; but We cannc
help suggesting that the cost of victory wa
| enormous. IL was humiliating and degrad
ing to the last degree. The agencies EN-
ployed we're brutalizing alike to whites an
blacks, aud one cannot help recurring I
the exclamation of Pyrrhus when he said o
his victory over the Romans, Zone NOR
such triumph and am undonep We hav
letters before us from intelligent Mississip
plans, saying that the contest, despite 1t
crown Of roses, was so disgusting and re
voting to decency that they viii never max
another, and the emigration of the whit
/ population will hardly be lessened in volume
THE ERESULr OF THE CONFLICT
ABOUT MONEY.
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