The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-11-25
A CLEAN SWEEP IN MISSISSIPPI
How it was AccOmplisled-The Way to
Win-Magical Effect upOn the Value
of Property.
Correspondence Of The Cincinnati Commercial.

Nll-WaSlCiti liIiCCi uPoi lhC t"i"'
of Property.
Correspondence Of Mc Cincinnati Commercial.
JACKSON, Miss, November B.
As the election returns come, the mag
nitudc of the white line victory becomes
apparent. At this writing it is ques
ton whether the Republicans have
carried single county in the State
The official returns will doubtless givc
them few counties, but they had a.
well have retired from the contest ;
month before the election, so far Us sub
Stantial fruits from their campaigning /:
concerned. / had not been in the State
twcnty-four hours until | SAW how it was
going. In the first letter | wrote two
weeks ago predicted IL victory for tht
whites, and reiterated it nearly every let
ter since. Before the impetuous dctcrm'
ination of the whites to carry the cleo
ton at every hazard, I knew that the
thirty thousand Republican majority
would amount to nothing. The white:
carried the Legislature by II ma jority Of
not less than thirty on joint ballot, and
have elected five out of the six Congress
men, to say nothing Of
THE CLEAN SWEEP
in county officers and the election OF
their candidate for State treasurer. The
last Congressional delegation stood five
Republicans to one Democrat. The del
cgation now stands five Democrats to ono
Republican, and even this solitary Re-
publican is not to a certainty elected
The official returns may leave him out
The Legislature had Il Republican ma,
iority of about twenty on joint ballot
The Democrats have reversed it and a
little more, so that it will be reliably
Democratic on joint ballot by thirty ma
iority. 1t is a clean sweep, perfect
revolution. But the so-called revolution
is perfectly understood here. 1t was the
result of the frenzied determination OF
the whites to carry the election by every
hazard, and they carried it. Their pro-
gramme did not contemplate ballot-boS
Stutting, or anything like that but sim
plv to operate on the minds OF the
ncrrocs-convincc them that the proper
tv-holdcrs were in rebellion against
negro rule, and would stand it no longer
unless that rule was set up again by Fed
eral bayonets. The negroes, no longer
supported by the Federal power, as they
conceived gracefully accepted the inevi:
table, and in large numbers, either voted
the white ticket, or rcfraincd from voting
THE LEGISLATURE.
From what 1 know of the candidates
nominated by the whites, l have not the
least doubt but what the incoming Leg
islature will be the best one that has as
scmblcd in Mississippi since the war.
The whites really made an honest effort
to bring out their best men, discarding
in many instances the old line OF politi-,
clans, and putting forward men of
capacity, worth, intelligence andpropcrty.
Really, there was no comparison between
the nominees of the two parties. The
Republicans did not show a capacity to
improve by past experiences. Indeed,
it was not expected that they could, Tor
stream can not rise above its source. An
incompetent class of voters will invarla-
bly, select an incompetent class OF leglsla-
tors. That has been demonstrated times
without number. In the District of Co.
lumbia, under the very nose of the gov
ernmcnt, the negroes elected such a
worthless lot to office, and kept at it so
pcrsistenly, that the taxpayers could
find relief only in the abolishment of the
District Government as then constituted,
and change in its form. Yet the col
orcd people in the District arc far more
intelligent and capable than their class
in Mississippi. Here VIC have the
dcnsest of dense ignorance. To suppose
that the property-holders would rest
quietly under this sort of thing year
after year, was to suppose that they had
less of human nature than we find in
other parts OF the world. | am not ap-
proving of their manner ofgetting rid of
negro rule, as they call it. | am merely
that VIC make allowances for
human nature. There were few good
men among the Republican nominees for
the Legislature, but the most of them
were
a SORRY LOT,
made up of plantation negroes, BARRIERS
imported from the North, white carpet
baarcrs without dollars interest i'll the
State, and natives who become Rcpubli-
cans one day and candidates for office
the next. 1t was such slate of candi-
dates as would be rcpudiatcd in Ohio by
five hundred and seycnty-five thousand
majority, provided the vote was as full as
at your last election.
Understand me, there were some good
men among them, but the most were q
sorry lot. Had the Republican party,
so-callctl, carried the State, the Lcgisla-
turc would not have been an improve
mcnt on the last ono, and which was Il
very inferior body of lawmakers. y
we'll balanced man could not 60 among
them without vague feeling that some
thing WAS wrong, that such men were not
calculated for lawmakers. \ tull-blood-
cd negro is no: an exceedingly intellect
ual person at best, and when his natural
stupidity is heightened by Il want Of all
knowledge except what he has learned
between cotton rows, when in fact he can
not read sentence in the language or
sign his name, the question arises i'll the
impartial mind, how can this man be a
success AZ Il law-maker? The incoming
Legislature will contain comparatively
few negroes, not above thirty i'll number,
and the body will be strkingly superior
to anything Mississippi has had in the
way of Lawmakers since the war. But
wisdom does not always accompany in
tclligcncc. Whether the new Legisla-
turc is wise or not, We shall know more
in six months from to-day. They can do
much good or much harm. attempt
to curtail the rights of the colorcd pco-
nln will hn lnntrd Ilmn with SUSPICION.