The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1875-09-23
Mississippi Affairs.


Mississippi concerning the recent disturbance
and butchery at Corinth and vicinity, withou
coming to the conclusion that it Is the settled
purpose of the Democratic party to practically
nullify the amendments to the Constitution.
We at this time merely call attention to the
following statement, found in the Jackson
(Miss.) correspondence Of the Cincinnati Com
n,erciaz, paper which instructs its cores
pondents to communicate nothing but facts,
and deal with all public matters in a.spirit Of
fairness and truth, so as to give its readers a
just understanding Of what it publishes.
Under date OF jackson, Sept. 18th, the COM
munication says:
There is q reign Of terror and bleodshed at
present in Mississippi that you up North.
toned as you are to peace and good order and
security OF life, could hardly realize unless you
were here to see for yourself the actual state of
the case Without stopping to go into detail
of the probable causes which have led to the
present very unhappy condition of the country.
[ can say in all truth that in ell my life l
have never been in any place, or heard OF any
place at the present, where laWlessness was SO
rampant and where the lives OF human beings
were held in such small esteem. The whites
taeonistic form.and while they deny this, seem
to seek rather than avoid every opportunity to
kill negroes They bring Oh collisions, it they
cam and if they can't, they go to work shooting
il there is the fantest excuse i'll the world for
it. 1t will be recolected in the Vicksburg at
fair last winter that, instead of stopping when
they had driven away the blacks who had come
to reinstate the Sheriff of that county, they
chased them for miles and miles, killing them
as the sportsman would kill the scattered birds
of a covey and rode up and down the country
for days after shooting here and there as the
fancy suited them, and killing negroes miles
away from the scene OF the first trouble, who
had no more to do with it than one Of your own
citizens. It was fit verificatien OF Morton's
assertion that the badsmen of the South went
cunning for negroes as a Northern hunter went
cunning for squirrels.
Then followed the bloody affair of the 9Th of
July in the same city, brought on and carried
out by squad OF irresponsible and character
less rowdies who attended a meeting to which
they were not invited, and at which they knew
they were not wanted, in order to raise a row
and to find an excuse for taking the lives OF
human beings. And after this came the NoNu-
bee and Yazoo City troubles, with minor ones
here and there pretty much all over the State,
all resulting from a determination on the part
Of the white people that no fair election shosld
be held aud the negroes should be awed into
at home. No one heard Of a white
meeting being disturbed. ] doubt if single
Instance throughout the entire State could he
cited where the negroes even made their APP
in any numbers at Democratic NEE
ting. while on the other hand there has hardly
been q sinule public meeting OF the Republicans
which has not been visited by tile Democrats
and disturbances created.
No punislments have followed these outra-
ees, and the perpetrators OF murders and atroc-
tiles that have shocked the entire country have
gone llnmoasted to boast OF their fiendlsh eX-
Dloits and prepare for others. The Courts have
been powerless, and public sentiment has ap-
proved. or at least not condemned. There
have, in some instances, been set up the plea
that the blacks were dangerous, and it was
necessary to teach them the power OF the white
man to shay | tell you, sir, there is no truth
i'll the stories Of attacks from negroes. There
is not q man in the South who does not know
that such charges are false. They rarely ever
defend themselves even when attacked IN the
most uujusttiable mariner, and when resort
to arms, on their part, would be just and
proper.
The bloody work at Clinton, on the 9th and
a tlav or two following, is but another evil
dence, though Il little more prominent, OF the
white people Of the State to those who differ
with them in politics, and the utter and total
of human life among this people:
in the North you have your local
rows and Disturbances at which some times
men get killed, but you have never yet per-
haps. known where for days after numbering
bands have gone about through the country
shooting down one class Of people III cold
blood, who were no nearer connected with the
original trouble than that they affiliated with
them in politics.
The New York Herald declares that one
such outrage like that at Clinton does more to
10 x,,hn
nj needs than al. the efforts OF all her citizens
can do in wears to dlaw them thither. with
Justice and boltness which might well be emu
lated iy papers Of higher moral pretensions, the
Herald says:
..Yhe white people of Mississippi ought to
understand that the Northern people are very
inpatient under such things. They 20 not
wish the least harm to the Southern whites.
We are already here to say that the war is
over. and to let bygones be bygones. But
such outraees as that OF the Fourth OF July at
Vicksburn. and at Clinton on Saturday,
arouse had blood here i'll the North. We
remarked the other day that the folly OF
the Chic Democrats was soaring the
neopIe back into The Republican party, ana
was putting that party into the HANDS OF its
least scrllpulous men. But these MISSISSIPPI
brutalities do even more thall Aileii any NJ ~
dlcton to this end Again, the whites OF MIS-
sssiupi would do we'll to remember that 1t IS
not prudent to goad even a long subject ana
naturally mild race to cXtremites. By sacii
wanton attacks on peaceable colored people as
are but too frequent there they are arousing
devil that some day may rise upon them IN itl-
~. They cannot go on forever permitting ,'-
Justice and outrage towards weaker race.
Vicksburg correspondent to the Clncihnatl
newspaper by no means III
cli,led to the manufacture OF .outrages =
after briefly recounting some OF the dlstar-
Dances IN Mississippi, says: =,
"All these troubles are evidently, ana WIFI
out doubt, tile result of the preconcerted ar
to create such terror and conster-
nation among the blacks as to deter them
from going to the polls to vote. The whites
make no bones OF saying this is Their pro-
granlmc. 1t has become impossible almost 70 Iof
Republicans to hold meetings without Delils US
turbed. The whites say they are determines ~
carry the election everywhere peaceabiy II tney
San. and forcbly if necessary. NY
prediction is that under the present sIate ~
! ffajrs very few counties if any, wiil;go nepno
icau this fall. and that the State Legislature
will he Democratic
A philosopher presents the following general
deductions from his observations at picnic =
Girls with small feet are most venturesome
j., 1li,n,ing trees or wadng swamps. The girl
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