The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-10-29
TIE MISSISSIPPI ELECTION.

On next TUESDAY tue Mississlppi oioSsoa
takes place. 1t is always impossible to pre-
dict to certainty the result of any State cleo
ton, but appearances certainly warrant us in
expecting that q grand Democratic victory
will be the result of this election The people
seem to have fully awakened 10 the great i'm
portance of the struggle, and all hair-splitting
frivolous and unimportant issues have been
carefully avoided by the friends OF true re-
form, and the one broad and emphatic plat
form of opposition to Radical misrule and
corruption is the declaration under which
joyous hopes Of redemption are cherished.
No race antagonism has resulted from the
desperate efforts made by fading Radicalism
to arouse bitter feeling between the whites
and blacks of the State; no unnecessary finan-
cal troubles have been created, and all the
honest men of the State have, with true en-
thusiasm, enrolled themselves under the
banner emblazoned with the true principles
of honest reform and the substantial indica-
tons Of solid prosperity.
The insatiate and venomous brood OF
harpies that have with deadly grasp clutched
the State Of Mississippi, and well nigh ruined
her, have now but little right to hope that
they have strength enough left to cope sue
cessfully with the steady front standing op-
posed to them in the grand battle of freedom
soon to be fought among the hills and valleys
of the noble old common wealth. The last
appeal made by Ames for Federal interven-
f,ti la with M
side interference the honest people of the
State will speedily and effectively work out
the problem Of their redemption.
FFrom every hill top of Mississippi there
come joyful shouts of hope and determine
ton, every township is busy at work resolved
to wipe out the stain left by its worthless
rulers, and the political campaign seems
more like gala festival than determined
struggle. Overwhelmed by the effects Of his
own iniqaity, the cowardly Ames sits in i'm
beetle wonderment, amaz a at the wondrous
power of his misjudged and maltreated OPP
ponents, now risen in their might to hurl him
into that oblivion which should be welcomed
by him as boon.
Nor will the white people be alone in their
struggle; the colored people of the State,
many Of whom are now property holders, seem
to at length realize that their interests, too,
are affected by the corrupt government OF
Satrap Ames aud his satellites; every day al
most we hear news Of more honest colored
voters casting their lots with the only party
of true reform, and the expected negro sup
port, upon which Ames and his party so great
~ depend, will, in all probability, be greatly
reduced, if not almost entirely lost to him.
Surely the dark clouds seem drifting away
from Mississippi's future, and there are bright
streaks of light and hope even now visible
through the shining riffs. 1t 10 difficult to
reason or work out an election problem, but
there is certain something that seems to
truthfully predict the future, or, as the st.
Louis Times aptly puts it,
There are times in the history of some con-
tests when the very air gets full OF the pres
ence Of victory as it does of electricity. You
don't know how or why, but you feel it, That
period is now upon Mississippi
Our sincere good wishes are with the peo-
pie Of our sister State in this her great strug-
gle for liberty, and we shall rejoice at her
victory almost as much as though it were our
own.