The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-21

The Carthaginian, little bob
tailed, thumb paper, published up III
| the "ncck - tae woods, is down on
The Citizen Tor defending the char
actcr of ID. c. Bcauchamp, Esq,
School Superintendent of Madison
county. Now, the opinion OF this
miserable littlc sheet is of no con
sequence to the American Citizen,
nor to Mcssrs Beauchamp, Pratt, or
PostelI, ut whom it also shoots its
puny darts II the Republicans of
Madison county can place in office
men who have the very highest re-
communication as TO ability and
integrity, from such men as Judge
Campbell, S. S. Calhoon, Judge
Hudson, Chancellor Young, and
many others, who certify to the
stamina Of Mr.. Beauchamp, the PEo-
PIE will ask no more and the mi
nor organs" may howl in vain.
The Canton Citizen publishes the
above, and it Will be seen that that
huge and influential! paper lets the
charges we preferred against d. G..
Beauchamp very severed alone.
1t knows that we have stated facts
which can be substantiatcd, ard the
stirring of the matter will not tend
to lessen the foul oder of Beauch-
amps misdeeds. Hence it falls back
on vituperation, and the fact that
several years ago, while the imma-
culate Bcauchamp still made some
pretensions to honesty and decency.
Messrs. Campbell, Calhoon and
Hudson certified that he WAS COM
petent to discharge the duties of
the Circuit Clerk. Now at the time
that certificate was given Bcauch-
amp had not sold himself, body and
soul, for money. 1t is true he had
money, received his pay therefor,
and, after the close of the war had
re-sold the same cotton for green backs.
1t is true that he refused to make
restitution to the original purchas-
er until he had exhausted every
quirk and quibblo of the law to
evade it, and had carried the case
through every court he could get it
before. But that matter was prob
ably not mentioned to the gentle
mon who gave him his certificate Of
character.
But is n certificate of charac ter,
given eight years ago: supposed to
be in full force and effect after the
dirty tricks this man has exhibited
since then? Will Judge Campbell,
Judge Hudson and Col. Calhoon
now furnish him, asked or unashed,
a certificate of good moral charac
ter, or of his peculiar fitness for tho
position he disgraces We rather
think not. Ten years ago any num-
Der of certificates as to the ability,
honesty, integrity and faithfulness
of the American Citizen might have
been obtained from the readers of
that journal. But is there one res
pectable white man who would
stultify himself by signing such a
certificate now? While JOHN F.
BoswoRTH, in his right mind, had
control of its columns, no such silly,
absurd and imbccile paragraph as
the one quoted at the head OF this
article could find space therein.
But since the death of that gentle
man, the American Citizen has fall
lon from its high estate has be
come political shuttle-cock has
bartered its principles, its birth
right, and fair name for q mess OF
pottage has sunk its responsibility
and honesty for a slice of the Dis
trict Printing!. Shade of Bosworth
defend us The noble paper he
founded and cherished has gone to
the dogs. The journal in which he
took such pride, and one which
had even been faithful to the inter
ests az the -State nm 4 bssI. /, eI,i-,ssI.as
become subservient to the basest
uses-a veritable traitor to orr sun
ny Southland, and the defender of
a man whose record is blotted and
uncleanI There exists some sini-
larity between the history of that
journal and the history of Dewitt
Clinton Beauchamp. Will the Tax
payers League of Madison county
raxamine into Mr.. Beauchamp's re-
cors>2<Cdrthaginian.