The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-08-04
A GREAT DAY AT COFFEEVILLE
GRAND RlLLY OF THE PEOPLE OF TAL0Bt SHA.
CoFFEEvILLE, July 81, 1875

Dear Clarion; The party in power has
gone forward from one act of oppression
to another, until they had supposed the
very life and manhood of our people
were crushed beneath the burdens they
have imposed, and the demands that
they have levied and exacted with the
most insatiate greed. But a reaction
I has come, and as truth crushed TO
earth will rise again, SO are our people
arising in their majesty, with as firm a
resolve as ever inspired ana animated an
depressed people to throw off the oppress-
or's yoke.
1t is said that =" there is tide in the
affairs of men, which, taken at the food,
eads on to fortune" There is tide at
last In the affairs of our misruled State,
and it promises to bear US to victory in
November next. The people are at last
thoroughly aroused. They realize the
absolute necessity of change in the adj
ministration of public affairs, and if
every man will but do his duty-register
and vote-and see that his neighbor does
likewise, success is inevitable. The zeal
Of the people for reform far exceeds, thus
far, the spirit displayed in 1868, which
resulted in the defeat of the Objectionable
clauses of the Constitution, by vote of
nearly eight thousand. The people have
now to stimulate them the seven years of
steadily increasing taxation which they
have since experienced. Whatever other
questions of government may be beyond
the capacity or desire of the eolored man
to understand, he, like the white man,
is anxious to see some results from his
labors, and when his earnings are being
transferred in undue proportions to the
Golfers of the ofice-hoIders, he will in
quire the cause, and endeavOr to find
remedy. Hence at every meeting that
have thus far attended, the colored peo-
pie have been present in respectable num-
~bers, and have listened with the most at
tentive interest.
The meeting here to-day was in every
particular a perfect success. The special
object OF the meeting was for the nomi-
nation of a county ticket, and to hear
addresses frcm Hon. L. @. c. Lamar and
Hon. E. Banks dale. The arrangement
for the speaking and for the barbecue
that followed, reflect great credit upon
the committee having those matters in
charge. There were fully two thousand
people present, including many ladies,
around the speakers stand, when Capt.
Geo. I'll. Lester called the meeting to
order. Capt. FAINT was the first speaker
introduced, and he in brief but telling
address announced himself as candidate
for reelection to the Office of District At
torrey, and paid his respects, In no hon
eyed terms, to the Radical party. Capt.
FAINT will probably be the only Conserva-
tive candidate IA this district fer the office
which he has filled with entire satisfaction
to the people. Under recent law,
Capt. w. r. Barksdale, the present ac-
complished District Attorney, is thrown
into the same Judicial District with Capt.
FAINT, but Capt. Barksdale unqualifedly
declines to be candidate for reelection.
Col. Lamar was next introduced, and
for two and half hours entertained and
instructed his immense audience upon
the great questions of the canvass.
will not attempt to give even synopsis
of his great speech. Many of your read
ers will hear them for themselves, at the
State Convention on Tuesday next The
cost of Radical rule in Mississippi he left
to his successor on the stand to discuss,
remarking, as he alluded to the subject:
"There is no man in the State who has
stood by the people with greater boldness,
sagacity and intrepidity than Ethel
Barksdale, of the Jackson CLARION.
The " few white men largely from other
States" who have manipulated the col
ored man for their own purposes so sue
cessfully and so. long. we're especially
remembered by Col. Lamar. The black
people had been made the unconscious
instruments of an oppression of which
they are not the authors. He said the
white people of the South could never
forget them for their valuable assistance
and faithfulness in years past. He gave
the many who were present, good counsel,
and they seemed to comprehend and APP
preciate his candid and graphic presenta-
ton of the truth.
Hon. Ethelbert Barksdale was the next
speaker. He engaged the audience for
one hour. and although he labOred under
the disadvantage of following the elo-
ouent and brilliant Lamar, he held the
great crowd in unbroken numbers to the
close. He confined his remarks Princi-
pally to thu, subject of taxation and the
enormous and profigate expenditures
which have been made at the cost of the
people under Radical rule. His speech
bristled with facts and figures. and his
remarks were frequently greeted with
hearty applause.
Speaking ended, dinner commenced.