Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1875-11-24
The Results Of the Mississippi
Elections.

; Elections.
!. Ex-senator Revels, of Mississ
Q ippi, the first colored man who eve
r held seat in tho United State
, Senate, has written an open lette
to the President giving his view
) Of the result Of the election in tina
State. Mr.. Revels says that sine,
, reconstruction the masses of hi
people shave been, as it were, en-
shaved in mind by unprincipled adj
venturers, who, caring nothing fol-
country, were willing to stoop to
anything, no matter how Infamous
to secure power to themselves and
to perpetuate it." The colored
people were being used as mere
tools. la almost every instance
the men who aided them have been
cried down by the so called Repub-
lican officials in power in the State.
Mr.. Revel continues:
My people have been told by
these schemers when men were
placed upon the ticket who were
VIGOROUSLY corrupt and dishonest,
that they must vote for them; that
the salvation of the party depend
ed upon it; that the man who
scratched ticket was not a Re-
publican. This is only one of the
many means these unprincipled
demagogues have devised to per-
petuate the intellectual bondage of
my people. To defeat this policy,
at the late election men irrespec-
tive of race, color, or party afiilia-
ton united and voted together
against men known to be incom-
petent and dishonest. | cannot
recognize, nor do the masses of my
people who read recognize, the ma
jority of the officials who have
been put in power for the past two
years as Republicans. We do not
believe that Republication means
corruption, theft, and imbezzle-
ment. These three ofrenses have
been PREVALENT among a great por-
ton of our OH %,."e-holdcrs; to them
must be attributed ne defeat OF
the Republican party in tins state,
il defeat their was, but /, with a,i
the lights before me, look upon it
as an uprising of the people, the
whole people, to crush out corrupt
men and rings from power.
For holding and expressing views
similar to those of ex-senator Re-
vels, ex-senator Pease and other
officials in Mississippi have been
removed by the President on the
lemand of the Ames men. Nearly
Ill the respectable portion of the
Mississippi Republicans acted
with the Conservatives at the cleo
ton, the purpose being, as Mr..
Reve's states it, to "crush out cor
rupt men and rings from power"
The President, however, stands by
the repudiated corruptionists.-
Their wishes are regarded, while
The representations of the respect
lble Republicans pass unheeded.
The only Republican Congressman
chosen in Mississippi at the re-
,ent election was as pronounced an
opponent Of 'Ames as could be
ound in the State, and he owed
lis election to his avowed b stility
o the corruptionists in power in
he State. He has also protested
against the removals which have :
,een made at the instance Of Amos I
md his supporters, but his pro- !
ests have been unavailing. The I
President has sympathy for the
Unworthy men who have disgraced {
he State of Mississippi, as well as
he Republican name-whose con-
luct drove the people to a grand
Uprising at the ballot box for their
verthrow--but he has none what
yer for the men who sank their
artisanship to redeem AMI purify
heir State.--Free Press.