The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1875-10-13

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but feeling ran high. and as the matter
was discussed the chasm between the
contesting elements grew widgr, and it
was thought that serious trouble might
arise before the meeting If Monday
night transpired. Lewis Thomas placed
no confidence in the wild ruIpors afioat
Yesterday morning, but couh not say
positively what transpired, as he left
Friar's Point on the Quickstep before the
meeting came off. Our informant related
the distressing fact that the Colton-pick-
ers are actually fleeing the country on
account Of
THE THREATS
male by the leaders in these dissensions,
and il is almost impossible to get men to
60 there to pick out the ecotton. He says
that by this time last year he had real
lied three bales to the hand from his
cotton fields, when, up to now, when the
! yield has been two-fold greater, he can
scarcely count on as much as one bale to
the hand. The minds of the pickers are
kept in such lat h.a M
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by the political disturbances, that it is
next to impossible to get them to work.
: Our informant states that if the Missis
sppi river had deluged the entire coun-
try, and swept from the face of the earth
the entire crops of the Mississippi valley,
T the confusion, disorder and damage to
!. the material interests of the country could
not have been much greater than is being
brought about by these political dissen-
sions. He states that there is large
number of industrious, s..
HARD WORKING CoLoRED MEN
who, like himself, have accumulated a
little farm and home, and who are try
u ing to make .ofsthemselves 'and families
: useful citizens; that they appreciate the
n fact that the black and white people are
'e almost indispensable to each other in this
\ country, and that if left alone they can
+ !. get along smoothly and prosper, and by
y, united effort can restore this part of the
80 country to its former greatness and tnan
!" cial standing. But, on the other hand,
~ there are numbers of them without 6
m home or habitation, who are continually
.. wandering from place to place, ready t
" take hand in anything calculated t.
l1 sli unsettle the country, by which they hop
i'll to
on at whatever comes in sight, and the,
most always make for the offices. He i
in favor of riddfng the country of thes
disturbers, so that the quietly-dispOse'
lis may pursue their avocatons of industr
er. in peace. He was pretty severe on som
lis schoolteachers who have essayed to lea
W. the colored mind by instilling into ther
mt more of politics than of common sense
he which always is made use of in the can
he paigns, and by which the aforesaid teacf
to er is almost always promoted to som
as position where there is
at MORE MONEY THAN LABOR,
VI VI and by which they are enabled to fill thei
as pockets with the hard earnings of tn
toilers of the soil, and then HE away
other and more salubrious climes. Ou
~ informant dwelt upon this class in aboC
,,Sse this vein for some length, which leads t
nj; the conclusion that the colored peopl
na have been greatly imposed upon by tn
nd fanatical school-teacher. He returne
N to Friar's Point yesterday evening by tn
on Quickstep, saying, as he parted with III
et that he had come to Memphis on bus
;E ness, which he had transacted satisfact
r;t rily, and now he was
ce. a GOING TO RETURN HOME
wo where he would pursue his business a
the cording to his own notion of how it shoul
we be done, and hoped, for the good Of a
The concerned, that no one would attempt
vas molest him in so doing He believes tn
id, the next election in Mississippi will resu
nor in a glorious victory to the Conservative
nc and himself will be strong supporter
the Judge Reid for Sheriff of Coahon
county.
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