The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-04-13

ed man, published in the plot of last
Saturday, shows that the Republican
Convention held in Jackson on the
Both ult. does not give satisfaction to
the negro element:
EditOI PilOt:-
| desire to say one word to the
for granted that the co!orcd ltepub-
licans are satisfied with the course of
the late State Convention. | speak
the sentiment of nineteen tWcntieths
Of the colored Republicans Of the
State, when | say that they regard
the course of the Con ventiOH in al
most ignoring them, as al unmitigat-
ed outrage. And il that is what they
call rc-~organizin@ the party upon Il
broad basis, colored Republicans are
determined to let them 60 ahead and
DO the voting alao.
The colorc,i people have no conf
tltliCC III lIlt oOllilillllCC - tL INSNlIb
organized. The Central Executive
Committee, which always does the
work of the campaign, is presided
over By the late Democratic candi-
date for Governor - he
having bolted the regular Republican
Convention in lS73-aud who, if he
was in the Auditors office to-day,
would give no cOlored man a place
there-colored men are good enough
to vote, but that is all. During the
dark DAYS of last fall, when cOlOred
Republicans were being murdered al
most at his door, he was afraid to
speak out against that inhuman out
rage, for fear of giving otfrnsc to hi-
Democratic associates of 1873. In the
late city election, how did he vote
Did he vote for Hon. JnO. McGiil-
who. if he did run as an independent
candidate-was, nevertheless. known
to be a staunch and tried Republican ?
Who is 50 lost to all sense of honor.
rs to defend the putting of %''little
Jack Ass Lake on the Committee !?
This fellow is a chronic boiler. lie
b0ltcd the nomination of the late Jas.
VI. Coates for sheriff of this county
in 1871 then in 1873, when he acted
as Secretary of the Democratic FIX
ecutive Committee, and in 1875 he
rave the party a sort of Cold-water
support and advised the scratching of
the county Republican ticket. 1t is
also known in Washington that al
though cognizant Of the murder of
our people last fall, and representing
TO some of u that he was anxious for
the order to come to move forward,
that he was in sympathy with Pease,
Wells, Stearnes and others, who adj
vised the President against sending
troops into the State.
Some ofthcsc men are so unpopu-
lar with the colorcd Republican elc-
mcnt in their counties, that they
could only ret into The Convention up
on proXic, obtained from other ooum
ties. For instance. PcaUc hailed from
Yalobusha county. and the "TimeS
man" hOm Warren. Whoever gave
these proxies to these pestifcrous fell
lows, ought to be remembered in the
future rs unworthy of public trust.
S~tcarneS came here a delegate from a
Convention made up of eight white
men and about the same number OF
colored men, and that, too, from n
county having over three thousand
Republican voters.
The Convention, in admitting
S'earnes, has opened Pandora's box.
Bogus delegations hereafter will
run our Conventions, and thus ruin
onr party.
The coIored people cannot and will
not be led by such fellows. They will
stay at home, and let the election 90
by default. or make their W terms
with the better element of the oppo-
sition. Ont of a colored population
of four hundred and fifty thousand,
we have on the electoral ticket one
Representative. Ont Of sixteen dele
gates to the Cincinnati Convention,
we have five Representatives. Don't
YOU think that this looks like ignOr-
ing the colored Republicans?
Only think of Madison county, with
q colored majority of over two thou
sand, sending to the Convention six
white delegates. The same is
/ IL III u ~ VT tN'liiIiN. I 4lONN
fellows manipulated things to suit
themselves, and in each ofthese ouu
ties, we were sold out last fall by
them. Let them beware; they have
sold us out for the last time. They
have had an easy time i'm managing
the black voters for their own ag-
granGizement. filling all the best
county and Federal Offices in the
State. The opposition will do better
by us than that, taking Grenada, Pa
nola and Washington counties for
samples.
From all parts of the State, murmur-
ings of dissatisfaction with the action
of the Convention are heard. The
leading colored men among US. with n
few exceptions. have been snubbed, as
also the white men who have been
true to us and the principles of the
party in Sunshine and in Storm
never boiling the regular nominations
ofthe party. The question might be
asked why was the Convention allow
ed to take this course. 1t had been
agreed that we would invite our
Southern white Republicans to the
front upon reaching the Capital, and
finding that we were no longer in
possession of the State government,
and had nothing to give except the
principles of the party, they were
made to believe by q handful Of Fed
eral ofice-helders, that by working
with them, they would be able to
control the Federal patronage in the
State. Now, Mr.. Editor, the broad,
liberal basis upon which they propose
to re-organize the party, means this
aud nothing more, that a few who
expect to be out soon, are DESTROYS of
getting all the fat tit-bits in the shape
of Federal appointments.