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The weekly clarion., 1876-09-27

GREENWOOD, Miss, Sept 23d, 1879.
Iron Tuu csr spro-

tFoR THE cLARIoS.l
Lefi0re county is ablaze Though the
Radicals have heretofore carried this eoun-
ty, having 1900 colored to 400 white VO-
ters and all the lately enfranchised avotiuR
solid,' we expect to roll up a majority foS
"Tildeh, Hendricks and Reform" next No.
vember.
Our first grand barbecue came OF here
two or three weeks ago. Hon. z. Rarka.
dale, electOr for the Safe at large. waa the
hrst speaker He held his large audience
interested for two hours. Ii was the moao
perfect chaste and eloquent oratIou ever
listened to. Long life to our gallant and
talented standard bearer, Ethel Barkadale-
Our favorite son, Hon. Il. ID. Money. foI.
lowed Col b. "HuTrah for Money! II
am proud of Money" were heard In every
direction after he closed. Those who IA.
lieved in and trusted him at firsf, ara via
with enthusiasm over the splendid reputa.
tion he has made. While those who wera
tukewarm concede that no abIer or ibettS1
candidate could have been found n a.
whole State had been searched.
The first elnb in Le6Ore was NornneS
here by electing A.. NJ. KinihnnRh., PresI-
dent, with 7. r Wadlingt0n, w. ID. Peerv-
j. ID. ChickeriUg, G. Z. Merrill and GeorSs
w. Arnold, Vice-PfesideBts.
We meet regular every Saturday evex
ming at 3o'clOck. and have A speech. ffona
some member Of the Club So far A n
Trrt DNAa"s Ndpts y. h
Merflll' and ). ID. Chlekering have address
ed US They were all splendid sneerha~
don't think ever heard a bttter tlrs, NJ
MerriiIs a1 was. Besides being Orsgfnal. n Waa
clear, concise and to the point. A ooc1
many said sit Is the best We have besrS b~
a good deal.'' -
Col. i. p. Yerger Is chairman Of H..
county executive committee. and ri1hs wsIi
is he doing his dnfy. =
As | said in the foregoing look out n, !.
big Tilden. Hendricks and Money uneio,it.,
even in Ledere.
The great coloIed orator. Younger.lsnnw
STUN ping the county, aud briugfng N -
erIiis by the hundreds. The colored vo-
ters flock 20 hear him, and even follow klr.
around. | heard him here, at .RoboeI.
and at Sldon, and Tell you be is rattIInr,.
the dry bones Of Radicalism. This 4 rhers
we need him.
Yours truly,
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s'GndsriRe the Republican parts IN the
state Out upon such ingraies
.Pease, Wells and Harris told Mr.
Pierrepont that they would prefer the
election Of Democratic Legislature.
Farewell brotherCrawfor,l Pilot, Oct
10Th.
7rid jasIaeta N Uno-whieh, politically
translated, means trinity of demagOgues
in other words, Pease, Wells and
/ Harris. Wells q sort of DemocraticO-
| Independent candidate FIR Congress in
the Second District of this State against
the regular nominee of the Republican
party, the Hon. A. r. Howe, but Just
at this particular time, he is in Washing
ton City trying to save his worthless
head as United States District Attorney.
Feeling, doubtless. that "a bird in hand
is worth two in the bush," he prefers tc
''suffer those ills he has rather than fly
to others he knows not of. The fact ii
his race for Congress is all bOsh.-Pilot
T Oct. 18th.
F., He is now. engaged in slandering th'
il Democratic party of Mississippi. And
i the Republicans of Mississippi still re
| gard G. Wiley Wells as a thorough,
, unprincipled man, dirty, unscrupulou
/. dem2gogue. who would rather tel
l. falsehood than the truth about an oppo
y Dent. It is to such 3 creature must b
q con6ded the waying Of the bloody shir
1e in California. The Republican party
reduced to desperate straits. indeed
when il feels It needs the work of such
10. man. The Republicans had right a
probation of him last year the Demo
racy have just discovered his ''untrut
fulness and treachery"
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We republish, by request, the follow
ing from our issue of June 4th:
The Democratic LegisIaIure..The
COIOred People.

The faithful redemption of their
pledges to the colored people by the
Democratic party, that if it carried the
Legislature the former would be protect
ed in their rights and duties with the
same care that the whites would be, are
well known facts attested by the acts of
the Democratic Legislature, and the
VhOle tenor and tone of their proceed
ngs. In recent letter to the McComb
City Intelligencer, Hon. J. NJ. Causey,
laks excellent Representative from Pike,
who was always at bis post, relates the
following incident which occurred at the
close of the Legislature:
Letter from Hon. James w Can.
sey.
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ed to address the Clab, was thsns called
Tor. He tOok TIE stAnd and delivered :
an admirable address for one soyoupR.
He was followed by Hon. J. L. McCss- :
XII .sni Hon. jos Renustt, both of
whom made short, but telling speeehek
We were called on, but declined TO speak
in consequence Of the lateness of the
hour.
This Club has purchased q cannon
snd had it mounted, nsmed il Rob
bert, after Robert Lowry, and is one ef
the most enthusiastic Gibbs in this ceun.
ty.
Hon J, M.-Jayns, Jr., and EN-.
Thomas, Esq, weut to Cato. and sd-
dressed the Club of that place. They
inform Us that the Cato Club is in fine
working order. well uniformed, and are
raising money TO purchase a cannon -
wake up the sleePers in the hills and h0i. :
lows
| The Fannin Club had a grand rally
at night. The Brandon Cornet Band
furnished the music. aud speeches were
made hy Alai. Pat. Henry, c. c. Miller.
| Esq, Jake Powell. Grant Skinner and
Sam Fore-the three latter cOlored men.
YarOo Hcrald.
Chairman of the Yszoo City DemSss
cratic Club, DR.. P. J. Mccormick has'
has appointed c. J. Burrus, J. G. Pre-
wett, and W. d. Gibbs, Esq. to address
that organization on next Monday night, !
and each of the parties named has con-
sented to do So.
r Water Valley Courier.l
Col Rogers, Col stephens and Judge
Mariln. made speeches at Barbecue in
the neighborhood of Byram's creek in
: Pamela county, on Friday Of last week,
and then again on Saturday, at Forest
Hill, Lafayette eounty..
Lee County Journal
1t is now knoWu that Hooker. Sim f,
gleteH, Money, Maldrow and, Manning
. will sweep their respective Districts
: with unprecedented majerities, while
= = no one on the ground despsirs OF the
d gallant Chalmers carrying the shoe
string District over his saddle eolored
competitor.
s Fayetpe Sta .dard
d We understand Merriman Howard
l. told the colored people in Nsiehez that
d. Jefferson county is gone" he gives 10
II up. Right, and we'll said, but he
y should have advised them to give
as Adams mp too, snd, moreover, TO vote
10 for the reform candidates-they cant
stand the heavy tidal wave Of the
peoples determined uprising, while
a they have but tico icbite men IN their
~ procession.
ii Handsboro Democrat
Sc r. n. Miller, the Democratic Presi.
be dental Elector for this District, accom-
oe panied Col. Hooker to Biloxi last Sat.
i'd urday night and delivered an able
to address to onr people at the close oi
"a Col. Hopker's, He is an ardent work
as er in the cause of Reform, and is doing
n much good by his earnest forcibll
DIV speeches. Mr.. Miller was accompanied
to by his wife, noble, amiable and hand
lin some lady. d.
Meridian Mercuryl
Next Thursday night the Tilden and
he Hendricks flag, made by some of oai
he Meridian ladies, will be presented d
We the Central Democratic Club. It q
nd desired by the Club and citizens gene
he rally, that every lady, young and old
let who can attend, viii be present on ASa
he Thursday night.
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POLITICAL CORRESPONDENOH.


STATE LINE, MISS, Sept. IS. 1876.
EDIToRs CLARION: On Saturday, 18th
inst. we had the pleasure ct = flying trip
from Col. .. II. Singleton. who gave the cit
izrns here rousing speech which has had
its effect. and on the 9Th of November will
not he forgotten.
Judge VIM. II. Hancock Eas n corpany
with the Colonel and also add dreased the
people, and, as was expected, the COlOnels
conclusIoH, rae Colonel has made seme
warm friends here, and the hearts Of the
people are with him.
Yours, etc.,
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THERE is no foolish talk INDUCED
about the forcible resistance to the execu-
ton of the Attorney Generals order, con-
stituting U. S. Marshals supreme COM
manders of the army and navy of the
United States, but there is a quiet deter
minatiOn to resist, by legal methods. and
above all, by a firm exercise by the peo-
pie of their right to vote, and to accom-
plish needed reforms through the ballot
hnY
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Resolution ef the STATE Exeew1e~.
COmmf fttee Accepting Capt. =.
Hardy's EesignaIi0n. =
ROOMS srATE- ExEcUTIvr CoNrrTTr,-r

Rooms sTATE EXECUTIVE CoNMrITxE.l
DENocRATIc-CoSsERyA PARrY
OF THE STATE oFMIssIssIPPL
JACKSON. MISS, Sept. 10, 1876. -.
ResOtted, That the resignation Of his=@
position as q. candidate on our EIecfofai.z<
ticket, rendered by Capt VIM. a. Hardg. =
from zeal for the cause, is accepted; an r.
this committee tenders to him sincere
thanks for the spirit Of selfsacrifce thafR
prompted his resignation, and further. -
that we express the conviction, -foundea-as1
upon his known high character, that 4 So
viii be honorably acquitted Of the charzus~
made against him.. s.-s
A true copy. ~
MARION s1n5z.
Secy D. eek. Cen. ---.z
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RADICAL TAxATIoN.-Senator Bay
ard, in his recent speech before the New
Jersey Democratic Convention, showed
by official figures that the States of Vir-
ginia, Kentucky and Missouri, paid last
year, an internal revenue tax of s20,-
107, ,593, while from the whole FIVE New
England States the internal revenue was
oulv s.. .771.014.
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The telegraph reports serious riots in
New Hampshire and Ohio. In the one
case, houses are ransacked and burned,
and in the other, public meetings are
rotten egged and otherwise disturbed.
Are no troops to be sent to those local..
ties?
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Hancock County.
PKAELIxerox. Sent. .. 1910.

PEAELTSGroN, Sept. p, 1870.
We have organized a Tildsn,- -HendrIcks
and Reform Club In Beat No. /. we have
had ouly two regular meetings. and our eu-
rollment has swollen from 80 TO Is mem hara
and / feel safe in asserting that II win in
crease to one hHndred voting mamberz be-
fore the election. | never before knew such
enthusiasm aRd zeal in my county. which
seemed to be lying in wait TO developo r.
self; and now the opportunity has present.
ed itself, every Democrat seems to take .
lively interest in bringing Republiean
mourners up to the Democratic shrine Of
repentance
AIPHA
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MAJ. Ii. S. FooTE, the Chairman of
the County Democratic Executive Com
mittee Of Marion county, is doing splen-
did work in organizing his county, and
as an eloquent and powerful champion OF
Democracy at the hustings. The harvest
is ripe and it is we'll to have such reapers.
The weekly clarion., 1876-09-27

The Times repeats statement of the
National Republican whose authority it
admits is not of the most reliable, that
"Col. Hooker and other Congressman
fIom Mississippi, who were elected in
November last, went to Washington in
December and Immediately drew pay
from the fourth of March proceeding,
just eight months before they cere elected,
and that the amount thus drawn by each
of these gentlemen was the comfortable
sum of 90, ,3SS.n -
We are perfectly willing to place
against this unsupported averment of the
National Republican with the Times
quasi endorsement, the following broad
and emphatic declaration of Col. Hooker
himself:
Handsboro Democrat.
As to the third charge, that he, (Col.
Hooker } had taken pay 10 which be was
not entitled the orator recited that under
the Constitution and laws no man could
draw pay as Congressman until his
credentials had been presented, himself
sworn in, and his name enrolled as 8
member Of the body to which he was
elected, and asserted that the charge had
its origination either through malice or
ignorance Of the miserable creature"
who had originated the report, and of
khosa sflil mora uniuarahla craafuraa v-ho
had repeated it.
The weekly clarion., 1876-09-27

INDIANA Ex-senator Upton Of Nebras-
kA, having canvassed Indiana, writes:
1 haYe seen enough of Indiana to say
to you. that the Chairman of the State
Central Committee says they viii
carry the State for Williams for Gov
ernor by more than Is, 900 votes. Sen.
ator Mcdonald is of the same belief, but
puts the figures higher.
The weekly clarion., 1876-09-27

FROM personal observation and iu-
quiry in the counties of Lincoln, Frank
lin and Jefferson, the writer regrets to
state that the cotton crop will inevita.
bly, prove short. The crop has nearly all
mAtured and the season is favorable for
gathering twill be marketed earlier
than usual. The people sre neyerthe-
less hopeful Of better times, consequent
upon change Of administration and re.
dncod iaxes.
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TIE New YORK Herald Independent
with decided proclivities for Hayes and
Wheeler) says that the Republicans lost
somewhat this year in Vermont from
their vote of previous years, and attrib.
utes it to Wheelers bloody shirt speech
at Mt. Albans in that State. The Her.
aid concludes that the bloody shirt bus.
iness has played out in the North, and
that it will lose the Republicans more
votes than they will gain. Bad for the
RAIDS, as it is their chief stock in trade.
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13sl,l53 %
a263I.7O4 a

t26Sl,IO4 -
For this increase in Indebtedness, from
a mere song, to nearly three millions of
dollars, there was nothing whatever to
show for it, except the impOverishment
Of the peOple-the depression Of all
classes Of business, and a diminution of
the property values of the State from
S165, 900, 900 to sl19, 900, 900, a dead
loss of SAC, 900, 900 to the people, in ad-
dition to the wholesale robbery of the
earnings of labor. The deplorable
proHigacy of the Radical administration
was strongly depicted by Auditor Mus
grove, (Republican "organizer') in his
report Of January 1st, 1874. He said /:
at will be seen upon q perusal of the
reports Of this Offies, that, for the past
three years and the present one now before
you, that.in no single instance have the
receipts proper reached the expenditures
Of any year; but, on the contrary, the lat
ter have far exceeded he former, and hence a
debt Of CONSIDERABLE MAGNITUDE, has
been increasing year after year, etc.
To show the increase Of the State tax
under Radical rule, Notwithstanding the
receipts failed to cover the appropriations
as stated BY the ''OrEAni1er"-ws will
quote as follows from the official records:
on rHK $1,000 VALUE.
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McCoMB CRY, June 8, 1876.

MCCoMB OITY, June 8, 1910.
Editors of the IttsRigenoer:
was present at the adjournment OF the
late session OF the Mississippi Legislature
which was composed ofa Democratic ma
jority OF four-fifths Just before adjourn
ment, Messrs Brown and Carter, leading
colored Republican members, speaking for
the other eolored members. delivered ad-
dresses declaring thatthe proceedings Of the
majority had been characterized through
out BY justice and spirit of kindness and
concilation towards the colored people !;
that their course would tend to produce
concord and good feeling between the two
races and that the Democratic party had
redeemed every pledge that 1t had made to
protect the rights and promote the welfare
Of all classes alike.
Respectfully,
JIM. CAusET.
The weekly clarion., 1876-09-27

Two hundred aud forty German news
papers are printed in the United States
one hundred and sixty-6ve are sup
porting Tilden and Hendricks.
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w. D. GIBss, Esq, electOr for the 4th
District. has entered upon his duties in
earnest He has made list Of appoint
msnts embracing all the important points
IN the District.
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VIZ have deep sorrow in announcing
the death Of Dr. Stephen Davis. late of
the Forest Register. His epitaph may
Be written: "AB honest man. the no
bless work of good"
The weekly clarion., 1876-09-27

A startling exhibit of the amount of
Southern war claims now before Con
gress is made by the Indianapolis Jour
nal. 1t publishes complete list of the
private bills presented to the last House
during the last session-140 in number
and foots up the total amount claimed
at 81, ,582, ,269. In addition to these, it
calls attention to bill now pending to
refund to the Southern States certain di-
rect taxes, amounting to 81, 492, 110 to
another bill for refunding the tax paid
on raw cotton, from 1868 to 1868,
amounting to $65, ,072, 1888; to another
killoh-rUf rue -dse ada occupation by the
United States army during the war, and
to another one to pay for stores and sup
plies taken by or furnished for the
United States army, including the use
and loss of vessels and boats. The
amounts represented by the latter claims
are enormous, and the danger of putting
the question of paying them into the
hands of Democratic Congress is at
once apparent. New York Tribune.
This is the use which Northern Radi.
Gals are making of these Southern
claim bills" that were thrust into the
last Congress, and against the introduc.
ton of which we have earnestly and be-
seechingly warned. We repeat again,
that in the Presidential election the
hearts of the masses of the people in
whose name we speak are not in the
"claims" of Southern "loyalists" on the
treasury of the nation, but in the resto.
ration of integrity in the administration
of the government and the reduction Of
its burdens to standard of honesty and
ecOnomy-the banishment of sectional
strife-and the subordination of the
military TO the civil power in order thai
they may exercise their right of local
selfgovernment.
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STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

SIAIh EAEgUE4NE ~ SSAAAA4 = Ga'
STATE AT LARGE.
J. 4 GrouaE. Chmu; Csc. L. PorrER,
n NJ SrREEr, j. y. NkRfNhh,
w. A. PERCY, y. &. NALrhALL'
FIRST DISTRICT.
w. H. H. Tisos, Thos. u. SrSEs.
SECOND DISTRICT.
Fr,fx L,nAuvr. Tmos. W. HAERis.
THIRD DISTRICT.
J. A. BiSroap, A. T. RoANE.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
JNo. ". Saru l.. A. CAMPBELL.
FIFTH DISTRICT.
4. RtcHkRDsoN, J. u. CHRisMAN.
SIXTH DISTRICT.
l.. W. MAoRupEu, T. V. NoLNND.
MARioS sNIrH, Seo'y
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Will speak at DuC- Hill, Saturday noon,
Sept. 3Oth, instead Of night. as hereto
fore announced.
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AT the recent special election for sher-
III Of Madison county, Mr.. G. 7. Priestly,
the Democratic nominee. was elected
without opposition. He received every
vote cast in the whole county except one.
Madison has large colored majority
and was formerly heavily Radical.
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Gov. Hayes Pledged 40 PrOscriP-
ton en- Account or Birth
Place.

The proof is clear that Gov. Hayes,
the Radical candidate for the Presidency,
is not only committed to the policy of
sectional hate, and keeping alive the an
imosities ot the war, but be is in favor of
prescribing foreign born tcitizehs on ac-
count of their birthplace. On the 9th
July, 1876, he writes as follows
Samuel J. Tyler, Secretary of the american
Alliance, judy 5, 1876:
81 have just received your letter in
-" forming me Of my election as member
of your admirable Alliance. Return
my thanks to the Alliance, as deeply
sympathize with its principles. remain
your fellow citizen,
r. B. HAYES.
The following is the creed of the Al
lance thus endorsed by Gov. Hayes
From the Declaration of Principles o
the American Alliance:
/. Gan amendment to the naturaliza
i" ton laws limiting suffrage to person
born in this country or of American
parents.
%. "The election of american bori
citizens only to official positions in thi
country"
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A GRAND mass meeting and barbecue
will come Oft ut Louisville on the 10th,
and one at Meridian on the 26th October.
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CARPET -BAGGERs

have been the curse and the ruin of the
Republican party in Mississippi. Most
of them went there without character,
honor or reputation, and have only sought
to get in position and then rob the peo-
pie. He thinks the State will soon get
nd of this scum of creation, and the Re-
publican party, as well as the whole State,
will be thereby benefited.
We know of no man who has had as
good an opportunity of learning the
"ways that are dark" of the class he re-
fers to, than Ex-Gov. Alcorn.
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s,snHgeAe a5I"3S hSya,h ,heen VosGls.on -
ton at Starkville, on Saturday next.
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Nor AFRAID.-A Washington tele-
gram says:
Senator Bruce left here last night for
New York and thence to Mississippi.
He will take an active part in the cam
paign In that State. and says he has no
fear Of the Ku-Klux. White Liners
or night riders. His belief IS that the
State viii go Democratic by large ma
jOrity.
The weekly clarion., 1876-09-27

OK our first page will be found an in-
teresting letter from Washington county.
In connection Herewith we will repro
duce the following items from the Green
vile Times:
Col Percy addressed the people in the
lower part of the county yesterday. He
is working zealously, and the colored peo-
pie listen to him with respect, and his
efforts are surely opening their minds to
the great necessity of a change in the
government. He has redeemed every
pledge he made them in the last canvass
and they cannot fear to trust him now,
when he speaks not for his own election,
but for interests as vital to them as to
himself.
At the Democratic meeting on Satur-
day nISusi UUHu -Wahstar moda a
speech, u which be made The fur fly'
Ee made some startlsng .~,rsis,;a.,. az ~. : J,
rle rAscality Of the former n R'i.el99hS ei.el9hS OF
~,sSh ruled Washington U0ss.ss,s sss1.et- 1T rlng g
whose secret practices Webster was fully
advised.
Mr. Webster (colored) was formerly q
Republican member of the Legislature
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TIE Oxford Falcon learns that Judge
Clarence Cullens, of New Albany, Miss,
has declared for TiIden and Hendricks.
The weekly clarion., 1876-09-27

Ii xould seem that Gen. fFampton's
statement to the. Democratic National
Executive Committee, that the State
will 90 for Tildea and Hendricks is true.
The town Of Abbevilie last week elected
a Democratic council by one hundred
majority, seventytive cOlOred men vO-
ting in broad daylight the straight Dem
Ocratic ticket. At. Kingstree, where a
Democrstic ticket had not been run
since 1868, the Democracy won by the
aid Of the negro vote. At other places
the Democracy made large gains. There
is reason to believe that thousands OF the
colored voters in South Carolina viii
vote for Tilden and Hendricks, and also
elect General Wade Hampton Governor.
The weekly clarion., 1876-09-27

Ex-Gov. ALCoRN, in a recent inter-
view with a Memphis Appeal reporter,
in reference to Mississippi affairs, said /:
The Republican party in Mississippi is
infested with thieves and rascals, and
that it is his desire to see them kicked
odt and the party placed in the hands of
honest, honorable men. He says that
the
The weekly clarion., 1876-09-27

Carr. 5. X. MAHoN has been taking
a few days Of his furiOugh in visiting the
Centennial lie returned here last we-k.
bur viii depart E'r jackson, Mississippi, TO
Join hiS compauy IN day or two.
Our best wishes - with the gallant cap
cspIaiR with the iOp- that he may never
draw his sW. nj against the liberties of any
people. And IL Lehas his way about It. We
think he never will. He speaks kindly OF
/ the Southern people. snd desires earnestly
| that all their troubles may be adjusted, In 4
( peaceful mauner.-Olwomwa Democrat
/ The kind feelings expressed by Capt
Mshon are appreciated by our people
lie has been on duty at this post fo
/ years, and has made many warm friends
by his gallant and soldierly bearing.
The weekly clarion., 1876-09-27
STATE SENATE.

F,yrn Dsrncr- MONROE NJ. CuRRIE.
NfSrH II G. MoCABE.
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Brookhaven Ledger.l
Lincoln is one Of the best organized
counties in the State, and will give
large majority for the honest ticket.
Clubs have been formed in every beat
and the enthusiasm of the people is great.
Keep the good work up till the 9Th of
November.
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Meridian Mercurv.l

Next Thursday night the Tilden and
Hendricks flag, made by some of our
Meridian ladies, will be presented tD
the Central Democrrtic Club. 1t IL
desired by the Club and citizsns gene
rally, that every lady, young and old.
who can attend, viii be present on nest
Thursday night.