The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-09-06
THE STATE OF THE SOUTH.
Letters from Mississippian on the
Situation.
BRIGHT PROSPECTS.

BRIGHT PROSPECTS.
THE STATE ESCAPED FROM CARPET-BAG
RULB-A CERTAIN DEMOCRATIC TRIUMPH
THE CuLoRED RACE FINDING THEIR
REAL FRIENDS AND VOTING WITH THEIR
OLD MASTERS.
To the Editor OF the Sentinel:
Sir:-I write, supposing that you and
the many friends of the Reform or
state would like to know how we
of Mississippi and especially this
part of it, over which the terrible
bloody shirt hes been so constantly
waved, are g. ting on in this, the centen.
NAL year of our independence. 1 must
say that now, the future does indeed look
more brilliant than 1t has done for yssrs
Crops are very good, and If we are but let
alone and allowed to have an honest and
home government, the day is not far dis
tant when we shall again be prosperous
and happy people. But the carpet-bag-
gers in our state are doing ever, thing in
their power, by continually waving the
not rious bloody shirt, to bring us again
into trouble and prejudice the mind
OF the Northern people against US,
and / suppose thew will continue in their
mad career until they have such q multi
| tude of sins to bear that they will sink
down so deep into the bottomless pit
that the very archsngels of Old Satan will
not be able to hear their cries tor mercy,
nor to give them drop OF water to cool
their psrched tongues. The campaign in
| this, binds, county hiss indeed
opened in earnest for Tilden,
hendricks and reform. There are
now some twenty-five clubs in this county
that bear the reform banners. The colored
| mem bers hip of those clubs now amounts
| Tn al thnnaar6 atrl
coming in daily TO join. Our club here In
| Clinton, once the hot-bed of Rsdicalism,
| now boasts of nearly an hundred colored
members, who afe now as much enthused
| Tor Democracy and reform as any people
| YOU ever saw. 1t is really true, Mr.. Edi-
tor, that you can ride out into the country
and every colored man you meet you can
| instantly tell whether he has
joined the Democratic party or not, sim
ply by the expression of his face, which is
pleasant aud smiling IL he has, and elum
| and sullen If ne has not. A great many
OF them say they would have joined hands
with the white people long ago, but they
were continually threatened with death by
their leaders il they did. and now they can
do as th v please, as they feel they are ODce
more tree, and able to enjoy all the
rights guaranteed to them by
the Coz stitution of the United
-tstes. Sir, can not help but think that
II every sensible Rspu blican in the North
could nave been &C the grand ratification
meeting at r ymopd on the Is inst. and
.een the peace, good will and harmony be-
tween the whites and the blacks they
would have gone home crying, hands off
hands oft God speed the Democracy o
Mississippi. The procession as it m .rcheC
INTO town wss indeed grand. All the Ct u b.
were dressed in their different uniform
shirts. There was not less thar
one Thousand colored voter
in the procession wearing the
respective club uniforms and as enthusias
tic as men could he, declaring their iDten
ton of assisting with all their might In re
deemiDg the sta and national govern
= ment from Radical rule and ruin. Th
, Is b was indeed great and glorious day
one that will ever be remem
bered by the people, bot
white and black OF old Kinds, and on tn
9TH of November we will roll up such
majority Tor TildeD, Hendricks, and on
noble Hooker as was never known in thi
, county before, as well as q maj lrity O
r 90. 900 in the state for the same briilian
; trio of statesmen and honest men.
WARREN.
CLINTON, Miss, Aug. 81, 1876.