Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-11-09
MF. CntchImRs amd she New Or.
leans Times.

garliy ana disgustlng coarseness, we
had determined not 10 notice II, but
inasmuch as 1t has excited some com.
ment, we have concluded 10 say few
words with reference TO It. The at
tack OF the Times was based upon an
article In the Picsyune Of the 22d ult.,
which Is as follows:
Mississippi.
THE TRUTH AT THE BOTTOM OF THE NEW
ORLEANS T1MEs-MIssIssIPP WELL
INTERVIEW WITH THE HON. Mr. CATCH
INGs.
Apropos Of the Incorporate and un.
justifiable assaults made by the Times
on the people Of Mississippi in supe.
rerogatory labor of SANDER, We may
record the substance of a statement
made yesterday by Hon. T. Z. Catch
ings, the only candidate for the Attor-
ney.Generalship Of the State, and who
was passing through here on canvass.
ing tour TO Mississippi City, when the
writer met him.
Mr. Catchings promised his state.
ment by general alusion 10 the happy
effects produced by the establishment
Ct the Government of the people and
the overthrow OF Radicalism In high
places. AS with the people OF Louis.
lana under like rule, the great griev-
ance Of the so-caled Republican Ad-
ministraiion was the excess oftaxation
aud the general embarrassments Il pro.
duced, besides the heavy obligations
which each successive year of intoler.
ant extravaganza imposed on the
shoulders OF the ridden tax.payers.
Immediately after the abdication of
Ames and the assumption of Guberna.
torial authority by Stone, the expenses
OF the Government we're reduced 10
less than one-half. For 1876 the State
tax was reduced 10 g.! mills on the
dollar; this year ii was brought down to
five mills,and Mr.. Caichiugs thinks that
within two years it will be diminished
TO the nominal sum Of TWO and half
mills. All the debts contracted under
Radical rule have been faithfully me,
as they matured, and, with the excep-
ton of sporadic cases of disorder,
which are just as likely 10 break out in
Ohio or Massachusetts at any time. and
in fact do so, the public peace has not
for years been so well preserved, or
the arts of public prosperity so favora-
bly, improved. AS the Kemper county
outrage has been so much quoted, and
Gov. Stone held up by Radical papers
like the New Orleans Times, on an al.
legged and slanderous charge of mac.
tivity IN the matter, Mr.. Catchings
stated that Gov. Stone has done all
which the law warranted him in doing
and the Grand Jury has found true
bills against thirty-six residents Of the
county for supposed participation in
the murders. Mr.. Calchings docs not
attempt 10 apologize for the latter any
more than the Attorney-General Of
Massachusetts should be expected to
find an excuse for the atrocities of
Pomeroy, the boy murderer Of Boston.
lie showed that Gov. Stone had done
his duty in the premises, and the next
labor devolved upon the judiciary.
Mr.. Catchings Is positive that no
such organization as described by the
Times exists in Pike county. He says
II is evident that some outrages have
been committed, which must be left to
the inevitable determination Of the
Courts, but be does not see 10 this a
fair pretext for Wholesale denuncia-
lion Of people ninc.,enths OF whom
were open in their reprobahon of the
individual acts. Even what has been
committed be says, has been gross.
ly exaggerated, and there is no
more probability of a renewal OF the
acts than there is any portion OF the
entire country. Whatever has been
done was the offspring Of momentary
passion, for which the actors alone are
responsible, 1t Is notable that both
Kemper and Pike are white counties,
consequently the political cry OF negro
persecution cannot DO sustained. Col.
Falconer, the Private Secretary of Gov.
Stone, and now candidate for Secretary
of State, visited Pike county and re.
ported that what was done was mat
ter OF immediate police and judicial
cognizance.
Mr.. Catchings was very emphatic iu
his assertions that the Government OF
Mississippi was able to take care OF
itself without any dictstion from the
Times, and offers the record Of the Ad-
ministration, with the general peace
which has prevailed since the uprootal
Of carpet-bagging lawlessness ard spo.
liation, in proof OF the fact
The mere perusal Of the foregoing
article is itself a sufficient response 10
the dirty slanders of the Times, for
there is not word in 1t, which Is not
true; and what Mr.. Catchings stated
meets with our entire appreciation, and
that Of all the people of our State. The
Times says that Mr.. Catchings relieved
"himself of a quantity of cheap gush,' -
and that he came forward "voluntarily
to defend lawlessness and law.break-
ers." An examination Of Mr.. Catch
ing's statement to the Picayune
puts the Times in the attitude
Of a low slanderer and falsifer,
for therei is not a word in the statement
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