Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-07-13
ENDORSED HAYES AND DIED.

The following mournful paragraph appears
in the dispatches
Washington, July 11.-Advises state that
the Republican state committee of Mississippi
on Saturday, by bare majority, passed a
resolution of confidence in President Hayes.
The committee resolved to nominate no State
officers at the fall election, owing to the Pres
ident's order forbidding federal officials en-
gaging in campaign work, the majority of
them being oficeholders. A sine die adjourn
ment was voted, which is the same as dis
banding the party in Mississippi.
The party has been sickly for year or two
down there and when, in its enfeebled con-
dition it came to attempt to swallow Ruther-
ford, straight, no wonder it choked and gave
up the ghost Here is State which sent
the first black man to the Senate of the
United States and which now is the only one
with representative Of that race sitting as q
member of that august body; a State in which
the city of Vicksburg stands out from whose
streets issued an Infatuated mob of White
Liners who left their dead (black) victims so
promiscuously scattered that there where
abouts could only be determined by the flight
and hover and down-swooping of the turkey
buzzards; a State which but few short years
ago gave majority of 10000 for the Repub-
lcan ticket. The Republican party of Mis-
sissippi was strong enough to elect the two
present Senators from that State, Alcorn, a
native of Illinois, and Bruce, black native
of Virginia. And yet it disbands. Why
The principles of that party are Nationality,
Liberty, Progress, Equality before the law. 1t
has lived up to these principles, even in
Mississippi and yet it hauls down its colors
in the presence of the enemy and yields up
its organization. The party to which it was
opposed do not believe in Nationality but do
believe in State Sovereignty; fought for four
long years in the field against the liberty of
the blacks; have declared progress unconsti-
tutional and have nullifed that clause of the
Constitution of the Republic which reasserts
that paragraph in the Declaration of indie
pendence that all men are created equal.
What is the cause of this phenomenon? Is
it because there is something dangerous about
the National Idea because they who so long
and so strenuously denied liberty to the slave
are the best guardians of that liberty now
that it has been gained because Progress
and the cause of Common Schools have found
no soil in which to take root in Mississippi or
because the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments are not worth fighting for Or
is it because the President of the United
States says in every distinctive act of his that
the great curse of the land, the one thing of
which the country most needs radiance is the
Republican party2 The Southern Policy of
this renegade means that to tranquillize one
section of this country it is necessary that it
be turned over, in body, to the party which |
tried to take it out of the Union and set it up
as Confederacy, by itself. And so the
Republican party of Mississippi kisses the
hand that smites it, turns its back upon all |
it has won and held. and dies! and ttis is the |
Era of Good Feeling This is the outcome
of the most shameless course that ever
cringed in the face of day.