Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-11-09
The whole Ticket.

Itis certain that If the Independent
ticket succeeds the county will soon
drift into a similar order Of things as
when the Radicals were in full sway.
It Is useless to deny this. The condi.
tons that produced the state Of affairs
that resulted in so much evil, will
again be in force, aud like causes al.
ways produce like effects. Already
the country people are feeling the evils
of an excited contest based upon pas.
sionate appeals to the prejudice Of the
negroes. Labor Is becoming sadly de.
mcralized, and we already hear com.
petent men asserting that the injury to
our agricultural interests has been, up
to this time, twice or thrice as much
as the combined salaries OF all the
offices in the county, 1t is hard 10 esti'
mate the exact cost of such a campaign
as the opposition have forced on the
people, but We all know that it has
been very severe. But this campaign
vii! be nothing 10 those Of the
future, il the n. A. ticket, or dnJ
part Of il succeeds. If one can
didate of any Importance on oul
ticket is defeated, 1t will encourage de.
signing, reckless men so much thai
they will redouble their efforts in the
future. Every candidate on our tickeI
represents strength, aud If any one o.
them is defeated, 1t is plain that it viii
have two bad effects; it will justly
anger the friends OF the defeated gen,
tleman, aud It will encourage bucca'
neer movements like the one we arr
now fighting. We therefore earnestly
appeal to our party to do oil in III
power 10 elect every Democrats nomi
nee. This can be done, If the voters
will turn out and vote the whole tickle
from top 10 bottom. Our strength
consists in our union.
While It Is plain that the white vo'
tiers have an imperative duty upor
them, it Is no less plain that we have
right to expect aid from a large class o
the more intelligent aud thrifty class o
coloreG people. We are educating theil
children, we are securing to them goot
aud honest officials, and we are battling
for their rights as good citizans. W.
want their aid now, and W.
have a right to ask it. W,
believe that they will respond L
our request by voting our ticket il
large numbers. The opposition tel
them, OF course, that the HERALD /
their enemy, that we call them bAt
names aud all that sort OF stuff. w
have never yet been able to fnd name
sufficiently expressive Of our contemp
for thar class of colored people who ar
such fools, that they cannot be laugh
anything wen by the most bitter ex
perience. II the past taught the ne
groes of this county anything, ii Ger
tainly taught them that It will not d.
for them to array themselves ngaius
the white people OF the county. II the!
follow the advice OF men they know Iii,
not and could not secure the nomina
lions from the white people, they vii
do this very thing. They will, IN Ell
feet, be reviving the Black Line. The.
will be blindly carrying out the pur
poses Of a few men who only appealel
TO them after they had failed to secur
support fromthe white people. 1.-THE.
do this, they will again stir up s;rit
between the races, for the white peopl
will not submit to the dictatiOn an
rule of men they have already repudi
ated. We hope, therefore, that the bet
ter class of the colored people will SUP
port the ticket headed by Capt. Flana
gan, and prove to the world that the
are not the tools OF political adyer
turers.