Daily Republican., 1879-08-22
Mtssissippi Dishonesty. j..


Mississippi Dishonesty.
Nothing honest, it seems, can ever
be expected from Mississippi any more,
not that there are no honest people
there, but because the dishonest, intol-
Grant class which make politics a trade
are in large majority, have possession
OF all the offices, shape the legislation,
and stamp society with their own char
acter. The latest dodge of the Missis-
sippi iutolerants was to send commit
tee of colored men to Kansas on the
pretence of ascertaining the conditlon
of the colored refugees here who had
fled from the Mississippi bulldozers,
and to bring report of the land. For
all the difference it made the report
might as we'll have been made before
the committee went to Kansas, for the
intention was from the first that the
report should be bad one, the object
being to discourage any more refugees
from going to Kansas. The whole thing
is lie and cheat all through, with
nothing but deception and dishonesty
for its purpose. If this were not the
case it would be curious to know why
the Mississippians should pay the ex'
penses of committee OF negroes to &c
to Kansas unless 1t would inure to
their own selfish benefit. Even the
most stupid field hand sees through
this trick. When the blacks FIRST began
to emigrate the Mississippians made
light of it, and said they were good
riddance that the blacks always were
a source of trouble anyhow, and their
,oom would be better than their com
pany. Then they expected that thell
places would be filled by Chinese, hui
the latter, though docile enough, hac
an eye to the pennies, in fact they
wanted to be paid, and that did no
agree with the average Mississippi
planters idea Of propriety.
Irish labor could not be utilized to tn
advantage of the Mississippi plante
because they would not only no
r submit to be bulldozed, shot an
3 murdered at the pleasure of the imp'
. rial Southern nabob, but they woul
v insist on being elected or appointed
s some Of the offices of honor and prof
~ which are monopolized by the planter
Those expedients it was found woul
not answer and hence the resort to
" committee that would agree to such
3 lying report of the extreme suffering
of the Mississippi refugee emigrants /
Kansas as would deter other negroe
from emigrating. This committee
"Blacks" in the pay of their SoutheT
y masters is the last expedient and
V we'll understood by even the poor n
groes before it is tried. Of all II
things which these Mississippians ha,
tried, there is one thing they new
think Of, and that is the practice of
- little honesty and good sense. Justi
" and fair dealing with the negroes new
% once enter their minds. They new
stop to think that the negroes are fle
ing from the rods of their oppresso
on account of the inhumsn treatment
which they are subjected. They {
u not want to leave the South for it
!. the land of their nativity and they al
n acclin4ated to the climate. But tht
cannot stay there to be shot down al
deprived of all their rights as citizel
at the pleasure Of Mississippi bul
dozsrs and they flee from their natl
L land as unwi)lingIy as the Jews fiji
y from Egypt, and the Mississippians lik
Pharoah lie like he did, and their pul
' ishment may be as great.