The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1879-09-13
N Mississippi Politics.

Tue "OutFdse WliI, ~uicu ''SC~A y"
serve the purpose of strengthen
ing the spinal column OF radical
voters upon the eve of every i'm
pOrtaut election, northern papers
are making capital out OF AL un
fortunate affair which occurred
recently in Yazoo county, Miss.
The details are no doubt famll
lar to most of our readers. 1t is
not our object, therefore, to re
capituIate them here. W. wish
to enter our protest against this
affair being considered typical OF
Mississippi civilization. As neigh
bors and as fellow members of
the sisterh0od Of States lying
south of Mason and Dixon's line,
We have All interest in repelling
any imputation upon the citizens
of our sister State. We cannot
believe that the people Of Mississ
ippi approve or endorse the con
duct of the man who assassinated
Dixon. We have read the letter
of ex- Gov. A. G.. Brown, and no
one could desire a more thorough
denunciation Of the crime than
that which proceeds from the pen
Of this gifted representative Mis-
sissippian. The Governor MOI
only denounces the crime, but
points out the consequences in
affecting national politics. We
commend this very mastery let
ter to the attention OF those north
EN- journals who have been so
reckless as to state that this deed
of lawlessness had not received d
single word Of condemnation at
the hands of the leaders or the
organs of the democratic party.
We have alse seen denuncia.
ton Of the murder in the Vicks>
burg Herald, which is certainly all
influential organ of the demo.
cratic party. That a few de~ler.
ate aud law-hating rufians may
have applauded the act, we are
prepared to believe. But we eau
not, for one moment, entertain
the idea that amy considerable
number of the people of Mississ'
ippi have any sympathy for the
perpetrator of the deed which
has given their State 50 unhappy
a prominence.
Another fact which seems t.
vex the soul of the "rrOoly loil';
who stayed away from the wa,
and made money out of fat army
contracts, is the reported candi
dacy of Jefferson Davis for the
United States Senate. We clip
the following from Il recent nun
Der Of an influential northern
newspaper
"There are Indications that
Jefferson Davis will be elected
United States Senator from Mis-
sissippi. The dominant party il
that State evidently does moi
stop t" consider the consequences
Of "iring the northern heart" by
thus Ieviving resentments and
passions which it is the effort Of
all patriotic men to allay. l: i.
bad enough that the party lead.
ers should hold their peace in the
presence of such outrages AZ that
at Yazoo, but when they presume
to insult the whole loyal people
by proposing to send the unre-
pentant and still arrogant chic:
Of the rebellion to the NatiOua
Senate, from which lie withdrew
with menace and defiance to pla,
the part of a traitor, they take {
step which the most cOmplacen1
and c%l,aritably minded will resent
with vehement indignatiOn."
The above is not taken frou
Haper's Weekly or the Chicago
Inter- Ocean, or such other howllni
radical sheets, but it is copiet
from an independent paper
which processes to be neither
republican or democratic. w,
will remark upon tn" topic which
gave occasion to such an out
burst Of misplaced Indignation
that We do mot heliavo in RI.