The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-08-30

It is painful to see great and conscien
cious newspaper, like the New York Herald
for instance, that wishes to be right, and tc
argue questions from sound premises, hope
lessly stuck in the mud of an erroneous
preconceived opinion. But the Herald il
just in this fix. AS wise at it is, with al
the splendid advantages it has for obtaining
information, it still persists in being as ig-
norant about affairs in Mississippi as the
average stalwart, who has only one con.
tracted channel for knowledge to flow in
upon him.
The Herald shows its supreme Ignorance
of the real ''true inwardness" of political
sentiment in Mississippi, when it denounces
the crime of bulldozing in this State, and
calls upon our Senators and Congressman
by name to rise up and denounce citizens
of Yazoo, or resign their places. Evidently
the Herald knows not what it is asking for.
We know that it is a conservative journal,
with broad, liberal and just views, and we
know that if it had a carrect knowledge of
our people it would hasten to retract this
untimely advice.
VIII the Herald consider for a moment
can it considerable possibility of having
made grave mistake in this whole matter
The men who are denounced by the Her.
aid as bulldozers in Yazoo, are the men who
have set their faces against this obnoxious
crime all the time. The men whom the
Herald holds up as the victims of bulldo-
zery are, in most instances, the very men
who brought odium upon the Democratic
party of the State, by their crimes and OUT
RACES in 1875'76, and, who, for these
reasons, were ignored in Democratic Con-
ventions. Men of moderation, who re-
spected the law, and whose escutcheons
were free from all taint of bulldozery, being
preferred for the responsible offices of the
action of the Democratic party, in all its
State and district and county conventions,
in leaving out of their list of candidates
for office, all the bulldozers, has had the
effect of arousing that class of our patriots
in various counties against the party. And
they have, apparently, proceeded upon the
idea that as thoy succeeded i'll bulldozing
the negro in 1875, they can now succeed in
foisting themselves into Office by bulldozing
the white men, and some of the ignorant
negroes are impressed with the notion that
as they have the fighting white |
men with them now, they can safely mass
for crusade against the white |
people Now, let the New York Herald
if it can-realize the situation in Missis> !
sippi, and understand the fact that it is the |
very worst class of political bulldozers, in |
most counties, who are now heading the |
opposition to the conservative, law-abiding |
Democracy, and then say whether our con-
servative and faithful United Scates Sena-
tors and members of Congress must side
with the turbulent bulldozers or resign.
The Herald must not assume-it is not /
safe for anybody to assume-that because
the Democratic party had in it, unfortunate
", an element in 1875, that met with some
success in bulldozing negroes, that the same
element can turn round now and bulldoze
The white population. Democrats do not
to bulldoze, or to be bulldozed.
There cannot be found man in the Ex-
scutive Department of the Government of
or among our members of Con-
zress, or among all our Judges and Chan
,ellors, or scarcely among any of our coun-
" officers, who is not pronounced against
avery species of bulldozing, and who has
not set his face firmly against it.
The course of the New York Herald and
he vicksburg Herald, both lusty defenders
If law and denouncers of bulldozers, has
he tendency, so far as Mississippi is con-
,erned, to strengthen the arms of the real
,ulldozing element, and to paralize the
,forts of conservative moderation to sup
press it,