Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-09-12
The Boss Bray of the 0kOlOua States
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The race question was recently sprung
in Yazoo County, Mississippi.
A white man named Henry M. Dixon,
wanted the office of Sheriff.
He sought it in the Democratic Con-
vention and was defeated.
Thereupon he announced himself as
an independent candidate.
There was no Radical in the field,
and therefore he received the unani-
nous backing of the blacks.
Anything to defeat the Democracyr
is the shibboleth of Squash, Pomp and
Sambo.
The people of Yazoo had been sub
iected to the rule of the African race.
They knew just what it meant, and
when they broke their yoke and fetters
in 1875, they swore by the Almighty
that the negro should never hold the
upper hand in that county again.
When Dixon began to mass his dusky
hordes, the wealth, the culture, the
worth, the bone and sinew of the coun-
ty rose in the royal strength and ma
jesty of their Caucasian blood, and
commanded him to withdraw from the
contest.
He withdrew, and Yazoo County was
saved from long, bloody, internal
epoch OF savagery and crime.
Ard good men here and everywhere
! on earth will thank the God of justice
and of mercy that it was so.
But the stalwarts of Yankeedom-
the
Blind,
Batlied,
Beastly,
Besotted
stalwarts of Yankeedom, gave the
CORY shirt a fiercer shake, and with
| ewes aglare and hearts aaame with
! hate, they began to defame us with re-
cruited fury-to damn us with redoub-
led ferocity.
Right here and now, before we enter
upon the argument, we wish these stall
warts to distinctly understand that
their birthstone threats and clustering
oaths have no terrors for us.
We defy them to do their worst and
their wickedest, bat would caution them
to have care how they interiors with
this Yazoo coup GetGt.
1t is no concern of theirs.
Nor will they be permitted to make it
their concern.
We say to them and to all who SYM
pathize with them:
HANDS OFF!
Mississippi is a Nation, and no for
eign State shall lay finger on her roy
nj robes without suffering the conse-
quehee.
No outside intermeddling will be toll
erated-not for ten minutes.
Mind that!
Turning now to the people OF 1azoo
County, of Mississippi, of the whole
broad South, we ask
Where in the name of high Heaven is
the thing to end?
Must we forever submit to negro su-
premacy on the one hand, or wink at
bull-dozing and ballot-box stufhng ON
the otherP
Is there no alternative by which we
can solve this political problem, with
out subiecting ourselves to the doInina-
ton OF Yankee desperadoes and cotton
patch kinds on the one side, and with
out undermining the cornerstones of
law, order and morality on the otherP
We hold that there is.
Let us see:
In the first place it is settled for all
time and forever that Mississippians
will rule Mississippi; that our people
possess the old cavalier pride of blood
and race, and will revolt with hot,
grand hauteur against the subsection
of vh tue and intelligence to ignorance
and vice; that they will die the death
before they will surrender
"The keys of power
And the seals of place."
Into the keeping of alien scoundrels
; and African serfs.
This much, if nothing more, is set
tied, and all the armies of all the earth
cannot change it, for it bears the stamp
: and benediction of the Most High.
True, the black race has a majority
: in many towns, counties and States OF
I the South.
True, as a rule, the first, the last and
the whole of them are Radical at heart,
3 and will vote the Radical ticket when
I ever they have half a chance.
t We all know this and admit it.
: But these facts make no difference
I NO DIFFERENCE WHATEVER.
I They will never be permitted to grasp
3 the reins of the Government in any de-
! partment-State, County or Municipal.
, -OkOIoRa Miss. Southern States.