The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-07-05
IOuEaI DaIeetty On GOV. Brown and
other SUBJECTS.

% the Editor Of the Comet
In the good old days that you and l car
:emember, we used TO write wonderfully
good articles for the newspapers; and sucf
articles were written on almost any subject
hat happened to turn up. The marriage
If John Brown and Sally Jones-their first
oair of twins--the death of old Bill Smith,
or any other disreputable old cuss whose
ylad inconsolables desired to see his char
acter belied and his memory perpetuated In
column of BREWER with a black line OF
sorrow above it; deer hunt on the head
waters of ''Pearch Creek a fishing excur-
sion to Smiths lake, or raid on the turtle
nests on the Isora bar; basket dinner at
the old bridge, with Tom Johnsing for
orator, or a Sunday evening ramble among
the pines that waved 80 gloomily above the
family traced trenches of the old palisade
tort, and the hardly observable mounds
under which
'tThe rude forefathers of the hamlet Sleep
these were among the thousand prolific sub
ects upon which we drew our goose quilts,
md shed copious ink over pages and pages
If foolscap.
revert to these things, naturally. from
he extreme difficulty of finding subject
1t this present writing; when, in those days,
subjects were as plenty as blackberries. I
I'M disposed to think the trouble arises
rom the introduction of steel pens. Then,
# in fishing for ideas, the poet, romancer
or essayist could not get nibble, he had
only to 60 at the top of his goose quill
with his teeth, leisurely gnaw it to shreds,
md 10 ideas and words came thronging
faster than he could write them down. In
;hese times of wooden pen holders and
porcelain teeth, geuius must forego this
once important aid; while the pen maker
and the dentist have utterly neglected to
furnish any substitute for it.
Rumors have been rife, of the formation
of "Greenhack" party in western Copiah,
but any effort to find out the principles,
platform, presidents, views, or theories
upon which it is based has been, thus far,
unattended with success. Cudgo says that
they tell him that all the colored people will
have plenty of money if they vote the
Greenback ticket, but Scip insinuates some> |
thing about the ''forty acres and mule
theory that exploded, after influencing his
suffrage, some years ago. The thing is
mixed up, and we are unable to learn any
more about it, from its advocates down
Gen. West, up your way.
The people here have read, and so far as
they understand them, approve Governor
Browns views. 1t is matter of regret
with them, now, as on former occasions,
that portion of the Press of the State has
seen proper to disapprove, SO openly and
so freely, not only the views of the Gov
ernor, but the fact of his expressing them.
The unkind insinuations that covert aim
for popularity; an unappeased hankering
for office, and the prone desire of the dema-
gogue to NEEDLE with the affairs of the
nation, have been made in many quarters,
and, | can assure you, find no echo or APP
proval among our people. That A. G.
Brown should feel deep, an all-pervading
interest in the affairs of a people who have
heaped honors and responsibilities upon
him, from his earliest manhood until age
l. 81 /,
is, TO our mind, the most natural thing in q
life. On no man now, or ever before in l
her bounds, has the State of Mississippi S
ever conferred greater or more numerous 1
trusts, than on him. When death shall l
claim his own, and you rear monument to I
his memory, write upon it every public act l
of his life, for an epitaph, and at not one G
will his kindred blush, not one will his con- L
5tituency blame, not one will the impartial r
pen of q truthful historian condemn. s
AS I said, it is most natural for him to v
feel an interest in his and our common v
country. In the days of a simpler, not to 6
say purer patriotism than ours, it would f
nave seemed equally natural for people a
who had IGNORED and trusted him 50 long, 1
o ask his aid and seek his advice in times r,
IF peril to their interests, and threatening a
% their rights. Surrounded by the dangers 8,
If the deep, youthful captain, on whose a
orders the safety of his vessel and crew de- q
bends, loses no dignity, or honor, or credit e,
II his profession, when he avails himself of ii
he advice and skill of the old tar who is a il
yeteran among the crowding dangers that 81
threaten his destruction. The disposition fl
o blame our old friend upon every occa- W
lion upon which he responds to the call of W
lis friends for advice, and object to the ex- al
preston of his views upon the current po- D
itical questions of the day, whether called W
lpon or not, finds no sympathisers among 10
he old Democrats who have honored and nj
rusted him for near half century. o,
In view of his past history, the often re- n,
terated hint that he wants an Office, is II
imply, if 1 may use the word absurd. 1 IT
hink this, because, in the years that are ri
zone, he did want Office, and asked the peo-
lie for it and they gave him Office. Modes
y rarely increases with years, and having
lad considerable acquaintance, in the long
go, with the Governors character for -,
ghtforwardness it seems to our people DC
hat if he desired political preferment, he II,
,ould simply say SO. On the contrary, he NJ
imply says be does not, and having always VIC
elieved him before, we believe him now. nc
While many men differ from his views, as %
ley have a right to, no fair-minded man n,
ill pretend to hold them in derision or lie
and our rising political lights n,
ill lose no lustre by allowing the old vet 70