The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-05-24
aotERNOR BROWNS hEFTER.

We need not apologize for tho space sur
rendered to- day for the admission OF Gov
Browns letter. II is not necessary to urge
our readers to peruse it. They are sure to
do that without any stimulant from us II
is not often that the philosopher of Terry
speaks, but when he does speak he has
something to say, and the people of Mis-
sissippi have learned TO listen to him, be-
cause he is q man who commands their
respect by the solidity and eminent practi-
cality of his political wisdom, and wins
their affection by his intense sympathy
with them IN their fortunes and mistor-
tunes. Since the surrender Gov. Brown
has sought no office, no prominence, no
conspicuosity. He has been content to
bury himself politically in absolute retira-
cy. If he ever spoke at all it was in re-
Spouse to the call OF his neighbors. Re-
sisting all other demands, (and they have
been numerous and pressing he has cour-
ageously held his peace, except when his
neighbors appealed to him. The letter
which we publish to-day is in response to
an appeal from his immediate neighbors.
1t would have been better for Mississippi
if his advice had been generally accepted
from the beginning of Reconstruction.
There is much in the letter that meets
our hearty concurrence. There are some
points he attempts to press in which we do
not agree with him. But we take Gov.
Brown at his word and accord the merit of
perfect sincerity to all that he says. He is
too old to trife with this people, too hon
est to play the demogogue, too patriotic to
be warped by narrow or selfish considera-
ton. And when he says that he don't want
to leave the Democratic party, and if he
does he will feel like father driven from
home by his children, We take it that he
means that; and, perhaps, the bulk of the
Democratic PAL ty would feel that they had
lost father when he left them.
The Governors views on the currency
question impress us as very happy and
7ery sound The only trouble about them
is their Utopian character, and the utter
impracticability of their ever being reduced
to practice.
In so far as he deprecates the prepon-
Iteration of partyism over patriotism. and
sectionalism over national unity and frater-
nifty, we agree with him fully and heartily.
On this point he has struck key that gives
out sound in perfect harmony with our
feelings and declarations for the last ten
years.
His internal Improvement ideas may
be faulty in some respects, but he has pre-
jented them with strong logic, and we are
lot now prepared to controvert them.
Now, about raising up National party.
Here, perhaps, is the purpose" of the let
or. We are assured by the distinguished
md able writer that he has purpose
nd that it is not to get an Office for himself,
r to provide for any of his kinfolks or
pecial friends. His purpose" seems
learly to be to raise up National party,
With Franklin Pierce's motto, 'No North,
o South, no East, no West, but a common S
ountry, and a common brotherhood 1t f
a splendid idea. We are ready to help
he Governor raise up such q party if he T
ill only show us how. We devouty believe +
n exactly that sort of party. But the |
Governor ought to know, and the Cover I
or undoubtedly does know, that the rails ,
ng up of a new party to take charge of a
ountry as big as this is, over the
cad bodies of two already well organized
nd equipped parties, is no small job. 1t
perhaps could be done, but in all reason
bio probability it will not be done in his
lay; and as he wants relief right now, as
lie needs it before the new party could be
aired, would it not be the best plan, after
II, to stick TO his old ship mates, and pur- t
uade them to steer the old vessel Alright,
ather than plunge out into the ocean, with {
Il the dangers of being dashed to pieces '
y the pillows, swallowed by the whales,
II drowned hopelessly in the vastly deep. {
t cannot be denied that the Democratic :,
arty comes nearer his ideas of what party r
lould be in this emergency than any .
Their. The so-called Greenback party is a ;.
lear fraud. Everybody knows that. The
,epublican party was born and reared in
The Democratic party is the
My party that has any national record or u
uly national instinct 1t, perhaps, does VI
OF come quite up to Gov. Browns high
andard, but it undoubtedly comes nearer a
, it than any other party in existence. S
THAT it needs, perhaps, to make it all that 7
should be, is for men of thought, breadth o
nd depth, like Brown, to como in and take p
n active part in its counsels and thus infuse b
ito it the moderation and patriotism which b
lay be wanting. 1t strikes us that there n
more to hope for in course like this 4
ON a man of Browns acknowledged pow :,
and influence than in the attempt to
ise up new party. A new party may be
good thing for the country, but can you
t III You may see its necessity and call IN
ndly for it, but will it come? From We
osent signs we are persuaded that there Ia
nothing in it, and that Congress will con- M
Tue to be Democratic or Republican, and III
.owiso the Executive department of the III
Gil
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We are sorry to learn of the death of E. di
Hunt brother of our United States an