The Leavenworth weekly times., 1879-06-26
In late editorial the same paper says
We might ask them
That is the people of Mississippi

We might ask them whether there are
no fertile and favored districts liable to be
abandoned by the laboring classes because
the solid and substantial citizens, whose in
Ierests are at stake, are too b lad or too timId
TO do what the people OF Lincoln county
have Just done? There are landiess and pen.
nil@ss oflce.seekers who have nothing TO lose,
and " ho can afford 10 say of the degrees "iet
them go But we are not addressing Our
suggestions TO them. We have heard enough
and far more than enough, from them. IL is
our sorrow and our curse that such men have
been doing the bulk of the talking ior 10
these many years. What We desire is that
the men who own the property. who repre-
sent the Interests and VINO bear the risks and
the consequences, shall consider whether
there are not some neighborhoOds where IL
behoOves them to take pattern by Beat
Five" and TO take up arms against the Taf
nans and cut-throats who are running the n
and disgrscing civilization.
The Memphis Avalanche, Tennessee pa
per, said to be Democratic, referring TO the
movement Of the colored people, says:
"The incendiary teachings Of the Bour-
bon press and politicians have furnished in
great part the material now feeding the
emigration movement that 20 alarms tie
planters Of the Mississippi Valley. Those
presses and politicians have taught only
bitterness. They marked for social pro-
scription all who refused to submit without
question to their partisan guidance. This
became the partisan creed. The brunt of
their denunciation fell on the colored peo-
pie. The lawless classes were but too ready
to begin the dastardly work of persecution
They found it certain means of suppress
ing the ballot. They inaugerated reigns OF
terror, shot and killed where shooting be-
came necessary, and 30 preyed on the fears
of the unprotected blacks as to practically
disfrsnchize them in every locality where
the bulldozing programme was adopted
And the bourbon presses and publications.
instead of demanding protection for all
classes under the laws, pronounced all
charges falsehoods, and at least indirectly
encouraged the dsstards to further deeds Of
violence. This is the truth, and the truth
should be told"
The Vicksburg Herald, another democratic
paper, in an article concerning the late
Vicksburg convention and the fears ex-
pressed lest it should drift into politics, said
just before the convention assembled:
These gentlemen are distressed lest it
should DRIFT into politics. We want to ask
them what politics has 10 do with the per-
nicious credit system, or gambling system
of furnishing supplies on q growing crop.
Thsy know the system of which We speak
let them answer. We want them to tell us
what politics has to do with armed men go.
ing about at night. time forcing laborers to
leave their homes, ss was recently done in |
Kinds and Wilkinson counties, and has
been done in several Of the counties and |
parishes of this State and Loui.ians. If |
putting down this sort of thing will hurt
either party, We say let il hurt
Senator Bruce, OF Mississippi, the only |
colored member of the present Congress,
has written letter on this subject, in which |
be says:
The causes promoting this movement are |
complex and multiplied; but from the best |
InfoImafio that can obtain the exodus of /
lhe colored people from the South Ii referable l
mainly TO two considerations: Fist, the