The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1879-08-07

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instances brcu the chiel instrumental
ties ~ which our public officers have
90 iuio powrr. and BY which they eI-
poet q retain L. |, il believed by
many reputable citizens tia, the use Of
lbcss ins,tnmeutali,ies was 10 a great
extent e1cusable. 10 view u The evils
which were Ii some Of our former
elections 70 tc overcome and the state
rcd emed from negro role Suppose
We a1mil, Cor the sake Of tue argument
the correctness Of tue idea, though
there ate many good aud wise men who
all not admit 10. bot still believe, as
they have always advised, that il would
have been Tar letter to have united
with the coIored voters as soon as they
were ehiraochised, 10 organizing aud
directing al oar ineal affairs As you.
gentlemen, aud your associates, are
moss attempting TO DO il The good old
county ot lazpo. aud as other white
citizens Of the state are beginning 70
90 In other counties where the negroes
predominant. and ] venture the opinion
that. had this experiment been resorted
10 at the start, we should thereby have
escaped many OF the evils which have
resulted from the opposite course.
Be this as il may, and admitting for
the present that violence aud crime
were the appropriate remedies for the
extraordinary evils with which we have
been occasionally beset, still the ques-
ton is forced upon us--are those in
strumentallies TO BIO the ordinary and
permanent policy Of Mississippi thro'
all time 7 Is there TO be no time in our
history when these appliances shall be
abandoned The redemption Of the
state was announced four years ago.
From that time TO the present we have
beeu solemnly pledged and assured 10
all our political conventions, aud nota-
bly, IN the celebrated Mississippi Valley
Labor Convention In this city. on the
9Th and 9th OF May last, which was
called into existence by the sudden
departure OF large number Of our
laboring element with their families to
Kansas aud elsewhere, that fraud, yio-
lence, aud intimidation had forever
ceased, as the agencies by which cleo
tons ia this state should be carried.
The last.named convention, at Vicks-
burg. was participated in by a large
number OF the ablest minds 10 the coun.
try. and presided over by a distin.
gushed citizen Of your own county,
Gen. w. Il. Miles, whose name alone
was accepted by the colored people
aud all others as an absolute guarantee
that the pledge was made in the utmost
good faith, aud these pledges have
been echoed and re.echoed by ell our
Congressman and newspapers in equal.
" solemn and emphatic terms.
Aud if it were possible for us to sup
pose that you would be driven by this
interruption TO abandon your candi.
dates, who are certainly the peers oil
anybody in your county, cannot be-
ieve that such men as Gen. Miles. Col.
Garrett Andrews, aud other equally
eminent 10 your midst. no matter with
what party they may be acting, will
quietly permit the outrage TO be con.
summated, because it is known far aud
wide that these gentlemen are leaders
aud omnipotent in their influence il
they choose to exercise it in the party
TO which the mob Processes to belong,
and 10 whose interest the outrage oil
last week was avowedly perpetrated
One OF them. as already stated, presid-
ed over the convention in this city
another of them has honored his party
aud county by accepting nomination
for the Legislature. They are all
aware Of tue pledges Of their entire
party and press, and are fully and per.
sonAlly committed to those pledges.
Nor can they escape responsibility by
having it said that they do not particl-
pate ia or encourage the mob, because
il is updeniable that they could mani.
fest their opposition to it 10 such man
ner that the mob itself would be an
impossiblity.
In response TO your request for my
advice, | would say Preserve your
Organizations keep up the free stand.
ard OF your constitutional rights stand
firmly to your duty, aud go forward
with determination that the few hun.
bred violent men composing the mob
shall not, without tue Endorsement or
conuivanoe Of the gentlemen TO whom
I a,laGe. drive you from the field. The
mob element exists 10 some extent ia
every community aud II permitted the
mob would intercept aud defeat BY
murder aud rapine any party, be II
ever so mciitonous. If encouraged OF
conuived az by the leading minds Of
the opposition Such men can be re.
strained by no laws which the authori.
ties refuse TO see executed Those
they could safely defy, though they
would skulk from the presence Of en-
lightened men, such - those 10 whom
| have alluded. | was fully satisfied
before receiving your letter aud the
detailed statements Of the gentleman
who brought il to me, that no such
mob as that would have been assembled
ID the town Of Benton or Yazoo City,
utterly destitute as that mob was from
its Inception u any honest cause
OF lawful intention, unless il had been
known that they were opposed by .
majority OF the legal voters and
know alec tia, extraordinary lying and
srlihee must have been employed, At
you say il vas. 20 induce the better
elafs 81 them 10 assemble. aud our
Information 10 this eject bGs con6rms
my previous convictions II yon will
pursue she course which ! have here
indicated. the action Of the mob Of last
Friday and Saturday will most certain.
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