American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-11-22
SPIRIT OF The PRESS.


L>ithy Points from the y.
GRANT uAe~uT SEEN EVERYTHING
YET.
Uncle George Harper says that
"when Grant returns from Cuba
next spring he will have seen all the
world except Buck Snort and Lick
the>Skillet, in East Mississippi, and
Tail-HOlt. in Copiah county" Why
not show him around generally and
take him to Hard Scrabble in JEFF
fersOn, and Shanks Town in Adams.
-Vicksbury Commercial.
KNIGHT-ERRAET wOODFoRD.
Judge Blatchford administered a
fitting rebuke to United States Dis
trict Attorney WOodfOrd the other
day. in open court. by charscterizing
Il complaint that had been prepared
III Mr WnOdford's office as .sbunc-
| ling piece of work" Instead OF
spending his time making stnmp
speeches, Mr.. Woodford ought to
attend to the business for which lie
draws his salary.-N. Y. Paper.
LET'EM GO.
Our cOlOred friends who vote as
they are directed by a squad of
white men, aud not as they know
is best for the country and them-
selves, can now go to Kansas, if
they choose. They know the way.
Ii they will not do well here. they
can do just az we'll there. Let them
now try and see how much better
x1yy1l fhnpr MI, IN,
Mississippians, for whose kindness
they are ungratefuf, and for whose
welfare they do not care.--HoUy
Springs South.
NOT THAT SORT OF MEN.
We have heard of little or no talk
about "gwine to Kansas" since the
election. That Kansas CRY was
started by a certain class of polti-
clans in the STATE, as a s'scare-crow"
to the planters, to induce them to
vote againts the Democratic party !;
but it failed Of Its effOrts-t the Mis-
sissippi Democratic planters are not
in the habit of voting against their
convictions on account of pecuniary
considerations, or from any fear
that negroes might 60 to Kansas
if they failed to carry their point
against the white people Of the
State. They are made of sterner
stuff than that.-Yazoo Herald.
WHAT THE SOUTH DOES.
The "Solid South" bent upon
destroying the Union, now contrib
utes to the general ruin of the
country at the rate of over 5,OOO,>
900 bales of cotton, $4,000 hogs.
heads of sugar. 572, 100000 pounds
of tobacco every year. 1t never
produced go much before in its en-
tire history. 1t has steadily in
creased its great staples since the
carpet baggers ran away. The dan
ger to the country is that unless
bayonets and thieves govern the
South again it will produce too
much and become too rich.-Er.
HEED THE WARNING.
Although victorious, Democrats
should not fail to heed the lesson
of warning given by the Republican
party at the election Tuesday. In
Leake county, and in the adjoining
counties so far as We can learn,
white Republicans have affiliated
with the opposition to the regular
nominees of the Democratic party,
while the negroes came to the polls
en- mdsse, as unIier the old Radical
regime, and voted the opposition
ticket. The Republican party is not
dead in Mississippi. 1t encourages
and exnlts over every division in
the Democratic ranks, and is hopes
fully awaiting the time when it can
come forward in full panoply and
under complete discipline to lay it's
unhOly bands upon our State again.
-Carthdgenidn.
THE HOPE OF THE SOUTH.
A statement recently went abroad
to the effect that so per cent. of the
cotton crop of last season WAS made
by white labor. 1t is probably
true. A better showing than this
in favor of white labor will, We
have no doubt, be made during the
present season. 1t will soon, in
fact, be established that the pros
periry of Mississippi, ~ Well as of
every OIueE SOutucEu OtatcS, rests |
on the labor OF its white population.
Negro labor has been getting more
every year since the war.
1t is destined to become yet more |
in the near future. Hav-
ing already lost its standing AZ
factor in the agriculture
Of the State, the time is not distant
when it will he entirely forced out
and be compelled to give place to a
system more in harmony with the
real interests of the State. When
hat time comes Mississippi will en-
,er an upward and onward career.
Her hope, aud only hope, lies in hel
White labor-her poor whites, who
ire thrifty, hardy, industrious-who
I'VE no debts TO merchants or fac~
Ors, and who are attached to the
oil they cultivate. Instead of post
coming it 10y efforts to keep the me-
no among US, We should hasten it
y throwing every inducement to
migration in the negroes way
Columbus Inder.