Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-09-25
Helena, Montana, Thursday, September Is, 1879.
YAZOO.
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[From the Okalona MISSY "States."l
The race question was recently sprung il
Yazoo county, Miss.
A white man named Henry NJ. Dixon wan
ted the Office of Sheriff
He sought it in the Democratic convention
and was defeated.
Thereupon he announced himself as an in
dependent candidate.
There was no Radical in the field, anl
therefore he received the unanimous backing
of the blacks
When Dixon began to mass his dusky
hordes the country rose in the royal strength
and majesty of their Caucasian blood and
commanded him to withdraw from the contest
He withdrew.
But the Stalwarts of Yankeedom-the
Blind,
| Baff1ed,
| Beastly,
| BesOtted
Stalwarts of Yankeedom. gave the cory shirt
tiercer shake, and with eyes aglare and
hearts afame with hate, they began to defame
us with recruited fury-to damn US with re-
doubled ferocity.
Right here and now, before we enter upon
the argument, we wish these Stalwarts to
distinctly understand that their birthstone
| threats and blistering oaths have no terrors
for US.
We defy them to do their worst and their
wickedest, but would caution them to have a
care how they interfere in this Yazoo coup
d'etat.
1t is no concern of theirs.
Nor will they be permitted to make it their
concern.
We say to them, and all who sympathize
with them:
Mississippi is Nation, and no foreign
State shall lay finger on her royal robes
without suffering the consequence.
No outsided intermeddling will be tolerated
not for ten minutes.
Mind that!
Turning now to the people of Yazoo coun-
ty, of Mississippi, of the whole broad South,
We ask:
Where in the name of high Heaven is this
thing to end?
Must we forever submit to negro suprem-
acy on the one hand, or wink at bulldozing
and ballot-box stufing on the other?
Is there no alternative by which we can
solve this political problem, without subject
ing ourselves to the domination of Yam |
kee desperadoes and cotton-patch hands on |
UuC OluC1s duu WACuOut luC COT.
ner-stones of law, order and morality on the
other?
We hold that there is.
Let US see:
In the first place, it is settled for all time
and forever that Mississippians will rule
that our people possess the old
cavalier pride of blood and race, and will re-
volt with hot, grand hauteur against the sub
lection of virtue and intelligence to ignorance
and vice; that they will die the death before
they will surrender
''The keys of power
And the seals of place"
nto the keeping of alien scoundrels and Afri-
IAN serfs.
This much, if nothing more, IS SET
TIED, and all the armies of all the earth
;annot change it, for it bears the stamp and
,enediction of the Most High.
True, the black race has a majority in
many towns, counties and states of the South.
True, as rule, the first the last and the
vhole of them are Radicals at heart, and will
ote the Radical ticket whenever they have
alf chance.
We all know this, and admit it.
But these facts make no difference-No|
INFERENCE WHATEVER.
They will never be permitted to grasp the I
ems of Government in any department.
tate, county or municipal. {
This fact is decided, eternally, world with
ut end, and the Yankees must be taught that I
is decided; that it is just as useless for |
lem to fret and curse about it any further. U
} it would be for an Englishman to fret and i
lrse about the results of the American Rev. Q
luton of 1776.