Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-09-05
The Mississippi Pla1.

| cratic paper, saysi We Know very
well that public sentiment in that State
regards these ebullitions Of rufIlanism
with unspeakable horror" II this is
true, then Mr.. l.. q. g. Lamar, a Sena.
tor from Mississippi, does not represent
the public sentiment of that State. He
does not regard these ebullitions OF
ruilianisrh with unspeakable horror.
On the contrary, he apologizes for the
ruilians and regards their atrocious
crimes as justiiiable meahs Of Kidding
society of bad men, who demonstrate
their badness by daring to offer them
selves ds candidates for Office in de-
fiance of the mandates df chiefs of the
Solid-South party Neither do the rep
resentatives of Mississippi in Congress
represent the public sentiment Of the
State. No expression of horror has
escaped from a single one of them since
the Yazoo ebullition of ruifianism, SO
far as the country is informed. The
Mississippi Judges and Generals
in Washington who have expressed
themselves since the assassination OF
Dixon do not represent the kind of pub
lie sentiment referred to. They have
uttered no exclamation of horror, but,
on the contrary, they have busted them
selves in letting the country know what
wretch the murdered Dixon was, and
what wretches all his male relations
are or were. The Mississippi newspa-
pers of the " regular" party persuasion
and about all of them are of that per-
suasion-represent no such public SEN
timent. They are not in the least hor-
rified. They regard the Yazoo per-
! formances with the utmost complacen-
cy. They assure us that the 800 armed
men who "waited upon" Captain
Dixon and commanded him TO take
himself out of the way as a candidate
for Sheriff, threatening him with sum-
mary shotgun execution in case he
should not obey, were the best citizens
of the country-gentlemen representing
the wealth, intelligence and honah, sab,
of Yazoo.
The Atlanta Constitution does not
know that public sentiment in Missis.
| Sippi, meaning the sentiment OF the
dominant party as well as the senti-
ment of men who are not "Conserva-
tive Democrats" regards these ebulli-
tiOns of rufiianism with unspeakable
horror. 1t knows, or ought to know,
that the ruff1ans are constantly adver-
tised by the party organs as the " best "
citizens. 1t knows, or ought to know,
that the official head-centre of the party
has issued pronunciamento since the
Yazoo affair, partaking of the character
of Generals congratulatOry order aft
er battle, notifying the local COM
mands that the methods of '75, '76 and
'78 must be pursued in 1879. 1t knows,
or ought to know, that the method of
those years was the method of ruffian-
ism, and nothing else. The Constitu-
tton does not even heartily believe what
it says about public sentiment in Mis-
sissippi, for it adds that "public senti-
ment is worthless unless it makes itself
felt in the direction of peace and good
order" But no such public sentiment
makes itself felt, and that is the strong
est proof that it doesn't exist, so far as
the dominant party IS concerned. A
pervasive public sentiment can not be
"Ebullitions of ruffianism have been
the order of the day since 1875, and
that fact amounts to demonstration
that no pervasive public sentiment op-
posed to ruffianism exists. The Con-
Stttutton proceeds to say:
If the Governor of Mississippi feels that he
is unable to cope with the political basha ba-
Zouks that infest the State then 1t is his duty
either to convene the Legislature, or to call
upon the Government for troops to suppress
the outbreak; for it cannot be denied that the
wisest, most just, and easiest solution OF ruff
ianism that has outgrown the powers of a
State is a bayonet.
The Constitution will presently be
read out of the Bourbon Church for
heresy. If it were published in Mis-
sissippi its material would be pitched
into the river in short order by an
armed company of ''best citizens"
and its editor would be notified to leave
the State, never to return, within twen-
ty-four hours, or take the consequences.
No man can be good member of the
regular" party who doesn't recognize
Mississippi as nation, or who would
think for one moment of mentioning a
United States bayonet as a "solution
of rufiianism that has outgrown the
powers of State" The advice of the
Georgia paper is thrown away. The
Governor will do nothing, because he
was put in Office by rufiianism. If he
were to convene the Legislature, moth
ing would come of it, because a majori-
ty of its members owe their election to
ruflianism. In fact, pretty much every
man who holds an Office in the State of
Mississippi is representative of ruff
fianism, and the party in power has no
hope or intention of maintaining its
supremacy by any other means than
rutfianism, as Head Center Barksdale
has recently made proclamation. The
present State of Mississippi is State of
ruffianism, and there is no prospect OF
its becoming anything else, except by
counter-ruffianism Some of the chief
rufiians begin to perceive this. Even
the ObOtOnG States says that "we can
not afford TO resort to intimidation and
Irregularities as regular thing in or
der to maintain our ascendency over
the numerical superiority of the blacks"
1t claims to have pleaded against vio-
lence and fraud as a Irregular thing"
with "those who could not or would
not see the awful drift and tendency OF
their own counsels." And it gives
warning that violence and fraud "may
become instruments in the hands of our
adversary and bring unwhisperable
woes upon our people tomorrow" But
INC party CnleltdlnS WIZ uoI neSu tnS
warning. They have issued the decree
that the methods of rs, '76, and '78
must be pursued indefinitely, If the
decree is obeyed, the "unwhisperable
woes' will be experienced in due time,
unless meanwhile bayonet dispense
tion shall intervene with its restraints
upon solid-South" rufiianism. - CHI
cdgO Times dem.
Horns Of Democratic Dilemma.