The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-05-08
Col. MuldroW'S DeCIinalion
Broad and Admirable Sentiments in
His Letter.
From Columbus Index
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h From Columbus Index.
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: To The Voters OF the First Congressional Distr
I, OF Mississippi:
FELLOW CITIZENS AS the tim
is now approaching when you vii
q have to select your member for tn
I ensuing Congress, it becomes my dut,
c to thank you for the confidence whicl
1 you have reposed in me. From tn
Y day of my election to the presen
hour, you have sustained and encOur
| aged me by constant kindness ant
that unwavering trust which is th,
strength of popular representative
1t is now to me source of profounC
satisfaction that there is no indication
that your feelings have grown colder
or your confidence less steady. From
my private correspondence, and from
expression of public opinion through
the press, | am led to believe that my
course has been approved and that
my constituents would again cheer.
fully place their interests in my keep
ing. But when | accepted the nomi-
nation for the present Congress, was
under the impression that it would be
my interest and desire to retire from
Congressional service at the conclu-
sion of my term. | so expressed my
self at the time, and several gentle
men whose character and ability fully
warrant their ambition, have, in view
of that declaration, made their ar
rangements to be a candidate for your
suffrage.
AS my duties as your representative
are not fully discharged, it would, per-
haps, be premature to put before you
now a review in detail of all that |
have effected or attempted to accom-
plish in their performance but it
will not be appropriate to indicate the
principle which has governed my con-
duct. Soon after my arrival in Wash
ington became convinced that the
one great need of the South, was, by
the course of po icy it pursued, to i'm
press upon the county the conviction
that the harmonious action of the re-
stored South was necessary to the
preservation and development of the
great National interests, not only for
the benefit of the whole country, but
that the South itsetf in its weakness
and improvement, might find aid
and comfort in the friendly power
and renewed confidence of the North.
Conducive to this end, | felt that it
was both wise and patriotic to avoid
all these rancerous manifestations of
sectional prejudices which coming
from either side, would contribute
to no good or practical end, but would
be prolific of that spirit of angry diff
ference which would destroy all pow
er of wise counsel or salutary legisla-
ton. Whatever my public service
embodies, is due to my steady adher-
ance to this principal. 70 this cause
in great measure, Lam confident l am
indebted for the influence which has |
enabled me, Oh more than one Occa-
sion, to serve important local inter- |
ests in my own District. / wish L
had succeeded more Thoroughly, for
need not tell you that the South,
desolated by long war, corvulsed by
social Reorganization and dishearten-
ed and enfeeblel by years of corrupt
needs help. That
the North has enormous means to rem
der such help, you know as well and
it is just that we should recognize
that, in our late calamity, when the
pestilence walked through all the
land at monday, the North proved
that issues put aside they could be
and generous. But un-
party issues are not lad
lside. The Republican party is now
,bout to nominate its candidate for
he Presidency, and of the names pop
llarly associated with that nOmina
ion there is not one which is not
Identified with the power of sectional
aggression or bitterness of partisan
)igotry. The administration of MIR.
Iayes has incurred the hostility and
allied to receive the support of its nat
lral followers, because solely and ,
of its temperate and pacific
,olicy towards the South, and its con- G
Iteration in moderate measure of the =
lst rights of that section. The only r
ccasion upon which it has secured +
nv countenance from the Republican n
,aders, were when under their dicta- h
ion it departed from this policy. a
We cannot therefore surrender to Il
ostile hands, our civilization, our @
,ateriel interests, our local order. II
We cannot place the power of the b
outh under the control of the ignor-
Mt, the incapable, the corrupt. The "
honesty and property of al
le South must govern it for its own fl
lfety. United thus by an absolute ii
ecessity on questions of ocal govern to
ent, what must be our relations to al
ederal politics? Glad as [ would be
see the opening before the country
rye public questions upon which
tiZens of all sections could differ
it'll equal honesty and mutual res
,ct, | cannot see in the present con-
ton of national politics any other su
Ioice before us than an united and A
rdial support of the Democratic Fl
rty-the only National party which at
ofesses friendship and does not rest be
political faith upon open and W
owed enmity to our interests and tW
,lings. 1t is the only party, also, tn
IN which can be expected any sn lu
re and eff ctive effort to rid this wi
vernment of the monstrous and pa
owing evils of corrupt civil service, tn
rdensome taxation and eXtraVagant hil
1t stands upon great an
which, if homes ly practlc- we
will carry this country tO the high liN
pinacle Of national prosperity and bel
nor. ab
These are tho views which | shall SCI
itinue to urge, whoever may be fiv
ar nominee in the coming Conven- liv
n For the consideration stated in dol
earlier part of this cOmmunica- DIR
n, / shall not be candidate for tho
but shall leave it t0 you fat
select, as my successor, some one ste
four citizens who will serve you ,
n greater ability, but not, | am -
e with greater devotion. ii1 Goi
| have the honor TO be, Iis
Very respectfully, etc., Ii' n I,
II. l.. MULDROw. -Hi'
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