American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-11-13

he crushing defeat sustained by
the National Democracy has cast IL
gloom over the entire Southland.
Aud why ( Because OF the apprc~
hended future predumluauce OF the
negro race, ignorance, pauperi>m
and number over intelligence,
wealth aud refinement The de-
feat has been caused by IL Solid
South; the leaders of the Democracy.
national aud local, and by the AMI,
mus of the Southern people them
selves. This must all be changed
ere success will come to ditEusc its
gladnesS over our socrOwtul places.
The present Democratic organiza-
ton will never elect II President OF
the United States. You want bold
and aggressive leatlers-hlgh toned,
not drunken rabble-ot sound
thought, and legal measures, and
a change of policy from JulidcZing
and bailot~box stufling to better ex
pedients. n solid South 5egets Il
solid North, for reasons too numer-
GUS TO recito in this article.
Southern people hate Northern
men-and men amongst them
selves who dare to differ from
them horizontally. You must al-
low freedom of ballot, and freedom
of speech. Now, how can all this
be done? There are at present
10000 Chinese (COolies) OH the
island of Cuba, DESTROYS of coming
to the United S.atrs; 10000 are
now engaged by the planters of
Louisiana; and Mississippi ought
to take every one of the rest, and
place them in her heavy negro cOun.
ties, give them the ballot and teach
them to vote the Democratic ticket.
This procedure would work a pOlit>
ical and agricultural reform greatly
needed by our unprogresssive re
giOn. The negro combines all the
elements of our needed labor, and
we want him; but he will not work
more. than about four good days
labor in . week. Ii it rains all the
week until Saturday he would rath-
er encounter the perils of per,litlon
than work on that day-goOd Chris
tians AS they are. Our agriculture
must languish, and our hill country
be forsaken in few more de-
cades under the present system of
never applying fertilizers to land
planted yearly and denuded by
rains OF what of what little fertility
is left in it from 80 or 40 years
strain. Every cotton seed goes
away belonging to a negro, and this
is All immense weight of gold leav-
ing US every year. Now, what we
want is so great an abundance of
labor as to force what we have to
an honest amount OF work or starve.
We also want labor for wages CON-
mensurate with what it will pro-
duce. 1t is impossible now to hire
a negro for wages unless you will
give him an amount equal to all he
would make, and feed him besides.
He has no regard for a contract
you can't push him or he will leave
you in the main cropping season.
sure of getting employment at the
next neighbours. If labor was
enough the nefghbor
would not want him, and he could
not leave his employer. Besides,
when labor becomes SO abundant
rs to be subservient 10 capital, in
stead of capital being completely
under it's control as it IS here now,
we can say to the employed rs the
cotton manufacturer
does to his Over-worked factory
men-if you don't vote as l wish
you to do, you can lose your situa-
ton; which means distress and
These Cuban Chinese,
mostly, have been slaves, freed by
the Spanish government; they have
been used to agriculture similar to
ours, are trained and acclimated.
As to their religion we know moths
ing and care less. Statesmen should
have nothing to do with religion.
If the Christians object to their
let them try their hands
OH them here st their own doors,
as they have failed at their native
homes. Madison county should
have an agent in Cuba now. We
will take ten Coolies for one. who
will follow suit and set the ball roll
lngf Timid legislators will not
suit for bold and aggressive meas
ures; pass a poll tax qualification
TO suffrage, which you ought TO
have done long ago, as we have
urged; it will cut off thousands of
negro, and a few white votes, and
is most righteous law. Make an
intelligent and property qualifica-
ton as Connecticut or New Jersey |
now hss-send your commissioners |
Df agriculture to China. If your
legislators wont pass these laws,
send some there that can, and will |
lake the bull by the horns.
Mississippians need not be
gloomy over the election of Gar
ield-he will make a good Presi-
lent. We believe in some princi-
pies of the Republican party; some
If the Democracy; more OF the
and shall hold our
selves to act independently. But
sbOye all, we are MississippIan,
md to her we owe our first fealty:
md to her we shall be leal. Let us
Keep our State government unde:
he control of intelligence and even
handed justice, let national politics
20 as they may.
This is a thirty minute epigram.
dOIe next week. PROGRESS.