Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-09
MISSISSIPPI.

Prosperous Under Democratic Rule.
RIG. Porter, Southern Methodist, writ
ing from Verona, Miss, to the Christian
Adrocate, the leading paper of his church,
gives the following picture of prosper
GUS state state under Democratic rule:
The Lord has been good to us in AIissis-
sippi this year. The country has been re-
markably healthy. Our crops arc fine.
We will have corn enough to supply our
home demand. There has not been such .
prospect for a cotton crop in ten years past.
The seasons have all been favorable. Our
people come nearer living at home now
than at any time since the war. They are
getting out Of debt, and more of them buy
for cash than formerly. The credit system
in vogue here has been a great
temptation to our people, both white
and colored. They have bought on time,
and failed to pay up in full, and have
fallen behind until debt has accumulated
to a great burden too heavy to he born.
Our taxes have lessened from year to year
until now they can be easily met by our
people. This has afforded encouragement
and stimulated effort. The advantages of
the South as a stOck-raising country are
beginning to be appreciated. We can
grow all kinds of grasses and grain. In
many parts of the country the range is fine,
and fully able to sustain thousands of cat
tic from the 18th Of April till tho middle
Of October. There are not more than eight
Or ten days during any winter when stock
need to be housed to protect them from
cold. This lessons the expense Of raising
them. From tho village where live, ESQ
miles north of Mobile, Ala, there are ship
ped every year from four to six hundred
head of cattle to Mobile and New
Orleans, where they find a ready and re-
,nunerative market. These cattle are fat
tened upon the range, hundreds of them
never getting a mouthful of food from
years end to years end, save what is
found in the woods. This new enterprise
| is giving 4 wonderful stimulus to stock
raising in the South. The fine breeds of
cattle North and West are being imported
to this country, and stock farms arc grow
ing up here and there all over the land. Our
people have commenced raising sheep and
will at no distant day add their mite to
the wool-grOwers of the world. Good
acre, and We would be glad to have them
The thousand and one stories told Oh the
South and Southern people for political
purposes have hindered immigration to this
country. A state of profound peace pre-
walls everywhere in the South. The rela-
tions of the two races here arc of the most
amicable kind. If demagogues and polit-
ical cormorants, who want the
spoils of Office, will hold their
hands off and quit stirring up
race issues, the South will adjust herself
to the situation, and move forward to
prosperity. The whites, native to this
country, have no disposition to vcx and
Oppress the freedmen among lis, and the
freedmen, when not stirred up by bad
white men, are as inOf1cnsivc rs any race
of people in the world.
The introduction of public school sys-
tenn in land where private schools had So
Ion. been the order Of the day wcll-nigh
unsettled our educational affairs but now
the two systems have begun to run to-
gcthcr and to move harmOniously. The
freedmen get the same benefit from the
public fund that the white people do
though they pay but 4 small share of the
tax.
Our people are well supplied with church.
es and preachers. The gospel is preached
in its power, and sinners arc convicted, and
mourners are converted by tho hundred.
The excitement consequent on a presiden-
tial canvass has not hindercd, in the least,
cur revival meetings this year. Many
glorious meetings have already been held,
and many more arc in progress now. l
am sure you and your people rejoice at
the prosperity Of our Southern Methodism.
God is with us in power and great glory
o, that the Holy Ghost may descend upon
our people everywhere, that the land may
he filled with the knowledge and glory Of
God!