The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-04-30

oA''ot DiipibS piOSiNGo aiS w w
q found. Having had excellent oppor
tunities of obtaining fair insight o
all classes of society, / am now fully
. convinced, after making all due allow.
, ance for the excitement attendant ur.
on the late hard-lought canvass, the
two great sections surely misunder.
stand and grossly misjudge each other
: The South, labOring under deer
, rooted prejudice contracted from false
impressions made by the carpet-bag-
. ger who came into her domain merely
as an adventurer, regards the National
Republican party as an arch enemy
that desires her degradation by en-
grating upon her negro supremacy.
: The North Is ready and anxious 10
join with the South in oblterating
sectional lines and burying sectional
issues and uniting as one people fol-
the general advancement of the Ma
ton. This reunion is prevented by
by two classes largely in the minority.
The extreme Radicals Of the North
who continue through malice and
ignorance to talk of Southerners MS
rebels, traitors and cut-throats. And
the hot-headed BOurbons of the South
who living on the issues of the past
and looking only to party success,
persist in speaking of Northerners as
tricky, traflicking, swindling yankees
l-and both sides lie. In the North
the intelligence and respectability
undoubtedly preponderate in the Re
publican party, but the South does
not know this--for if she did her
Bourbon leaders could not keep up
the unfriendly feeling of her people
towards great progressive party rep
resenting the best element of the
North. In the South the intelligence
and respectability is almost entirely
confined to the Democratic party but
the North does not seem 10 under
stand this, or she would not find it
necessary to drag the Bloody Shirt
into every campaign-and she would
cease to hold the Southern people re-
sponsible for "A revolution brought
about by the bad acts and misman-
agement of Radicals which drove
many Republicans and Independents
into the Democratic party-they pre-
| ferring Bourbon rule, even i'm its worst
form, to tri-colored Radical rule as it
existed in 1S74-5, aud which all fair
minded men will admit was une-
qualed for ignorance and infamy in
North and South have only to UNDER
stand each other better to become
fast friends. Then each section will
vie with the other in wedding out
Radicalism and Boui bonism and all
name of either. And the North will
lend willingly helping hands to the
South, and the South will stretch
fnrth gladly halnit.n hanIa 10 fhn
North in assisting in building
up our waste places and blot
ting out ignorance and crime
knowing no North, no South,
but one grand union of States,
the greatest nation of freemen
the sun ere shown on. Mississippi
greatly needs Northern thrift, enter
prise and capital--many school houses |
and school teachers and quick |
suppression of ring politicians and |
antiquated ofiice-holders, both bour-
bon and Radical. Then the Re-
publican party only needs to be
well fed with honest brain and nerve
food to speedily give il self-sustaining
strength. / desire to add that | am
not, nor will L be, an applicant for
any Federal Office in Mississippi
where / owe the Republicans nothing,
as il appears, from the published tes-
timony taken i'm that state i'm 1876 by
the select committee composed of
Senators Boutwell,, Angus, Cameron,
Bayard, and Mcdonald,
that the party owed to my efforts
many lives saved from mob violence,
and 1t is conceded that the Bourbons
owe me their gratitude, (if they have
lny,) for preventing some Of their hot
heads from numbering obnoxious Re
publicans. This risky service was un-
iertaken as a non-partisan solely i'm
the interest of peace, law and order,
/ free ballot and fair count, aud pro-
lection was gladly rendered to fellow
,reatures in distress neither asking
nor expecting reward. mention this
% show that / am under no obliga-
ions to either party, and | shall al
ways oppose any party or position
hat do not honestly labor for the
benefit of the masses. On several oc-
,asions i have left the State to keep
rom acting with either party, and !
It this time the Bourbon leaders
md the impious relics of that stupend- !
rus fraud, the Radical party of Missis-
ippi, give evidence of still greater
degradation to all who embrace their
otton doctrines. | dislike TO submit
% Bourbon rule, but l cannot follow :
he leadership of Republicans who,
n a measure, are responsible for all
he woes brought upon the party,
which, In my opinion, cannot be built !
Up by the very machine that pulled the
,rops from under the structure. There .
'eing no party in Mississippi with
which could act and thereby benefit .
ny people my friends have advised
ne TO follow the advice Of the illustri-
us Horace Greely, and ego West"
where I can be a Republican and re-
ain my friends and my self-respect.
ihould return to Mississippi, unless
he Republican party change mana .
ers, / should probably be forced to
ct with the Democrats, seeing no mid
lie ground, and thus lose more or less
elf-respect according to the degree of
earness of the party; or, remaining 4
nd acting with the Republicans / q
gould lose both friends and self-re-
pect. As a native Mississippian and y
staunch believer in the sound prin- =
iples Of the Republican party as Il ex- (
It's North, but ignoring that coun-
srfeit Republicanism Of the South
'hich looks no higher than the using
ignorant freedmen tc obtain official
lunder, heartily commend the wise :
and patriotism IS ex-
ressed In the inaugral address Of your
which sounds the first key
ote (the educational and moral In
'rcement Of the unlearned masses Of
he South) Of an era that must dawn
pom us ere we can make rapid strides n
the grand march Of American pro-
ress. hope this vexed Southern :,
nestion may receive the early consid-
alton Of your Administration, and
such an effective manner as 10 con-
gn the " Solid south" and Bloody m
hirtn 10 oblivion. I am as much in n
rested as any one In the peace and
rosperity Of our common country, and
viii gladly rellnquish all claims l Q
ave on the Republican party, and
leerfully sacrifice any prospects / :,
Iay have Of being personally benefit >
| by said party, n by % doing I can u
d, ever 20 humbly, In settling tur-
oil and strife in my state, and re-
oring tranquility and harmony be-
reen the two great sections, and
-lu,ir,u oufnf and or1or and cund for