The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-09-15

making that country rich and prosperous
with their brains and muscle and energy.
In our own State there are millions OF
acres of unoccupied lands millions more
which, for the want of intelligent labor are
half cultivated, all as fertile and capable of
as varied production as any of the Great
West Mississippi has 175. 900 more blacks
than whites, and this majority, majority
of ignorance clothed with all the rights of
American citizenship is constantly increas-
ing, threatening our State with Africaniza-
ton or anarchy Let the exodus of the
negro be encouraged if he desires to go ; let
Us invite white emigrants 10 come and make
their homes with us until we have major
ity Of intelligence and capacity for self
government, then the great problem of
Mississippi's restoration will be solved, and
believing this to be the only solution, and
Mississippi's only hope of a complete escape
from all the political evils that are insepa-
rable from preponderance of the darkest
and most benighted ignorance in coGmu-
nifty where all enjoy equal rights, We appeal
to the Press of Mississippi with all its
potent influence to encourage this great, but
feasible task.
Bid the German come and convert our
wilds into fields and gardens, if not IS.
and economy than those of the Rhineland.
Bid the sturdy English, the brawny Scot,
and the Democratic, liberty-loying Irish,
come and make themselves pleasant homes
free from tyranny and oppression. Aye,
and let our Northern brethren know, that
while we want no political tramps on
e Fools Errdnd," no carpet-bag adventures
prowling around like hyenas seeking what
they may deyour, yet there is no populations
we would more welcome than the indefati-
gable Yankee, with all his native shrewd-
ness and untiring energy to enllven our
State with the whir and rattle of machinery
in the manufacture of our great staple.
Yes, bid them come from their frozen homes
of the North and find the hearts of our
people as warm and generous as our own
sunny cline.
In conclusion, let it be proclaimed, that
while Mississippans have been solid for
Mississippi and Mississippi's triumphs, it is
not because we love the whole country less,
but Mississippi more; and going beyond
State lines, while Mississippians have been
the most stalwart of a solid South, solid for
truth and the right, solid for law and order,
solid against hate and slander, solid against
wrong and oppression, yet TIVE are ever ready
to place ourselves in harmony with that
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intellectual progress, which knows no North,
no South which has no politicians to re-
ward, no party bosses to follow; which can
appreciate what Brother Cooper so well
terms the climate sublimty" of Brother
Stackhouse's conception and march forward
to the new tune of yankee Doodle Dixie;
which can honor the true and the brave,
whether he wore the Blue, or whether he
wore the Gray whether at Appomatox,
with swelling bosom, he proudly upheld the
Stars and Stripes, or with bleeding heart he
tearfully and sorrowfully forever lowered
the Stars and Bars.
And may God hasten the day when in the
renewal of our prosperity every wound of
the past shall be healed, when every wrong
we have suffered shall be remembered only
by it's glories and not by its mistakes. And
in all the coming years, in the grand pro-
gressive march this great Union of States
will make, growing greater and better, in
civilization, in wealth and in religion, may
Mississippi keep step with the foremost the
peer of any of her sisters the proudest of all
in the nobility of her manhood and the
purity of womanhood.
And may the escutcheon of Mississippi
represented as it is by the proud bird of
liberty, standing with its protecting shield
upon the immovabe rock, about whose firm
base the surgiug pillows beat in vain, ever
be the untarnished erhblems of all that is
good and great in Statehood, the pride of
her people, an honor to the Republic.