The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-27
AT HOME.

! Gratis, sTALwARTs, CONSERVATIVES, AM
BoURBoNs-BLACK AND WHITE.
AT HOME,
| -, COUNTY, Miss, Jan. -, 1881. !
/ EDITORS CLARION read a good dea
lately about place in Garfeld's cabinet 70
Bruce (coD, sitting member of the UniteC
States Senate, enormously accredited to thi
State. Some of the papers say that hi:
appointment would give satisfaction t.
all the darkeys in the land, from freezing
Kansas to blooming Florida--that it would
Immediately stop the exodus-that the per
secuted blacks who have already gone would
return to the sugar plantations of Louisi
ana, and the cotton fields of Mississippi
that the murderous Ku klux would be
heard of in the land no more forever, that
the lion and the lamb would lie down to-
gether, the pig could wander alone in the
hickory grove in perfect security, and the
chicken roost would be undisturted even on
the darkest night. What a beautiful pic
ture!- Other papers proclaim that the
white people of the South would shout for
neck, so to speak, and weep tears of repent
ance for having voted for Hancock-that
they would parade the streets OF their cities,
towns, and villages with hautboys and
tymbals, with brass horns and trumpets,
and rejoice with much merriment-that the
booming of cannon would carry the glad
tidings to the remotest corners of the land,
if they but only secured this great boon.
That they long for Bruce, not only for his
own dear self, but on account of little Roscoe
ConkIing Bruce, and because by his appoint
ment some Southern white Radical might
be minus a place. l regret to say that
believe them all mistaken. His appointment
would not give the unanimous satisfaction
they predict. The darkeys, most of them,
never heard of Bruce, and would pursue
been doing before. The sharp mulattoes,
ex BARRIERS and body servants, would still
long for office, and continue to organize the
color line to get them; the common niggers
would still look longingy to Kansas, and
chickens would have to roost high as here
tofore. The whites, except where they
have had opportunity to associate with the
more highly cultivated and civilized people
of the North, or read their liberal and
advanced journals, are a stif-necked, per.
verse, and ignorant generation, who have
not advanced to that step of reconstructed
thought which believes a negro is as good
as white man; many of them, oh ! sad to
say, would rather have a bad white
Radical in any office, with which they have
business, than the best mulatto, or black
IN the land.
So you see that the appointment of Bruce
would not produce the unanimous millen-
mum that some predict, but | have a gen.
he man in my minds eye who / believe
would. | refer to the
HON. PETER MITCHELL
If Washington county. He is the most
man of whom | ever heard Just |
ee his qualifications In 1879 he was ana1ai-
aously nominated by the Republicans of
Washington county for representative, and
vas Immediately and unanimously endorsed |
y the Democrats; soon after the Green
'ackers also unanimously endorsed him.
iced | say that his election was made,
ither by the voters, or by the counters,
unanimous. At the capital he served with
istinction in the Democratic caucus, re-
orded himself as a Conservative Republic
an, was appointed member of the Green
ack Executive committee, and stood with
he Stalwart Radicals in the support of
rant There, as in Washington county,
ID acceptance by all sides, and all shades
opinion, was unanimous. Have we not
sason to believe that it would be the same
he was called to place in in the cabinet
ONE may say that he is not qualified. If:
he poor sheriff could make a Senator, the
pdRtneOus represen tative can make a cabi-
ct officer. 1t has been demonstrated dur
lg the Reconstruction era that color quail |
IS any man for any office. The yellow !
lrber makes Senator, The black cotton
cker makes Presidential adviser. But
ese are not all of Peters qualifications. If
lor is wanted he fills the bill. He is col
ed enough to keep out the white SCALA
ag, he is colored enough to keep out the
ulatto carpet-bagger. He is very colored,
is highly colored, he is black. Again,
did not come with the tide of carpet
ggers who flooded the State in 1869-'7O,
cause he was brought here before. As
of the State Senate. he / :
d not buy thousands of dollars worth of :
ationery for which the State paid, accept 7
Der cent. from the seller, and then distrib-
e the stationery by the trunk-full to the :,
majors, their sisters, their cousins, their
nts and their friends; because he was
yer Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate. He n
/ not as Sheriff of Bolivar county take an Ct
th to pay into the State Treasury the
sntical moneys he received for taxes, and
en- use the money to cash warrants Of Leg =,
ators (which were worth about so cents on u
, dollar) and thereby buy a seat in the a.
S. Senate, and afterwards pay the war g
ats into the Treasury; because first, he
5 never Sheriff of Bolivar county, and CT
ondiy when he came bounding into the II
bic arena there were no e. S. Senatorial :
is for sale. He never invested in CIeve- ~
ID, Ohio, the money he acquired in Mis- BIZ
sippi by office holding, because he never
de enough II justify an investment in
It city. He did not leave the State with l.
, exodus of carpet bargers and settle u
nth, because he did not come with them th
N the North, nor did be know where to 70
or what to do for q living if he went :"
ither has he exodusted with cotton co
kers who are wishing they were back at
n Kansas III these reasons are not
ugh why Mr.. Mitchell should be ssnan;- oe
ssIg called to place in the Cabinet I
give one more-he is tracy Of the soil.
Yours truly, m
CABINET. Z.
!. :. / understand John Lynch Is en- S
orsing Hon. LEN. MOORE, Of Issaquena, "a
Secretary q the Treasury Of