Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-04-07
Nonfhern Politics.

SOutherm FOltucS.
The following is specimen extrac
from gushing letter to the Cincinnati
Commercial, by a correspondent who
processes to have been in the Soutl
four months, and chooses to date hi
letter at Meridian, Miss:
You must know that nobody knows
anything about the politics of Tennes'
see. have wandered about Memphi:
three weeks, talking with the acutest
of the leaders and most thoughtful Of
the honest people. All are in the
dark. Most Of the true inwardness
of Mississippi and Arkansaw politics
is begotten in Memphis. One Banks
dale, down at Jackson, is the right
bower of JEFF Davis. They plot at
Beauvoir By the sea, but Lamar, Wal
thall, George and Ex-Governor Stone
hold their conclaves and disburse
spoils ard honors at Memphis, just
across the borders Of Mississippi in
Tennessee. Wine and women and
railways make Memphis accessible,
and her campaigns in Mississippi are
planned and Office and honors dis
bursed. Here the recent terrific gerry
mander was plotted that will promote
the overthrow of the Lamar secession
Democracy in his State as effectively
as the resurrection OF Aleorn, expelled
from his broad acres and aroused from
lethargv BY this Noaehian deluge o.
the lowlands. Chalmers, too, is out
ragged. His shoesriug district was hOr-
ribly distorted BIZ artiul dodgers in the
Legislature Of Mississippi, who pro-
posed 70 exclude ineumbents and
seizs seats 10 Congress By creating
districts for themselves. In fact, q
beautiful coterie Of Lamar's hangers
on have absolutely driven Chalmers,
Money. Singleton, and perhaps Others
Of the House, almost int the oppo-
sitioo. It is said that the gerry
mander is 50 utterly laElsss and viola
tive OF the enabling act Of Congress
that elections held under il will be,
void, aad that therefore Chalmers,
Money and others may declare them
selves candidates to represent the
State at large, acting under the as
sumption that valid rights to seats in
the House cannot be acquired under
the gerrymandering act Of the State
Legislature. Adjoining districts are
50 carved out b. Lsmars friends in
the Legislature that they differ By
5000 IN population. Districts are
ziRzsgged in all directions, 50 widely
differing ia numbers Of voters In each
that quite one fourth Of the people,
as Congressional elections are affected.
are absolutely disiranchissd. The
people are exasperated By these gross
wrongs 10 themselves and 70 their
Representatives. and ready TO resent
an outrage plotted in the interest Of a
few men who conceived the lsEless
scheme executed, mark you, not in
behalf Of a party. but Of aspirants for
Congressional hOnors, sitting in the
State Senate and House at Jackson,
the capital Of Mississippi
WHAT WILL BE DONE ABOUT II.
Colonel Singleton and Mr.. Money
are legislated out of Congress. Sin
gleton is rudely thrust into General
Hooker's district, and Moneys dis
trict is twisted and msgni6ed till II
winds about from one end of the State
to the other, and contains 50, 900 more
people than another beside it. Sin
gleton changed his domicile by tele-
graph, and will fight the conspirators
at jackson to the bitter end.
Moneys friends here say that he
will resist and win. Chalmers friends
declare that he will organize an open
revolt against Lamar and his despe-
rate gang Of monopolists of Federal
and State Offices, and never was parti.
san confusion worse confounded than
here 10 Mississippi.
THE PEOPLE RIPE FOR REVOLT.
These facts will be employed BY
local party leaders to overthrow hered
itary plsceholders If the admins
tration will only give the old Wings
and Douglass men a chance, their old
leaders will be dethrored and neE
men come to the surface. They will
gladly assent to cooperation with Re
publican, and finally, like Malone, to
unqualified adhesion to that party.
Very certainly they will not object IL
theories o Senator's Jones and Ed.
mupds, as recently promulgated in
the Senate, be approved by the Presi.
dent. There is no purpose to rob the
negro of the privilege" Of suffrage III
is not a right, but old Wings anc
Douglass men must know that tn,
government has abandoned the pur
pose to subordinate the white and the
black race. In other words Presiden
Arthur need only give native whites
fair field aud open fight, imposinI
silence and back seats upon franti
haters Of white people, like Governo
Davis Of Texas, and Mississippi will b
redeemed.
A BLUNDER DEEMED A CRIME.
From all that can gather from tn
people it is understood that those VIII
effected the ''gerrymander" shall moi
themselves, be profted by the outrag
deemed here a crime. No such un
equal and iudefensible "gerrymander
was ever made in behalf Of few mer
No such violation Of Congression'
law was ever enacted by State Les
islsture Wheedled aud forced to act B
committees constituted Of candidate
for Congress.
Josh Billings says; Next to a cles
Conscience for solid comfort Gums a
old shu." He probably never suffere
with A cough or cold otberwise h