The Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1882-1883, 1882-02-24

sss'osIS>Ss>-f ~. W. 80,
ef,rSo than liz usual amois New
Egg ardors. Az TO Their political
nclioD,' 1T sooms to mo 10 have been
for soms years largely inevitable; the
necessary product aud result OF the
peculiar conditions Of life anl society
IN tho South since civil wlr II does
not appear to have been owing to
skccr deprayity on their part, nor to
any choice or agency OF theirs that
here was for some years disturbed
and unsettled state Of tn ngs in the
Southern States, Collisions between
diflsront classes followed unayoila-
bly, npon tho elevation of Tue enamel
patcd slaves into political superiority
over the. disirachiscd white ci,iz,ns
.! the cpup'ry. Thcrc has never been
my such completeness Of orgaui-
z,t;on among ihc'peoplo OF the South
rincc the war as many persons be-
ievc 10 have existed there. That
nart Of our country is. distinguished
by much greater focb,eness OF CON-
muuity und lcss orgauic lie than
heIo>Gs 20 NIrihein society. and the
Bouborns nro not really responsible
fer everything tina. has been done
nth Of Mason End Dixon's line. !!
shall have more 10 say hereafter OF
Southern politics. Here I wish only
to place The so-callca Bourbon type
M plainly as possible before my
leaders. The men tl.us designated
arc, ms n class, tm!ncn,ly social,
bo4pitablc, honest aud upright men,
il we leave their politics part OF view.
They have in large measure built up
aud maintained such moral, social
industrial aud religious organic alton
IN activity as toe South now pos
scsscr, anil much OF what is beat and
mos. encouraging in tho present
state Of things in the principal
Southern States is due 20 them, and
TO thcir c!l'jrt for practical recon-
struc;i)n in n t;mo Of extreme diff
entity anil uncertainty, when their
res 'ces were most disconraginS'y
slender, and when they had no pre-.
ccdents to guide them except such
as wcro furnished BY the experience
VI mankind in tho long contest be-
tween civilization aud barbarism in
tie past. ! .hink they have made
mistakes and have done wrong
things since the war. I am not Ger.
tain tia. we, or anybody else, would
!avo done better ,lan they.
In ,nversi,ion with tho gentle
men, ! everywhere expressed IN!
conviction that illegal interference
with the ncgr, suffrage could not be
continued without the most scriou'
injury to all Southern interests and
,ln, it would Do better that South
ern men-Dsmocra;s-should make
The ballot entirely free to all who ar,
legally entit!cd to it, possession, aud
theu endure whatever ills milh
result. They always replied tia
disturbance, violence and fraud were
eacu year diminishing, aud that ne
gro POLITICAL supremacy wonld b,
, utterly runiUus fJr the State and To-
society, and insisted that, il too Re
publican party in the South possess
ed the character and employed ,h'
methods Of the same party in thu
North, they would gladly cooperate
: with Il; 'nlit they were rcuhy ~ die
card aud abandon their present poll
teal organization whom ever any
other party would take up Tho rea
problems Of tho South, and seriously
al Trees itself to their solution.
Iu studying tho Bontbons have
brcu forced to concluio ,ha. nothing
has yet been attained anywhere
much better than the dom,,ito lii,
# this class Of Southern people, in
It's Intelligence, refinement, beauty
and gencrnl elevation aa'i VIII Ole
someucss.