The Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1882-1883, 1882-07-28
The Slogan.


are to be heard in every strict Of
The highlands, even as upon tho
Grampian hills the Slogan call"d
forth to battle, all the clans. Then
ask yourselves, mariners, "Wnat OF
the nighti" Is Mississippi to be rel
egaied to that darkness Of ignorant
rule, to which she was made o prey
from 1869 to 1875? Will her house
divide itself with family chickering's
until the spokesman comes and admin
listers upon her estate. God forbid,
that she should DO the victim Of such
folly! We have defined Democracy
in the South, and especially in Mis-
sissippi, to mean. merely, 20 banding
together Of the intelligence Of her
people. for the protection of the
WHOLE" regardless Of variancos Of
opinion upon national question, wheth
er ante or post bellum. We are sup
ported in this view by Republican
authority, There is not principle
Of governmeut,nor question OF pub
lie policy which is not as earnestly
advocated, and o, strenuously cppos-
ed within its ranks, Us il tho conten-
ling factions belonged to different
parties" "What is true OF the D..
mocracy Of the whole country, is
prominently true Of that Of M.ssis-
sippi." I'VE shall go into the i'm
pending contest with o reasonable
hope that the dissension among our
advei saries will enable us to make
our own strength available" saith
our enemy. How doth no count his
available strength? Looking into
United States and State censuses Of
Of $780," says lie, I've find that there
is, in this dis,ric." (lhe 7th,) q COL
ored majority OF ten thousand votes.
The Sale census, reduces that ma
jority to seven thousand. We claim
that this majority. whethcr,it be sew
en- thousand or ten thousand, is al
most without exception Republican,
BIT in poiat OF fact, tho colored r.
publicaus, though conscious OF their
strength, utterly ignore and repudi-
ate tho color line" Why this pro-
testation after speaking OF conscious
strength? Let's see who will get the
lions share OF the Congressional
pumkin-pie, in the sixth and seventh
districts. "B:u,us says he was am-
bitious," aud yet, B,uius was set up.
on 10y an angry and much ipjired
community, and so were Cassius and
the rest. But, let rs return to OUR
party differences. All social and po-
Iitical organism is the result Of mu-
,ual concession and acquiescepce, in
the policies which are established as
the rule Of government for the or.
ganizsiion. Each advocates that
which he deems best or most prac.i-
cable and desirable, for the general
good. Eich cannot have all he wish
cs, hence each comedies what hecan't
get,and acquiesccs in tho rule agreed
upon by The whole, or thoso,t to whom
,hs establishment OF rules is commit
ted. Alb, but our adversaries say Of
us, that "the struggle for spoils has
made open enemies OF those who
went through the empty forms Of
friendship, and the shout OF defiance
is heard where the dulcot tones OF
peace, harmony and fraternity. lately
filed The air" Verify he droame,h Of
the flash-pots and his mouth water
eth therefoi!' AS he dreams, he re-
members tho much abused Carpet
Dagger" and no doesn't wish him to
have any of The Offices. Msthinks,
we hear him dreaming aloud, say
Ing: "Tho C.rpet.bagger has here
and there q lingering representative,
and he claims to be q Republican,"
bat "the party disclaims him and re.
CARDS him as an obstacle" We'll, so
fur as we are concerned, if Mr.. Car
pet.bagger has made Mississippi his
home for ten or twelve years and has
come to the conclusion thai the ID ,m-
ocrat is o human being and has
rights OF property and self control as
have other creatures, We agree that
no has no proper place in III. Ropub-
lican patty Of the State, and will Of
fer him room in ours. We endorse
tho doctrine that Republican gov
errmsnt in all its forms and aspects,
contemplatts the intelligent co-opera-
ton Of the citizen" and IF he fail in
those primary and elementary duties
necessary to tho maintenance Of hip
government" IT must fail. "When
those whose duty it, is "to think for
others as we'll rs themselves, desert
their post" and "hke Achilles sulk
in their tcnt;' and still worse. like
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