The Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1882-1883, 1882-10-27
What Makes q Color Line
Possible i'm the South. s.

Possible in the South.
Pr,iuiiee aud sander against The
intelligent ma.ses Of the South, ny
tho mouth of the uninformcd OF tho
North on tho one hand. and The vile
but iul y advised Ro, ublican party
slave snl his onissarie'.-pisoe
seekers on tho other, comi inc to
draw line ~ distinc'. in political
conduct, between the races Of the
south, as tho Greater has drawn HIS
line OF distinction between those
rncm. 81 that. q few negroes, com.
paraiively speaking. possess The
trait Of roas' nirg for = ground OF
ac,i n, as also do few Of them coop
cate with the mss Of whites. This is
OF altogether the fault OF the negro,
because he. as q rule 10 tco ignorant
to under.t ard readily, md adequate
pai s 70 e'ucida.e for his understand.
ing is too often substituted with n
harsh epithet-m,'ure frnit OF petu'
lancy or an il'.g,vorred temper
THIS is not right. Strong men should
deal kindly with tho imb,ci!e in in.
tell.et True indeed thoy cannot nj.
low this imbecils 10 destroy the com.
monwoalth, yet they should spare no
pains induce him t, preserve it. We
have promised to reason with the
negro as IFth other persons who are
clothed with the electoral franchise
and burdensd with tho responsible
ties Of government, Then come, one
and oil. whi'e and black, aud let US
reason together. This fall we have
before us a political contest The is
sue is one that affects rot Mississippi
s'one. but every state in tho Union.
You are to choose c Ingressmen wi o
will set other with the Republican
party or with the Democratic party.
o. in other words, who will act with
the party OF cxtravagance or the ono
u c,nomy. you wish to vote for
oxtr vagan. ani c. silly government
cast yoar vote for The can lidate o..
posed to the Democatic nominee. II
you wish economical government,
vote for the Demo ,ra.io nominee, for
he is the only one who can be relied
on to vote for economy. Where j,
the reason for this? We have no
means of judging Ito future con-
due. Of men and parties, so we'll as by
their past. F. rtunately We have q
record Of the Re pub lean party. made
by its own hands, which shows it's
past conduc.., and hy this record We
ask every voter 10 try that party,
and every man that works in the iu-
tersst Of that party. The R'publi'
can party have controlled the finances
OF the government, aud its o'hcr pol
icies s'nce 1904 period OF twenty
ono years. Daring this Period they
collected into the Treasury 1904,
799. 800. &c. OF this amount. 1888.
| 73l,lll. SO was collected prior to
July Isl, 1866. This shows an an.
uual revenue since July ] 1866 OF
s6O6, 75G,263 1s On tho 1st d.y OF
July 1866, the public Debt WAS at lis
his hes: poin: in tho history OF the
government, viz; $2,773,236.l73. 60
or this, ab,ut two.thirds bore four,
6vc, and Fix per cent interest and
the ether ono.third, soven and three
tertbs. BY 1870, oil Of these hishe' t
rate bonds were either paid of or re
funded into lower rate boLds. This
indicates, merely, what could haze
been done. Now. we find however,
tina. on July l 1851. 'hero was "ou'-
,tauding principal" OF the public
debt Of tho United States $2,oGo. 0l3
500 IS. SO says Mr. Sec'y. elias. j
Folger in his report to tie Speaker
Of tue II ,use Of r .prese Natives. da-
ted Dec. 5 1881. We maintain that
it is crime that the Un;t,d States
has 8, great a debt It this day.-cven
that size has any debt q. al, after her
excess Ct Nine billions of revenue has
been squandernd. Squanaerea' Yes
verify! And by whom, BY the Re.
publican party. Who does rot re-
member the charge Of the Republi-
eau platform Of 1860. that every dc.
par,mslt of the government Was run
in e1.rsvaganos, End tLat fraud and
corruption existed therein? This
was false in fact. but for sake OF ar
gume1t it will be here taken As
granted. TIE two administrations OF
Presidents Pierce and Buchanan
covering the eight years OF 1853 to
1860 il elusive wers the most costly
Of the government to the era of RI
publican management. and the aver
age net ordinary expenses OF 6 'vern-