Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-10
GOV. LOWRY'S
Attention Especially Invited 10 Some
Reasons why He Should Gail
the Legislature
OF nissfssIPDI Together IA ExtraerIi.
nary sessiOn-The People of the
Delta Must Ii ave Relief.

To the Editors of the Appeal:
The manly course OF the APPEAL in It's
. advocacy OF any principles Involving the
social or material interests If the country,
its sound theories, aud great practical re.
sults arising often from is careful d. ductions
OF the situation, prompts me to ask a short
space in your valuable paper to again cali
the attention of the Governor of Mississippi
TO the Importance OF converting the Legis a.
lure that prompt action may be taken to
save our people of the Yszoo- Mississippi
Delta recurrence of The foods of the past
two yea-s. And why do We ask and urge
this extraordinary course? Because as an
intsgrant part Of the great Commonwealth
embracing an area of 4 900, 900 acres of az rich
soil as eau be found on the face of the globe,
producing annually fully enc third Of the rev
enues of the State, We feel that We can clsim
IN an emergency like this SUCH aid as will
necessarily follow through the deliberations
aud counsels Of her assembled wisdom, Be.
cause fully one third of the wealth producing
population Of the State, unless supported In
this trying hour by Legislative action, their
fields 60 TO waste, their labor emigrsles, and
as q consequence, the accumulation OF years
is swept away, Incidentally and beyond re-
covery. Because in The summer months we
can get cheaper labor for
THE ERECTION OF OUR LEVELS,
and when the winter rains set in the work
will be solid and compact. Because the
regular session Of the Legislature ia in Jan.
uary, when it will be too late 10 protect our
selves from the spring foods II is claimed
by selfish few that the expense incurred by
an extra session would work hardly snd bur-
densome on great community, who were
bound by no sympathetic links incident 10
and arising from community OF interest
Admitting the argument (Which, however, is
as fsilscious as it is unchariiaoe), what a
commentary on the amor patIiG, the Chris
tiau-enlightened eharitsbleness of our hill
brethren. Such fellows would have made
excellent guards over defenseless prisoners,
or when Ia camp would have hid their
tobacco through fear that some poor impov-
erished comrade should ask them for a chew
PENNY WISE AND POUND FOOLISH NOTION
too. For grant that it would involve the
outlay of 100000, and it need not exceed
one filth OF that amount, whst would b. that
sum in comparison with the absolute i'm
poverishment and utter ruin OF our afflicted
region? Again it Is urged that the legiela-
ture might protrsct its session, thereby en-.
dangering the peace and stability OF come of
It's past attachments. Who are cur Leg
lslators? Are they not the chosen
and honored representatives, of the
pcOpIS! 1ueu INV mdllClOuEIJ aOtuTu
is the reflection that they cannot
be trusted. TuHics county alone last year
suffered loss of $4,000, and l doubt not
G0ahouIa can sum up double those figures;
while Quitmsn, Tallahatchie. and Sunfow-
er's losses are proportionstely great. The
loss OF crop for one year, which really is a
great disaster, yet the collateral agencies fol-
lowing are immessursbly greater, as the
SWEEPING AWAY
and destruction of fencing lose Of stock, and
worse than all, the dishesrtening effects on
eur labor. j know OF ss many as half
dozen valuable plantations in Tunica county
lying idle and actually going TO waste for the
reason that labor cannot be secured 10 work
them. Ia 1879 this great Delta produced near.
ly 100000 bales OF cotton. It's possibilities in
| the near future, with good system of leyses,
are incaIeulsbly great. Whether it is best
for the upper 10 unite with the lower levee
| district in the formation OF a common board
| 10 hard Tor anyone to say. 1t has It's advsn-
tsges and disadvantages, and fual settle
| ment of the vexed question will be its only
| salvation. The writer knows and appreciates
the high character of Gov. Lowry-knew
him as
| AN ABLE, HONEST COUNSELLOR
| and as a soldier sans pettr et sans repr0che
| and il convinced that whatever action he
| takes or this truly serious call question will
be the result of careful, honest and sinceTe
deliberatiou. 1t would be folly to urge that
the Governor is not fully sensible of the
effects of the recent great floods IN the
cotton districts, az his familiarity with this
eubject Is simply in keeping with his init
mate knowledge of all the details connected
with the duties of his Office. He is a man
OF brosd views and kindly, generous heart
very deliberate, sometimes slow, yet wher
his mind is fully made up fifty
| CONCENTRATED CYCLONES
couldn't bulge him. Flsttery and abuse
alike fall ss harmessy al the dimpled hard
of an infant on the corrugated hide OF au
| alligator. He ia sensible of the fact lat tn,
eyes OF the whole State are fastened up5r
him, and that the step, when once taken
cannot be relraced. He knowa, too, that i
this particular section of the State does no
get relief, and is sgain visited by the crush
ing disasters of the past two years, within
another twelve months the greater part 0
this vast Delta will be wilderness, it
owners impoverished, its homes abandoned
and, instead of an enlightened community
with its boundless fields OF grain and cotton
the deadly moccasin will bask on it's mud
covered piszzss and the panther and wildcs
will scream a requiem to dying civilization
C.