The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1884-01-31
VIII Not Down.

From the Geographic report Of
congressional proceedings published
yesterday, it win Doe seen that Scna-
tor Sherman has taken tic initiative
in inaugurating q bloody shirt"
campaign, and has made TIE events
which transpired in Copiah county
the basis Of tn investigation that will
be used as so many others have be
fore, for making political capital for
the republican party.
1t has seemed tn us that Che de
plorable killing Of j. p Matthews
on the day OF the last State election,
was an event That demanded inves
tigaticn in the FIRST place by the
proper courts of the State, and if
the counts failed To do their duty, an
inquiry of the strictest kiEd was due
from the legislature of the State. A
general investigation Of the transac-
tons on the part Of the State !cgisla
tue hv an impartial committee com
posed of members from both political
parties, would have in our opinion,
been highly proper, but We can
scarcely see as the transaction at
fettrd Il State election alone, where
there j. ground Tor the interference
of the United States. Senator John
Sherman himself will scarcely find
in the clause of the | rcamUle to he
constitution of the United States
from which he quotes, grounds for
the Interference Of the general gov
eminent il matter SO purely be
longing to the State government as a
State election.
Nor do we believe that SenaIo or
erman expects to do more than
to bring the subject prominently be
fore the pcop.e Of the country, in the
debate he expects to arise in the
sena'e on his resolutions. He has
already, through the report &C the
/ Associated Press, in far more
ffectuaI manner than any other he
could have adopted, placed the very
objectionable resolutions Cf the Co
piah county democracy before the
| people of the United States. From
one end Of this union to the other,
these resolutions were yesterday
morning read and commented on
The resolutions are placed OIL record
in the proceedings of the senate ready
to be referred to 10y every rrpubli-
can speaker in The coming presiden-
tial canvass to be held up as part Of
the "MisHissippi plan"
II is well known that the action o.
the meeting which adopted these
resolutions was not approved BY 3
large majority of the people of The
State, and that only revolutionary
necessity, which has ceased 10 exist
has ever been held bv them to justify
violent measures. How much bette Ell
then 1t would have b en- for our owl
State to have shown to the VOL ID
that its peo lie were not in sympathy
with the course taken by the people
Of Copiah county to relieve them
selves of what they might have re
garded as a great evil.
A revolutionary period ha:
existed in some Of Il c States q til,
South since the close Of the war, .
period ia which all the interests 0
the business population demanded
pre- t"cticn even at the expense o
violence. But that time has passed
and there is no longer excuse for any
ether than the ordinary methods il
State or county politics. 1t is time
that this should be made lain t
every indis iGual in tic State, ii
order that every one may feel tina
he has the right to vote his cpnvic
tons without fear or favor, and tina
the stalwarts Of the John Sherman
stripe in the North may not h
longer al l. to make capital Of every
quarrel, personal or political, tina
occur in the State -Natchez Demo
crat, JaD. p.