The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1884-03-08
MISSISSIPPI.

Mr. NJ II Ingrim, editor Of the Wilma
mac, Qnd.D Democratic Journal, VIII
! was on recent visit to this city, pub
fishes the following article in his paper:
During the editors visit TO the South
| he made few notes Of his trip, bri ;
report OF which may be OF interest to th
readers of the Democratic journal.
From Chicago to Cairo over the Hi.
nois Central Railroad, the general ap.
pearance OF the country does not differ
very materially from that Of our own
State. 1t is after one crosses the q ~
river and enters Kentucky that mark
ed difference in soil, climate and i'm.
provements is noted. As the travel
passes on down through Tennessee, tn
most noticeable thing il the presence a.
every station of crowds of colored people
who seem to have nothing to do but
await the arrival of all the trains. Tb y
are, however, generally orderly and II
spectful, and while they are alway
ready to thankfully receive the gilt :
9 en- small coin, we have never seen a
d,rky begging for money.
The land along our route througl
Tennessee and Mississippi is hifly, and
marked by innumerabe washouts. Th'
oil is mostly ofa reddish cast, but j
Productive, yielding from half bale to
one bale OF cotton per acre.
We found that Grenada, Miss, ha
.hanoed hut little from the Grenada o
taute>bellum days. The city had increns'
Il its population to $500, but If tn
hundreds whom we once knew, there W
met perhaps not over 25 Of our old ac-
quaintanccs. The yellow fever which
scourged that city in 1878 had swept
away perhaps 500 white and black, WI
| were stricken down in the dread ems
brace of death during that ill>fated year
Since 1876 Grenada has not been trou-
bled with carpet-bagyers and scalswags
| In that year the negroes voted the Dem
ocrotic ticket with the whites and clean
ed out the whole gang of thieves that
| had been robbing the people in an otfic'
! ial capacity since the war. 1t was .
good riddance of detestable "white trash,
and from that day to this both races have
gotten along amicably, taxes have beeI
| reduced, and altogether the people are
encouraged at the prospect Of more pros
porous times.
Northern men who enter Mississippi
are received with the egreatest cordially,
and welcomed by that people Ms heartily
as man would welcome long-atrent
brother. Every inducement possible il
offered to men Of enterprise and capita
from the North to settle amongst them,
and no people could treat their visitors
from anntber section more hospitality
than do those whole,sou.ed Southrons of
Grenada. And it is the same way all
through the South. Hostility 70 the
Yankees" on the part OF those people
exists only in the imagination OF lying
Republican newspaper correspondents.
IL is said that every respectable white
man IL Mississippi is Democrat, and
upon inquiry we found the statement
verified 10 isr as Grenada county, Miss,
il concerned. When questioned as 70
their preference for President. the uni
yersal answer was: eve are for the
uomine. 0, the National Democratic
convention; we have no choice. Should
Mcdonald be the man, he is our choice.
Large amounts Of cotton, notwith-
standing the muddy roads, was being
hauled to Grenada. 1t looked odd to
we team consisting OF ore mule in
front OF a yoke ofnxen pulling one bale
IL .o,4..., Ma,,, uutyroas own their own