The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-06-05
Moses Folsom. Correspondent of
the Burlin sfOn IEnwk-Eye.

BOonVlHe Pleader.
While in Jackson, we made the
acquaintance of Mr.. Moses Folsom,
correspondent of the Burlington
iowa Hawk-eye, who has been in
Mississippi sometime visiting differ
ent portions of the State for the pur-
pose of writing up its climate, soils,
productions, people, etc, for his paper.
He said he intended to send a copy
Of the Hawk-Eye containing his let
ters on Mississippi to every paper in
the State In visiting the Asylums,
we rode in the same buggy with Mr..
Folsom. We considered him very
intelligent man and disposed to do
justice to the South. But we had no
idea there was particle of wit or
humor in him. To show how decep-
tive appearances are and how much
mistaken we were in the man, we
publish the following extracts from
Mr., Folsom,s remarks at the banquet
at the Edwards House, in response
to the toast, ''The Press of Iowa:
"My venerable namesake, the law
giver of the ancient Hebrew, people
from Nebo's lonely summit looked
down upon old Canaan, saw its vine
yards ofjuicy scuppernongs,its groves
Of magnolias, its peach orchards and
fig trees. He feasted his eyes upon
the lovely valley Of the Jordan, and
yet it couldn't have been much of
feast, indeed, scarcely more than
peek from the lofty mountains unless
he was blessed with 'Hawkeyes.' I've
been permitted to come down, not
from mountain, but from the prairie,
into the new Canaan, the modern
land Of promise; and viewed lovher
valleys than that Of the Jordan-that
of the Pearl, the Noxubee, the Sun
flower and that grandest of all, the
mighty Mississippi, the richest, long
est and most productive valley ON
the great round globe. I've sampled
your wine, smelled your oil, cotton
seed oil, and perhaps tasted it in pie
crust Or fried potatoes and feasted on
corn bread and pies and things. Your
Ku-Klux have been firing at me ever
since I've been here-fring food at
me, cake, coffee, new peas, onions,
strawberries and cabbage; and !
can't stand it any longer, and I'm
going home; and II tel our people
about you-and III tell them this:
That l never shook more honest
hands and more Democratic ones,
never looked into fairer and more in
telligent faces and never enjoyed a
warmer hospitality, a more chiyalric
treatment than in Mississippi. And
I'll tell them too,that the industrious
law-abiding-mind- his own business
kind-of-a-man can speak his honest
| sentiments, worship at any shrine,and
live as completely free from danger
in Mississippi as in Iowa, and what is
quite important, can get rich with
half the energy he wastes upon the
Northern farm, snow-clad half the
year"
"lf ! stay down here much longer
I'll become a New Mississippian,
but Pm going back; start tonight
and I'll carry impressed upon the
ledger" of my memory happy re.
membranes of jackson, its people
and editors, as we'll as of the mem
bers of the Press Association, and !
shall devote all my Power and il
'Lowd' voice if necessary, proclaim
the grandeur of your landscape, the
vastness of your forests, the fertility
of your soil, the navagability of youI
rivers, with necessary appropria-
tions,) the healthiulneos Of your eli
mate, the beauty of your women, the
gallantry of your men, and the uni
versal Intelligence and hospitality o.
the PeoPle-the Democratic portion