The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-09-01
Misslssippl's Progress and Re
sources.

The development of the State of Mis-
s;ssippi during the las; decade and the
| rapid advance Of its material interest
r. call the wonderful growth in popula
tion aud wealth OF what were our greai
Northwestern States, Illinois, Wisconsin
| Iowa and Minnesota, during the ten
| years intervening between 1850 and
1860.
Eleven years ago Mississippi wa-
under the dominion of a carpet bag
government. with the alien Adelber'
! Ames at the head of its affairs. All thai
kept that government from inaugurating
as wild and reckless an era of extrava
gance in the State government as thai
which characterized their control OF
power in other States was that it was
unable TO so largely work upon the con
| hdeDce OF home or foreign capitalists,
aud could not procure the money from
| abroad TO keep up an eight years
political orgy, as they did in South
| Carolina and Louisiana. But the Radi-
cal poititians OF Mississippi, though
/ failing to raise funds on extraneous
credit, partially made up for this failure
| by tleeclng the people at home; and the
taxpayers groaned under the exactions
of the corrupt county governments and
the confiscating impositions levied upon
their towns and cilies.
| la the year 1875 the long era of mis-
rule came TO an abrupt and final ending.
It suffered an overthrow as sudden and
complete az if the bright sword of rey0-
luton had severed the Gordian knot
that bound down the interests and the
liberties Of the people. The repre-
sentative sons of Mississippi took control
of the reins of their State government.
| 1t is more than ten years now since the
contamination Of that auspiciOus event.
! Yet one year had not passed before the
state showed how its fetter5 had been
shattered, and now, with newly circu-
iatlng currents of activity and reinvigo
rated muscles and sinews, it was enabled,
under the benefcent influence of honest
gOvernment, to resume its march along
tue highroaGs OF peace and prosperity
side BY side with It's liberated sister
States of the South.
There have since then been ten years
% obliterate the traces of Republican
corruption, ten years of reduced TAXA
lion, ten years of wisely expended
pubic appropriations, ten years of Il
vastly improved public school system
tOr both races, ten years of building of
poly technical schools and scientific in
sLlJutlons Tor the professional training
vi young men and women, ten years OF
railroad building across the length and
breadth OF the State, ten years of the
conversion ol villages aud towns into
manufacturing cities, and ten years for
sending statesmen to represent the great
Commonwealth in the halls aud the
forum of the National Legislature; in
effect, ten years ut progress and civilIza
tIun to succeed four of war, three OF
martial law and military dtspotism aud
elgnt OF carpet.bag misrule.
During those ten years manufactures
nave beeL planted aud widely extended
at Natchez, Port Gibson, Nicksburg,
Greenville, Wesson, jackson, Meridian,
Coiuinb bus, Aberdeen. Holly Springs and
many oeh,r cities and owns; three fine
colleges and scientific schools have been
founded and put into successful opera
tion; Two splendid trunk lines OF rail
road have been run through the richest
agricultural regions and IImbered sec
lions OF the State, from one extremity
tO the other; the splendid 1azoo Valley
aud Mississippi river counties, the center
Ol luG AuutEtCdll GOtlOh bCAhs hdNC ONSu
reclaimed from overthrow or protected
by the building of an intact leyee sys-
ten; the fertile bluff land counties of
Western Mississippi have been dotted
with new villages and towns; the pine
forests along the Illinois Central Rail
road have been converted into blooming
gardens and productive orchards; the
seacOast villages along the line OF the
louisville and Nashville Railroad have
grown into thriving and populous towns /;
the ports of export have largely increas-
ed their commerce; and the agricultural
and stock raising industries of the whole
State have been vastly extended, while
population and capital have been stead
Ily drifting into the State in a stream
which will be so augmented at an early
date as to bring Mississippi forward by
the next census above the position OF
several more States on the long list OF
our Union.- Times Democrat.