Signal-Copiahan. (Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-01-14
"a Nell ofa Theory


"A He'll Of o Theory" the Courier
In its last weekly issue,
takes oil +. ID. NJ, the Washing.
ton correspondent Of the Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette, In the follow.
ing pathetic style: =.
This Il his theory: 49,. /
..Thcre IL nothingso distatcsful and
annoying to Bourbonisln rs men who
run about opening mines, building
and mills, and factories, and
churches and scllOol.houscs, and who
go In Cor progress and enterprises. keep
thingslstirrcd up and encourage TRACE,
aud commerce, and industry, and de-
yclopn,cnt, education Of tie common
people, and equality and all TINT sort
Of nonsense
Ever, where else In the world, cx-
cept In the South, that which cnrichcs
Is sought after. In the South, alone
Of oil the earth, the people love prop
crty for It's own sake. They prefer
Indebtedness and squnlor suffered
among themselves to wealth and splen-
dor enjoyed and sharsa With the hated
Yankee. Truly, the. sort, Of Yankee
they must have encountered must have
been q very bad sort of Yankee to
work such a reversal IN the objects of
human desire! What All estimate Of
ignorance and malice Northern editors
must put upon their readers to serve
them such rot as thisl :
Meanwhile, these twenty years tens
Of thousands Of honest, enterprising
Northern men have conc South, have
labored and prospered, have had no
sort Of trouble or friction, have mar
ricd, or had their children married,
aud are to-day so identified with the
communitics where sioy live that their
very origin IL forgotten. They did
not come ~ niOnsinR politicians to
break into Office by the aid Of the mill
tary, or as unscr,ipul0us canp-follow-
crs To pillage an already ruined people.
They did not come To revoluti0nizc
the customs, the habits and. the prcju-
dies OF society and religion by fore
and fraud. They did not come " al
~ themselves with the ignorance and
superstition Of the weak and plant
black population, to arouse its fears,
to fomcnt Its passions and to set II
against the native whites. They did
not come to taunt and jeer.
They came like men Of business and
men 81 sense, brin ging he hostages
Of good manners and good intentions
with them, rs all men must do who
propose homes for themselves In un-
familiar places. They discarded or
they did not entertain tho .'convic-
ton" that the native-born Southern
white has but two rights-thc right 10
I've hanged and the right to DO damn
ed. They :assi,nllatcd' TO the duty
OF getting acquainted with their now
ncighbors and OF a,ccrtaininE tho
drift Of public opinion. which In the
South, M elsewhere, Is based upon
common wants and needs. They
cultivated the offices OF good will by y
dceOrous observance Of that moiesty
which doth most become stranger
by amiability Of disposition and civilty
OF department. They prosper who
,lO the like, North and South, East or
West, and for all such-wherevertlicy
come from.-thc South has to-day, IN
she has had these twenty years, open
srms aud welcoming, apprcciatirc
heart,
hut let us not be too ELUSIVE. II
will spoil the game OF the n,alignants,
who's occupation aud profits will he
gone IL the outrage mill IL not allowed
to grind out an e9al onal case.
One would almost he persuaded,
upon a full review Of i. ID. NJ IS
article, in which, speaking Of the
Virginia election says he that the
night after Lees election, q certain
Republicans house was "smearcd
all over with red paint and 6ltl,"
so that he writes: "My home was
made llidcOus. 1t was bad enough
before but il is much worse now; l
don't know what in Gods name /
am to do. l have every cent | have
Invested here aud can not sell for
halt what I paid. We live like so
cial outcasts,and at school the neigh
bors children will not play with
ours, and none Of theFpeoplo visit
us" SC. That +. u. NJ. was Bur.
nett writing up the Copiah county.
BY the way where Ia Burnett
What has become Of that Board
of Supervisors
ANOTHER VIEW OF THE SUBJECT,
In strange contrast with the
foregoing article from F. ID. NJ. is
the following from Henry Ward
Beecher ... ..~
A New York special says: At the
.Forcfathcrs' banquet last night,
Rev. Henry Ward Bccchcr, In res
ponding: "Not alone In the North
were tile Puritans to he found. There
were a great many Puitans IN
Georgia (tlicy werc ignorrnt, but
they meant right, and In Alabama,
and in North Carolina, and I think
there were some. In South CAROLINA, IL
have no doubt there were multitude
of men there who thought they were
upholding the cause Of liberty; and
they gave themslvcS o upholding
that cause rs I almost think no other
people did ON the face Of the earth.
Whs9 see what the Sontb dared and
stroye to do, and saw everything pass
ing away from fhem-lthrir mons
entire families Of wealth
growing poor, everything that could
make their land attractive disappears
ing, yet struggled on, and struggled
to the last-I say that there was hero
lam there that, when party lines are
cffred and party feelings have gone
down, the historian will delight TO
celebrate. (Applausc,]
THEY ACTED USDER FALSE LIGHTS,
but they acted nobiy in their sphere.
In the presence Of my fellow-citizcns
Of the North wish to pay this tribute
to my fellow country men Of the South.