The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-01-24
Northern Immigration.
WATAGA, ILL, Jan. @, 1Ss

Mr.. Il. Il. Hobbs, BrOOkhaven, MISS:
| DEAR FRIEND send you the fol-
lowing slip from the Times-Democrat,
showing you that the tide has set in
for q flow of Northern people into the
Southern States, and to Mississippi
in particular:
Mr.. A. T. Denton, of Illinois, with his
family and household effects, Teac he'd
here this morning aud will locate.
Mr.. Il. s. Barnes, Of Michigan, is also
here with bis family, aud will engage IN
truck iarming.F The outlook for this class
of immigration Is very promising here,
and many are looked for in January, rs
several parties from Iowa, Illinois, Michi-
gan and other Western States are inyes-
ing quite largely in real estate, with a
view to settling the land with q thrifty
class of Western people.-Brookhare
Special to the Times-Democrat.
Now il they are not disturbed in
their free political opinions, whether
Republicans, Democrats or Prohibi-
tionists, have no doubt You will find
them valuable citizens, full of indus
try, enterprise and development, rs a
rule. At least hope they will prove
OF course we Republicans feel much
elated over the election Of Harrison
and Morton, and hope for fDe results,
especially to the South. want to see
us united and homogeneous people,
with only one object in view, to be
truly American, and all be happy and
prosperous.
wish was South again this win
ter. Very truly yours,
| RANSOM RARCOCK
| Mr.. Babcock, who is well TODD
and intelligent Illinois farmer, has
spent one or two winters in the South
with his wife to get the benefit of our
genial climate, and is very pleasant
lily remembered by many of the citi-
zeDs of Brooknaven, where he sojOmn-
ned a few days during one of his
trips.
| We fear, however, that our esteem
ed friend, whom we gave credit for
being a very close observer, has
studied the Southern people to little
purpose, if, as intimated by him, he
thinks there is danger here of the
Northern and Western people who are
now coming South being disturbed
in the free exercise of their political
opinions, whether Republicans, Dem
ocrats or PrOhibitiOnists." The facts
are, SO far as Mississippi is concerned,
at least, people from the North and
West, who come here in good faith and
with an honest purpose to settle and
identify themselves with the country,
will be welcomed with open arms by
our people, it matters not what may
be their political creed. 1t is only the
political adverturer and demagogue,
who comes South to make trade of
politics and stir up strife between the
races, like the carpet-baggers of doz-
Ell years ago, who Will find this an I'M
congenial cline and that his room is
preferred to his company. Northern
men like Capts. w. j. VanZant, j.
J. Helms and Geo. Lacey, of BOgue
Chitto, in this county, and Messrs.
Frank Parsons, of Montgomery, and
George Harding, of Brookhaven, and
others, who came here for the pur-
pose of investing their capital, lOea-
ting in business and making this their
home, have never felt their political
right in the least abridged, and are
not likely to meet with such an expe-
rience. All of these gentlemen would
no doubt testify that they have as
much practical freedom here as they
ever had in the North.
Whether the election of Gen. Har-
rison will prove a blessing to the
South, as our friend hopes, depends
entirely upon the Southern policy he
adopts when he takes his seat as Pres
ident. If he fills his Southern ap-
pOiBtments with reputable white Re-
publicans, who have and are entitled
to the respect of the Southern Demo-
Gratis, and leaves to the Southern States
the regulation of their own local
affairs, there will be little or no
complaint from any quarter, and his
administration will be cheerfully ac-
quiesced inand fruitful of much good.
But if Mr.. Harrison should take it in
to head that the South needs "recon-
structing" again, and appoints the
worse element of white Republicans
to Office, with here and there an Off
ciOus negro politician, with a view to
reviving the Republican party as it
was known in reconstruction days and
restoring Republican State Govern
ments elected by the negroes, his
administration will be anything else
but "a bIessing",it will be a failure
and curse, so far as this section is
concerned.
There is one thing upon which the
Southern white people have re-
solved as Interchangeable as the
law of the Modes and the Per-
SLAMS, and that is that they will
never again submit to being ruled
by an ignorant and inferior race, it
matters not under what party it is at
tempted, and the people of the North