The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-10-04
"ALLIANCE' AND THE GAZETTE

IL treat as we feel, the weak. i'll
hatured, uncalled for, sneaking and
co|ardly attack, under the nom dc
plume of ALLIANCE, we would pass it
over in silence, as beneath the dignity
of o decent reply. "Caccaoethes scrib-
endi," or the itch for writing, has been
an af1iction of all literary ages,
whether ancient or modern, and "Al-
lance" has got it so badly, thatit ap-
pears in almost every line of his Vi
cious but stupid attack on the GA
zETTE as the friend of the Alliance.
We state as a truth, that we have
published the call of every meeting,
their proceedings, whether legislative
or resolutions, separate and all other
typographical work in their favor,
without even placing their name on
the debit side Of our books. That is
the sort OF friendship which this over
loaded critic would deride. How the
"offcial organ' of the Alliance got on
the GAZETTE we know no more than
that which Mr.. Bob Payne published
while 1t was in his hands. IF there is
any thing wrong about it, the present
proprietors and editors of the paper
are not aware of 1t. Whether organ
or not, friend or foe of the Alliance
that body never asked favora far in its
columns, which it did not get CRATES.
The Alliance is a two fold creation,
public and private. We only know of
their work as it appears in public
lectures, proceeding resolutions, etc,
which they publish at their frequent
State and county meetings. What
they do inside Of their secret lodges
we do not know, and never had the
curiosity to ask. Amongst the mat
tiers that had received more or less Of
their attention we mentioned the fol-
lowing: "They discuss manu-
factories, trades, legislation, constitu-
tional conventions, the price of sup
plies, the interest on money, mono
poles, and every thing else in which
they have 10 immediate or direct in
%terest, as in the improvement Of their
lands" which we grouped together,
in order to show the earnestness Of
our appeal to the condition of their
lands, which we honestly thonght
they had overlooked, having seen no.
thing on the subject in all their public
proceedings, which had fallen under
our eye.
The thrust at the GAZETTE and its
editors is wholly gratuitous and un-
called, for as w can say with the
soIemnity of truth thut We never
wrote a line about the Alliance but
In the kindest and most fostering
spirit, and we are willing to place
the al ,icle that we have written be-
fore any intelligent fair minded jury
Of the Alliance for a verdict of ap-
prevail. This however, we will say,
If friends Of the Alliance who do not
belong to it are to be held up as enc
mics for fair and honest criticism on
what they do newspaper men will
keep shy of them. We a state for
the information Of the public that
intelligent members of that body
statedto us voluntarily that the
whole article vas true and well
timed. We have no objection 10
any one c~riticizing whatever ap-.
pears in the GAgETTM when ii Is
done in % spirit of candor, for the
benefit of truth and not to injure the
paper as seems the almost irresist-
able conclusion Of many.
Let US analyze this fire article writ
ten by "Alliance,' on the fame of
which he expects to bear otfthe hon
ors of a Jurius. First he complains
that we did not give the Alliance
credit 0 fthis prolific year an idea
so simple and so untrue that we
wonder how 3 mar of sense could
come to such o conclusion. We
simply mentioned '43 and $50 as two
of the most remarkable years in
our memory for natures c~ornocnpia
of plenty. What has the Alliance
to do with it? There wasno AL
lance in '43 and we rather think
the gracious God had more TODD with
1t than all other agencies, unless
it can be proven that everyfarmer
in the country belongs t. it, both
white and black, as the people
who do not belong to it have ~ good
crops as those who do. Thus we ans
wer this silly charge.
Let us say to this sage writer, he
puts the Alliance up as responsible
for all of nature gifts this year, and
makes the farmers prosperous and
happy in one part of his lucid adj
dress and u few sentences below he
comes with a gush of sentiment at
their poverty, overwork, etc. But
we have pursued this rigamarole OF
nonsense already too long wherein
efforts at rethoric, pathos and logic
have completely failed.
We are under all the circumstan-
ces, compelled to believe that the mo-
tive of "Alliance" was to predujice
the members of the Alliance against
the paper which we try honestly tc
represent. It is our only means OF
SUPPORT at this time and the mai
that will do that ignorantly we can
pity, but the man that will attempt II
wilfully, as we must believe that"Al
lance" did, we can but denounce
as an unqualified writer, and a Falstaf1
in valor. Fair and generous criticism
we not only do not fear, but court il
from libiral and cultivated minds
but to have our words distorted, oul
meaning perverted, our Language!
misapplied and our motives impugned
by one afflicted with q merbid pro
pensity to crush rater than build up
to destroy rather than help, discloses
to us not merely the meanest side o
human nature, but the meanest MAJ
that wears lis livery which we verify
believe "Alliance" to be.
! Misfortunes seldom come alone,
They seem to be with the strong III
terest of operation and prefer I,
travel in groups. Where we penned
a few days ago, the death OF Mrs. Ben
Harrison, we little thought that we
should so soon hear the twang OF the
i~nsatracte arches bow, laying the
person OF the daughter soon to follo"
footsteps of the devoted mother in the
dark rally and shadow of death;
Miss Willie had reached that period
Of life, when the landscape Ia all far
aaa hoartifnl with no dark. drIeu