The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-02-28

nns rule Mississippi, and rule il right
let them magnify the law and en-
force justice, without fear or favor,
against high and low, rich aud poor,
black and white alike, and trust to G cd
and time for the vindieation Of their
course; hut cover up and condone fla
grant wrong doing for fear it will be
talked about abroOd-NEVER!
We wrote the article referred to
because we believed it true--not that
we took any pleasure in reciting the
facts set forth. The situation is
growing serious in our State as to
crime, and we hoped in this feeble way
to direct attention to it, and arouse
our people to apply the needed rene
dies. We deny that anything We
said was prompted by desire to
make a personal attack on the Gov
ernor, and we challenge any one who
takes issue with us to disprove our
statements.
Nor are we alone i'm this opinion as
to increasing lawIessness and the lax
administration of justice. 1t is ex-
citing the attention of papers that
have always been noted as specially
friendly to- the present State admins
tratiou.
The following is what the Natchez
Democrat, Lowry paper and usually
Il very conservative journal, had to
say in an article published about the
same time as the Leaders,:
1t is about time that the law-abid-
ing people of the State, the lovers of
peace and order, the self-respecting,
the respecters of our enlightened
manhood, the respectors of our boast
ed Southern love of fair play, the
respecters of all that is ennObling in
human nature, should arise as if of
one accord in the denunciatiOn of law
lessness, inhumanity and Outrages as
pcrpetrated in the State, and rescue
her fair name from the shadow which
the evil-minded have cast upon it.
Mississippi can no longer shut her eyes
to her oWn sins, but must ut once
denounce and punish wrong when and
where it occurs, and foster obedience
to law continuously and e0nscien-
tiously. Letther be no more mObs,
no more Kemper county affairs, no
more negro hanging, no more terror
ism, no more cries of race conflict,
but let there be order, peace, the ex
ecution of the laws; let us be civilized
and decent, giving our enemies of the
North no cause for cOndemning us,
and increasing the number of allies in
the North among the better class,
whom we ask to come and live with
us. This will DO more for immigra
ton than aught else.
The Nicksburg Commercial Herald,
the blindest Lowry partisan in the
State, except the Clarion-Ledger and
Brandon Republican, had this to say
about the same time:
ave have for years warned our
readers, that it is worse than the
crime itself, for the law-abidlng citi-
zens to permit murders and man
slaughter to go unpublished, but still
they are not punished one time IN ten.
We may delay and delay and avoid
this duty, but we must come to it, or
crime TiU continue to increase"
The Yazoo Herald, a paper that has
always been friendly to the State ad-
ministration and disposed to spread
the mantle of charity over its faults,
asks in all soberness in it's issue of the
18th inst, i'll a long article, sis there
law in Mississippi2' and then goes
on to tell of Il would-be murderer sent
to the Penitentiary from Yazoo county
after two expensive trials, who has
been seen in citizens clothes on the
streets of Jackson having good time
with friends.
No, the condition we described is only
too true, as borne out by this and
other testimony, and if the present
State administration does not do all
in its power to put on the brakes
during the remaining months of its
existence, the people must not fail to
elect one that will, or else see our
State ultimately brought a condition
of affairs which is preferable only te
anarchy itself.