The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-12
MISSISSIPPI IN MAY.
A Travellers improssions-Fine People
and Good Crops-Capt. Il. II. Taylor.
To the Editor Of The Appeal

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and Good Crops-Capt. r. II. Taylor.
To the Editor Of The Appeal;
Speed the soft Intercourse from soul 10 soul
And wafi Sigh from Indus TO the pole
Having Travelled further in the past Two
weeks than the Greeks under Xenophon
in fifteen months. 7 explored a portion Of
the great State Of Mississippi, from which
| am Just now returned. While with flags
and banners, brass bands aud trump
eta, cannon aud muskc,ry, fireworks,
sky rocket and illuminaiions, hundreds Of
thousands wero celebrating the centennial
in New York pursued the even tenor Of
my way along highways and hyways, by
the banks OF the laz0o. the Warrior, the
Yallabusha, the Tallahatchio and other
rivers in that great adjoining State where
Mississippians reap their corn, aud wine,
and oil, aud Plenty leaps 20 laughing life
with her redundant horn"
They are q gallant and chiyalrous poo
pc, these Mississippians, and hOspilnblc
To the people within their gates; easily
cXcitablc - love or hatred, TO tears or
laughter, n occasion may require. and
ready TO return a favor or resent an insult
| with interest simple and compound.
Here one might show how the lack Of
immigration. the unadulteration with for.
cign races, has preserved and crystalilcd
In this state the pure American type 10
general In most OF the Southern States ai.
iorling n contrast TO the populations OF
the Northern States, where various races
interminglc aud abound.
but ~ this Is trcspassing ON the domain
OF anthropology; LOT others inquire what pr-
culiar circumstances OF hcrcdity have pro-
duecd such types OF protoplasm rs Ingalls,,
OF Kansas, Foraker, Of Ohio, Blaine, OF
Maine, and others OF that ilk.
Rayenous auxnos moutons. | found the
crops everywhere looking well, corn espc.
cially NJ. Cotton, ON account Of the cool
nights, was somewhat backward, In many
places not bigger than a small gcraninm IN
a lady's bOudoif. but rain aud sunshine
will soon rccupUrato Il until one way with
another Il viii bring another SiO1,OO0, 900
into the cxchoquor u the planting interest
50 mote Il be. At thc Namndah Hotel,
sardis, at Jim Andcnon's Oxford, nj Can.
ton, ut Duck I'LL lwhcrc the genial Col.
Bini0rd, who commanded the gallant
Fifteenth Mississippi. was born and stil
resides in the cottage OF his birth, at Her
nando, Jackson, New Albany, Tupelo and
many other booming towns, including
Pontotoc. found pleasant sioppin,
, places, and can say with him who sang 0
divers things:
! Whoc'or has tmyclci HES dull ruunds,
Mhrnucf BIZ starss may have hcUn.
b Nuu slrh IN think be- aluhys found
y lis WafmCsi welcome Ia an inn.
{ but one sentiment prevailed whcroyc
my footsteps led me In regard 10 tho up
preaching election for Governor. !
seems certain that Capt Robert II. Tay
lor is tho coming man-tho mex
Governor. All Glasses, rich an,
Q poor, Jew and Gentle. speak OF hin
4 with unbOundcd aud undisguiscd admira
ton, Capt TAYLOR Is n gentleman OF mag
, nihccnt character and atlalnments, q
> splendid business habits, aud in all the ~
laiiuns Of life h worthy IT admiration, AM
9 fitted ior the highest office In the State.
: have never heard a soul speak otherwis
= than complimentary OF him, 10 II
y about iorcgone conclusion tina
q lac will be elected II seems Z
me from all have heard OF Capt Taylo
that II might DO said OF him as Hamlc
N said OF his father. ellis life was gcnil
I. and tho elements % mixed In him tina
u nature might stand up and say TO all III
world, This Is n man. =" AZ any rate ih
:. impression with regard 10 him Is that !
/. the Office OF Governor his motto will b
4 fiat iusiiiia ruat coolun." VISITOR
\ Memphis, May 10.