Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-11-10
THE GREAT RAILWAY AND DUTY OF
THE PEOPLE.

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TIL. PEOPLE.
The Illinois Central Railway Co. has
issued pamphlet containing q dcscrip-
ton of many towns and even Of villages
along the line of that mighty inter
State highway. The publication viii
be circulated everywhere North AMI
East aud the people Of towns and vii
lagos here that would derive proper
advantages from this generous inter
vcntion in their behalf 10y the potent
corporation. should supplement the
Railways action by, making practical
propositions 90 Northern mill and fac
tory owners. Those Northern people
are thoroughly misled by those who in
sist that the occupation of the people
here consists mainly in hanging negroes
and in Furnishing that nameless and
horrible crime to which a class Of col
ored people, of recent years. have be-
come much addicted. Twenty years
ago such an offence. on the part of ne
groes, was wholly unknown. Therefore
have many students of race peculiari-
ties aud of changes which the negro,
and perhaps the white race, undergoes,
under changed systems of life, of edu
cation and of industries, concluded
that systems and methods and books
and teachings of Tourgees and Free
schools have wrought these transfer
nations in negro character and CON
duet which repel strangers and cooper
ate with federal systems of vigorous
taxation, in repelling immigrants from
these hapless States.
Plainly enough, however potent the
cause and grievous the crime, and how
ever intense the hatred and exaspera-
ton begotten by these acts of worse
than demonism, the law, and not the
fury of kinsmen and friends of defence
less victims of savage depravity, should
wreak proper vengeance and the wrong
done a household should not be per-
mitted to work even greater evil to
communities and to the moral and So
cial character of the South. Let us,
therefore, that we may derive legiti-
mate advantage from this Intervention
of the great corporation in our behalf.
cooperate with Gov. Stone and put a
period to mob violence. Every reader
of the LEADER must serve, in this be-
half at least, his home, his town, his
county and the Commonwealth by CO.
operating with Gov. Stone and officers
of the law
Meanwhile, that the Great Railway,
connecting the Gulf and Great Lakes,
may not toll for us in vain, we should
organize, certainly in all of our larger
towns, associations for the purpose of
proffering special and local induce
ments to capital abroad that it may
seek profitable investment here.
Jackson, like Birmingham, should
have an association of gentlemen prof
fering special inducements, in land,
and as proposed stockholders in any
factory. cotton or woollen or wood
WORKSHOP this is wooden country"
to Northern men eager to invest
where profits are sure, where it costs
hardly half as much to live as in hy-
perborean regions and where the local
market is best for products of all these
factories.
If Northern people knew the facts,
as we can present them, Tourgees and
John Shermans would lose the conf
dence of Northern innocents and even
an Oberlin Quaker, stuffed with lies
stupidity praying for the early coming
of the Millennium and of the Force
bill, might be persuaded to seek home
and set up fourishing Shaker factory
in this abode of soft winds and breezy
politicians.