The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-06-15

Ready and willing to Betray
The Democratic Party.
Woodvillc Republican.

Woodvillc Republican.
We are able togiyc to the people OF
this Congressional district, for theil
cditication and instruction. the text
OF two letters written by Col. Thos.
II. StOckdale TO Mr.. John r. Hull, in
1878. Mr.. Hull was a leading Repub'
lican Of this State at that time. These
letters are copies from the originals,
authentic, we believe, beyond the
shadow of doubt-let StOckdale de.
ny them if he dare.
To appreciate the full force Of the
treachery contemplated, and all but
perpctrated, in these letters,i it is only
necessary to remember the troublous
times in which they we're written:
But three years before the white PEG.
pie Of the State had broken the Radl.
cal bonds which had held them help
less. White supremacy was not then
the reversible fact'which our long
struggle for self-g0vernment has made
it to-day. White supremacy and Dem
Ocratic rule were n and the same
and both were under IA shadow of an
infamous Federal election law. with
bayonets behind-contlnually threat
ening.
In the light Of these facts let our
people read these letters and Judge the
man who could pen them at that day,
and who since in every county in this
district repeatedly has proclaimed, as
%scverdted, protested that he was al
ways true, that he was never unfaith-
full to the Democratic party.
Four years before these letters were
written the records of the Republican
convention at BrOokhaven said that
he, Col. StOckdaIe, was in that cOn.
ventiOn, speaking in sympathy with
it. Later he denied the record and
found means to secure the Democrat
ic nomination TO Congress from this
district. Since that time that charge
has not been prcsSed-will Col. Stock
dale now deny the authorship Of these
letters? If not, lie stands pilloricd, a
would-bc and sclf.convicted traitor
in 1878 to the great body Of the white
people of the State, and to the Demo-
cratic party, whose livery he has put
on for spOils of office:
lCOPY.1
SUMMIT, Miss, June G., 1878.
Jno. II. Hull, ESD: Dear Sir-Y0ur
favor of 3lst May reaches me in a flush
of business, and | must write hur-
riedly. l will write at length when
court adjourns. / concur with the
drift OF your letter and oppose de-
lay. l will attend the next meeting.
| do not think the policy of waiting in
order to get defeated Democratic can
didates, a good one. The new party
must have a better heart than sOured
candidates. 1t occurs to me that the
new party should at once be set upon
its feet and let us look at and see what
it is and what 1t progresses to accom-
plish and its ability to do it. TO do
that some bold men who have always
been Democrats, but who are known
to be opposed to the Extremist and
some Wings OF known integrity and
ability who have been acting with the
Democratic party since the war and
let them without referring to their
past affiliations announce the causes
that make a new party necessary and
summon the opponents Of ccntraliza.
tion and the opponents of sectional
ism and strife. Reconciliation and
peace and consequent prosperity will
be inviting TO all men who are tired of
strife, including the soldier. There
are numbers OF men who are ready to
oppose B0urbonism, but see no OppOr.
tunity Of doing any good and therefore
do not wish to incur criticism ; but II
they had Il party to act with would do
so, There Ia n large numhpr nj vOunO
men in the State to whom the OK.
trcmc Democrats offered no opening
for ambition or worth. These young
men are not responsible for the mis-
takes Of the past, have no political
record and would ride lighter than the
men who hug their venom and cling
to the old weights, and they would go
Into this new party with the hope of
doing something that would make