Times-promoter., 1903-01-09

lion in the affairs of government,
it does not require a statesman
or philosopher to forecast the
uear future of Mississippi 1t is
u simple mathematical problem,
d question of addition and sub
traction that can be worked out
by the school boy. How many
! years will be required, with our
present suicidal policy, to array
a large negro majority at the
polls, and how long will it then
lake to establish negro and "scal-
awag" domination?
When Mississippi shall have
returned to the conditions that
prevailed from 1865 to 1875 and
shall have revived the horrors of
carpet bag" government, she
will within the next generation
contribute largely toward making
Texas the greatest country in the
world.
The choice spirits among our
young men, fearing to expend
their energies and invest their
earnings in state so soon to be
throttled by the demon of negro
suffrage, will emigrate to states
where white supremacy is secure
ly and permanently entrenched.
These patent and undeniable
facts admonish every man and
every woman, who loves Missis-
sipDi and her glorious history, to
do nothing and say nothing that
may, in the smallest estimation,
shake the faith of our boys and
girls in the wisdom, the heroism,
and the self-immolation of their
fathers. .
Of course states that are safely
white may enjoy an indefinite
prosperity under the firmly fixed
imperial policy of the general
government. Not so with Missls-
sippi. Upon her horizon there
hangs even now, a black cloud
that is already mnch larger than
a mans hand.
A picture is nothing but a piece
of inanimate canvass, yet beneath
its colors may lurk ii sentiment
as deadly to the manhood of
Mississippi as the asp that cIung
to the bosom of Esypt's queen.
In 1862 when Lee had defeated
and routed Mcclellan in front of
Richmond and driven the federal
forces across the Potomac and
carried the war into the enemy's
country, thus strengthening the
anti-war spirit in the north and
Frightening the hopes of the Con
federacy, Mr.. Lincoln thinking,
to weaken the sinews of war in
the south, issued his emancipation
proclamation.
When Mr.. Seward, who had liv-
ed IN the south but did not under
stand the fidelity and docihty of
the negro as a slave, warned him
that the proclamation might in
cite general insurrection, and
massacre of women and children
in the rear of the Confederate
army, Mr.. Lincoln promptly and
resolutely replied: "The time
has arrived when we must know
whether the slave element is for
US or against us"
Mr.. Lincoln's admirers ought
to be willing for him to stand on
his record and if his portrait
must 90 into the new capitol, we
insist that there should be written
above, in letters OF glistening
steel his famous utterance: ''The
time has arrived when we must
know whether the slave element
Is for us or against us.
When the Confederate soldier. !
whose life is interviewer with the |
history of Mississippi, and whose
sacrifices and achievements are o
part of her greatness, her gran
deur and her glory, visits the |
HAL of Fame and salutes the
celebrities assembled there, when
he faces the great destroyer of
the constitution, like the old Earl
Of Scotland, be will gather around
him the folds of his martial cloak
and say, as Lord Angus 10 Mar
mion:
Ny manors. halls and bowers shall still
Be open at my sovereign's will;
To each one whom he lists. howe'er.