Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1922-06-08
I'm. STEPHENS VOTES FOR
NEGROES AND CARPETBAGGERS

publican ticket as superintendent of
education. While serving in that ca
pacity Pease threatened to dismiss a
white school teacher because she rep
lrimanded a negro boy for hitting her
with ball, Pease stating that it was
not permissible under his admins
tration for white teachers to repri-
mand colored boys, and that such
matters would have to be referred
to him.
Now, Mr.. Stephens, you knew at
the time you voted Tor Pease that ne
was responsible for Ames being cleo
ted governor of Mississippi, and that
Ames and your party were depend
ing ON this man Pease to perpetuate
the carpetbag government in this and
other southern states. | want the
people of your district, Mr.. Stephens,
to know something about this man
whom you helped to elect to the Uni
ted States Senate, and for that pur-
pose ! am going to set forth just as
much Of his record as the limited
space of this article will permit.
The first opportunity that Pease
had in the United States Senate he
got on his feet and in a four days
speech he said everything and did
everything that a miserable brute
could say or do to induce the Con-
gross of the United States to put
Mississippi and other southern states
back under military government,
and mind you, this was eleven years
after the war between the states. In
fact, the conduct of Pease and the
things done by Ames, at the in
stance of Pease, was the direct cause
OF the white people of Mississippi,
defying all authority, forcibly driv-
ing the carpetbaggers out of the state
of Mississippi at the muzzle of gun.
For, If you remember, Mr.. Stephens,
Pease and Ames left Mississippi be-
tween the same suns. Pease had
been appointed through the influence
OF the negroes in Mississippi post
master at Vicksburg, but never filed
that place. Why? The white people
ran him out.
Again referring to this four DAYS
speech delivered on the floor of the
United States Senate in defense of
the United States Army driving the
southern democrats out of the, state
capital of Louisiana to prevent them
from organizing their legislature
and turning same over to the negroes
ard acrpetbaggers, Pease said MANY
things that will be of interest to the
people of Mississippi, and for their
benefit we are setting out extracts
from this speech on that occasion.
The following is part of petition
presented by Mr.. Pease to the Unit
ed States Senate, which will be found
on page 734 of the Congressional Re-
cord of the 43rd Congress, End Ses-
sion, January 26th, 1875:
'The state of Georgia has re-
! celyed from the United States since
the close of the late war 1850
/ breech-loading rifled-muskets, $40
rlfled muskets, $40 pistols, 500 cav,
airy sabers, 5 light IL FOUNDER
bronze guns, and SO non-commis-
stoned officers swords with accou-
terments, cartridges, etc., amount
ing In all to the value Of s64, ZOE. a.
| Inc governor has distributed them
as follows: To 81 white compa-
!, mes ll8O breech-loading rifled
muskets; to IA white companies:
i 1Oo r1fied muskets; to 10 white
companies 40 pistols and 40 sab
ers, and to white companies 5 light
II FOUNDER bronze guns; to 3 col
ored companies but $50 rifled mus
kets. 1t will be seen that 45 white
companies have been armed, that
d the breech-loading rifled muskets,
/ but that three colored companies
4 have been armed that the breech-
4 loading rifle muskets, pintols and
j sabers were all distributed to white
companies and the colored compa-
4 MES put off with muzzle- loading mus
/ kets. The governor has refused to
i organize companies Of colored men
4 as we believe, because they are
i colored men, although it is made
n his duty by the laws of Georgia
i to organize all companies that have
4 the required number of men en-
rolled. He has refused to distri-
butte arms furnished to the state
i by the United States, to companies
composed Of colored men, as we