Year: 1869

IL may sn turn out that TO support the T
Deuf ticket will be the best thing we can do I
There IL n0thifx IN the Dent platform that /
ought % prevent rs from voting for ti1at
oknrierfaIl- provided the rsst Of the ticket Is /
properly made up. But the platform OF the I
other wing Of the Republican party Is gen
orally admitted % be sound on State poll /
ties This being so. suppose lt should 20 /
turn ont that -omnipotent Congress" should |
favor reconstruction and re-admission u:.-
der the auspices OF that wing. rather than /
upon the programme of the. Dent Kepubii-
cans? Suppose, too. that the --othei wing
should nominate quite as unobjectionable
ticket-all home men. to0-and should offer
Us even better terms than the Dent people
what then? Would it not be better for US
10 be uncOmmitted and free 70 consider their
proposition :-Water Valley Eagle


With due Difference to our respected CO.
temporary Of the Eagle, we must remind
him that THE PEOPLE, going ahead of
the politicians, have already committed
themselves to the movement which has
redeemed Virginia and Tennessee, and
which will accomplish the same result for
Mississippi, and the question is no longer
open. The ball is rolling, and it can no
more be stopped than an avalanche which
Is speeding on its mission crushing every
thing in its way, from the mountain top
to the valley below.


The supposition which gives pause to
our friend Of the Eagle, has no founda-
ton in fact Whatever appearance of
liberality there is in the present profes-
sions ofthe Eggleston-Aleorn faction is due
to the bold stand of the National Republi-
cans for the right, and the determination
of the great body of the people to come
to their aid But the platform of the
Eggleston party is not sound. II IS rotten
to the core. Under the pretended guise
oftoleration, it cloaks the cloven-foot of
Prescription; and its authors have INDUCED
hyprocritical prayer that the people who
are objects of their persecution through
the Ames administration. will so mend
their ways as to justify the removal of
their disabilities at some future day !


There is hypocritical pretension in this
platform, but there is no truth, no sin
cerity, no soundness. We want nothing
short of the honest, manly pledges of the
National Republicans who have taken the
responsibility now as they did before Con-
gress when they resisted the EggIeston-
Alcorn programme, to meet the vital is
sues of the day openly and squarely


The Bitter-End platform as modified by
the July Convention, is not sounds not
in accord with the music of the Virginia
and Tennessee elections. Besides 1t en-
dorses the inig,titous administration of Ames


No man can justify himself before the
people who will attempt to stand upon it.


Nor can it turn out that Congress will
more promptly favor the admission of the
State under the lead of the Extremists
than. of the Liberals, even if Egg
gleston, Gibbs, and the rest of their crew
could be trusted That point has already
been settled. The Liberals were tri-
umphant before Congress in their contest
last spring, over the Eggleston-Alcorn
scheme Of forcing the rejected constitu-
ton on the State. And they were en-
dorsed by Gen. Grant, whose position as
taken in his special message, they occupy.
Furthermore they are endorsed by the
New York Tribune, the Times; and in
deed the most influential of the RepubIi-
can newspapers of the the North.


The Eagle is correct in its opinion that
there is nothing in the Dent platform to
forbid its cheerful acceptance by the
friends of peace and just government


Let our friend, then, following his convic-
tions, plant himself upon it, that his Eagle
may become sign of hope and encour-
agement to the friends of Liberty in their
life and death struggle against the cham
pions of Oppression.