Year: 1879

Our venerable elder brother of the Meri


dian Mercury, Col. Horn, is candidat


for the Senate, not the United State


Senate, but the State Senate of Mississippi


He has never been law-maker, but he ha


watched the process of law>making TO


some sixty-odd years, and he understan


how it is done. like lawyer. If anybod.


doubts it, let him read the subjoined bill


which the veteran has prepared to intro


duce in the Senate next January.


The Colonel is devout believer in the


Book of Exodus. When he comes to the


Senate, he will pass law to facilitate the


Africanization of Kansas. He is also very


pronounced in his opposition to the Com


mon Schools. He don't believe in that


style OF educational humbug. He believes
| in encouraging men to leave the country,
but is opposed to inviting others to come.
According to his deluvian doctrine, the
more men who leave and stay away the
more land we have for our own Southern
sons and daughters; and who can success
fully dispute the proposition2 Look at the
case of Noah just after the flood, and look at
the case of Robinson Crusoe. You may take
the Colonel on any question in the world
that he essays to treat, and by careful analy
sis you can discover dim trace of logic
running through his article upon it; and
this is somewhat remarkable considering
the fact that his premises are always false.
He was never known to start out right,
and if he ever gets right or says proper
thing, it is pure accident, and its force is
lost by its being out of time. To say the
4 t,si8t t8ft thing at the right time is journals
tic impossibility to him.


We have studied the career of this ancient
and modern chronicle with good deal of
curious interest. He is a man of marked
talent and decided ability; but he has never
been able to turn either to any personal ad-
vantage. He has never made failure, and
never made success. He has advanced
neither forward nor backward. He is as
firm as the rock of Gibraltar in the
wrong. If streak of good fortdne shot
athwart his path he would turn around and
srope his way back in the dark to first origi- |
nalabsurdities. In the hour of financial pres
sure and that's figure of speech that
seems to have singled him out for life
time lllustration-he grew really great.
The poorer he got the more independent he
got. The less he had to eat the more he
wrote. The seedier his clothes were the
more revenge he took on his readers.
The less money he felt in his pocket
he more he felt his own individuality.
)istrustful sometimes as to where the next
neal of victuals was to come from, he
lever distrusted the resources of his knowl-
dge-box. He is ready writer, and often
,ithy, but of course, the marrow of it is
lways spoiled by some dark and peculiar in
lendo, OF some horrid misapplication. Peo-
lie Subscribe for his paper and read it with
interest, without being influenced by it,
owever, but simply to mark the develop
nent of the genius of perversion.


Col. Horn is the man for Senator We
re in favor of his election, because we
hink every element of the State ought to
70 represented in the Legislature, and he is
distinct element by himself. He follows
Iobody, and nobody follows him, and the
My way to give his element represen-
alton is to elect him.


But without further eulogy we submit
he evidence of Col Horns ability to be
rst-class law maker: