Year: 1866




sciences. Let our skirts be kept III
defiled from the stain of this foul sir
and then, when in after years, the fea


full consequences of radical iniquit
are manifest, no shade of murdere
BANoUo can shake its CORY locks at III


and say that tce did it.



ssEverything for Mississippi Now.


Such is the sentiment that conclude


what we regard well-timed article i


the Vicksburg Herald Of yesterday


based upon information that Gen
| Wood designs issuing an order at al


early day, looking to the issue o


rations, through the United States


Military department, TO the destitute


whites and blacks of this State. AnC


this order, the Herald states, is to b'
predicated upon the report that there


has not been sufliciency of bread


stufs raised to support the inhabitants


and that the other crops will not yield


a sufficient return to enable them to


purchase supplies from abroad.


Now, tits undeniable that the season


hasJbeen most unpropitious-that the


crops have been short-that our pros.


poets politically and materially do not


seem very encouraging-and that there


is now much destitution in our State.


Indeed many are being pinched for the
very necessaries of life; bus never


theless we do hope that Gen. Wood
and kind-herrted gentleman and
clever officer he is-will withhold for a
whileat least, the generous bounties of
the Freedmen's Bufeau. We are poor
--in fact We are hard up; but we are
not yet paupers-not yet driven to the
necessity to beg for our rations.
Heaven will not always withhold its
showers and its sunshine in their due
season; and very grievously though
we have erred, we are not disposed
yet to believe that Providence has en-
tirely deserted us, and turned us over
indefinitely to the tender mercies Of
the Radicals We have the labor, and
we have the energy, and we hafe the
soil to secure our support, and we
need not the assistance of the Bhreau
to keep our people from starvation.
What must be the legitimate effect of
this proposition for the indiscriminate
distribution of rations. ? Will
our negroes work, or will they |
be disposed to enter into con
tracts for the ensuing year,
if the idea is held out that they are to
be fed in idleness ? Let black and
white, alike, be taught the duty of
earning their bread by the sweat of
their brow; and if by reason of physi-
cal inability, they are unable to do SO,
then let the State impose the necessa
~ taxes, and let the destitute be pro
vided for through the Boards Of Police.
When we are not able to take care of
own poor, we will not be slow in call
ng for help; but we protest against
.he questionable relief now proposed
% be extended through the Bureau.
The large sum now in the State Trea-
'ury, which will be augmented by the
line the Legislature conyenes in Jan
lary, with the heavy special taxes
,eing imposed by the several counties, |
ogether with the generous disposition
" our people who are able to give,
will, we hope, prove sufficient to meet
he pressing wants of the really indi-
rent, of whatever color. But if a
freedman or a freeman who is able,
vill not work, let him starve or be
Iealt with as yagrant We want no
rones in our hive now. We must
Tork out our own material reconstruc-
ion. Let every one do his share, and ,
let everything be for Mississippi
ow."