Year: 1867




The Brandon Miss Republican, published
BY A. J. Franlz, has been greatly enlarged
and improved, and it has an advertising
that looks like business. If the negro should
once get vote in Mississippi, and that fact
should increase the size and business Of
Frantz's paper as much as the emancipation
Of the negro has done, in few years Jack
would come north and count his one hun.
dred thousand dollars beneath the shadow Of
Bunker Hill Monument, thing Robert
Toombs failed 10 do in regard 10 bis slaves.
Go ahead, drive on the business Of Brandon,
Jack; push forward the schools. both white
and coIored; encourage the Lyceum and
public lectures; marry off the young folks as
fast as you can get tn. m well mated, and
give them first rate notices" in the Repub'
Iican. You are on the right track clearly,
and we wish you and your readers boundless
success in every laudsbe enterprise. But,
If it is necessary, tell them never to dream
Of destroying the Union again, for if forced
to it, be assured, the second coming Of the
"northern hcrdes" will be worse than the
first Perry County (OAio) Weekly.


We are much obliged, friend Colbern, for
your good wishes, but assure you that it was
not the emancipation Of the negroes that
increased the size of the Republican, by
jug full. That act baukrupted us, individual
ly, as we'll as neatly all our readers, A de-
termination on our part never to bow 10
Yankee dicta,iop, to live independent of the
whole blue.bellied race, TO regain the proper
ty your hired thieves stole from US, and to
have Yankee servants to black our boots,
make our fires, cut our wood, curry our
horses, drive our carriage, and do all the
other drudgery work formerly done by
slaves, induced us 10 pull off our coat, roll
up our sleeves, and 90 TO work with ali the
energy, strength and perseverance, our phys
ical nature could stand. In short time
we expect to accomplish our design, and to
be able to raise means enough to transport
US to a white mans country, or at least tosa
country where white men do not put them
selves on an equality With negroes. We are
very sorry 10 see that a man of your sense
should allow bis party prejudices to lead
him 10 the advocacy of such damnable doc
trine as giving the right of suffrage to a race
of people bu! one degree above an ourang
outang. We suppose your idea is that their
votes will increase the radical strength in
the next presidential election. In this you
are mistaken. Not ten out of a thousand
would vote that ticket in Ibis State. In the
first place they hate the Yankees more Bit
le'ly than the white people do, because they
have never had anything to do with one Of
them that they didn't get swindled. In the
next place not more than one out of a bun.
dred can read, and if they wished 10 vote that
ticket they would not know when they got
hold of it. Lastly, we could buy the votes
Of ninety five out OF every hundred for
dollars worth Of whiskey. Now, Colburn,
we wish to make proposition to you. 1t
is this: II you will come to Brandon and
spend three days in conversation with the
negroes Of this country, and then 60 home
and continue TO advocate negro suffrage, we
will pay your expenses both ways, treat you
kindly and Hospitality while here, and give
you new suit of clothes to boot. No man
Of sense could do it, who knew anything
about the negro. You know nothing about
his capacity-you probably never saw real
corn,tisld negro in your life-you are s!rik
ing in the dark at dark subject. Come
down and take look at Cuffec-talk with
him on the subject Of voting-ask him how
he likes freedom-try to induce him to 60
and live among bis Yankee friends-see him
trudging through the mud and cold without
hat, boots or clothing enough to hide bis
nakedness- hear him plead with his old
master to 60 back 10 his old cabin home
60 to bis but and witness the filth and
wretchedness that surround him in bis pres
ent condition, and then 60 home and tell
your readers what you think of universe!
suffrage. Do this, and you too will get 'on
the right track


1t is not necessary TO tell our people "never
to destroy this Union again." The abolition
party has effctualy accomplished that little
job already. We tried TO get out of tho
rotton concern few years since, and would
have succeeded had you not brought up all
the thieves and murderers in the old world
to assist you, besides enticing, by false
promises, all our able-boded negroes into
your ranks. When overpowered BY superior
numbers we laid down our arms and agreed
to remain in the concern under the old arr
tices Of agreement, but now you object to
the copar,nership. Not satisfied with having
robbed US Of everything movable, such as
watches, jewelry, silver ware, pianos, silk
dresses, horses, mules, cotton. etc, you now
propose to rob US Of our lands and divide
them among your army Of European thieves,
five will not consent 10 your dictation, and
put ourselves on an equality with our former
slaves. You may be honest in your belief
that you are no better than negro-you
may like bis smell, and admire bis fiat nose
and thick lips, but we think ourselves few
degrees above him, and rather than acknowl'
edge him our equal we will give up our
lands and emigrate TO some other country.
If you had pursued liberal and concl'atory
course towards the south, we would now be
a happy, prosperous and contented nation.
As il is, the gulf between the north and
south is widening every day. The south has
heretofore been market for all your surplus
nroducts-we sold our cotton 10 European