Year: 1873

| from the Nieksburg Herald


We do not think our North
Mississippi neighbors need feel at all


alarmed about the executive committee


attempting to put fetters on the freedom


of individual judgment and action. A


few may be found ready TO advocate


such an insane and suicidal policy, but


if they will go out among the people
they can soon learn that the masses


were never less inclined to adopt or toll


crate their notions. The past cannot be


resuTeeted and wiped out of the recol-


lection of men, but there is general


determination for the future not to re-


peat the egregiOus blunder of the past, or


move another step in the same direc-


ton, by combining with white dema-
gogues, who have been throwing their


arms around the negro's neck, and in
embracing him cali him brother IN order


to attain supremacy. The battle must be


fought on straight line, without any
bargain or coalition, if we expect to win.


and triumph is certainly within our


reach if we carry the struggle into this
new field of action, and go forward


without faltering in the work of foster
| ing public sentiment for reform in all
departments of the State government,


and in favor OF sustaining and encour-
aging the black man Ia all his
| rights and interests. Though we have.


in the past, acted frankly and fairly
| with him, it is well enough to renew
these assurances, and point to the rock of
political safety toward which we are
sailing. Possibly few may follow, but
at most we did only prove a mere cor


poral's guard, for every man knows that
the politics of the negro is opposition to
the native white men, and that he can
not now be won over even by the adop-
ton Of Beauregard's unifcation bumiii-
alton. 1t need not have been so, and
should not have been so, but it is. The


black race, in conjunction with the pIun-
dering element, has arrayed itself, Do
liticaily, against the whites, and no
combination we could make with Re
publican deserters would give US strength
or victory. 1t would leave us an uneasy,
fussy junta, with few leaders and no
rank and file. There will be but two
sides to the full contest, and every man
must take firm position on the one or
the other. The great question is the as
tendency Of honesty and competency
over Ignorance and corruption, and to
this issue every energy should be applied
by those who have faith in time, and
that which shapes it to perfect end.


THE QUESTION WITH THE PEOPLE.


From the Brandon Republican,


"The Prentiss Recorder says that a |
majority OF the State executive commit
tee have been heard from, and that they
are opposed to placing a State ticket in |
the held." From the above it seems
that our confrere Of the Recorder has
some information in regard TO the action |
or views OF the State executive commit |
tee. The Meridian Gazette expresses sur |
prise at this information, and we pre- |
sumo 1t strikes everybody else IN the |
same hight. We called upon General |
Lowry, chairman of the executive COM
mittee, and showed him the paragraph. |
and be informed us that he had no such |
Information in his possession, nor WAS
he advised of any such sentiment. Hell
also added that the question of putting |
a State ticket in the field was solely and |
aCith the people, and matter
with which the committee had nothing
whatever to do.


A BIRD's-EYE VIEW OF REPUBLICAN


MOVEMENTS.


From the Meridian GazetteJ


A bird's-eye view of the political field
of the Republican party, as presented by
the organs OF the party, discloses the
fact that fierce dog fight is going on
over who shall be the nominee for gov
ernor. The supporters of Powers are
bitter in their denunciatiOn of Ben But
ler's son-ln-law, charging that he is a
etc, and shouting Justify
about the A. G.'s litde patch of ground |
somewhere over in NOxubee county.
The followers Of Am IS seem encouraged,
and upon an Ames or
gan a. As1ch,z, - here he occasionally
gets a shirt or two washed, called the
Post. The Post, being published at the
so-cailed home of the nonresident
is to hurrah lively for its master till
the nominating convention meets on the
twenty-eighth OF August, when the Pow
ers men will kill it with the gubernato-
rial aspirations of the homeless senator. |
In the meantime the Vicksburg Times /
pours hot shot into the Powers camp in
the shape of charges, which it says it
can substantiate, of violation of office, |
etc, and favOrs the senator and his |
friends with a refreshing degree of in
With public Indignation
fully aroused against Powers, and Ames
lost sight OF, the Times hopes to ring IN
a ticket headed by Musgrove, or, failing
in this, to effect compromise with the
Conservatives.