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VOL. 1 NO. 81 GREENWOOD, MISS., THURSDAY, .JULY 15, 18«,»7. I’ll ICE *1 (Hi PER YEAR
THE RACE PROBLEM south because of the negroes, and by the natural inerea.se. hence the ©jqmlson re farde l from an économie standpoint. were good policy We owe the nftgro noth in g. We found him a naked, snake worshipping savage, and conferred upon him all the polish of civilization that he is competent to receive. We have taught him the use of tools, opened to him all the avenues of knowledge and supplanted his serpent fetish with tin* Christian faith. True lie will, in one or two genera tions, subside again into savagery if withdrawn from Cuncasion association, such having ever been his history, but that is neither our coat nor our cake Having lifted him out of the serbonian bogs of savagery, we are under no obligation to bear him ever on our shoulders. It were charily to do so. doubtless, but charity begins at home, and our tirst consideration should Im« the safety of our wives and daughters. If the man who provides not for his own household be worse than an infidel, what must he be be who fails to protect its purity to the full extent of his power.
The strangest feature of this whole affair is the fact that whenever the negro is seized with the migratory fever the southern press opjxwes it. Sambo is begged
to remain ’ among his friends in the south to imperil the honor of our women while his lewd wenches corrupt oursons. What the devil we want with the
i unless it be to call ns “colonel" in exchange for our cast clothes 1 ci not comprehend. Perhaps we have become "wonted" to the nigger like the Scotch to the itch and the Spanish to the infamous malodor of leeks The south ern people are inclined to contemplate the negro, not as he now is, but .as he was in antebellum days, when ho loved “massa, missus an de chillun" and served them faithfully. Hut those old days are dead, as well as the old darkies, and
new conditions bring new duties. There is a soft spot in my heart for Uncle Remus’'and the “ole black mammy" with her crooning lullabies and corn cob pipe; but we are confronted now, not by these faithful servitors, but by the elective franchise “coon" whom it is becoming ever more and more necessary to kill. Of course the plan of expulsion will he pronounced “impracticable" by those wise acres who imagine not hing can be done which has not been done for a ceil tury or so. and bp those republican politicians who need the blacks in the business. but if the women of the south, who stand ever in dread of a fab* worse than death and damnation had the “say," there wouldn't be a Senegambian l>etween Cape Hatteras and San Francisco by the end of the century. I am. as a rule, op
posed to petticoats it) politics: but every decent woman in this nation should, if not for her own or her daughter’s sake, then for the sake of her imperiled sisters of the south, demand the speedy expatriation of the negro, the banishment of this black shadow of Instand brutality from the land. Let them bear in mind that it is an evil which no law can lesson, which the blind fury of mobs can not abate. Death by the rope, says the law; death by the faggots, says Judge Lynch; but slaves to the hell-bom of harpy of lust and drunk with the beauty of daughters of men. these beasts from Africa jungles transplanted into our civilization like the worm of the Nile between Cleopatra's glowing breasts, continue their damnable work. O that I dared picture to the maids and matrons of America this abomination of desolation in all its hellish hideousness the little children sacrificed to glut the appetite of apes; the young women whose future has been wrecked, tin* wives whose happiness has been ruined, tin* gray-haired gran dames who have been beaten and foully abused, the innocent maids who have been murdered. Not even the dead are sacred in the light of t hese monsters who have learned to walk uprighted in the shape of men. If I might do this if I might recount the particulars of crimes that have been perpetrated in America within the month by this accnrsed race, the shame and suffering it has wrought, e'en the women who weep for the woes of the condemned wife butcher would cry out, not that the blacks he mercifully banished to a foreign shore, but that every living thing containing one drop of Ethiop blood be instantly executed.
GARCIA'S PATRIOTIC LETTER. Pure Kater.
*' hieb the pi*.«irre b I'D stum Rally inter»“»!»*«! jm t), ' «fites
contended l«>The General Writes From the Field
Rebellion.
on the Proitress of the! eminent dot
a terThe Texas Buzz Saw Takes a Shot at the Situa
tion. He is a Little Rabid, But Says Some Very Pertinent and Wise Things.
BARER FULL OF PITH AND PUNGENT SAYINGS. RFPAYS THOUGHTFUL READING.
•t-GN mill s.-iriitis! , ! 11,*lt the:renter number »»f diseases hielt af
; diet humanity are
SPAIN HAS A SMALL FOOTHOLD AND CUBA WILL NOT COMPROMISE. Tlif following fit'itlTj 1 ).1 ji’i'l
. nit (k voit to tln> mii}>Con rite of the election Showed the People w Fitness for
Many Die of Hunger In Snntn Clore Provinces
tory (icnlus In the Philippine Islands
FreedomAn interesting „ul,
im-,' tin4 Int,* annual ■ ni British Institut!,
ilisniHsed heIVINative Minore of He
llThe Greatest Question Which Confronts the Civilization of the
Century. Calls for the Highest Order of Statesman
ship, the Broadest Philanthropy to Meet the
Demands of the Situation.
! and e smithy the '
villi'll null'll hi;III \v,|s In111»I HE (THAN .It'NTA HERE RECEIVED tod,I tion. Calixto Uaroia to (’apt <hmr.nl,> dr ynesndn. Ihr ( nhi
A d Affaires at Washington, says a .Inck
(«lohe Democrat It is ns follows
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pure supply of lately
e ll tills sill,I rille special to llieSl Boni- Orleans Will......
'atm4, liltrattei
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"Mejia. Aolguin. Mr. Oonaales do Qnewidn ♦•riot i had the pleasure of receiving your esteemed letter of the Ith in»i Onk'in people needed to maintain their nnhrokcn resolution fut onr spirits were to fall and our courage weaken, and we mupit. nothing eonid he more encouraging than vonr letter. In of your mission in Washington, and
Ml Dear Frimi.lI sell here, »■isterns
of the
vlieMior fr»If theWould Not Harm the Negro He is Here Without His Consent, and Deserves
dust and Humane Treatment. But it Would be Better
for All Were He Elsewhere
When Dr J»re. ifenlfli In- ylmwere to doubt mir tri
vns flu» popular brlirf tlint *isteri vat'»*r is pur«*
vhieh spruit tin- rretitmlr n|'»■II founded hopes iyour it- imfiltereri
congre»» and the high aims *»f tin* American p»*oj)lc and its prirent g It can do, and should do a great »leal in
conditi»1 / \ f HEN I SUGGESTED SOME YEARS AGO that we would yet be com- w V polled to drive the negro out of this country or drive him into the r ^ ground, the northern press in general and the Ohio press in pnrtieu
lar, reared upon its hind legs and hurled at me sizzling wads of reproach. I am
not a little curious to know how the people of Urbana now regard the suggestion —whether the thousand and one women who have since been defiled by black fiends, as well as the immediate friends and relatives of these unfortunates, are inclined t.o join that indigent Cleveland dominie in denouncing the forcible blacks as a “damnable crime conceived in the brain of a Texas brute.” It-was said of old that it is easy to bear the sorrows of others; but if we leave the disposal of the blacks to those men whose homes they have forcibly dishonored, will they receive a lighter sentence than banishment V if they decide that the blacks shall be permitted to remain, then I withdraw my suggestion and beg the pardon of that civilization which it is said I have “insulted.
' The “coon” has ever been a curse to this country. He has caused an amount of sorrow, suffering and shame which only Almighty God can measure. From an economic standpoint he has cost this country more than all the wars it has waged, added to the ruin wrought by flood and fire. He is, and will continue to be, an industrial stumbling block, a political ulcer, a social scab, a nightmare so long as he is permitted to remain. His presence here is a ten fold greater curse than all the apochryphal plagues laid upon the land of Egypt. He is a perpetual pestilence, an inexhaustible fount of political putrescence and moral poison. It is said that Ham was cursed with blackness because of his impudicity, his ut ter disregard for the laws of decency; and that characteristic has-been transmitted unimpaired to his descendants of the present day. The negro is a lazy, lying, lustfnl animal which no conceivable amount of training can transform into a tolerable citizen. He lacks the fundamental elements of manhood. Ye can not gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles; ye can not hatch nightingale’s of goose eggs; ye can not make a gentleman of a jackass or one of nature's noblemen of a nigger. The Ohio people propose to make rape a capital crime and apply the death penalty. Such statutes are impuissant, afford absolutely no protection. Such is the law of the south, and it is ably supplemented by Judge Lynch: yet no white woman is safe in her home, no white maid is secure beneath her father’s roof unless shielded with a six shooter. Even babes have been debauched, and we dare not leave toddling innocence or decrepit old «age beyond the reach of the white man’s rifle. In days agone the red Indian hung like a circle of hell fire our frontier; but he was an angel of mercy compared with the Ethiop. His gust was for blood, not beauty; be destroyed but he seldom debauched. The Indian was an evil with which we could.contend an evil with which we could and did crush out with unfaltering courage; but the negro is a pestilence which walketh in darkness and becomes more deadly with our every effort to strike it down.
Our northern neighbors do not understand the negro. Plenty of sloppy sen timentalists who have absorbed “Uncle Torn’s Cabin” and reams of kindred “rot" think that they do, but they don’t. Ill's mentality is in nowise akin to that of the white man. It is murky as his hide and resembles that of the hog. I mean no offense to tho porker by this comparison. You can teach a hog almost anything except to control his appetite, in which respect he is a cousin-german to the “coon ” Leave your garden gate ajar for a few moment, and Mr. 1I< ders in. Yon dogs half devour him: but at the first opportunity he returns returns, well knowing that it means a cruel clubbing and a cataract of curs. II»« is as cowardly as a heifer calf,or that Warren, O.Jazar who writes insulting anonymous letters to southern ladies; but his belly rules his brain. A dozen times he is driven thence with a dog swinging to either ear, and a half dozen more hanging to his bleeding hams; but a dozen times he returns in the hopes of getting one more mouthful before squealing in vain for mercy. Such is the character of the “coon.” He well knows that if ho assaults a white woman the chances are as 10 to 1 that he will be killed like a hydrophobic cur. He is cowardly to the last degree «and has no intention of committing such a crime, but the opportunity offers, and in the fever of bis brute desire he forgets that there is such a thing as death. Examine the daily press, and you will find that the courts are imprisoning and hanging negro rape fiends that Judge Lynch is after them with the torch, the rifle and the rope ; and yon will find also that there is a steady increase in this character of crime. The fact that .a negro has been hanged or even burned alive for ravishing a white woman, makes others fearful, but it also suggests to
their foul minds the crime itself. To a negro a white woman is as Dian to a Satyr or Athena to old Selenus. That one of these superior creatures has actually been enjoyed by a lustful black sets them all ndreaming and makes them dangerous. A white woman is found unprotected; all visions of the rope and tho stake vanish, drowned in the hell of desire, and Judge Lynch claims another victim thereby spreading the foul infection. What can be done with such cattle? The evil is irremediable so long ns the blacks are permit te 1 to remain. Have we the moral right to apply such a drastic remedy? 1 answer yes that we would hr* amply justified in slaughtering every Ethiop on the earth to preserve unsullied the honor of one Caucasian home. Show me the man who would purchase the lives of an hundred million blacks with the defilement of his wife or daughter and give me gun. Yet the daughters of white men are debauched by Ethiops every day. The rights of the Caucasian are paramount and, in case of conflict, extinguish those of an inferior race. Where the honor of white women is con cemed the Ethiop has absolutely no rights which we are in duty bound to respect. Of course, it will be urged that the good blacks should not be made to suffer for the sins of the bad. I answer that the good are few, the bad are many, and it is impossible to tell what ones are and wlmt ones are not dangerous to the honor of the dominant race until the damage is done. When we see a wolf we do not pause to inquire if it will slaughter sheep, for we know that such is the general tendency of its tribe There was a time when the negro»*» were, to some extent, worthy of our trust. It was when they were held in bondage and not permitted to roam abroad. Perhaps they were as immoral then as now: but they recognized their racial inferiority, and no more coupled white women with the idea of evil than the owl aspires to mate with the eagle. Emancipation, the elective franchise and a smattering of education are responsible for their present acts of infamy. When Fred Douglass, the saddle colored miscegenationist died, nigger preachers at Dallas declared in memorial addresses that all black men wanted white women, a fact which shows the drifts of the darky's thoughts and the danger. The negro lias heard that in England and other degraded Europe rean countries no social distinction is made because of color, and conceives that he is being fobbed of his sexual rights. He sees his women courting, and not without success, the favors of white men. and, like Iago, he demands ‘a wife for a wife.” In short, his yearnings by day and his dreams bv night are for forbidden fruits, and. like the drunkard, he misses no opportunity to -gratify his appetite, tho' lie knows indulgence means damnation.
I would not wrong the Ethiop race would not forcibly expel it and leave it to perish. The white man is responsible for the presence of the black man in America. Frugal Yankee traders and witch burner»-- the blessed Covenanters who enacted New England’s bine laws captured him in his native wilds and sold him to ns to Ik? a hewer of wood and drawer of water. Having staffed their pockets to the bursting point, built fine churches and employed impudent preach ers of the Beecher brand with the profits of the slave trade, these sacrific'd thieves with Sunday faces and cerulean equators, despoiled ns of the very property for which we had paid them, and made it our political peers. And we submitted to the infamy at the point of the sword, because we had found slavery unprofitable and did not then appreciate the deep damnation thmst upon ns by the new conditions. It was not until “reconstruction" days that our eyes were opened. But we must let the dead past Irary its dead and face the future. The question now is, how can we get rid of the niggers? Fertile land sufficient to colonize them all can be had in Africa for the asking. We should send them thither at onr own cost and provide them with whatsoever may be necessary to make a crop. The entire cost need not exceed 200 millions, and tlieir expnlsion would, in five years, add ten times that amonnt to the taxable vaines of the southern states. The hai \H§ wonld be quickly filled with worthy white immigrants, who now avoid the
viTiimcntfavor, taking ini»* n Tin* British liiMtitutioi‘fib-ration only
the reality of tiling» a just
1 lb»« strictest justice. Tim fa»'t is that w«* niv I *e vigorous and more powerful every day. be»
are every day weakened by the losses in their army, i weakened bv their
s went »•cping upthat no water in
r fire freia In iv is . lie mically
matter.
nur enemiesta'lllse
battle and by sickness
‘ war in the Phillip I by a I lu m
pure»'nommas ex tiennes and debts, by tlmi
pines, by the t’arlist uprising, by the dtwild other things, nil of which tend to bleed mid impoverish (he
•entiling hud conspired to lull U|W>n Spain nt thin time iih n just imuislunent for her great erimes.
neither is a vater available fu thert 1«m »if their wants of man biugraphirulh purrd.li.Ts
Dr Franklin, an author of internaf tional repute and
'■in! stud\ of the bacteria i“ho Ims made a hi
vater. was •“ "f tin* principal speakers mi the sub“We, meantime,
reach us from abroad, fr»receiving nenv life from the valuable
the humer»are source-» which
s recruits hieb conn* fr»lm increase our ranks or join onr peaceful >
whose labor provide f»»r our army without foo»l By these advantages we are »inily gaining ground him more and more, to
.)<*»'! »»t pur» multiply v bacteriologists In
vater, Microbes, he said,towns liehlby the enemy, ith great rapidity •Some
dollar spent C applied their barteeither for salaries otho »‘iiemy, push in
■h mi extent t,hut he i» IimIiiv literally confined icopie tests t»> th»« flltorcri wafer after
it ha»l passed through »listrilmtin of t h»> mains,
tii«- pip»-towns controlled by him and to the land hi«di In* stand- id tlie) have f* .d pie.on intrem-h«'»!
Iin the last strongholds of his uncertain domination t i fnl colonies of bnoteriiStu-h is the e•»•upy three fourths »if the island, and under
We have war material ami food, armories, shoe salt works and all that is necessary to hold on indefinitely.
“Olm Spaniards, on the other hand, occupy the shells of tin* towns, th«* f». that remain, for many have disappearedleague from them, unless in large columns, to transport previsions fr risoji to another, or from a town to one
dition ofWecontest. i»ther hand, have talo i
nii'dintely afterthe water iin
filtration, and have »I it comparatively steril»*
Franklin investigate»! and found that in tlm transit of filter»*»] water fr« Hampton t<
is almost all f 1m-Uubnn population. 1 * Jr?
■ Gfu Dr
They »b* not dare go more tlu in n half
omi gar IIv tired
tlLon do
eased more thail tenfoldtlu* bacteria in
•arliy, and they are const;upon by our troops. They never remain in the open longer tin and then they return to their refng
"Under these circumstances,
The eflVct of storage i
number of is extraordinarily great t be numbi-r of
reducing theis necesitbin tin* town walls icrobes, says Dr Franklin.
Thus whilebriefly sketchei],Spaniards with which to triumph if they believe that they «•
more men. as was proven in the case of Gen. Polavieja, to wh nied the 20,000 men he ask«»»! for the Philippines; and ov»*n if Spain had nm and would send them, they wonld not improve her chances their arrival a large part of them would boe»ime ill and have t< there to die or beoonm invalids.
“hat remain« with tlm:dcrobiM i:triumph? Spain
sin* ib*has centimetre (about; 21» drops) of Timm» water at Hampton during the five yef averaged IU.2ÔH, it was onlyHHO after
M'orag«* for about l-'l days; and while tlm Lea. at tin* East Londoi
•V1eh, because on
go to t he hospitalss
GEN. LEE RESIGNED. rmiipaiiy'H Intake. averaged Ï0,;l7ll per ruble cel.tl
être ilnrlurt (he«e yenix fliin iiiiuiher reduced t<
"Whnt Iirm heroine of the 'ilkl.mm men wlm have been bn «ht ■erV .lintnew tunny newspaper« in Spain am demandln« the return of the rni.piH) „r ID. men who are liable to sieknen«, and a« the mine number, approximately, ban re turned to Spain, you can jitd«e whether »lie will he able to replace them
After Gettysburg the Confederate Commander Asked to Be
Relieved.
oiln M by storag
scarcely be
i couple of
forabout II Mays.«louhted, therefor»*, that months »if storage would redm*« )m» t»*rial Impurity of even water of the Thames and 1
NO »'OMIMtOMISi;AN INTERESTING DOCUMENT RECENTLY MADE PUBLIC FOR THE FIRST TIME. Mir
"Kverythin« then, lend» u» to believe that Spain » hope» are founded upon ditnlnin« a
the worst,r compromise, which, like that of the Zanxoti treaty, will
This explains her offers to ample reforms, even of in the newspapers; Imt this is a futile hope, for yon must
know, and I want you to make it known everywhere, in my naine, for the little that may signify, that we will compromise absolutely with nothin« which does not mean the independence of Cuba There is not
««InHia Letter to Jefferson Davis A Manly Acceptance of Responsibility
for Defeat A l,on« Stundin« Controversy
Settled.
a verysubmit us to her {tower, home rule, ns 1
»»lernt»' amount.’This would In* an argument in favor
of our cistern water were if not thatthe cisterns nr«* constantly receiving a fresh supply of nimrobes with every
UME of war records, now in course of preparation at the war depart
ment, will settle the controversy whether Gen. Robert E. Lee ten
dered his resignation after tho battle of Gettysburg. It will contain a letter
from Gen. L?e to .Jefferson Davis. The date is about one month after the defea t
in Pemislyvnnin. The reason that the letter did not appear at the time the cor
respondence relating to that period was published by the department is that its
existence was not known. The reply of Jeff«Taon Davis d»*elining to accept the
resignation has been a matter of common information, but the character of the
letter in detail, which called out his reply, has been a matter of infercnc«* only
until recently. The letter of resignation of Gen. Lee will be first printed offi
cially in a supplemental volume of the war records which is now being prepared.
It is given here within its ».»ntirity:
x “Camp Orange, August H, 18ÖH. His exc'dlency .Jefferson Davis, president
of tho Confelernte States; Mr. President your hitters of July 28 and August
2 have been received, and 1 have waited for a hdsuro Jiour to reply, but I fear
that will never come. I am extremely obliged to you for the attention given to
the wants of this army, and the efforts made to supply them. Our absentees are
returning, and I hope the earnest and beautiful appeal made to the country in
your proclamation may stir up the whole people, and that th«*y may see their
duty and perforin it. Nothing is wanted but that, tlieir fortitude should equal
their bravery to insure the success of our cause. We must expect reverses, even
defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater
energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters. Our people have »>nly
to be true and united, to bear manfully the misfortunes incident to war. and all
‘ingle man here, to the
indep«*nlast, humble soldier, to whom yon den»*e without his protest, ty felt for many years, ready to triumph
•an speak of anything else than Our «'iiuse is born of mature reflection, of
i ns onr war is a necessity and
rain that, waslms off the housetops.meaii-Anoth«'r point held by Dr Franklin
was that tin* quality of wntor did not matter if an efficient system of filtra tion were adopted, and tlmt water eon taining .Vi.onn mi»*r»ibes per cubic c»*nti metre would In? Justus pur«- as water containing only •V)() mi»*rob«*sif j ropnly filtered.
COHHI-repuration, w«» are
to »li»*“H< v many Cubans have already died and how many «li«* every day?
on the field »»f battle awak»*n in our bosoms ailmiratiiTho««*
vho fall ! ?vv valor.But the innumerable assassinations which are daily committed by the Spaniards against onr prisoners and our jieacefnl people
cause, moveswnsed of sympathizing with
to the greatest indignation. Reports appear daily j ish newspapers of three or four executions of
the .Span ul not a protest is
raised in any of tlm republics of America; not even in the Unit«*»! Htates fit whose doors the crimes are perpetrated, to its slmmc.
• brotlmrs, Our British cousins are staggered by the amount of water consumed by an average American The importance of
pure water in this country n for»* lx* readily appreciated, been a popular demand for juin* water throughout the Union, ami a consequent
great improvement in tin* quality supplied: but if Dr. Franklin ami other speakiTs before this entertaining congress are to be Iwlmved we are still very far from getting that absolutely pure ami desirable drinking water vv»* want.
1The greatest restraint, «1 com
ceded to make reprisals.mon sense is .'bit, we hav«* made up ' minds to suffer all, and we answer their atrocities with the pardon and g«»«»«l treatment «f
Thousands of them, after being liberated, hav«» refused to aban
there There 1ms
our prisoners.don our fields, where they are happier, and w«* generally employ them in agriculture.
“I wish you and our foreign friends could have been here to witnes election for representatives in these last two
tlm'oeks. They wen? held in conform
ity with the law to elect the next constituent, assembly,provided for by our con sti tn tion. Here, in Holqnoin, wlmre I have be«*n for some »lays, more tin
" iffii.qqcitizens have gone to the ballot box»?« and deposited fh»*ir votes itli «-ntire lib
I. myself, satisfied with this spectacle of a fre * (muntry, diqiositing its
A wonderful people this, which, notwithstanding four centuries of slavery and corruption, f<* Is and practices liberty as if it. had ix»ss**Ms«*d it forages. In Orient alone, from 1.1,000 to 20,000 electors voted, ami thousands did not <1
erty.suffrages, gave mine in the midst »»f my soldiers. Phrase Mukur.**.
1Mr. McKinley’s admirers, says the Iconoclast, have suhbnly discovered thaton account <»f the necessitii-s “phrase mak 'f " he ranks »wen with tlm almighty Cleveland. Against th** latter’s ‘ “innocuous desuetude” they I»it their man’s pre-eleetiou postulate that “it, were better to open tin? mills than the mints.’ But you can not feed To million jK*opIe on highfalutin phrases. Had Bryan be
•rvice, sickness, etc.of til»*will come right in the end.“I know how prone* we are to « ensure and how ready to blame others f«»r the
nonfulfillment of our expectations. This is unbecoming in a generous people, and I grieve to see its expression. The general remedy for the want of success in a military commander is his removal. This is natural, and, in many in stances, proper. For, no matter what may be the ability of the officer, if he loses the confidence of his troops disaster must sooner or later ensue.
“While this is happening here nml ii the rest of the island, Gen Wcyler
declares that Pina del Rio. Havana, Mantanzns ami Las V«*gas arc pacified,' and he will probably make the same declaration
I‘completely
t»» ( ’aiiiagm*) and At the v«;ry doors of Havana,
Aranguren has given the machete to his soldiers and it was notOrient. Where will his effrontery lead him to?
very longsince Girin»?» felt that it was not pacified.
“On account of my many please consider a part of it, tin* anncx»*d copy, in in chief of «»nr operations up to last March.
»•lecteil In- would have»•upations 1 cannot make this letter long«*r, hut
hieb I informed tin- general»qiened the mints; now let McKinley ''»»pen the mills. The boasted phrases of Cleveland and McKinley prove them hopfdcsH fools, “innocuous desuetude”
“I have been prompted by these? reflections more than one»? since my return from Pennsylvania to propose to your excellency th«* propriety of selecting an other commander for this army. I have seen and heard of expressions of discontent in the public journals at the result of the expedition. I do not- know bow far this feeling extends in th«* army. My brother «iffi»'«*rH have b»?cn too kind to report it, and so far the troops hav«? been too generous to exhibit it. It is fair, however, to suppose that it does exist, and success is so necessary to us that nothing should be risked to secure it 1. therefore, in all sincerity, re<|iiest vonr excellency to take measures to supply my pine«. I do this with the more earnestness because no one is more aware than myself of my inability forth»?duties of my position. I cannot even accomplish what I myself desire. How Men in puhbc life who think tlieir names nr»* h»ms»-hol»l words throughout Ican I fulfill tho expectations »>f others? In addition, I sensibly f**»»l the growing th*- country sometimes firul that they hnve lx*«*n laboring under a pl<*asing dein
failnro of my bodily Mren«tl, I k»ve not yet recovered frön, the «ttm-k lex j X iTClmly ÄÄ'. 'Ä?whTh irMwa* ,î1"ir *•«*'>' ”, >- »-perienced the past »prin«. I am bm.mtn« more and more me&pablc of exertion, ii|n#trateH this point. He says: was seated in the aenate «-hamla-r one mon, '>» »"♦ .1” “C'4 the prudnotand am thus prevented from makin« the personal examinations and «ivin« the in«, when my eollea«ne nppronehed me and said that there were »ome folk» from | " rv”ry fl,rm"r "**<-r«.nH« m pnr personal supervision to the operations in the field which I feel to Vs- necessary. ! down home in the marble room, and they had asked to so« ns. Of course, 1 was ' '"“"'K potter, the «encrai public he I am so dull that in makin« nsc of the eves of others I am frequently misled 1 •*'receive them, and to«etber we repaired to the reception room and
. . . welciiiu«-»! them. Among the party was a preacher and his wit«*, living aboutEverything, therefore, point» to the advantages to l>e derived irom a new corn ; nri!«*s from my own home, a very intelligent conpl»*. They presented mander, and I the more anxtously urge the matter upon your excellency from j themwdve». and we » hatted f»»r half an hour After extending them a furew« || my belief that a younger and abler man than myself can readily be obtained. ; Hie hand, I started to return to the s»*nate. when I was interrupted bv
I know that he will havo as «allant and brave an amiy as ever existed to second '„"‘‘I"'!" T'."1 ' i,wl T? ,,l,1. , . ,, . " , . . , , . ..... senator, said she, there was a question I wanted to ask von before I left undhis efforts, and it would be the happiest day of my life to see at Its hear] a worthy j tlien. somewhat timidly, she inquired: Wlmt state'did you you were lender one that would accomplish more than 1 could perforin and all that I from?'" have wished. I hope your excellency will attribute my request to the true ren
There only remains for me to tell y that I have just reeeived ndvlc the sneeeasfnl landin« of another «real expedition of arms and ammunition i
L,as Tunas, and that I have just «iven the pro|ier orders your affeetioimte friend and eompatrlot.
ofin j means simply harmless disuse arid such
Always consider me j a bombastlr archaism could have ori«i ; iiated only in the fat head of a Hole femes. ISrvan wonld have opened the mints that they ml«hf force open the
; mills: McKinley expected the latter to resume operations without the inter vention of an efficient reuse
! remain closed.
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Where They Were At.
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still further impoverished. Wo ask thcs»j fellows lor prosperity and tiny giv«* us foolish phrases, whirl) » millioii i»il»* men are experte«! to admire
1/1Stal« Readln«.
The (Jrenndinn makes the followin« Iiertimoit criticism of the sham to hnm-
. bn« the people with Gov McLanrin's, . . . . . .. This reminds us of an incident that occurred alsrat two years a«o, in Tupelo, ............... ,
son, the desire to serve my country, and to do all in my power to insure the «nt -1 with con«reseman Allen and Hon. Ja*. K Vardamnn, when the latter was a ^ h 1,>,cess of her ri«htoous cause, I candidate for governor. Vardamnn was canvassing the state and at, Tupelo hÄV,n« U (,jr(>nIat*’d H.ippbm.cnt”
“I have no complaint» to make of any on«* but uiy»elf. I have receivfKl j Alton was "doing th»* honora, carrying him around intrrKlucing him to the to all tl»«* pa p«*ra that will publish it;nothin« but kindness from those above me. and the most considerate attention ! i,f,r".,',iru'!1',tJ"U Veilî** ‘‘J"'1, . u‘'r'--Mr Brown over here.' said "Alsmt the stalest rending matter we . , , n i * n ■ private, »me of onr best farmers: lets go ov#*r and m»*et, him and they liav<? seen for soin»* time was found infrom tny comrades and companions in arms. Tu your excellency I am socially j *«lked over to where the leading nnd influential sovereign stood ' one of our exchanges I ist week, Su Uwindebted for nniform kindness and consideration. Von have done everything in j "Mr Drown, let me make yon neqnninted with Mr Vardamnn shape of a aniiplemen:. ft was (lov.yonr power to aid me in the work committed tn my charge, withont omitting' "Howdy do. Mr. Vardamaniglatlte meet yon. Mcbanrin's Message We nmlerstandanything to promote the general welfare. I pray that yonr efforts may at length ! prnor“r' ' "rd*B,“n- yon k"ow- ”pUln,Hl Mr All,'n' ' iw " ™ndidate for gov that it was offere.1 to a nnmlier of na
he crowned with success, and that yon may long live to enjoy the thanks of a| ' "Er hnh." replied Mr. Brown, nnd turning to the candidate, "wlmt state ! Uvv'cnn harfiy"*m'e the"objec* of ttie
grateful people, , did you say yon was from ?" governor's friends in keeping tliis flimsy"With sentiments of great esteem. I am. verv respectfully and truly yonr». During the explanation that follow,si, Mr. \ ardunmn turned to a i rieuddose pretext of an argument before the peo-
"K E Lff General " : hy. giving a gmnt ot disgust as he whispered. "Wasn't that a h I of a question pie: Therein a little "Imlderdash"to ask a candidate' (aniuthian. and sham patriotism in it, lu it everv
There is a modicum of truth in the story «hont Mr Vardanian Hat Id. assertion Dull a. to fa-I end law has friends all know that he did not use the "ense word. i Is-en proven erroneous
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Mr. Davis wrote, declining to accept the resignation, and Den Law remained
in command until Appomattox. - Otobc Democrat. W. B. S.
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