Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1877 — MISSISSIPPILETTER. [ARTICLE]

MISSISSIPPILETTER.

Magnolia Miss. July, 17th 1877. Dear BKN'mr injustice is sometimes slow to assert itself. Revolutions disorganize society; a great mass of people become corrupt and crime follows in the path once illuminated by virtue and religion, but in the course of time the better principles of man are awakened to life and energy, and the evils produced by bad government are corrected. Those who sow seed among 'ares and thistles are almost sure to to reap the whirlwind. Under the radical government of Mississippi and Louisiana, virtue, honesty and religion, lay almost dormant, in consequence of the evil influences used to arouse the passions of men, to seek revenge for crimes perpetrated upon society. In 1875 Justice was aroused in Mississippi and Adelbert Ames and his pet cohorts ami accomplices in oppression were driven from the sacred public temples which they had converted in harems and dens were schemes for plnrtder were concocted and where military despotism was nurtured at the bleeding breast of a daughter of the Godess of Liberty, In Louisiana to day, the men who sold their birthright, robbed the public treasury, stuffed the ballot box, made officers and a Fresident of the United States by bribery, forgery, and perjury, the instigators of eorruptors of public morals, revelers in dissipation un 1 licentiousness,J the advocates of mixed schools, negr# social equality and amalgamation, are being drawn Up to the bar of justice to answer for their crimes. The hand which smote Sodom and Gomorrah litis pointed the finger of condemnation i.o those malefactors who wantonly disregarded the laws of nature and of God, and installed confusion and anarchy where prosperity and peace should reign. Kellogg and Packard, the chief Tycoons, two of the directly responsible agents of the sufferings of Louisiana, have lied from justice and are yet seeking to keep alive the flumes of sectional discord and hate, which long since should have been buried low in the tomb of oblivion. While thus engaged, their associates in crime are being indicted and arraigned by the Courts, ami will surely nap their reward. Wells, Anderson, Gasanave and Kenner, el id omne genus will go to the penitentiary, while Kellogg and Packard strut with lordly disdain through the chief cities of the North, asserting their pretended right to rule over a people who loathe and despise them.

As I have previously said, nearly all the crimes which have been committed iu the Southern States have their origin in republican leaders and bad government. Those tilings which necessitated the organization of the Ku-Kux-Klau, the Knights of the White Catnelia, Vigilance Committees, Regulators and Bulldozers in the South, arc now being enacted in Pennsylvania by brigands of tramps. Innocent and unprotected women axe outraged and murdered, houses are robbed and o reign of terror prevails. Do we upbraid the people of Pennsylvania lor organizing companies of Bulldozers and shooting down these highway robbers, ravisiiers and murderers? No, sir! we applaud them. It is the certainty of swift,retribution alone that will stop it. Peace and security can only be purchased at the price of blood, the majesty of human and Divine law, the royalty and power or the people, the strong arm of justice. As we have suffered, so Pennsylvania is now suffering, and we will commend the good people, of that unhappy State for doing the same thing for which they upbraided, condemned and abused us, and brought down upon us the whole power of the Federal government, and had us punished. Like Mississippi, with her Kemper county trage ly, Southern Illinois has had her Snruarod outrage iu t.he butchery of Judge Wimhrop and others, lour own town of Mitchell has found a use for a company of Vigilants or Bulldozers. Ohio needs them, anq other Northern States have nothiugto boast of. These things, sir, are the outgrowth of corruption and bad government, and must be corrected at the hands of law-abiding citizens, and at the ballot-box. Where men wai touly violate innocent virtue, the peace of society, murder and rob indiscriminately, outraged jus’ice and self-protection forces a speedy revenge. God knows we wish the people of the North no harm, but we do claim and will assert the right to attend 'to our own business. Your Republicsn papers abuse us because we hang half-civilized, brutal negroes for outraging and murdering Southern white women, and robbing, and then turn round and hang and shoot down tramps and Mollie Maguires in Pennsylvania for committing similar crimes! - Are such people possessed of any souls or common stnse ? Though President Hayes got his office by one of the most stupendous frauds ever perpetrated upon the American people, yet it seems a blessing t.o the country that he has brains to be a just and equitable ruler, and knows bow to, and dares attend to his business in spite of the influence brought to bear against him. Under his administration the South is at peace, because corrupting agents have been removed from our midstand the people are left to administer their own affairs Hew much tetter for the President to have the confidence and good will of the South, who voted solidly against him, than, as was the case during Grant’s administration, to have its hatred, its bitter opposition. and steeped with corruption, blood and crime. President Hayes has less opposition in the whole South to-day than he has in the half of one State at the North, because he has been just. Our people are ever ready to reward virtue, but are as quick to condemn wrong and oppression. Crops in South Mississippi are r - ported by farmers to be good, though in other sections they will be short in consequence Of drought There will be more corn made to South Missis-

sippi this year than has been for many years past. Cotton is also doing well. Our farmers have come down to more systematic sules, and there will be a much greater variety of products made for home use than previously. They are growing more prosperous, year by year, and if we can always have as good government as that administered by Governor Stone, we will soon be independent and happy. We are now looking with much anxiety to our fall elections. The Democrats are well organized and intend to try to keep in power. The Republicans have disbandec sine die; vox populi vox dei. So mote it be. On the first of August the nominations will be made and then the scramble will begin for office. We apprehend an independent ticket, which we would deprecate, as it wo’d engender almost as much bitter hostility as a straight out radical ticket, indeed there would be very little diference. Charlie Halstead and I went on a fishing excursion a few evenings ago —it was hot as blue blazes. Charlie c night a few fish, but “Nick” was nix, Charlie is a nice young man and is making many friends here. Send us more like him, if you can—they will be thankfully received. He soys the folks are all still very well—was in to see me to-day. Yours, Truly, NICK OF THE WOODS. Now, “Nick,” there is but one youug man in this neighborhood who has a violent desire to emigrate to a hotter climate. His disposition is sweeter than honey! He can write about ever} thing and everybody and not lie ? He is a thorough, proficient master of his profession, excelling all others, (in a horn, you know). He has a mortal hatred of carpetbaggers, and in that he would suit you. But we can’t spare Bro. James. The Government desires to make a Consul of him, but we cun’t consent.

Mr. Tilden says he went abroad in part to escape from the übiquitous interviewer who, like the organgrinder, is new every morning and fresh every evening, and when he once sics down on a man never leave s him so long as a grease-spot of him remains.