Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1879 — The States Abroad. [ARTICLE]

The States Abroad.

WETTB POETRY, TOO. [Knoxville Whig and Chronicle.] A few hits from the Okolona “States” are mighty good reading. # * * They write poetry, too, in addition to their many accomplishments. OUR BENIOX IN CHICAGO. ' [Telegram.] Chicago, Sept. t. A. Y. Harper, the Southern fire-eater from Okolona, arrived in Chicago this evening, and aa soon &e his presence in town became known he was surrounded and pumped by reporters from all the Mg papers. They report him ss having iron -gray hair, and firm, deep-set eyes. He is apparently about fifty years of age, hut really considerably younger, having been horn in 1886. He did not interview easily. Enough was gathered form him, however, to learn from him that he favors tits negro exodus and Stotes-rights. He thinks the South has been grossly misused by the North. He favors Thurman for the next President, but says the Southern Democrats will rapport whoever Is the- nominee. Mr. Harper proposes to deliver his first leetore Monday evening in this city. His subject will he “Stotee-Rights, Reconstruction, the Negro,” toe. [Princeton (Ind.) Clarion.] • * * We heve tbe assurance of reliable individuals who have visited the South, that the utterances es the Okolona “States” are the real sentiments of the Democracy of the Sooth. - " / •’ : '• '• VSWSY AND VIVACIOUS. [Eminence (Mo.) Argus.] Attention is ealled te the advertisement es the Okolona “States” in tele issue. The “States” is a newsy and vivarious sheet, thoroughly BourbonDemocratic, aud is cheap at the price asked. FORGED LETTERS. [Lancaster (N. BL) Republican.} the Rtofos isaßepehlteua organ. TIB MOST CONSISTENT. *„ * The Okolona “States” is the moot renpi B «Shi BSsi* mate roll its fiery sayings under their tongues as sweet morsels. A YANKEE KOBOCRAT. SpllPllllt jLsrssqjg; K&fiToiJw SwEm'^n*of**S

month. He has taken it upon himself to come North and stnmp it tor the I*• jpl ' | HE HAS STARTED. [Mobile (Ala.) Daily Begiataire.] . From the letter of our eorrefmondent m Okolona it will be seen that Col. Harper, ofthe Okolona “Sates,” is about starting outou a missionary tour to con - vert the peonle of the Wret and North to tee doctrine of Secession. ■' - '■<£'< 'V * r ' liiif • v 3 Congressman DeLaMatyr, of ladiauA, said in a late speech, that “education ‘has injured the negroes of the South “far more than it has benefited them,” and DeLaMatyr told God's own truth when he said it. We clap our hands! Steedman—Gen. Jim Steedman—the Wah Democrat annderdnnk, of Toledo, Ohio, has been defeated for the Senatorial nomination In Mi District. Congressman Hnwl did it. Now,let the Buriceve Jeffersonians shelve that unmitigated fraud—Miser,— Mouser,-0, what’s-his-nzmef-of Gal ion. 0., who wants to spread his wings Senate-ward, and the State* will feel like dancing a horn-pipe and displaying the Bonnv Bine flag from its front window. Steedman and Miser hate the “Btotes” and the devil dislikes holy water. _ - . ’ “Now,” remarked the Sena tor, gropi n g - into natural history, “It’s known to every intelligent man that the allegatur after once testin’ the flesh of a cullnd possun will alien neglect twenty white people to pursue his fav’rite nigger. Yaller fever is like the allegatur. Havin’ "once tried the offcolor he has been m fascinated by it and will take no white meat when 4 nigger is ter be had.” r t•• • ,» •••..: • ' 'v.. The Yazoo matter has cost the Democrats 5,000 to 10,000 votes in Ohio.— Indiana Cor. Port Gibson Reveille. Can’t help it if it costs them 50,000 votes. Better tbat-Ohio go unanimonriy Rsdieal than have a single comity in old Mississippi remanded to negro snpremaey. - - ■ •=' '• ' • Messrs. Campbell, of the Vicksburg Commercial, aud Wright, of the Vicksburg Herald, came near having a set-to in the streets of the Terraced City, lately, but the police swooped down like the woif on the fold, and squelched the riimpus in the bod. If the Yankees keep on howling at Yazoo much longer, the Democracy will roll-up 100,000 majority in our Stot£ this " [Fort Smite (Ark.) New Era,] We give our readers two rem/rkable articles to-day. One from the Okolona “States,” tells to a dot the true inwardness of a genuine Southern Democrat ■and what his expectations aro for the future. Those sentiments are as strong to-day as at any previous time since Iffri. SHOOT. [Lenars (la.) Sentinel.] It (the Yacoo affair), is no concern of theirs (the Yanks).—[ Okolona “States.” Sure enough! Blase away t You laid out that cantankerous rebel Dixon very neatly. There’s no one interfering: Shoot! •, •