Rensselaer Union, Volume 12, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1879 — Page 5

/This page fe an exact reprint of six columns of the editorial page of the Democratic paper published at Okolona, Chickasaw County, Mississippi, September 10, 1879. The name of the paper is “The Southern States.” It is as true to Southern Democracy as the needle to the pole.

SOUTHERN STATES. OKOLONA, MISSISSIPPI. A. T. HARPER, 1 W. K KERNAN, a AliwilwHii B*M to Um MMt tktof Uftt mmw to. A Wedneidky, Sept. 10, 1870. DEMOCRACY! RALLY I BALLY I BALLY I . % Hon. Ethel Barksdale will address the citizens oi OKOLONA, at Mclver Hall Thursday, Sept. 11

Hon. Otho R. Singleton.

Representative Otho R. Singleton addressed a large and lively audience at Mclver Hall, this city, on the let. Round after round and peal after peal •f applause punctuated the a any, strong, unanswerable points of his speech. His utterances were calm, logical, cogent, and illustrated with anecdotes that poked the boys under the ribs and Bade them roar with laughter. Mr. Singleton is a candidate for U. S. Senator, and has long experience in public life, bis unflinching fidelity, his high, nnqnestioned integrity and the ■Msterful grasp of his genius would ■sake him a most royal representative of •or people in the upper House. The States wishes there were two Senators to be elected in 1880, instead of one. A special telegram to the Cincinnati Enqnirer says:—There is good authority for the statement that Lamar justifies the act of Barksdale in killing Dixon, who was the independent candidate for Sheriff of Yaxoo county, Miss. At first the Senator refused to speak upon the subject to any person, but, since receiving the full particulars of the unfortu•ate tragedy, he is said to justify Barksdale’s action on the ground that Dixon traduced in the most violent langnage some of the lady members of Barksdale's family.

Squelching a Slander.

(Marion (Ind.) Democrat.) I We knew Kernan at the time be was Editor es the Fort Wayne Sentinel, we being employed on the Gazette of that city at the same time. • • • • His employers were only too glad to discharge him after he had, in a few weeks almost totally destroyed the sab•eription list at that paper. [This lie, in different shapes and from different scoundrels, has traveled from Maine to California, and we propose to strangle the life out of it, finally and forever, by publishing the following letter from the then proprietor of the Fort Wayne Bentinel; • Omcs or Dailt St Wkeelt Bmiwi, ? Ft. Ways* In*.. Jmm 20, JB7L \ Will H. Kernan, Esq.,—Yout Rote RESIGNING the position as editor of the Sentinel has been handed me. lam ex-' ceedingly sorry that you have felt it incumbent to do so, for I can assure yon that your services have met with my unoualifird approval. The columns ’ of the Sentinel, while.ttnaer your charge, have been ably edited, aad, it is no flattery to say, better than evkr before. Oar relations, also, have been such as to ■sake the parting a matter of the deepest regret. As it seems, ander the dreamstaoces, that you cannot bb induced to remain, my beat and heartiest wishes follow you, hoping that some day in the future we may once Bsore join our social and political fortunes. Your friend, R. M. Dunn. The original copy of this letter can be aeen at the States office.]

Lovely Yankee Literature.

[Popeka (Kan.) Citizen.] * 1 The great mistake this government made was in not hanging abont fifty

thousand of these Southern whelps a t the close of The war. V [Manitowoc (Wia.) Tribune.] Dispatches from New Orleans announce the death of Gen. J B. Rood. * * * He waa a perjured traitor, and no loyal man has any tears to shea because Yellow Jack bias accomplished his week. ~ V [Watseka (His.) Republican.) You of the Sooth ought to be down on yowr cowardly marrow-bones, thanking your stars that yon were allowed to escape with your necks unstretched, and your lying throats on out.

MISSISSIPPI.

THE DUTY OF HER DEMOCRACY—THE INDEPENDENTS MUST BE COUNTED OUT AND KEPT OUT IE THEY RELY UPON t THE AERICAN RACE EOB THEIR MAJORITY. Tke old war spirit is rising keedom; The Radical party is panting and thirsting for the blood of oar people; »e Their papers reek and drip with Satanic lies and saturnine libels in regard to the recent popular uprising in Yazoo. They say that we are incapable of self-government; • They call ns Savages, Barbarians, Zolas, Basbi Bazouks, Ac., Ac., Ac.; They threaten to tramp down nere on a Death-mission like that Of 1861, and they swear that “the xext time” they will not leave a man u nkilled, a boose unburned, or a grass-blade growing in the whole, wide sweep of the South. Mississippi is the pet aversion—the particular antipathy,—of these Stalwart scoundrels. She forever was. We hope to high Heaven that she forever will be. Their hatred glorifies our grand, progressive State; and the more they hate her the brighter become the sparks and flash of her crown-jewels. Mississippi is. as far above her defamers as the stars above the dirt, and they may curse and condemn her until they are dead and damned, but they will never dim one ray of the immortal splendor that circles her imperial brow. Our people do not want the love of the scabby mod-sills who are bowling in our tracks to-day. . We would despise onrselves if we had it, —would think that, perhaps, we had some slimy trait of character in common with oar traducere. We tell these loyal lepers, these devil-dogs of Yankeedom, that we defy them one and all; We tell them to their teeth, Now, * Here, In the midst of their heathenish threats and hellish oaths, That Mississippians thaU rule Mississippi; That the Radical party shall never have the upper hand again in the administratibn of this Btate; That notwithstanding the negroes have the minority they shall never have the might; THAT EVERY COUNTY WILL BECOME A YAZOO AND EVERY PATRIOT A BARKSDALE BEFORE WE WILL SUBMIT TO AFRICAN SUPREMACY.

The Yankees may send hither a herd of Blacklegs in blue; We may see the grim gleam of their bayonets at onr polls, And hear the tramp—tramp—tramp of their pirate soldiery in our streets. No matter. These Federal felons' will do the bidding of onr people as they did it in. 1875 and 1876; They will stand back and let us alone; Or they will rue it, right then and them, on the spot, without parley or postponement. 1 The Democracy of Mississippi must organize this year as they organized in 1875. They most carry the State this year as they carried it in 1876. They must display the same Napoleonic tact and skill,— The same vim, and nerve, and grit; - The same grand, heroic fidelity .and fortitude that they displayed in 1876. THEY MUST DARE AND‘DO, as they dared and did in 1878. If the white Independents are strong enough to win the day without help of their dusky supporters let them wiu it: But if (hey have to rely upon the old - Opposition to the Democratic party at tiufl time, and ia this juncture of uncertainties, means treason and infidelity to

SUPPLEMENT.

th® best interests of our Commonwealth, and if it relies upon the negro race for success st the polls, IT MUST BE PUT fHATEVEB COST OB Aliens and Africans forced our preud people to tread the burning plow-shares oatm, and they win force us to pasa through the same slavish ordeal again, ts the Democratic party loses its hold in this supreme crisis oi our history. Missiasf i*is t ** en * Men of . Organize to a man f And swear fay tbs blood, sad tears, and awful agony of year passionate past, that you win never surrender year supremacy. Swear by the Trinity that Mississippi soil shall redden with blood and Mississippi skies shall redden with flame before you will yield the soeptre to your former serfs.

Powder and Shot.

Con (filiation the backet. • 9 ■ uefy the hell-puked Amendments, and debar the African from voioe or vote in politics. Hlr—Up—karrsh tor old Yasool Though aoraly tirrd, Miaul 7 trs* ) God blow the Democrat* who daro To hoop tho old flag flying tberct j There ought to be a divorce between the North and the South as high as Heaven, as deep aa Hades and as wide as infinity itself. to Conservatism has had its day in Mississippi, and the dilapidated old thing has been sent to the jnnk-shop. Too much nig-nig-nigger did its biz., andt disgruntled it forever. Susan B. JAnthont has more brains under her sun-bonnet and more money in her purse than all the negroes in Chickasaw county put together and yet the Yankees won’t let her vote. The Democratic sneaknp of Yankeedom who stood by the Peace Party of that section in 1861-6, and who now proclaims that he was a Union man during the war, is simply a Mean, Slinking, Contemptible, Pusillanimous, Uncircumcised LlAß,—and that is all there is of it. It takes the Radicals ?of Yankeedom to nominate a Seducer for Mayor. (Vide, the case of Kalloch.) It takes the Radicals of Yankeedom to choose a Seducer for Chairman of a State convention. (Vide, the case of Conkling. The Kemper county trials are on, and there' will be no convictions, if the scales of Justice bold their horizontal swing and level. Chisolm was a fiend incarnate, and his innocent community suffered the most shameful crimes at his bloody and thieving hands, for years and years, before it freed itself of his presence by one fell and telling blow. Peace and safety and liberty have held sway in Kemper county since |the white sunlight no longer throws his baleful shadow athwart the paths of her honest, industrious and enlightened people. If any man is hanged for having helped to rid the world and time of the Ruffian Chisolm, that man wDI be a martyr, whos name will be cherished till freedom has perished.

When Jack Sherman, the Bx 7 Secretary of the Treasury, went up to Congress, he was poorer than Job’s traditional turkey-cock. When he went out of Congress he was more than a millionaire! Yet a paper wae recently received at this office that had the hardicheek to call him "Honest John Sherman” I! I How—are—you,—“Honest” ? Jack Sherman is simply a "slydevilish sly”—rascal, who has lived up to the precepts of Dame Lobkina in the .tale of Paul Clifford; for he "minds his "kittyism, and never steals, if any be in ‘T§® Fay; sticks to his sitivation, and "talks like a pious ’an; takes more by “insinivation than by blaster, case they "as swindles gets more and risks less "than as robs.” No man will ever be legally hanged for Seoession on this continent—never.—[Okolona States. •• • • Next time—if, unfortunately, the next time should come—mercy wul not be allowed to triumph over jnstiee.Cbicago InJber-Oeean. "Next time—if, unfortunately," the next tuns should come,” the black flag will be unfurled, and the Federal solvdiera will be toot down like the dogs that they are wherever found. There will be no quarter. It will be war to the knife and the knife through the heart

You had better stay at home "next time—if, unfortunately, the next time should come,” for "mercy will not be allowed to triumph over justice.” Marie what we tell you now, yon boastful booby. As is perfectly natural it fails to represent Mr. Lfoeolo in tho Scotch skull -cap and the other portions of the remarkable disguise in which he sneaked into Washington, And which created soeh disgust for him in the minds of the reputable men of hta party.—(Alexandria (Va.) Gazette. \ "0, no, they never speak of that f” But the fact ought to be flung in the teeth of the truculent Yankees whenever they mention the Mnrder-hearted Monster of the Sangamon Swamps. He was a coward, — Cruel as he was cowardly,— Criminal as he was cruel, And, take him all-in-all, be waa the moat indecent and in famous character that ever played a part before the footlights of history. His carcass ought to have been dragged through dirt, filth and Slime to the stake, swung np by the heels, and burned to a crisp. / If this performance had taken plaee in the Year of onr Lord, 1861, it would have saved a million lives and untold treasure. ,

There is no use trying to conciliate such scoundrels. As well try to conciliate lurking snakes or infuriated tigers. It is time for the government and the people of the North to realize what manner of men they (the Mississippians) are. —lndianapolis (Ind.) Journal. Who wants to conciliate nsf We wouldn’t have your friendship and fair speech in your present state of mind. Toss your infernal old olive branch into the consuming fire. Yonr touch has polluted it forever. There is one way, and one way only to bridge the bloody chasm. This; Go straightway and 1 strangle yonr Grants, Shermans and Butlers; Then down, down, DOWN, flat on your faces, and beg and pray and implore the forgiveness of our people. This, and only this can secure conciliation. , A SPEECH FOR SAMBO. d V Back, Sambo, from the ballot-box t you are not wanted here, — Away onto the ootton-fleld, and pick it clean and clear! Yon were not meant for public life. They tried you at that trade. And blood and theft and rain was tb« record that you made, Until yonr lords and masters swore by the great God on high That they would rale this lovely land, or know the reason why. And by a Help divine they drove you out ox j>owor and plaee, And proved that Heaven itself bad made of them the Master Raoe. The power they bold will be transferred from father onto son, While grasses grow and breeus blow and riven seaward ran. This to a lesson you moat learn—we teach it plump and plain: Voxs till the Pay or Doom shall crack. An you will vom-ni vain, Before ws will submit again onto your heathen horde The toroh shall blase, the musket oraek, and ' flash the fearless sword. So, bask onto the ootton-fleld I Bade, Sambo, to yonr place! The seal end signet es high Hesyea makes yours the Servant Base. The grand, old Historian of Mississippi, Col. J. F. H. Claiborne, whose name is known and honored at every fireside in the Great Southwest, sends ns the following; Natchez, Miss., Sept 4, 1879.] Messrs. Harper A Kernao:—Accept my thanks for "Southland,” and the kind words that companion it The Poem is splendid. In a literary point of view, for beauty and originality, for felicity of exuression, for rhythm, color and emotiom, it has never been surpassed. It is an inspiration, and the divine afflatus breathes in every line. It sounds like an Alpine horn. It stirs the soul like a clarion.in the clangor and tamolt of battle, it inspires one with new courage and sterner resolutions. It ria the chaunt of the martyr who calmly marches to the seaffold to die for Liberty. I shall ever take an interest in the anthor of "Southland.” I wish he was in a position to cultivate the brilliant poetic gift with which he has been endowed. It appears he is a native of Ohio. 8o waa Gen. Charles Clark. They are not the, less as good Southerners as Col. A. Y. Harper and myself. Truly,.Yours, J. F. H/ Claiborne. • - mmmmmtmmrn Secession is not, never was, and never will be treason.—[Okolona State*. * * * * The truculent editors of the Okolona "States” may as walk realise the fast bow, and better thaw later, that the last resort of "the last rsaortris death by banging. There will be no its orands about it when the time comes,

and the aforesaid editors are doing all in their power to make it oome.-{Chicago Inter-Ocean. Ia the name of the Prophet wool Do you think, Mr. Inter-Ocean, that we care a broken barley-straw for yonr threats! Do you? Do you think that we are to be cowered and crowded back from onr high resolve by your hints of a rope and scaffold? Do you? We tell you, sirrah, that if the South should walk out of the Union to-day, and you shoald drag her back to-mor-row, yon wouldn’t dare hang a solitary Secessionist. The Bouth would snap her Angers in your Yankee faces, precisely as she did in 1865, and defy you to bring her warriors and statesmen to trial, - And you would sneak out of it again, as you did before, with ytfur heads down, and your tails between your legs. You know and we know that the law and touts are all on our side in this matter of Secession, and you know and we know that yon can never, never, NEVER convict men for defending their rights, their altars, their firesides and the graves and household gods of their families. Try it! Try it, we say, and see.

The States Abroad.

WRITE POETRY, TOO. [Knoxville Whig and Chronicle.] A few bits from the Okolona "States” are mighty good reading. * * * They write poetry, too, in addition to their many accomplishments. OUR SENIOR IN CHICAGO. [Telegram.] Chicago, Sept. 9. A. Y. Harper, the Southern fire-eater from Okolona, arrived in Chicago this .evening, and as soontou his presence in town became known he was surrounded and pumped by reporters from all the big papers. They report him as having iron-gray hair, and firm, deep-set eyes. He is apparently abont fifty years of age, bat really considerably younger, having been born in 1888. He did not interview easily. Enough was gathered form him, however, to learn from him that he favors the negro exodus and States-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 support whoever is the nominee. Mr. Harper proposes to deliver his first lec- , tare Monday evening in this city. His Rnbject will be "States-Rights, Reconstruction, the Negro,” Ac. [Princeton (Ind.) Clarion.] • * • We have the assurance of reliable individnals who have visited the South, that the utterances of the Okolona "States” are the real sentiments of the Democracy of the South. NEWSY AND VIVACIOUS. [Eminence (Mb.) Argus.] Attention is called to the advertisement of the Okolona "States” in this iasne. The "States” is a newsy and vivacious sheet, thoroughly BourbonDemocratic, and is cheap at the price asked. FORGED LETTERS. [Lancaster (N. H.) Republican.] It seems strange to us that the editor of the Littleton (N. H.) Republic should publish forged letters to show that a newspaper of the character of the States is a Republican organ. THE MOST CONSISTENT. [Manitowoc (Wia.) Tribune.] The Okolona "States” is the moot consistent exponent of Democratic principles In the United States. True Democrats roll its fiery sayings under their tongues as sweet morsels. A YAKKER MOBOCRAT. [Saginaw (Mich.) Herald.] The Brooklyn (N. Y.) Eagle wants the people of M issisKi ppi to mob the Okolona States. We are afraid it would be rather a dangerous business. The States is not one of your Chisolm families. OUR POSITION. [Madison (Ind.) Courier.] The Okolona "States” rises to comparative respectability besides the position of a large npmberof Northern Democratic papers that have written on the Dixon ease in Yasoo. GIVE THE BOOM A BOOST. [Wapakoneta (Ohio) Bee.] - * The Con federo-Democrat, Col. Harper. proprietor of the Okolona "States.” will give toe Democratic boom a big boost in Ohio tile latter pert es this

month. He has taken ft upon himself to oome North and stump ft for the benefit of Ewing and Rice, HR MAS STARTED. [Mobile (Ala.) Daily Registairc.J . From the letter of onr corresoondent in Okolona it will be seen that Col. Harper, of the Okolona “Sates,” is about starting out on a missionary tour to convert the people of the West and North to the doctrine of Secession. Congressman DeLaMatyr. of Indiana, • said in a late speech, that "education "has injured the negroes of the Sooth "far more than it has benefited them,* 1 and DeLaMatyr told God’s own truth when he said it. We clap onr hands! Steedman—Gen.. Jim' Steedman—the Wah Democrat - dunderdnnk, of Toledo, Ohio, has been defeated for the Senatorial nomination in bis District. Congressman Rani did Now, let the Baokeve Jeffersonians shelve that unmitigated fraud—Miser,— Mouser.-O, what’s-bis-namef-of Gallon. 0., who wants to spread his wings Renate-ward, and the States will feel like dancing a horn-pipe and disptavi ng the Bonny Blue flag from its front window. Steedman and Miser hate the “States” and the devil dislikes iiolv water. "Now,” remarked the Senator, groping into natural history, "it’s known to every intelligent man that the allcgatur after once tastin’ tho flesh of a cullud. puftsun will alters neglect twenty white people to pursue his fav'rite nigger. Yaller fever is like the allcgatur. Havin’ 'Once tried the offcolor he has been hi fascinated by it and will take no white meat when a nigger is ter be had.” * i The Yazoo matter has cost the Democrats 6,000 to 10,000 votes iu Ohio.— Indiana Cor. Port Gibson Reveille. Can’t help it if it costs them 50.000 votes. Better that Ohio go unanimously Radical than have a single comity in old Mississippi remanded to negro supremacy. • Messrs. Campbell, of the Vicksburg Commercial, and Wright, of the Vicksburg Herald, came near having a aet-to in the streets of the Terraced City, lately, but the police swooped down like the wolf on the fold, and squelched the rumpus in the bud. e, ; If the Yankees keep on howling at Yazoo much longer, the Democracy will roll up 100,000 majority in <mr State this Fall. [Fort Smith (Ark.) New Era.] We give onr readers two remarkable articles to-day. Oue from Lite Okolona "States,” tells to a dot the true inwardness of a genuine Southern . Democrat and what his expectations are for the future. Those sentiments are as strong to-day as at any previous time since 1871. SHOOT. [Lemars (la.) Sentinel.] It (the Yazoo affair), is no concern of theirs(the Yanks).—[Okolona "States.” Sure enough t Blaze away I You laid out that rautankerous rebel Dixon very neatly. There’s no one interfering: Shoot!

HON. ETHEL BARKSDALE.

TH* MINTING KBIT THT7RBDAT.— LRT U» - MiU IT A FIB L D-D AT. •• Citizen l l Hon. Etltel Barksdale will speak in this city on the 11th inst. Bear the date in mind, and be on hand without fail to see, hear and honor the distinguished .statesman whoso words have done so much to disenthrall oar proud, old Commonwealth. Barksdale is the man of men whoso keen intellect, untiring seal and an compromising attitude led to the downfall of the despotic Ames and his alien followers. s' Let the people of Old Chickasaw join together atone man,and giveth is graud, heroic statesman, Ten Thousand Welcomes to onr city. 0 A HAPPY OLD SCGOK3T. [Cleveland (O.) Daily Herald.] It would make life in America much more agreeable if the talented Mr. Km - nan, of the Okolona "States," and the able editor of the Leman Sentinel would travel around the country holding public discussions on the subjects of Secession and Centralisation. Doubtless some arrangement in the way of breastworks could be made that the audience might look on with comparative safety. THAT CAP WOJTT CRACK. [St. Paris (O.) New Era.] The Okolona man is a little like wturjM the Texas said about Nasbyj "He was •ad—d good Democrat, but he would keep giving the party away F «, [lf we have given the party away, so' have the Southern Brigadiers and their Northern backers. Bet the fact is, the Democratic party, (with the exceptions of the sneaks, quacks, poltroons and bastards in its ranks.) has no plans and a# principle* of which it is eithor afraid or ashamed.— Okoioßa Bte lot.]