Rensselaer Union, Volume 12, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1879 — MISSISSIPPI. [ARTICLE]

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

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.