Speech #470058377

At the present tome I think it unwise in usThat is for Republicans. for this was a sort of saddlebags convention. the "Greenhackers" settling in one end. and the Republicans in the other end. of the State capitol. and at night they were both fused togetherAt the present time I think it unwise in us to nominate a full Republican State ticket. but let us take advantage of these disaffected elements for this election. and I will assure you. my Republican friends. that so sure as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west we will at the next election be able to regain for the -grand old Republican party that which we lost in 1875 by systematized fraud. plunder. and murder on thto part of the Democrats of the State. Surely. sir. if a colored man could thus speak in the capitol of Mississippi. and brand the people of Mississippi as he did brand them there could be no white man within the clientago of the honorable gentleman from Tennessee who would not dareto express his opinions. In another portion of this speech tle honorable gentleman alludes to the present governor of Mississippi. in which he says: The newly.elected governor of Mississippi makes in his recent inaugnral address a plaintive appeal for immigrants to conic in and build up the waste places of that naturally rich State. Now I undertake to assert that the uonvention which assembled at Jackson. Mississippi. and nominated the present executive of that State.