1 10 155 https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/997a9bee903d7c82d3f4f5f94b427a58.PNG c5d30a28a274e5fe3dae371f555b0674 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource DeeDee Baldwin Assistant Professor, History Research Librarian <a href="mailto:dbaldwin@library.msstate.edu">dbaldwin@library.msstate.edu</a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document A RADICAL NOMINEE THE GUILTY PARTY. Affidavit made against Him by a Prominent Radical and ex-Member of the Legislature. <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/c--f--norris--hinds-county-">C. F. Norris</a>, late Radical member of the Legislature from this (Hinds) county, and a prominent colored politician, yesterday, November 2d inst., went before Wm. F. Fitzgerald, Esq., United States Commissioner for the Southern District of Mississippi, and made affidavit that <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/monroe-bell--hinds-county-">Monroe Bell</a>, Radical nominee for the Legislature had violated the Enforcement Act by attempting to bribe prominent members of the Radical party to support him during the canvass. We presume that Commissioner Fitzgerald will issue a warrant for his arrest immediately. We will also call the attention of the Justices of the Peace of this county to the fact that <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/monroe-bell--hinds-county-">Monroe Bell</a> has been, if <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/c--f--norris--hinds-county-">Norris</a>' charge against him is true, guilty of a gross violation of the laws of the State, and it is their sworn duty to take <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/monroe-bell--hinds-county-">Bell</a> in hand as soon as the United States authorities are through with him. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Clarion-Ledger clipping Subject The topic of the resource <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/monroe-bell--hinds-county-">Bell, Monroe, 1826-</a>; <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/c--f--norris--hinds-county-">Norris, C. F.</a> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Clarion-Ledger Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1871-11-09 bell crime norris https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/d51cd48d0fc943ab38284fee08e9fb23.PNG f42d7917a6559948eb7d7173e52d3696 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource DeeDee Baldwin Assistant Professor, History Research Librarian <a href="mailto:dbaldwin@library.msstate.edu">dbaldwin@library.msstate.edu</a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document SHERIFF'S ELECTION. A special election for Sheriff of Hinds county took place yesterday. William Jefferson, (colored,) Independent Republican, and <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/monroe-bell--hinds-county-">Monroe Bell</a>, (colored,) Republican nominee, were the candidates. In this city, Jefferson received a large majority. Whites and colored generally voted for him. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Clarion-Ledger clipping Subject The topic of the resource <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/monroe-bell--hinds-county-">Bell, Monroe, 1826-</a> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Clarion-Ledger Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1873-09-25 bell https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/b244635f209e14c25df3c94926d44139.PNG a246f8b59f0eb6988419640d522992cb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource DeeDee Baldwin Assistant Professor, History Research Librarian <a href="mailto:dbaldwin@library.msstate.edu">dbaldwin@library.msstate.edu</a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Supreme Court enters La.-Miss. land dispute N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON - For the second time in four years, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday waded into a boundary dispute between Mississippi and Louisiana over which state owns a 7-mile-long strip of land that may once have been an island in the Mississippi River but is now firmly attached to the Louisiana shore. Louisiana is challenging the determination by a special master, appointed two years ago by the court, that despite the current geography, the land belongs to Mississippi. Although the land in question, near Lake Providence, La., is referred to locally and on many maps as Stack Island, the term "island" is itself a fighting word in this long-running litigation. The special master, Vincent L. McKusick, a former chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, calls it the "Disputed Area" in his 33-page opinion. The court Monday agreed to hear Louisiana's appeal in arguments to be heard next fall. In the old days, there was an island - whether Stack Island is or was that island is part of the dispute - in the Mississippi that the federal government deeded to private landowner <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/stephen-b--blackwell--issaquen">Stephen B. Blackwell</a> in 1888. Under that deed, the island was part of Issaquena County, with the Mississippi River's main navigation channel - known in boundary dispute cases as the "live thalweg" - located between the island and Louisiana. Over the years, the thalweg shifted as the river's currents ate away at the island in some places and built it up in others. The special master found that by 1954, the thalweg west of the island had "died" and Stack Island had essentially merged into the Louisiana riverbank. To decide whether the property - about 2,000 acres now owned by a family that uses it primarily for hunting deer - is still part of Mississippi as a matter of law, the justices will apply a series of arcane rules developed over the centuries for solving just such problems. Under the so-called Rule of the Thalweg, a state boundary that lies along a river's main navigational channel shifts as the thalweg shifts - a rule that in this case appears to favor Louisiana. But the special master applied the Island Exception to the Rule of the Thalweg. Under that exception, as McKusick put it, "provided that an island maintains a continuous existence, a state's sovereignty over it remains undisturbed as it changes in size and location as a result of accretion net of erosion." Louisiana maintains the land that was once Stack Island no longer exists, having long since been washed away, and so the Island Exception does not apply. The land in dispute consists essentially of sandbars, the state says, contending that a completely new island, identified on some maps as Stack Island, formed to the northeast during the 1960s and 70s. But McKusick rejected that analysis, finding that Stack Island has continued to exist at least since the 1880s. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Clarion-Ledger clipping Subject The topic of the resource <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/stephen-b--blackwell--issaquen">Blackwell, Stephen B., 1849-</a>; Issaquena County (Miss.) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Clarion-Ledger Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1995-03-07 blackwell https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/2373134b6b1fa7350387a5cbecb87dbe.PNG 1e008bc77affc2a4ad22ece89043b210 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource DeeDee Baldwin Assistant Professor, History Research Librarian <a href="mailto:dbaldwin@library.msstate.edu">dbaldwin@library.msstate.edu</a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Confirmation by the Senate. The following appointments by the Governor, were confirmed by the Senate on Monday, the 1st inst.: <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/emanuel-handy--copiah-county-">E. Handy</a>, ? L. Wofford, A. P. Huggins, <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/weldon-w--edwards--warren-coun">W. W. Edwards</a> and L. J. Scurlock, as Trustees of the Normal Department of the Tougaloo University; <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/jesse-freeman-boulden--lowndes">J. F. Boulden</a>, <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/jeremiah-m--p--williams--adams">M. P. Williams</a>, <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/harrison-h--truhart--holmes-co">H. H. Truehart</a>, <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/john-roy-lynch--adams-county-">J. R. Lynch</a> and <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/merrimon-howard--jefferson-cou">M. Howard</a>, Trustees of the Alcorn University; <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/j--h--johnson--desoto-county-">J. H. Johnson</a>, Trustee of the State Normal School at Holly Springs; <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/james-d--cessor--jefferson-cou">J. D. Cessor</a>, Inspector of the State Penitentiary; Joseph Graves, Harbor Master of Ship Island Harbor; Joseph S. Amant, Pilot Commissioner of Pass Christian; A. Warner, Major-General of Militia; L. L. Davis and James Maycock, Pilot Commissioners for Ship Island Harbor and Mississippi Sound; A. G. Packer, Adjutant-General; O. S. Lee, Lieut.-Colonel and A.D.C.; <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/james-j--spelman--madison-coun">J. J. Spelman</a>, Lieutenant-Colonel and A.D.C.; <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/william-gray--washington-count">Wm. Gray</a>, Brigadier-General of Fourth District; Dr. Wirt Johnson and W. E. Gibbs, Trustees of the State Lunatic Asylum, and John Brown, Colonel of First Regiment of Infantry, Coahoma county. -Pilot. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Clarion-Ledger clipping Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Clarion-Ledger Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1875-03-04 Subject The topic of the resource <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/emanuel-handy--copiah-county-">Handy, Emanuel, -1922</a>; <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/weldon-w--edwards--warren-coun">Edwards, Weldon W., active 1872-1884</a>; <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/jesse-freeman-boulden--lowndes">Boulden, Jesse Freeman, 1820-1899</a>; <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/jeremiah-m--p--williams--adams">Williams, J. M. P. (Jeremiah M. P.), -1884</a>; <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/harrison-h--truhart--holmes-co">Truhart, Harrison H.</a>; <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/john-roy-lynch--adams-county-">Lynch, John Roy, 1847-1939</a>; <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/merrimon-howard--jefferson-cou">Howard, Merrimon, 1821-</a>; <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/j--h--johnson--desoto-county-">Johnson, J. H., active 1872-1875</a>; <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/james-d--cessor--jefferson-cou">Cessor, James D., active 1872-1877</a>; <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/james-j--spelman--madison-coun">Spelman, James J., 1841-1894</a>; <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/william-gray--washington-count">Gray, William, 1841-1919</a>; Tougaloo College; Alcorn State University alcorn university boulden cessor e handy education edwards gray jh johnson jmp williams jr lynch m howard spelman tougaloo truhart https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/7d517e2d2db178d25cabfd7923319812.PNG dca56511fb1e5e1dba700105abe7a3e4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource DeeDee Baldwin Assistant Professor, History Research Librarian <a href="mailto:dbaldwin@library.msstate.edu">dbaldwin@library.msstate.edu</a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Is the Late Treasurer of Alcorn University a Defaulter? EDITORS CLARION: "Quidnunc" in his communication of last week raises the question, why "Colonel" Sam Ireland does not turn over that $35,000 to the lawful Treasurer of Alcorn University? He shows very clearly that the injunction cannot and does not apply to the office of Treasurer, and that Sam. Ireland is liable to prosecution for not complying with the law and turning over that money. If then the injunction does not affect the office of Treasurer, how does Ireland avoid complying with the following sections of the new law: SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the office of Treasurer of said University be abolished, and hereafter the State Treasurer shall be ex officio Treasurer of said Institution, and as such shall have the custody of all funds. etc. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the present Treasurer of said University, and he is hereby required to forthwith pay into the State Treasury all unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made, remaining in his hands, etc. This Act was approved and went into effect March 3, 1875. Now for nearly two months this worthy ex-Treasurer has held in his unlawful possession and defrauded the State of $35,000, for which he is liable to indictment and imprisonment. Mr. Ireland's conduct in this injunction looks very queer, even to those who do not know what his real reason is for not settling. The old Trustee Board did not get out that injunction officially, for half of them condemn the proceeding unqualifiedly. <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/merrimon-howard--jefferson-cou">Merriman Howard</a>, Rev. Mr. <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/jesse-freeman-boulden--lowndes">Boulden</a>, Mr. <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/harrison-h--truhart--holmes-co">Truehart</a> and Judge Brown, have all publicly condemned the injunction and Dr. <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/doctor-stites--washington-coun">Stites</a> did not sanction it. Here then is a portion of the old Board, without a quorum, asking for an injunction in the name of the whole Board when half of the names to that injunction were forged. Everybody that knows anything about the case, knows that Ireland is at the bottom of the injunction, and it was to keep him from having to give an account of that money - which he has not got. Are the few members of the old Board, who sustain the injunction, aware that they are allowing themselves to be made the tools of one individual simply to screen him from the law? It is to be hoped that they themselves are not aware that there is something loose about the finances, or that they are screening a defaulter. But whether they are aware of it or not, they cannot escape public censure for allowing the State's money to be dealt with in this manner, and for attempting to defeat the express will of the people as declared by the Legislature. When the two Trustee Boards met here last week to affect a compromise and avoid litigation, why did Ireland hurry up to Jackson to defeat that arrangement? He surrendered the Superintendent's books to the old Board, but why did he refuse to surrender the Treasurer's books? Members of the Legislative Investigating Committee stated during the session that he could not produce the money. I have heard members of the new Board state the same thing, and they speak "by the card." It is not to be supposed that a master of the fine arts like Ireland will fail to manufacture and present to the old Board vouchers and receipts for moneys, supposed to have been expended, sufficient to cover his deficiencies and clear him from the charge of embezzlement. But if the new Board is allowed to settle with Samuel, he will undoubtedly be prosecuted. Ireland evidently will fight the new Board in the courts until he can make his settlement with a portion of the old Board, and it will be too late in the day for them to find fault with his accounts, when they themselves have just been dismissed for their incompetency. I should like to ask, Mr. Editor, whose duty or privilege it may be to bring action against Ireland for the recovery of the money to the State? Is it the duty of the State Treasurer now while the Board is enjoined? Very Respectfully, HONESTY. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Clarion-Ledger clipping Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Clarion-Ledger Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1875-05-05 Subject The topic of the resource Alcorn State University; <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/merrimon-howard--jefferson-cou">Howard, Merrimon, 1821-</a>; <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/jesse-freeman-boulden--lowndes">Boulden, Jesse Freeman, 1820-1899</a>; <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/harrison-h--truhart--holmes-co">Truhart, Harrison H.</a>; <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/doctor-stites--washington-coun">Stites, Doctor</a> alcorn university boulden m howard stites truhart https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/1f93bc49da0523c93e5070d14cebe5c5.PNG 21ed11a45eb50d7a5bccf8017809d7ea Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource DeeDee Baldwin Assistant Professor, History Research Librarian <a href="mailto:dbaldwin@library.msstate.edu">dbaldwin@library.msstate.edu</a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document EXIT <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/countelow-m--bowles--bolivar-c">BOWLES</a>. MR. PRESIDENT: Your Special Committee appointed for the purpose of ascertaining the whereabouts of the Hon. <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/countelow-m--bowles--bolivar-c">C. M. Bowles</a>, Senator from the Twenty-eighth District, beg leave to report that Senator <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/countelow-m--bowles--bolivar-c">Bowles</a> has not been in his county since November 1873, nor in the State, as far as your committee can learn, and recommend the adoption of the following resolution: Resolved, That the seat of the Hon. <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/countelow-m--bowles--bolivar-c">C. M. Bowles</a>, Senator from the Twenty-eighth District, be and the same is hereby declared vacant, and the Governor requested to order a special election to fill the vacancy. Respectfully, <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/george-w--white--wilkinson-cou">G. WHITE</a>, Chairman. Report received and adopted. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Clarion-Ledger clipping Subject The topic of the resource <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/countelow-m--bowles--bolivar-c">Bowles, Countelow M.</a> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Clarion-Ledger Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1874-04-09 bowles https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/d572b52a7e5c08d595b2f889cf89798b.PNG 1562101511894233d7c830310f0ea77a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource DeeDee Baldwin Assistant Professor, History Research Librarian <a href="mailto:dbaldwin@library.msstate.edu">dbaldwin@library.msstate.edu</a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document OFF THE TRACK. <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/orange-brunt--panola-county-">Orange Brunt</a>, one of the colored candidates on the Radical ticket for the Legislature in Panola county has withdrawn from the race since the development of the game that Ozanne and the leaders of the Radical party in that county were attempting to play. He advises his race not to support such men. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Clarion-Ledger clipping Subject The topic of the resource <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/orange-brunt--panola-county-">Brunt, Orange</a> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Clarion-Ledger Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1875-10-25 brunt https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/c74114c693bd077d3c79d2985082c6ea.PNG a634961fa26908e13590e4f056058237 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource DeeDee Baldwin Assistant Professor, History Research Librarian <a href="mailto:dbaldwin@library.msstate.edu">dbaldwin@library.msstate.edu</a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Shots at the Members. Of the six Republican members of the House of Representatives, three are lawyers, two are teachers and one a preacher. Three of them bear the name of George, namely: <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/george-william-butler--sharkey">Geo. W. Butler</a>, <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/george-f--bowles--adams-county">Geo. F. Bowles</a> and <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/george-h--oliver--coahoma-coun">Geo. H. Oliver</a>. They are conservative in their views, and voted solidly for the appropriation of $10,000 for the erection of the Confederate Monument. Two were educated at the Alcorn A. & M. College, namely: <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/george-william-butler--sharkey">Butler</a> of Sharkey, and <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/cornelius-j--jones--issaquena-">Jones</a> of Issaquena. They are constantly present at the meetings of the House, and always stay until adjournment. Their conduct has thrown no discredit on the counties represented by them. <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/george-william-butler--sharkey">Butler</a> and <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/george-f--bowles--adams-county">Bowles</a> are serving their second terms. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Clarion-Ledger clipping Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Clarion-Ledger Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1890-02-13 Subject The topic of the resource <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/george-william-butler--sharkey">Butler, George William, 1855-</a>; <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/george-f--bowles--adams-county">Bowles, George F., 1844-1899</a>; <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/george-h--oliver--coahoma-coun">Oliver, George H., 1857-</a>; <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/cornelius-j--jones--issaquena-">Jones, Cornelius J., 1858-1931</a> butler cj jones gf bowles oliver https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/9ae0910e1e7a56438bc51f01e6310ec3.PNG b244d6cc349c29b0cad6875a4adabdb1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource DeeDee Baldwin Assistant Professor, History Research Librarian <a href="mailto:dbaldwin@library.msstate.edu">dbaldwin@library.msstate.edu</a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document The Poll Tax. Pending discussion of the Revenue Bill in the House of Representatives, on Thursday last, Mr. <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/william-h--allen--coahoma-coun">Allen</a>, of Coahoma, said: Mr. Speaker: I sat very quietly in my chair yesterday, and to-day, listening to the report of the Committee of Ways and means on the bill to raise the revenue to conduct our State for the next two years, but now, sir, I am constrained to rise and express my ideas on this subject. There is a bill to tax the school teacher, the book-seller - who next? Go and take what the poor man has, and sell it for his poll tax; all, everything he has for a simple poll-tax; and there is another bill which takes that poor man to the court-house, indicts him for a delinquent, and under the law fines him for misdemeanor, and if he is not able to pay the fine, puts him in jail - all for one dollar due the State for a poll-tax, and to secure the payment of this tax and the costs accrued in the trial, the poor man is sold - sold to the highest bidder to work it out. Now, who are the class that will suffer by the passage of this law? Why, Mr. Speaker, it is the poor laborer, who stands in July's hot sun between the plow-handles, and in the cold wintry days, the latter part of the year, gathering the cotton and the corn which he has made to pay his debts. Sir, I venture to say that many have been in the hands of the Jews, who came all the way from Jerusalem, the land of the Cross, to the cotton fields of Mississippi, and ever since that day, nearly two thousand years ago, there has not been money enough left in their hands to pay a poll tax. As a member of this House, Mr. Speaker, I say the poor colored laborer, as well as the poor white laborer, will pay his poll-tax when able to do so, and take a pride in doing it; but I appeal to the House, in the name of God, and humanity, and justice, do not pass this bill or the amendment, for we have already a law as strong and sufficient as can be for the collection of these taxes. Do not press the poor class to take from them what they have not, and deprive them of what they have - their liberty - by incarcerating them in jail and selling them. Sir, if this law passes and takes effect in the month of December, the poor man has paid all he has made on his crop to the merchant, then the sheriff or county contractor gets him, and during the cold winter, while he is thus in durance, his family are suffering. I oppose the bill and move it be indefinitely postponed. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Clarion-Ledger clipping Subject The topic of the resource <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/william-h--allen--coahoma-coun">Allen, William H., 1851-</a>; Poll tax Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Clarion-Ledger Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1886-03-17 allen speeches https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/d90007a4f78631fe814ecd821fa7e4b9.PNG 59c1155c5efa61e149631c8af89ba54e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource DeeDee Baldwin Assistant Professor, History Research Librarian <a href="mailto:dbaldwin@library.msstate.edu">dbaldwin@library.msstate.edu</a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Wimberly's Deputies. The new Collector of Internal Revenue, A. T. Wimberly, has made the following appointments of Deputies in Mississippi: To succeed R. E. Wilson, F. B. Hill, colored; to succeed A. H. Coleman, <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/william-h--allen--coahoma-coun">W. H. Allen</a>, colored; to succeed W. G. Sykes, Geo. M. Buchanan; to succeed L. B. Brown, Chas. Buck. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Clarion-Ledger clipping Subject The topic of the resource <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/william-h--allen--coahoma-coun">Allen, William H., 1851-</a> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Clarion-Ledger Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1889-08-22 allen