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Show mssissirpi. The Minority Committee Ke-port. Ke-port. Washington, 2ti. Representatives Spear, (Pa.) and O'Brien (Md.) minority mi-nority of ttie special committee to investigate in-vestigate .tfairs in Mississippi, made their report, and r'pr.-L'uc tlitt in : Vicksburg and Warren county, VJ per cent, of tne tuxes, which are to real as uluio-t to amount to con-i con-i flicatiim, are paid by wnitta, wttile ttie officers, controlled by a corrupt ring ol colored poh'ictans, who u?e ! their positions to plunder the people and Mzreuii tne p.Tpcir.iturs of tnis plundering, and tnal Crosby, eo'oml 'siientl, w member and tool of j Una ring; inui too lax payers league I was organurd, irrespective of party, wiln tnu otjeel openly stated, of aecur- ing capatj.e officials and an honest I government; ihac the pherifV'a and I lax cof lector's bonds wt-ro utterly worthless, and that ttie board ot su-1 su-1 pervirtirs, though an vised of the fact, j retimed to tompwl Ciosby to iake-! iake-! luum &ovd, and lience totj tar payers 1 were j notified m demanding Crosby's . resignation, 4 wuieh w.o voluntarily ; and n t UtD reiuil of vioioucd or 'threat; that llw Conthct of tin) 7t.i of ! Dec. rcouUui in killed, Iwo whites and twenty colored. was wholly caused by an armud aLU'iupt of the negroes of Warren county to invade Vicksburg at the institution of Crosby, who was encouraged and supported by Uov. Ames; that ttie de-, de-, feuse of the city was made under tne i direction of the mayor, and wis en-, en-, tirely justified by the law of self protection; pro-tection; that any oihr course would . have been cruelty to the families of I both races; that there is not and has ,jnot been any origin zed resistance at I VickaburL' by whites to lawlul author ity, but on the contrary they are sincerely sin-cerely desirous of preaeiving peace, owning as they do nearly all the property, pro-perty, paying nearly all the taxes, and that the patience they exhibit under such an accumulation ot wrongs and outrages such as the inhabitants in-habitants of a northern city would not tolerate to-day, is the marvel ot our civilization; that there is no white league in Mississippi whose object ob-ject is to deny the blacks any right or privilege guaranteed by law. Oov. Ames' call on the president for troops was b.tsed on false partisan state-monU. state-monU. Tuo report concludes with tho opinion that the stale can only be restored re-stored to prosperity by restoring to the people an honest government and control of their own allairs without i federal interference. |