The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1864-06-11
a Strange Article

on false information. Who u y that mas
played such apraciical Joke on The editor
| it is hard to say. We doubt Lyon being
the party. !. 1t is equal to the prize story
Joke of few weeks since. The editor
says
| we have mo personal acquaintance with
Lyon, having never even seen him, and
our feelings and sympathies are based up
on nothing but facts as they have come to
our knowledge"
1t was hardly necessary to state the
above, for any one afterreadipg his article
would be convinced. But unfortunately
for the editor his .facts, as he calls them,
are nothing but fiction, worked up in
beautiful colors that it might the more
easily impose upon hisknown sensibility
"The paper alluded to in his card was
published last fall in the columns OF the
Southern Republic, at Columbus, Miss,
for which he was cashiered, conscribed
and sent to the 48th Miss. regiment in
Virginia."
Unfortunately for the editor, The above
is not true in fact. He was not cashiered
or conscribed for writing that article, us
the finding Of the court will prove. The
gentlemen composing that court denouIc-
ed the article, but he was not convicted
upon anything contained in said letter.
The. editor says the letter was untimely,
unfortunate, &c, land in trying to hit at the
then editor Of the Republic he describes
il as an a,ofM letter, and in the next col,
umn defends said Lyon, and states that
many great men OF our land have done
worse. We think the editors article
some months ago on the negro question,
of but one column, contained more of
what might be called treason than the
labored production Of young Lyon in
question. There was no treason in either.
Both the letter and editorial referred to
were uncalled for and out of place, and
should have received no notice whatever.
The editoro of the Republic never men
toned the latter, and would not the for
mer but for its appearing in the columns
of his paper, and although published as
an advertisement, the article was publish
ed BY him under the express knowledge
that the doctrine would be denounced in
the next issue Of his paper. His forced
sbsence from home prevented his com
ments from appearing in the same issue
as the letter. The Missssippian says;
"The action Of the Republic week or.
two after the trial and conviction Of Lyon,
in joining in the hot cry against him, by no
means lessons its calpability in giving the
letter publicity in the outset. Having al
lowed the paper to become the instru-
.ment of getting into the serape, it would
have been far more magnanimous and
creditable to have stood by him in his
troubles TO the bitter end. The Inference
was perfectly natural and irresistible that
the letter rather met the appreciation of
the Republic at the time it was inserted,
instead of the seeming cxultation in the
misfortunes Of its author which the col
ums of that paper presented a short time
afterwards"
The above is a gratuitous SANDER on
the then editor OF the Republic, and
shows more than anything how thorough
ly the editor has been made the dupe OF
some designing person or persons. The
article denouncing the principles enunci !
ated in that letter came out in the next
issue as intended, while Lyons trial came
off something like month afterwards;
md the inference which he says was per
ecily natural, that ii met the appreciation
# the publisher, could never be drawn
rom an editorial article ever published
n the columns Of the Republic while IN
Ter his control, and his opinions and
landing as Southern man was too well
,nown to be questioned, whatever
night have been the opinion as to error
Judgment (if an error) in allowing ills
ppearancein his columns.
The Mssiissippian again remarks
.This man Lyon, one would think, is a
srrible monster, a most dangerous man, I
nd would scarcely believe that he is a II
Dung christian gentleman, wholly with I
ut experience oil any kind except as a
,ldier." q
We can assure the excited editor that |
0 one thinks any such thing. Mr.
yon is young man Of natural talents .
I'd Of good education, but his worldly {
nowledge and experience is about as f
mited as any young man Of his age can g
ell be. We never blamed him for wri- !,
ng the letter in question Older heads
an his were much deeper in the mire o
an he was in the mud. A few discon- .
nted people who could see nothing in n n
biting our battles for independence but
saster to the South--who believed that al
Q South was wrong and the North re
show of patriotism was so - y
lall that on the fall of Vicksbug, their "a
outs of 81 told you SO, we viii have to OF
ccumb," tried to make martyr O. u
on, but we know Of no others. e.
We are sorry TO see the Mississippian
zee itself on the platform it has, and We
ieve if the editorRill take a "trip TO Al
umbus he may enlighten himself on le
ich OF which he is profoundly ignorant, 1 ~
correct the mistakes of which he has ne