Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-06-06
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TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 6, 1865.
RICHMOND WHIG,
TUESDAY MORNING. JUNE 9, 1866
MESSAGE OF GOV. CLARKE OF MIS-
SISCIPPI

MESSAGE OF GOV. CLARKE OF MIS-
SISSIPPI.
The following is a telegraphic summary Of
message recently delivered by Governor
Clarke to the Mississippi Legislature, whose
proceedings ware cut short by an order of
dispersion from Gen. Candy:
Gov. Clarke's message to the Mississippi
Legislature has been received. After ad-
verting to the responsibility of his action in
calling the Assembly together, and to the
trying circumstances under which they met,
he admits that the war is ended, and with it
the power of the confederacy of the South
ern States; and he expresses satisfaction
that his humble part was performed with
fidelity to his State and obedience to her
laws. He admits that the Southern States
will return to the Union, and says the cir
cumstances surrounding them will induce
them to consent; but the necessity, being
the result of military power, will render re-
organization delicate and difficult task. He
advises the adoption of the speediest
measures to accomplish this in accordance
with the right of the States and the lib
critics Of the people. He alludes to
the people of Mississippi, in 1861, through
their authorized delegates in convention,
severed their connection with the Union !;
and says that this action was not hasty, but
the subject had occupied the minds of the
people for many years. Causes which would
have justified revolution impelled them to
secession. With no purpose of aggression,
but for defence alone, did Mississippi raise
arminQ in nladianra N har la "A
nances to repel invasion. The Northern
States, which have demonstrated their earn
estness to preserve the Union as essential to
free government and liberty, and which have
bv the exhibition of their power astonshed
the world, cannot now desire the abasement
and destruction of the people whom in the
contest they found equal to themselves in
all except numbers and resources. By the
concession f equal rights alone can the full
consent of the people be obtained.
He recommends calling a convention to
repeal the ordinance Of secession, remodel
the State constitution, and enlarge the power
of the Legislature. He then recommends
| the passage of various acts, but as the Legis-
lature adjourned without considering any of
them, they are omitted. The message con-
cludes as follows
The terrible contest through which the
country has just passed aroused in every
section the iiercest passions Of the human
heart, and in many instances had led to the
commission OF crimes Of the most malignant
character, until lawlessness seems to have
eliminated in the assassination of Mr.. Lin
coin and the attempt to assassinate Secretary
Seward. For those acts, so atrocious, hor-
rible, and repugnant TO the instincts of the
American heart, and so much opposed to the
principles regulating our social life, you
feel, am sure, in common with the whole peO-
pie Of this State, the profoundest sentiments
Of detestation. The period too at which they
occurred was most inauSpicious for the for
tunes Of the country for they have infamed
the minds of the Northern people, and
though right thinking men, when embittered
feelings have passed away, will not attribute
them to the Southern people, yet for the
present they may retard an adjustment of
our laws and social institutions on such
basis as will most speedily give quiet and
repose to the people and country. 1t is al
legged that the immediate parties engaged in
the assassination have implicated a number
Of gentlemen well known for their adherence
to the cause of the South. Among them
Jefferson Davis AMI Jacob Thompson Of that
State. This implication is repelled by Gov.
Clarke on account of the purity Of the pri-
vate characters, personal integrity, honor,
truth, and uniform Christian morality of the
said gentlemen. But he says if the evidence
justities the charge, their names and charac-
ters will be tarnished forever.