The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1865-11-11
Gov. NunHphreys.

The Metropolitan Record of the 4th ult.
contains lengthy editorial notice OF the
Inaugural Address of the Governor, and
speaks of it in the most favorable terms.
The Record though published IN New
York, has been all the time, and is still
the unflnching friend of the South, and
the uncompromising enemy to oppression
and injustice Of every kind.
The length of the article prevents our
publishing it entire, but the following ex-
tracts will be interesting to our readers:
AS the first inaugural address delivered
by the freely chosen executive OF South
ern State since the close Of the war 1t has
a peculiar signihcaIion, and its influence
will. we believe, he most beneficial on the
tone and spirit of similar addresses here
after. Although speaking for his own
State alone his address is of special I'M
nortancc to all, to the Northern as we'll as
to the Southern people. 1t ennunciates
the only principles by which the freedom
, of the people oau be preserved. 1t Is IN
word one of the most forcible protests
that has yet been made against the pollcy
of centraliz1tion as illustrated oy the
course of the despotic administration OF
L
> State Sovereignty is asserted in modified
form that is the State is Sovereign in all
8 that was formerly claimed for it except In
the Right of Secession-the right OF re-
! volution still of course remaining with the
neople to be called into exercise when
the powers belonging exclusively to them
are usurped by their official servants, and
> when redress can be obtained only by the
| full conviction of popular Sovereignty.
- The powers of the Federal Government
- are fixed by the Constitution, and to ii
/ we must look hereafter in the conflict OF
: the Sovercigntiee which the people have
i, constituted as the guardians and protect
ii ors of their liberties. There must be nc
i encroachments on State Rights, any more
i than on the rights of the people. The
- General Government must copfine its au
thority to the exercise of the powers with
n which it is invested by the Constitution
r. and any attempu on its part to interfer'
with those matters which belong exclu
"a. slyely to theS ate governments Is clearly
usurpation. II is monstrously absurd t.
m. suppose that the States which exhibited
a the highest exercise of their powers il
ror forming the Union, and in calling tn
in General Government into existence b
le- the fat of their sovereign will, intended +
,rt commit suicide. Common sense as we
m as facts of history condemns sucn SUI
position as supremely ridiculous.
ort Passing from the subject of the rels
tive powers of the State and Genera
,sa Government, he accepts on the part {
he the State Of Mississippi the decision {
of the war, and expresses the hope 'ths
the lessons taught by the rebellion wi
nd not be lost either to the North or TO th
south; that freemen, once enlightened
,se will no. submit to wrong or injustice
he that sectional aggression will meet wit
as. sectional resistance. and that the price I
noli,ical perfdy is Llood and carnage.
in. We sincerely trust that the lessor
lost on the people of the North particr
as larly, and that they will have learne
therefron1 that they must not permit II
ro. fanatic or factious partisan, to teach tn
of the Constitution, the principles of whis
ons lated, is 50 league with death and
lie covenant with hell" If the last war