Daily Mississippi clarion and standard. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-05-25

claI term OF all SucH Officers
then, and thereafter elected, shall
commence on the first Monday in Jan
uary next after their election This
specifically fixes the commencement
and end Of each term, The purpose
and object of this amendment was &c
separate the election Of what are
known as political officers, from those
of a ministerial and judicial character,
in order that the latter class might not
be influenced by political questions.
At the time Of the meeting of the
Convention in last August, as a result
ofthe war, all the offices Of every
kind in the State were yacant and
there was no person qualified to order
an election to I'LL tie gacaneies. The
first Monday IN October, 1865, was the
period for holding the regular election
for members of Congress, members OF
the Legislature and State officers
while the first Monday in October,
1866, was the period for holding the
regular election for all County, Dis
trict, Judicial and Ministerial officers.
The Convention passed an ordinance
declaring that general election should
be held on the first Monday in Octo-
Der 1865, according to the Constitu-
ton and election laws of the State as
they existed on the first day of Jan
uary, 1861, for Representatives in
Congress, Members of the Legisla-
ture and all State officers. 1t also
provided that's special election should
be held, at the same time as the said
general election for all County, Dis
trict, Judicial and Ministerial officers ;
and the officers so elected shall hold
their offices until their successors are
elected and qualified, and enter upon
the duties Of their respective offices,
according to the Constitution and
laws. and the term of all such State,
County, Judicial and Ministerial off
csrs so elected, shall commence the
third Monday of October, 1865. The
Convention thus left in force the
amendment to the Constitution adop-
ted in 1856, separating the election of
the two classes of officers, and it was
evidently intended to carry into force
the provisions Of that amendment
All County, District, Judicial and
Ministerial officers elected on the
first Monday of October, 1865, were
elected to Jill rocancies; and only for
the unexpired term. A regular cleo
ton for all these officers must be held
on the first Monday in October, 1866,
and the official terms of the officers
elected at that time will commence on
the first Monday in January, 1861
The official term of all persons elected
at the special election in 1865 will ex-
pire at that time
SOUTHERN CHIsEMENT.-To
make the disfranchisment of the
Southern people the condition and
basis of reconstruction and to make
that disfranchisement depend upon the
persons to be DISTINGUISHED, is, re
marks the LouisvilleaJ ournal, a stroke
of craftsmanship that has no parallel
in history. The very assent to it con
templated by the trainers of the re
port of the committee is evidence of
the right to vote, and that right is to
be so exercised as to annihilate itself
Well does The Nation attribute to the
committee of Solomons who inven-
ted this queer continuance "a want of
practicalness." That journal, which
manifests sound sense and conserv-
atism, as well as good feeling, says :
No better mode of keeping feelings
of disloyalty and of irritation could
be devised than Acknowledgement on
a great scale for an offense of which
this generation, at least, does not see
the moral guilt, and we greatly fear
never will be got to see it, do what we
may to open their eyes Everything
which looks like persecution will, of
course, only irritate its objects, keep
alive the old feelings of evaporation,
and, by dividing the community into
two classes, the one favored, the 9th
er outlawed, lay the foundation for
hates and feuds of which we fear this
century would not witness the termi-
nation We doubt if any worse ser
vice could be rendered to the Union
men of the South than the commits
sion to them-handful as they are-of
power or privileges withheld from
their neighbOrs The curse of test
oaths, and all the rest of the appara-
tus tor ascertaining mems loyalty, is
that it breeds and perpetuates social
hates; and a republican community
i'll which these have not only found a
place but are fostered by law, may be
fairly said to be possessed by devils.
II II 10 IliC hlSl VI blG NOl lutI II
people to tranquilize the South and
attach her people to the Government,
it can be easily done 1t is only nee
essary to revive their now suspended
sense of interest in the Government
be dealing with them as if they were
citizens, free and equal citizens, and
not convicts. Without a community
of interest and feeling there never can
be contentment in the South The
surest way to keep up divisions and
arrangements, and to make, not only
the present generation, but future gen
erations, regard the Government with
an evil eve, is to deprive them ofthosU
privileges and franchises which have
ever belonged TO viuzene of the Uni
ted States. The true policy is a mag
unanimous policy 1t is glorious to
have a giants strength, but tyrannous
to use it like a giant"
The Southern Railroad Company.
At the annual meeting of the Stock
holders of the Southern Railroad
Company, held at their office in Vicks-
burg. on the 7th of May, 1866, the
following gentlemen were elected
members of the Board of Managers
for the ensuing YEAR NJ Enamel