The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1866-11-22

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every principle it ever pretended t
defend. For years it has been TIA
leading organ in the Northwest of tn
Democratic party, and during the wa
fought the Republican administration
as fcarlessly rs Lee and Johnston Ii,
| the boys in blue There was not Al
epithet that ever found its way into ;
newspaper but the Times applied K
the abolition iscegen- negrophilo
destructionist- obli worshipping black
republican disunionist party" and
since the close of the war it has been
a firm friend Of the South, and a strong
believer in the restoration policy OF
the President. But in an instant, with
out even foreshadowing the coming
event. this vehement supporter of the
Presiden--tthis endorser of the Admin
istration, this bitter foe Of radicalism,
and fierce denouncer of universal suf-
frage, deserts its old party, its old
friends, and, forgetful Of its past blan-
dish and treachorous counsel, with one
single bound leaps at the foremost
ranks of the Radical party, it has so
numerically cursed and abused for
years. 1t disgraced itself on the 18th
inst, in a double-headed leader, emit
tied Shall the Democratic party live
or die = This article stigmatizes
President Johnson ms unworthy of pop
ular confidence, and urges the Democ-
racy to "cut loose from that hybrid
concern, and leave it to float on the
sea Of public contempt into which it
sometime since entered, and from
which no power can rescue it,
We have not room for the whole ar
ticle to-day, but will make a few ex-
tracts, that the public may judge Of the
Times 'Snew enterprise of apostacy,"
Still affecting to cling to party whose
for the present is gone, the
Times says; " What, next? Can the
Democratic party succeed until the
negro question shall be gotten out of
the way? 1t cannot What next
Is not negro suffrage inevitable: And
is not the quickest way to get the ne
gro question out of the way to act at
jnce and concede the suffrage, making
ssue only on the degree to which it
shall be conceded We know that
many Democrats have not reached this
advanced view Of the case, and that
such still feel greatly inclined to revolt
1t the proposition of negro suffrage in
my degree, but let lis tell them that it
5 always wise to accept the inevitable /
md whether it shall be qualified or uni. {
'ersal, depends upon the promptness {
II otherwise with which the Demo
ratio party shall move with reference
o it. The South will speedily yield a
Qualified negro suffrage upon the mo /
ion of the Democratic party, because, q
for no other reason, she will soon :
ee, if she does not already see, that p
she docs not yield she will ultimate f
7 be compelled to accept universal n
egro suffrage Qualified negro suf- 0
age yielded by the Southland by .
lis we mean impartial suffrage, or h
lffrage dependent upon the intelli- fl
ence of man, irrespective of color, as e
now the rule in Massachusetts, c
ngro question will have been disposed .
{, and the occupation Of the Northern a
epublican party will be gone for Il
'er." Sc
And again: ais not the late defeat
more largely to this Ad-
than to all other causes =,
What is there in its com. h.
,sition to COMMAND popular conf n
nee? Who belonging to it is enti- a,
d, by reason of his craftsmanship, to 10
c confidence or respect of the Demo n,
attic party? Certainly it is not An 70
ew Johnson, nor William H. Seward, 60
r Edwin NJ. Stanton" ma
The editor of the Times knows very of
ii his statements are not true. The su
defeat at the North is sa
t attributable to the administration, err
t to the Democratic party which su
ing to the old organization and fois- th
I men upon the ticket that are as no
ious to the masses North as "mossy
cks" are to the people Of the South.
e Republican friends of the admin Ra
ration were excluded, and the De ia
'cracy, unmindful of policy, Of our to
nmon interest, of the line marked tn
at Philadelphia, and the efforts be
I advice of the administration,
almost exclusively from cal
.ir own ranks and thus destroyed wa