The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-03-06

inhuInanity and all the Ills 10 WHICH hO'N
i heir. while at the same time the loyalty /
to the government, devotion to the ChloH'
and a general exaltation of the conduct an"
character of the accusers is INDUCED IN 1T
is an old SAYING that falsehood Will traVel !
a league while truth is putting on his boots |
The letters that are published by Northern
correspondents whose representations are
more or less colored by prejudice are reao
at the North rs truthful statements OF our
condition and feeling, while we, OF whonl
they are full of abuse, rarely ever see THEM
Is this right SO far as Avis complaints
90 about the ostTacism of certain people
can say this-I have met and have been IN
troduced to many of them. With some OF
them | have exchanged the politcness OF
social life; with others | have not. claim
for myself and we all claim) the social right
to have our friends and make our acqualht-
ances. If within the circle of those with
whom we have been raised we find our social
needs filed, is it n cause of complaint and
evidence OF dislOyalty, because we ITO not
choose to go out in the highways and by
WAYS and pick up every stragglcr who world
like to sit at our board To go iurthei'
wonld y0u seek ont and invite 10 yodr honse
men who live by hating and dcnouncing
YOU and yours, For one, am not prepared
to do it, It is by a singular application OF
loric that a mans loyalty is deduced from
the fact OF his so. tsprGpc"ees. My friends
are mn friends 1t IS the business OF no one
else what aninlatcs nc in choosing them.
~ u al q 4
is eyerybodys right. Would " Avis
/ take that away and make the don
ming Of the national color an evi-
Icncc Of loyalty! One other point and
/ am done He spoke OF 4 military company
wearing gray. That is the uniform prescrlb-
ed bv the State. the insignia of rank OF otti-
GERS being the same rs that in the United
States army. In many localities it was gray
before the war. Ii we adopted btee IT might
benefit one or two of your cloth mills; but
because the people are so poor, not three
companies in the State would be uniformed.
We had gray and we adopted 1t, so that some
uniformity could be obtained at as shSht an
expense as possible to the people. Would
MAKING il blue" increase our loyalty any
"vho swore they intended to hunt only
Yankees and negroes" | know nothing
Some one person may have said SO. 90
know that the Governor WAS told that II 4
certain man who was raising company
presented himself for commission, he would
do harm by granting it, rs he DID not pos
sess the proper feeling to carry out the night
views He HcrG' presented himself for commits
sion. Is this mans feeling an evidence O
the feeling of the people! Avis thinks
s.. II is unfair, but almost always the case
that extreme expressions ofextreme lndlvld
{ uals, and extreme instances OF misconduct
officials are taken up and story founded
, upon them which is asserted as representing
) the entire body Of the people. 1t were t.
= 90 to Cincinnati this week, and, during III.
STAY of three or four days, We're to hear fy
2 or six individuals say that the South 0ugh
: TO have a garrison i'll every county, and tn
: whole population engaged III the war ouSh
j to be cxtcrminated, and were to sit dow
= and found a story OF the feeling of the pee
;, nle Of Ohio towards the South, upon thes
) few statements of Individuals, would
V doing the people of Ohio justice! Woui
,, Won not denounco me? Now apply the gol'
f en- rule of ''do unto others as you would haV
= them do to you" Live up to it. Let the PEE
|. pie of the North practice it as well as preac
O it to us Alex II. Stephens, in his speec
e before the Georgia Legislature, said; Il sa
II to You, and fmy voice could extend through
# out this vast country, over hill and DIAL
Is over mountain and valley, to hOvel, haml'
a and mansion, village, town and city, wou
10 say. first of all, looking to restoration al
ID peace. prosperity and harmony in the Ian
If is the great duty of exercising that deGr
,f of forbearance which will enable them
\ conquer their prejudiccs-prcjudices again
20 communities as well as individuals. Al
n next to that, the indulgence of a christi;
@ snirit of charity | commend 1t to yo
no pcople rs well as to our own. 1t Is none t
N less valuable for having been uttered by OF
III who. after he did what he could to avert t
pd storm of war, joined his State when t
H. storm came, and became a - rebel. Apo
ed cizinr for the length of this letter (whicl
he could not well make shorter and asking y
to the favor to allow its publication as |
ON other side of the case which avis" II
resents will close. MISSISSIPPI