The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1866-11-17
A Strange Conversion.

party, and during the war
fought the Republican administration
as fearlessly as Lee and Johnston dld
the "boys in blue" There was not an
epithet that ever found its way into
newspaper but the Times applied to
the abolition Interchangeable
destructionist- o. 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 radicallsm,
and fierce denouncer of universal suf-
frage, deserts its old party, its old
friends, and, forgetful Of its past blan-
dish and treacherOus 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 p This article stigmatizes
President Johnson as unworthy ofpOp-
ular confidence, and urges the Democ-
racv 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 < new enterprise OF apostacy. .
Still affecting to cling to party whose
usefulness 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
once and cOncede the suffrage, making
issue 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
at the proposition Of negro suffrage III
any d. e. dIs IN ~-~terrall tl;esS Ut>1U II
is always wise to accept the inevitable
and whether it shall be qualified or uni,
versal, depends upon the promptness
> cratic party shall move with reference
- to it. The South will speedily yield
qualified negro suffrage upon the mo-
ton of the Democratic party, because,
: if for no other reason, she will soon
= see, if she does not already see, that
> if she does not yield she will ultimate
" be compelled to accept universal
negro suffrage. Qualified negro suf-
f frage yielded by the Southland by
g this we mean impartial suffrage, OIL
=. suffrage dependent upon the intelli-
f gence of man. irrespective of color, as
f is now the rule in Massachusetts-th
4 negro question will have been disposed
Y of, and the occupation Of the Northern
# Republican party will be gone for
Y ever"
i And again: els not the late defeat
: attributable more largely to this Ad
t ministration than to all other causes
+ combined? What is there in its com
/ position to command popular conf
n dence? Who belonging to it is emit
V tied, by reason Of his craftsmanship, tC
;. the confidence or respect of the Demo
# cratic party? Certainly it is not An
Y drew Johnson, nor William II. Seward
e nor Edwin NJ Stanton"
W The editor of the Times knows very
d well his statements are not true. Ih
lie Conservative defeat at the North i
$ not attributable to the administration
J. but to the Democratic party whicl
4 chung to the old organization and fois
1T ted men upon the ticket that are a
N odious to the masses North as "moss,
( backs are to the people of the South
" The Republican friends of the admin
Il istration were excluded, and the De
! mocracy, unmindful of policy, of GU
&c common interest, of the line marke
D. out at Philadelphia, and the effort
J. and advice of the administration
# nominated almost exclusively fror
If their own ranks and thus destroye
ar our only hope of escaping from Rad
Y. cal bondage. To you, and those VIII
re followed your advice, Mr.. Time;
i belong tho honor y of perpetuatin
IL tyranny in this country. Your hav
10 adhered to old party ties at tim
re when votes from all political sects wei
in needed to save the country in the Sout
ir we saw, after the surrender, the nece'