The daily Mississippi clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-05-08

XII ne MeupHAS P~f
dav sneak of the riot as thing that
has passed. and comment upon it &C
cordino to their various proclivities.
All so far as we know, agree in de
nouncing the burning of the negro
school houses and churches The Ar
gus says:
The burning Of the churches,
school-housesa and ssshanties' on W ed
nesdav night was not only wholly IN
Unsuitable. but without even the usual
palliation claimed for the violence ana
lawlessness of mobs-sudden passion
and served at once to place the par
tics onnosed to the negroes IN the
| wronG-at least. in the eyes OF the
nublic abroad. 1t will not be known
with certainty who were engaged IN
| these most criminal and most inlpott'c
acts of incendiarism until thorough
/ Investigation is made by the commit
tee which we understand has been ap-
pointed by Gen. Stoneman. OF this
! committee. we learn, Gen. Marcus
I Wriol4t is chairman, and in his char
acter for probity and intelligence the
public have ample guaranty that the
investigation will be conducted with
fairness and impartiality.
The Bulletin says
Men place great stress upon little
incidents which led Immediately to
the recent riots. These are very I'M
important The fight had to come
1t was brewing all last winter. FRO
NOTED by the enactment Of the CIvll
RIGHTS Bill, with a crude idea of which
NEGROES have been imbued; hurried
on bv that seemingly natural antlpa
thy which subsists between cabmer
and ssnavgers - it had to come. An
drew johnson predicted it in his las
veto message and we have only tC
congratulate ourselves that eX-rebe
citizens and soldiers shared no par
Heip9tiQn in or guilt in these deplor
aOIe events.
The Appeal confirms this Iaee state
ment:
Whoever, says the Appeal, shal
connect rebels with these sad events
and so draw from them an argumen
against their fitness to be entrustet
with the management of their own 10
cal affairs, or assert that the negrt
race is not safe under their protection
will simply lie. Should such repre-
sensations come from pretended ey
witnesses, they will lie willfully am
knowingly We put this on record
once for all. applicable to .'all whom
it may concern. If any proof wer
wanting Of the correctness of this as
sertion, it may be found in the fact
that the latest victim of the brutalitie
the cOlOred servant killed at tn
GayOso House on Thursday night
was a faithful follower and friend 0
his late master through the entire wan
and was favorite in the Confederat
army There is net a returned Con
federate soldier here to whom he wa
known-and he was very general
known and esteemed-who would no
have protected his life at the risk o
his own. He was engaged in tal1in.
care of the hats and canes of the at
PENDANTS on the Benevolent Party 70
the benefit of manned Confederates
and at the time of his untimely nun
der had in his personal keeping SIEVE
raj pistols put in his charge by Con
federates, who were in the ball room
Going out to call hack for a COnfed
crate, he was fired upon and killed,
has not vet been discovered by WHOM
but certainly not by any one i
sympathy with the occasion upol
which he was nm attendant.
The testimony Of the Argus is t,
the same purport. 1t says;
There has not been tie slightest trac
Of lchot our RadicDl maljgners so flip
PANTY style tie ''re5eI element, IN Ties
unhappy disturbances, from begiania.
to end. They were the outcroppins
of a chronic antipathy cherished b,
the negroes, and fostered by their evi
counsellor, against the policemen 0
the city. Like all other riots, it grew
from a ''molehilP, to a mountain,
simply because it was not prompt,
checked at the outset as it Nigh
easily have been but for the reason
above stated