The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-02-06
The HHnnia for Emigration.

There certainly exists, i'll all this des
olated region, a wide spread disposi
ton to rid ourselves of the ills we have
by flying to others whose extent, mum
Der and heaviness are lessened in on
judgment bacause they are unknown
10 -----I-----,,'.,..s.e "rIn II VIII no
remedy it.
There is quite disposition among
Southern men, without the addition o.
Northerners, to chde those who desire
to remove, for being wanting in patriot.
ism and forgetful of the duties they owe
to their poorer fellow sufferers in the
past when, in all probability, the men
complained of are as fully sensible and
observant of all their duties in this re-
respect as those who find fault with
them.
If the object be to divert the proposed
emigrants from their purpose, arguments
directed against their motives, or ques-
tioning their fealty, are not the ones
which will be most likely to affect them ;
especially when they are so unjust as
those we have alluded to- If the Mis-
sourian who is ostracised in his native
State and his life rendered a precarious
possession there, the Tennessean who
finds Brownlow and the close corpora
ton OF Radicals in power in his State
and cannot therefore find safety therein,
desire to remove 10 some spot where
the right, to life, liberty and the pur-
suit of happiness" is not "a mere decla
ration without realization, let them not
be charged with a want of patriotism or
neglect of their fellow sufferers when
they lead the way to place of refuge.
In Mississippi, We have, under some
restrictions, been permitted to reorganise
government of our own, and to elect
our own officers and here then is far
less inducement or provocation to ex.
patriate ones self; but those who think
of doing so are not necessarily liable TO
the charge of deficient patriotism. Per
haps their fault is rather over sensitive
patriotism, in feeling too keenly the loss
of all those rights which were theirs by
birth and their prospect of which is now
precarious and only permissive.
The fact is that those whose over
wrought sensibililies lead them to decline
to live longer where they are hereafter to
bear the name, but not to possess tn.
rights or influence pertaining to those
who exercise self government, are desery-
ing somewhat more of respect than cen.
sure. 1t would be better for them. il is
true. that they should hide within tb.ir
bosoms any irritation or chagrin they
may feel at the inferior place they NAV
occuy in the land they are still permitted
to call their own, for, some day or other, /
with the aid of others who would iointhem
here, they may by ballots, bullets being
evermore hereafter out of the question,
yet make it their own in fact as well as .
by name; but this steadfast hope, this
faith which will remove mountains is not
yiveu1nD all. Let us not Judge too harsh
y those who fail to possess it.
We have designated the general long
ng of some to go to some other country,
lot blessed with that peculiar Republi
'anism which claims in Congress sufi-
:ient number of votes to override the Presi-
lent's veto, as a mania, species of insan-
ty; and SO it is, and so it must be treat
o. 1t is entirely unjust to put the pa :