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

HThe Memphis papers of Satur-
day speak of the riot as thing that
has passed, and comment upon it ac-
cording 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-houses and ''shanties" on We'd
nesday night was not only wholly I'M
justifiable, but without even the usual
palliation claimed for the violence and
lawlessness of mobs-sudden passion
and served at once to place the par
ties opposed to the negroes in the
wrong-at least, in the eyes of the
public abroad. 1t will not be known
with certainty who were engaged in
these most criminal and most inpolitic
acts of incendiarism until thorough
investigation is made by the commit
tee which we understand has been APP
pointed by Gen. Stoneman. OF this
committee, we learn, Gen. Marcus
j. Wright 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 Pro
noted by the enactment of the Civil
Rights Bill, with crude idea of which
negroes have been imbued; hurried
on by that seemingly natural antipa-
thy which subsists between cabmen
and ''naygers it had to come. An
drew Johnson predicted it in his last
veto message and we have only to
congratulate ourselves that eX-rebel
citizens and soldiers shared no par
ticipation in or guilt in these deplor-
able events
The Appeal confirms this last state
ment:
Whoever, says the Appeal, shall
connect rebels with these sad events,
and so draw from them an argument
against their fitness to be entrusted
with the management of their own 10
cal affairs, or assert that the negro
race is not safe under their protection,
will simply He Should such repre-
sensations come from pretended eye
witnesses, they will lie willfully and
knowingly. We put this on record,
once for all, applicable to ''all whom
it may concern" If any proof were
wanting of the correctness of this as
sertion, it may be found in the fact,
that the latest victim of the brutalities
the colored servant killed at the
Gayoso House on Thursday night
was faithful follower and friend OF
his late master through the entire war
and was favorite in the Confederate
army. There is net returned Con
| federate soldier here to whom he was
known-and he was very generally
known and esteemed-who would not
have protected his life at the risk Of
his own. He was engaged in taking
care of the hats and canes of the at
tendants on the Benevolent Party fol
the benefit of manned Confederates
and at the time of his untimely muir
der had in his personal keeping seve-
raj pistols put in his charge by Con
federates, who were in the ball room
Going out to call hack for Confed
crate, he was fired upon and killed, il
has not vet been discovered by whom
but certainly not by any one il
sympathy with the occasion upon
which he was mn attendant.
The testimony of the Argus is tc
the same purport. 1t says:
There has not been the slightest trace
Of vhat oar RadicDl maligners so flip
PANTY style the "rebel CLEMENT IN these
unhappy disturbances, from beginning
to end. They were the outcropping
of chronic antipathy cherished by
the negroes, and fostered by their evil
counsellor, against the policemen OF
the city Like all other riots, it grew
from ''molehilp, to ''mountain,
simply because it was not promptly
checked at the outset as it NIGH
easily have been but for the reason
above stated.