The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1866-11-06
The south and National Politics.

vote themselves exclusively to i'm
proving their material fortunes until
the development of the purposes OF
of our northern masters is at
tracing some attention North. Such
journals as the New York Times de
precate a course of that kind. 1t
wo I'D says the Times ''be most un-
fortunate thing that such vast body
of the American people should settle
down into indifference upon such vi
tai matters of popular concern. 1t is
absolutely essential to the proper
working and permanent continuance
of our free institutions that the whole
people of the country should at all
times take an active interest in them.
| Our Southern fellow citizens may, and
unquestionably do, feel greatly dis
comftted in their recent political
hopes: but it cannot and will not be
long until they are enabled to renew
their activity upon a field in which,
while they have made several terrible
blunders, they have also taught the
country some of its most valuable
! lessons
It's very true, Mr. Raymond, we
have taught you many valuable les
sons, and if we could now persuade
you to look at things as they are-see,
as the Richmond Wing says, the real
condition of the Soluble shown the
interior of our household and business
affairs-could see how sraightened we
are in our circumstances-cou learn
how many families that hitherto
knew, SUPPLEMENTARY, little of life
save its enjoyments and luXuries, are
now brought face to face with its
sorrows and privations-could see
the struggle that is going on in every
household for the bare necessaries of
life, the economy that is practiced,
and the patient endurance of old and
young, male and female-if you could
see how eager all are for some honest
employment, that will yield a bare
livelihoOd-cOuld see how tolerant
those who owned hundreds of slaves,
who were at their beck and call, now
are of the freedmen in their newly &C
CURED privileges, and with what
cheerful good humor they conform to
the new order of things-treating
these former slaves with the utmost
kindness if, too you could see the
perfect indifference of all classes to
politics, their freedom from passion
and partisanship If, we say, the
Northern people could, by a miracle,
be shown these things, you would mar
vel at the excitement and frenzy per
vading your section, and pounce upon
the miserable beagles advocating the
adoption. ofmeasures oppressive to the
South and calculated to produce
another revolution. The Southern
pSOJIC nave AdOOACO " UlI1o CIlO SIIlCc
the meeting of Lee and Grant at APP
pamatox, but they might as well have
been singing psalms to the dead
sleeping in the ancient catacOmbs.
We want to see our people comply
with the laws, remain true to the great
principles Of the government and fol
lowing the advice of the World and
Baltimore Gazette, stand aloof ac-
cepting nothing, rejecting nothing,
recognizing no right of the North to
exact more from us than what has
already been conceded, performing
no act that might be construed into
an assent to Northern dominion, and
quietly abide our time We are dis
gusted with Northern taeachery and
corruption, and should stand apart
from the political contest now going
on in the North until we can take our
place in the councils of the nation
unshorn of a single right exercised
by any Northern State.