The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-03-24
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AOE. III
The Jackson, Mississippi, papers indig
nantly dispute the truthfulness of onr cor
respondent who wrote to rs a few weeks ag
from that point, giving a very discouragin
account of the situation in that State.-Ciu
Com. llth.
We have looked diligently through sevel
or eight numbers of the Commercial. whicl
came to hand by the last mail, to discove
whether the Commercial is disposed to d
justice to Mississippi in this matter but w
can find no sign of anything but disposi
tion to keep up the war upon the South. Il
its issue of the 18th, appears another Jack
son letter, without signature, to which tn
Commercial thus refers editoriaIly:
letter from Jackson, Mississippi appear
elsewhere that will attract considerable at
tention. Though the Freedmen's Bureau il
organized throughout the State, it appears
the freedmen suffer from the perverse ami
mostly of a class of the whites, Our cores
pondent does not think the ballot would cure
the negro of all the disabilities of his situa.
ton, but torcibly says, placing the ballot in
the hands of the ignorant and debased ne
groes just released from slavery, would be
like putting telegraph Office in charge of
an idiot.
To do full justice to the correspondent, we
copy the paragraph relating to this subject :;
Whatever course loyal men nav pursue. it
does not seem the part of wisdom to confer
| the elective franchise upon the freedmen
Any one who sees the ignorance and debase-
| ment in which slavery has left them can not
assent to such policy. As well put an idiot
III charge OF telegraph office or q printing
press. 1t would unsteady the Ship of State,
| If not swamp her in a sea of ignorance
| Better disfrdRchise rebels than eatrdnchise ne
| groes. Better still, let there be standard of
| intelligence, rather than that Of color or
race.
The part which we haze italicised betravs
| the dHjmHs of the whole The man is no
fool, and his whole letter is a piece of most
| ingenious malignity These are the men
| who write that Northern men are not safe in
the South Such men, Northern or South
ern, are not safe anywhere 1--we have the au-
thorlty of scripture that they are in danger
OF hell-hre. Your correspondent" says he,
''endeavors to be radical without fanaticism
| and conservative without dislOyalty" We
acquit him of fanaticism-for that is consci-
entious; his conservatism is nothing to
nobody" One thing we will throw in-he
does not endeavor to be malignant; that ey--
identity requires no effort, but is as natural
to him as respiration.
Bnt enough of correspondents for this
time; these calumnies are the Commercials
own. 1t adopts them; it encourages them
1t loves them. Whether this is due to natu-
raj mahgnancy or to a diseased moral and
intellectual condition, is not clear, though
one circumstance would favor the latter
view. There seems to be a sort ofperiodicity
IN 1t; paroxysm on alternate days. We
have copied from its dates of the IIth and
the 18th; on the 18th itPays its respects to
the Clarion, thus:
The allegations that Northern men set
tlIng III the South have been subjected to
petty prosecutions, and are likely to be sub
Jected to them, ill they pull up stakes and |
return whence they came. has been positive !
~ denied as talSehOod, but the following
from the jackson Clarion, of the 4th, seems |
10 justify the reports to which we have here
tOtore referred. 1t saws:
I'VE have seen two reports that have
been sent to the executive office from two |
counties of our State, and both neighbors of
this county. In one of them these villains
say that no Yankee shall cultivate cotton.
They have taken from them their mules and
other property, and threatened their lives
| MS was IN Warren county, In Madison
'ounIy, but few days since, they went to
he plantation of Northern man and took
rom him twenty-five mules Unless the f.
country Is rid of these scoundrels we NAV
'Npect to hear of complaints, and appeals to
he military authorities for protection"
1t then proceeds in feeble way to make
ONE remarks not particularly Objectionable
or at all, if taken by themselves Now to
me not completely jjandiced, the article quo /
ed from, and the entire course of the
Jlarlon, and the Southern press generally.
seems we say, to justify any other view. 7
t is known that before the war life and prop {
rty was as safe here as anywhere in the :
Jnlted States. Our criminal calendar was :
ot quite blank, we admit, but we do not t
ear comparison with that of anv other
tate. tits also known that we are now 7
ntterlng from that evil which alwavs .
ONES after a war, that our country is in o
ssted with lawless marauders-not rebels, 4
enerally speaking OF rather rebels to the !! i
ontederate Government-deserters and n
Iulkers from duty while there "
as manly fighting to be done n
is also known that, although no part d
the country is entirely exempt, these y
ost abound in such parts as offer the fewest Ii
fractions to Northern men-we imply no
persion upon the people of those sections, u u
1t the outlaws find their safest retreats in q
lose regions 1t is also known that South h
n and Northern men suffer alike from their hi
'predations, save for distinction which u
e leave the Commercial to account for ~
nat paper says: in
The greatest benefit that can be confer i"
d on community, is the introduction into u
OF skilled labor and capital Most of the - 80
lrthern men who have made their way into "
e Southern States since the conclusion of
c war are possessed of moderate fortunes" a1 o1,
Now If the editor of the Commercial should la
er turn out to plundering, we don't think lie
Is quite such fool as to abstain from the tn -,
n of "capital''-of moderate fortunes"
d restrict his operations to an impoverisb-
class. OHr scoundrels don't. When they otl
MT horse they do not inquire to whom he u,o ,1o
ongs, but they are very likely to go where iur
most plumber is to be found If they WI
convey the impression that their object cea
imply the plunder of Northern men, they wo va
course consider this an ingenious piece of str
Itegy, and they find valuable allies in such wa
ers "a tba Conuarc;.l ona +L,; - VIII
dents T
Civ
'e were told at Enterprise the other day. con
a negro doctor had located there opiI
ght real estate, and would engage in the ;,