The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-02-08
FeIGIlI JOURNAL OF THE STATE.
JACKSON. MISS.
A BLUNDER R.

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The extraordinary Information It
reaches rs from New Orleans, that
Mai ,(,en. Sheridan, commanding the
Military Division of the Cult, has been a
,leased 10 order that the em1grants' :
about to start last week for Vera Cfuz,
Mexico. on the schooner Ida, should
not he permitted to leave either Tor !
that port or any other in Mexico, ana
that his Provost Marshal General fur-
tber saws, that hereafter no emlgrants
will be permitted to go either 10
Mexico or Central America. We pre-
smne the like interdict viii be made TO
apply to those who wish to go TO
Brazil. .e. ..------
While the Clarion has ever opposed
tbo too often expressed desire OF
many Southern people to leave the
land which the blood of their fathers !
and brothers has moistened ana maze
.a.rod we cannot but earnestly con
denim the use Of such means to prevent
# and not the less so because we be
1ieve that few measures of oppression
wopld conduce more to beget a deter
,Dination to seek other homes and the
protection of other governments.
As Americans and republicans, we
have ever held and held forth to other
nations the doctrine, that the right OF
expatriation is a natural and sell
a,,idant one. Nor has this been Sc
riously questioned, in modern times at
least. by the most despotic of civilized
countries, except that some OF them'
which claim the active military service
of all their male citizens within Ger
tain age, have insisted that they had a
rioht TO prevent such from leaving un-
til they had fulfilled that service, or fur
nished substitutes.
Does it become us, processing TO o'
+bamodeIs ofrepublican freedom, to o'
+bo most democratic people on earth
and even now on the high road to suci
= level of equality as has never befor
boan seen since the French ReVoluuol
in 1899. to insist that those who d
moi like our form of government, or IL
neculiar workings under that torn
shallnot be permitted to seek anoth'
which pleases them better, be the
women or men, old or young, maine
or whole?
If will be no suflic lent answer to S;
that these persons were going to
nIace under the authority OF a rul
whom we regard as a usurper, al
whose form and system of governme
is in antagonism to our own: Jt
such opinions were long, and posslh
are still, entertained of ours, by the 10
existing dynasties of the Ola W or
who. nevertheless, permit their ST
iects to come here. Nor can it reason
bly be said that going to Vera Cruz
to Cordova, would violate neutrah'
for neither place affords any oppor
nitv to enter upon the Struggling W
fare. which, in some degree, prev;
on the outskirts of the Empire ana
the only war now existing in Mexlc
On the contrary the emgra
whose exit was opposed, were all
nearly all agricultuFists, who W
on their way to settle upon
till the ground They were mostly
family groups; women and child
LARGELY composing the number;
the appearance and previous habit
the men clearly showed that they
simply peaceful seekers after the II
of industry.
We cannot but be impressed
the idea that Gen. Sheridan's pee'
impulsiveness, which makes hir
very good cavalry officer and mn
cellent executor of the orders
well planned campaign, has M
him this time into setting prece
which would be a most unpropr
one for his almost native Ire
should his example be followed, v
we trust it will not be, in Europe.
Deeply interested as we are II
emigration of European colonist'
our own country, and satisfied tn
very large number of our own cit
will be likely to leave it for Nj
or any other unless they find tn:
professions of republicanism are
varnfsh to cover up despotic
tions. we cannot but depreeate
the right of expatriation shou
disanowed by the authorities of :
lea, whose example will doubtle
eagerly followed by those n
which are more likely to be ser
affected by the spirit of emig
than are the United States of An
TaE AMERICAN CoTToN PLa
We take pleasure in referring our
ers to the prospectus of this stand'
riodical, the publication of which
to be resumed. AT the present
more than ever before, the agricu
the South needs all the aids whi
be derived from science and expt
and our veteran agriculturists -oi
DIR. Cloud is one of the most
guished should receive every
and encouragement