The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-02-10
I0KAL "

LOYALTY.
loyalty implies faithful support OIL :
/ adherence to, the Government that {
inns our allegiance. This allegiance
Liven for the protection the Govern
Mt affords; and. also, because OF the
l. that is borne, and the respect that
eIt for its institutions. Loyalty OF the
biect implies protection of the Govern
+nt. They are reciprocal. If the one
given in sincerity, the other should not
isl in nrme only. The subject who Is
Eal, will support his Government. Inc
bvernment that is just will protect It's
ral citizens everywhere in all the
Ehts, privileges and immunities enjoyed
the most favored. 1t has been argu-
that republican democratic form oil
,,orrr.nt contains in itself more OF
e protecting element to the citizen
an any other form of government Is
is 50 Does the American govern
ent contain these protecting elements!
o the citizens of the Southern States
Joy all the rights, privileges &c.' OF
cir Northern brethren? Let US see
| what States does martial law exlstt
Where are the garrisons OF troops STA
opedq In what States are legislative
bactments made void whenever 1t suits
be temper of the military commander TO
b 40? In what States are classes OF
opulation governed and regulated by
rders that have their origin outside the
mits Of the State? In what States is 1t
roposed to set aside lands and, placing
|ominal rents upon them, support pop
lation in idleness and vice, and require
be whites to pay for this luxury! In
Ehat States is it proposed to admit to
itizenship large body of the population
I,st made free, and confer upon them
lights denied to the Southern whites
yet exercised by their Northern brethren!
Does all this tend to the cultivation ol
hose feelings of loyalty, without Whicn
Government is weak? We ask these
mad men in Congress to pause. Loyal
", like understanding, cannot be forced
1t can be persuaded. Measures that de
grade people do not excite their loyalty
LOYALTY cannot exist without re-
Rpect. Actions either generate re
Bpect or engender hatred. We hav'
seen nothing in the proceeding
bf Congress thus far to indicate that tn
leaders of the domi5ant faction are IN
clined to anything but party aggran
dizement. Loyalty to the Government
with them means devotion to party. Al
who do not go with them do not de
serve protection. The great Interests o
the nation, the Constitutional obligation
imposed upon them, all are lost sight o
in their struggle for party supremacy
Their persecution of a section will hk
the prosecutions of few christian
zealots in the sixteenth century, enroll L
the opposition all who have love Q
country, hatred to the faction or lntel
ests to advance, to animate their Oppc
sition. 1t is a settled question in pol
itics "that a Government which ha
successfully resisted an attempt to sui
vert it, is stronger than it ever was,
The safety of the Government canno
therefore, require those oppressive proof
of loyalty demanded by these part
monsters. All the guarantees necessar
to convince the stronger of the sincerit
and good faith of the weaker section
have been given, and with a professe
willingness too. They are not sutficien
If what has been guaranteed wlIllngI
does not suffice, will any guarantees e
forced under the fear of bayonets
under pressure of power, be any safer
Is not the plighted voluntary word
your neighbor more binding than o.
forced from him Better, far bett
cultivate that feeling of loyalty found
upon the Justice of the Governme
than that forced out by the bayonet
threats of vengeance. If the Southe
people are to be part and parcel OF IL
Government, it would be better to tea
them to love than to hate it. Resp
for the Government, love for its insti
tions, depend upon the protection att
ded by Government. Flowing out
this, and dependent upon the first
sertion, is Loyalty. So, after all,
kind of loyalty felt by people deper
upon the kiud of Government they ha