The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1866-11-08
The South and National Politics.

y and people ofthe South pay no furth'
attention to political matters but d
4 vote themselves exclusively to in
proving their material fortunes unit
the development of the purposes
! of our 'northern masters, is a
, tracing some attention North. Sue
journals as the New York Times dC
precate course of that kind. ]
would says the Times "be most un
fortunate thing that such vast bod,
of the American people should settl
down into Indifference upon such vi
tai matters of popular concern. 1t il
absolutely essential to the proper
working and permanent continuance
of our free Institutions that the whole
people of the country should at al
times take an active interest in them
Our Southern fellow-cltizen 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 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 South--be shown the
interior of our household and business
affairs-could see how enlightened we
are in our circumstances-cou learn
how many families that hitherto
knew, experimentally, 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 practlced,
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 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
quired 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 miracle,
be shown these things, you would mar
vel at the excitement and frenzy per
Tading your section, and pounce upon
he miserable beagles advocating the
ofmeasures oppressive to the
south and calculated to produce
mother revolution. The Southern
people have labored to this end since
lie meeting of Lee and Grant at APP
,amatox, but they might as well have
,een singing psalms to the dead
leeling in the ancient catacombs.
Ne want to see our people comply II
With the laws, remain true to the great
principles the government, and fol
owing the advice Of the World and
Baltimore Gazette, stand aloof ac-
epting nothing, rejecting nothing,
ecognizing no right Of the North to (
xact more from us than what has 4
lready been conceded, performing
10 act that might be construed into !
n assent to Northern dominion, and
uietly abide our time. We are dis
.usted with Northern taeachery and
eruption, and should stand apart Z
rom the political contest now going
n in the North until we can take our
lace in the councils of the nation I
nshorn of a single right exercised I
Y any Northern State
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