The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-02-11
TIE WISER COURSE,

THE WISER COURSE
That the South has more or less
led TO be recognized as containing
+ of the Union. equal in rights to the
Ier parts, and that there is still danger
It these States may be placed IN the
,om;nious condition Of dependencies Is
! II known. but the causes of this are
/ 50 well known nor so easily to be as
|rtained.
We are prone TO lay the blame OF TINS
oce,Ler on the Radical extremists IN
| d out of Congress; but they could
yer have succeeded did they not re-
i've the aid of many men who have
EneraIIy professed very moderate views
to the elevation Of the negro, and GER
| |inly somewhat less violent hatred oi
{ Southern people.
Now it may be that these men MOD
! ate Republicans $50 called,) have been
Auenced, not so much by the radical
essure upon them in Washington nor
the demands of their partisans at home
they have been pqued by the unnec-
sary and altogether useless violence
expression with which the Southern
ess has frequently seen fit to speak OF
le errors and injustice of the conquerors
their treatment of the conquered.
We are aware of the great temptation
hich we are all under, to repel caiumny
| nd expose injustice, and TO vehemently
|enounce their authors. Wehave yield
Il to such temptation ourself, and IN
|uestioning the wisdom and policy OF
| |oing this, we do it in view of our own
curse in this respect, as well as that OF
Tiers.
h That we should feel these resentments
gainst unjust imputalions is natural
hid the expression of them would be
reditable to us, if the dangers incurred
hereby affected ourselves only; but as
le chief injury falls upon the people at
uge, and upon the vital interests OF the
lte, we should carefully examine and
| old ourselves in check before we give
|terance to too earnest reprobatlon OF
ven unjust acts. There great heroisn
n re, sting an enemy; there is still more
4 enduring the tortures he intiicts with
mt murmur.
But shall falsehoods not be exposed
Certainly they must be; but there arr
wo modes of doing it; onr calmly y and dis
|,assionately aud the other violently an'
|nsrlly. The former is both the NOR
| frctive aud the most wlsr; the latte
.ads to recriminations and, when pr'Ju
ice prevails to the contrary, to It's being
liscredited,
As to arguments upon the positions
aiken by the 50 called Republican lead
Frs, and attacks upon the bodies OF pc"
pie whom they represent, they only seen
| he more TO influence them against II
|1nd feed our own spleen. The less
see or think of them the better. Som
gentlemen are very fond of quoting ih
L. II
|strument which died in the year 1861
but which some of these radical gentle
men now propose to reconstruct togethe
| with the Southern States.
Ifthat instrument ever is revived, an
i've trust their common SENSE VIII yt
restore it to something of its former V
tality, appeals to its provisions will b
made before the Supreme Court of til
United States, a body which at this tim
has hardly a recognized existence an
not at the br of public opinion nor b
|the tribunes OF the Press.
In the mean time it appears to us tn
better course for the Press would be
|lirect public attention chiefly to home IL
dustry and to a selfsupporting polio.
and, so faras Northern policy and Norti
ern fictions as to Southern facts are col
cerned, to content itself with simply e.
posing its errors, without deigning
|characterize them in terms of seve
depreciation, even if richly deserved.