The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-05-10

Encoslra6lnu signs.
Last week the ship "Purveyor" Q
). Government vessel, commanded by
officers of the u. S. Navy, arrived al
: the port Of Mobile, freighted with con-
trlbutions from Northern communi'
ties, for the relief Of the destitute and
suffering The authorities Of that city
: testified in an appropriate manner,
!, their appreciation of the spirit which
prompted this display Of generosity.
This is but one of the many exam
pies of kindness and liberality which
. our suffering classes have had the
pleasure to acknowledge during their
present season of severe affection
That these contributions are signs
that the resentfiil passions engendered
by the war are gradually giving way
to the kinder and nobler feelings of
the human heart-that they betoken
change in sentiment scarcely less sig
nificant than political revolution-is
unquestionably true, They are sun
Beams darling through storm fraught
cloud, foreboding, we are prone to be-
lieve, the restoration Of spirit of re-
ciprocal good feeling between the sec
tons recently engaged in bloody
strife.
Simultaneous with these testimo-
mails Of practical sympathy, are indi-
cations also of political changes not
to be overlooked. The signs of disso-
luton which have been exhibited in
the ranks of those who have been fore
most in the work Of prosecuting the
South--the determination of q majority
of the party of which Thaddeus Ste.
vens has been a conspicuous leader
to disavow his teachings and to repu-
date his barbarous schemes--the fu-
sion of conservative elements from all
sections, factions and parties, into
grand combination for the inaugura-
ton of a reign of peace, and the cul-
ture of its noble arts encourage the
hope of an early change in the face Of
events. 8Rt a5saf
In this connection, we cannot with
hold our endorsement from the well
expressed sentiment of an able North
ern journal, that though contributions
from private purses are of inestima-
bic value in relieving the immediate
and most pressing wants Of those in
whose behalf they are extended, they
are still more welcome as the indexes
Of popular reaction in favor of CON
,iliatory and equitable measures to-.
ward the people of the South:
"The hands that are ready to give
from their abundance in the spirit of
charity, can, in the spirit Of justice,
do better service by raising the shat
tered political fabric of the South to
its legitimate condition. A thousand
times more precious to the Southern
people is the privilege and the power
of laboring for their own redemption
from poverty than the bounty that
emanates from the. compassion of !
their conquerors. 1t is well to give
to the sick, but it is bet
ter to restore to them the atmosphere
and the elements of health, that they
may rise from apathy and desponden. :
cy, and become independent of the
charity of their neighbors.
"It is a national boast that the pros :
perity of our people has been due to Y
the invigorating influence of their re- I
publican institutions. If this be the P
popular faith, it must be believed that Y
the attributes of republicanism must y
be restored to the South before she u
can press forward upon the path of Il
her industrial regeneration. The y
hands upon which hang the letters of NJ
action are i'll fitted for the task of 2
in the midst of ruin and nj
the fortunes to which en- ID
ightened freemen may aspire y
The South is rich in resources; but II
heir development demands that en- III
rgy, that confidence, and that inspi- 10
alton born of the consciousness of ca
which the Southern people CO
ave not and cannot have while they pr
emain interiors and dependents in ~
lie political household that is their rl'
lheritence. l aa gg VI
Let us hope, therefore, that the
opular impulse that is now prompt
g the people of the North to relieve dur
le necessities of their Southern COM Go
atriots is the foregoing sign of a !
brit now being generated that will the
elcome the South to political equal
y; spirit soaring above the pas
ons and resentments of civil strife,
I'd breathing the unselflshness and N,
.triotism that animated the fathers Sta
the Republic" {
Commenting upon Thad Stevens -
ent letter threatening wholesale r
asures of confiscation against the Ind
18th, and the apprehension which it ave
awakened in the minds of many 7