The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-05-18
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| that he was s'reconstructionisg' as
ian imputation onFihs personal honor
Fand now when the Confederacy has
failed, and the authority OF the Uni
ted States Government il omnipotenk
andit Is supposed to DO a short road
to the favor Of the "powers that be-
to say so, Mr.. Stephens authorizes
this Reporter Of widely Circulated
tRadicafnewspapcrt publish sthat he
",cas a .tecpash4&tignist from he yfrit
day Of The war 10 Tie last.r' If the
statements which be made ip 1854 are
true they win relieve him from the
charge Of. in9delity, TO the Govern
ment of which he was the accredited
agent during its existence but his
yindication from this odium clearly
convicts him Of falsifying his own
record. m bar saItUT1AA8HkHE
We will not contrast his conduct
with that OF Mr. Davis who has borne
with calm dignity his long sufferings,
without word of complaint, or sin
gle admission. incompatible with his
personal self-respsct and the honor Of
the people for whose alleged offences
he has been made d Vicarious sufferers,
but we will say that while impartial
history will do honor to him who
frankly confesses an error, or to him
who inspired by his conscientious con,
victions Of duty faithfully performed,
stands firmly on his record at every
peril-it will assign. a ''bad eminence"
to him who denies his own acts to
propitiate the angry passions of the
hour in dread of becoming their vic
tim; or to secure for himself the fame
of far-seeing statesman whose
countrymen9 did not rescue them,
selves from ruin because they reject
ed his conusels. sgAa'a
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We have commented on the course
of some of the Provisional Governors
of 1865, who, advised the extra con-
stitutional military measures which
were then adopted by the Southern
States. without any guarantee from
Congress that they would be received
into the Union; and who now siren
uously oppose the terms rendered by
that body as, fnality. We have said
that their course is the more remarka- \
bic, when coupled with the fact that
during the past winter, and still with
out any pledge of recognition by Con
gress, they devised q plan which they
submitted to- the Southern States for
their approval, embodying theprinciple
Of negro suffrage which they 50 much
object to in the Congressional scheme.
1t becomes us to say that the course
of Gov. Marvin, of Florida, is an ex-
ception to the tergiversations of his
co-laborers of 1865. If we remember
Alright, he wasnota party to the afore-
said plan Of last winter; and we are
sure that, though he too is Senator
elect from that State, and is disquali-
led for office under the Reconstruction
acts, he does not lend himself to the
policy of continuing military rule in
,he excluded States, and Of ultimately
bringing upon them the political pro-
which exclude from the bal
OF box large majority of the good
md true citizens of Tennessee and
Missouri. The Florida Observer
quotes as follows from letter of Gov.
Marvin:
$50 far as l can now foresee, think
he attempt to arrest the execution of
he military reconstruction acts of
congress by an injunction from the
Coprt,which has been applied
Or on behalf of Georgia and .Missis-
ippi, will prove a failure. Idoubt if
ne injunction will ever be granted at
Il, and if it should be it will come too ,
tie to prevent the holding of the cleo !
ons, the meeting of the Conventions,
lie making of the new Constitution
nd the establishment of new State !,
government. Under these circum-
,ances it becomes the interest Of the /
eople of Florida to register them :,
lives as voters, all who can, and en-
eavor to harmonic with the colored
Dters, so as to avoid the arraying of
ne class against another at the polls !
J much as possible, and to try and !
ect good, sensible members to the :
and General Assembly" .