The Daily clarion., 1867-04-10

sssippidns ,ciU Be,Caye- Wise Policy Of tho
CIa,ion--How 10 Subdiride and Sell Real
NJ Estato-7Soatherw Asylum.--A Sensation
Among capitalists.
l siii3 MEMPms, TENN, April Z, 1867.
There is hardly difference of opinion
among Southern people IN this city. We
have enjoyed Radical rule until its delights
and blessings are thoroughly appreciated.
We would hardly advise Mississippians to
pursue course by which they will be led
into labryinth, underground may it
please your Worships, whence extrication
is impossible. Here we have ostracism
which is no empty "shell' work Two
thirds of the best citizens Of Tennessee have
no participation in the conduct ofYocal gov
eminent, defined class, which embodies the
whole Of that vast population which can
neither read nor write, has usurped supreme
power remorseless despotism crushes as
pirations of patriotism the government is
detested and contemned, and there is not
among nations people who suffer greater
wrongs or have borne more patiently all
conceivable evils of an unmixed despotism.
We are little disposed, therefore, to advise
Mississppians to stand aloof while perjured
whites and ignorant blacks seize the reins
ofpower. There are those who consult pop
ular prejudices, appeal to idiotic vanity and
tell the South to "stand firm" and oppose
passive resistance to calamities, which, it is
confessed, must surely overwhelm us. t"Nas-
terly inactivity" doubtless became the in
habitants of Herculaneum and Pompeii
wien vesuvius deluged with lava the fair
est cities and vine-clad hills and valleys Of
Italy. Mastery inactivityp was the
apothegm of Calhoun when Mexico might
have been crushed by perpetual danger of
invasion, to beget bankruptcyIand compel
the overthrow of Santa Anna. Wisely
enunciated by the Isaiah ofAmerican states
men, it's adoption by the South, when ine-
vitable results would make Judge Fields
your Governor, fill your capitol with colored
law-givers and accomplish the disfranchise-
ment of three-fourths of your people, can
hardly be commended by Tennesseeans.
The Clarion advises the South wisely and
well. Happily the people, when left to the
guidance of their own instincts, are not apt
to be mistaken. Partizan organizations have
often misled the many; directed by
their own impulses the people are apt to do
right In truth, the concurrent unpreju-
diced judgment Of the lnass of human intel
lect is not often at fault--when preiudices
and nassions are invoked and made to sub
serve the interests Of party leaders the peo-
pie are not wiser than their individual
masters. just now the masses are peculi-
arly free from these I. extraneous
influences and fatal u political
blunders can hardly be anticipated News
papers have claimed precedence of each
other; but their many readers wereg in ad-
vance of newspapers. There win be perfect
unanimity before elections occur which
must shape the destinies of the South through
many coming years. Meanwhile, evils that
will flow from radical changes in the organic
aw Of Union will compel the States to con-
venc, and the Federal constitution will
'e-assume its original shape. The freedom
If States now extinguished is as essential
10 the perpetuity of Union as Capitalization,
% despotism, The two no more convertible
erms than convertible facts, and yet Radi-
alism denominates the present Union as a
Republic, Unless the Anglo Saxon race
nay be enslaved the course of events will
% reversed, and then there may be danger
f anarchy growing out of the present un-
Iatural and insufferable compression Of
tates. The violence of the rebound will be
n exact ratio with the force that now con
olidates an empire,