The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-04-27
Political Estimates.

tnesc states In the performance OF thu
: duties which have been assigned then
% by the Government.
u Assuming as a settled fact that thu
South, including not only the Confed
: crate States but those which kept theil
places in the Union, hereafter will be
"a unit on all questions Of policy
he submitted the following estimate
The entire vote of the House with
all the States represented would be
24l, and adding to this the two-fifths
colored vote, the number is increased
| to 252 votes. The majority of the
, House is, therefore, 1913 votes. The
South, then, has 90 votes, and with but
80 from the loyal States acting with
them, they would have a clear major
. ity; and there never can be an cleo
ton in the North when at least 30 or
81 will not be returned to Congress
who would act with the South.
This estimate, we apprehend, is fall
lacious in its assumption that the as
cendancy of the Radicals will cease to
exist at any early period in the States
of Tennessee and Missouri rs they are
NOW organized, with the great body of
the white citizens denied the privilege
of the elective franchise. The worst
type Of malignants will represent those
States until the ignorant masses.
whose passions and prejudices they
are playing upon, shall have become
surfeitcd with their rule; but we fear
that the day Of this consummation is
far distant. Moreover, there are Dis
tricts in Kentucky, Virginia and Ma
ryland, which are almost hopelessly
lost to the Conservative party, and
which combined with those irreclaima-
bly, lost in Tennessee and Missouri,
would number Is in the aggregate.
The estimate of Gen. Banks is liable,
therefore, to considerable deduction
to obtain majority, the Conservatives
would be required to have 48 cooper
alive Northern votes instead of 30.
Though these estimates of General
Banks were evidently presented in an
exaggerated form to stimulate his
party friends to follow him in his
schemes of sweeping disfranchisement
in order to perpetuate the ascendency
of the Radicals in the Government,
they afford grounds of hope that the
Conservative element may yet obtain
control of the Government by the
exercise of discretion, vigilance and
activity. 1t is within the power of
the people of the unreconstructed
States to verify the calculations of this
Radical leader as to themselves, if
they will but throw off their lethargy,
every man of them, voter and non
voter, and enter resolutely upon the
work which is before them. There is
q large voting element placed to their ]
hands by the Radicals themselves (for
selfish and sinister ends, it is true),
which may be moulded and directed
TO results not anticipated, by the gentle,
but potent influences of reason, kind
less and cancellation. In any event,
his element has been introduced into s
our Governmental policy, and we do :
Tot see how any true friend of the. s
south, or of his country, can consent :
hat it be converted into an engine Of s
Radical power, without an earnest =
fort to avert SO great calamity. S
While it is pleasant reflection that !
he South may hereafter, by prudent Y
ction, succeed in becoming power
n the common Government, in the 3
interest of humanity, it is devoutly to r
g wished that the day is not far dist B
mt when other questions than those B
f sectional nature, will engage the = =
ttention and enlist the support of the B
ublic mind, North and South; that =
lbjects of economic and foreign C
olicy will spring up, about which + +
pinions may differ, without reference F
, mere geographical lines; and when F
lie people of every section will dwell G
/ harmony together. For the present q q
lie South can have no concern in the H
ontests of parties. She has enough II +
, do to attend to her own affairs. 1t
not for her now to say where she NJ
i'll stand when her States shall have M
their CO equality with other NJ
tates in the Union. But her people R
i'll be less than human not to sympa- 81 81
Use with those who shall have ex- Ii
bited towards her a spirit of justice p"
I'd magnanimity, and extended to her :.
helping hand in her hour of adj "
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"THE LAND WE LOVE. AL that I ?,
e South has left of the struggle in Nj
hich she fell, is the consciousness of N,
e purity of her motives in taking =,
e steps which concentrated against Sc
II the gigantic power of the Federal T'
and the history which W
e made during the war-a history W
lexampled for the valor of her sons,
cir tenacity of purpose against over Al
nelming numbers, and the Republi- !,
n simplicity and fidelity to its obi Al
.tions of the Government which she BE
ected. BIZ
A public benefactor is he who has 81
e moral courage to gather up the Ba