The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-04-12
Hsi~sI@aInDi in Court.

We publish in another column the
petition of Messrs. Sharkey and
Walker, that the President be restrain /
ed from executing the Military Bill in
Mississippi; but we presume that
apart from the reflection that it is
designed to relieve the State from the
cxactions of an oppressive measure, it
will awaken no emotion ofpleasure in
the hearts of true and loyal Mississip-
plans
When the future historian comes to
gather up the materials for faithful
record of the events connected WIN
the struggle of the Southern States to
achieve their independence, for a truth
full narrative of the part Mississippi
has borne, he will naturally turn to
the representations made in her behalf
by her petitioners before so august
tribunal as the Supreme Court of the
United States.
But alas, he will find nothing to
rescue her name from the opprobrium
which her enemies have sought to cast
upon it-nothing to vindicate the
memories of her gallant sons who gave
up their lives in her cause. lie will
not find it demonstrated that the Con
stitution was compact between
sovereign States binding equally upon
all. and that when Mississippi was adj
mitted into the Union she became
invested with all the rights and privi-
Icges which belonged to the rest-that
she faithfully performed all her duties
under the compact-that other mem
hers of the Union violated their
obligations and trampled upon essen
tial provisions of the constitution to
her iniury-that these delinquent
States organized themselves into
sectional party, and having MAORI
tv. elected a President, avowedly
and VIGOROUSLY for the purpose
of welding the powers OF the
government for the overthrow of the
institutions of the minority, and that
it was not until these aggressions had
thus eliminated that Mississippi sece-
ded from the Union in order TO pre-
serve her imperiled rights. He will
not find it stated in this petition, that
in taking this step she was acting upon
nv Ar Wah
ster, that if portion of the States will
fully and deliberately refuse to carry
into effect the Constitution the others
would no longer be bound to observe
the compact and that bargain broken
on one side is bargain broken on all
sides He will not find this step JUS
tilted by recital of such causes as the
history ofthe quarter of century pre-
cedino the wear 1860 abounded with,
either as revolutionary method Of
relief from injustice or as the exercise
of a right of Withdrawing from the
ereignty of the States. In a word,
nothing will be found to vindicate the
motives of the people of the State in
embarking in cause which they be-
Heved to be righteous, and which is
indeared to them by the sacrifices
which they freely made in its behalf,
and the hallowed memories connected
with its fall
This petition, purporting to be the
declaration of Mississippi herself, has
not even the merit of being frank
confession of guilt 1t is worse than
this; it is plea of not |
guilty of an act which is /
unjustly alleged to be crime, and
which all the world knows she did de-
liberately commit. 1t is an attempt
to shirk the responsibility of her own
collective and sovereign act, and to
throw its consequences upon a por-
ton of her own citizens whom she
summoned to the performance of du
ties in her behalf No principle 10