The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-16
10 the People Of Mississippi.
OFFICE OF DEMOCRATIC CENTRAL)
COMMITTEE,
Jankcan limo 1e 1900

General McDowell-the newly in
stalled Military Commander of Mis-
sippi and Arkansas-has signalized
his advent into office by the removal
of Governor HUMPHREYS and ATTORNEY
General HOOKER.
Had the Commanding General sue
ceeded in removing General Beaure
gard and General johnson, at the IA
nous battle of BULL RUN, it would
have done him infinitely more honor
than the performance of the idle cere-
mony of sending two Military officers
to perform the civil duties of Cover
nor and Attorney General of the State
Of Mississippi.
I The reason assigned for this des-
potic assault on the sovereignty of the
State Gas we are informed is that Gov
Humphreys and Col Hooker are alb
sent from their offices, and not attend
ing to their duties. Two more faith
full men in the performance of public
trusts were never known in any gov
eminent. But these heroic, patriotic
and popular champions of Constitu-
tional Liberty, in defiance of Military
Despotism, have made few speeches,
last week, to the peoplein North Mis-
misunderstanding the Constitutional
Right of Freedom of Speech-and off
go their heads So much for Buck
ingham," says General Mcdowell.
FELLOW CITIzENs-M IssIssIPPIANs
heroes of hard fought fields alike in
the military and civil walks of life
be not alarmed or dismayed at this
puerile attempt to blastyo State with
, dishonor, and crush the proud spirits
of your noblest men. They do but
SOW dragons teeth to raise up un-
conquerable hosts to stand in their
> path. ''
The bloody guillotine of despotism
has been whetting its appetite on the
small officers of the State for some
months past, and the Governor and
Attorney General had so long expec-
ted the honors of martydom that they
began to feel somewhat alarmed at the
delay Of their decapitation, and the
doubt thus cast upon their true atti-
tude before the country.
Not wishing to be buried alive in
Mahomet's coffin, they took to the
i, earth and the men there assembled
j.. they reused the sleeping energies Of
the people from the Tennessee line tic
the Gulf of Mexico Our statesmen
orators, editors, lawyers, clergymen
! planters, farmers, mechanics, mer
6 chants and freedmen, respond to the
call and have entered the canvass in
every county, city, town and precinct
: in the State. To-day the whole State
{. is illuminated with one great blaze O
popular enthusiasm for Humphrey
and Hooker-the Constitution and the
= Laws. Men, women and children
unite their moral, mental and physical
= forces against the enemies of the
. State, the peace and liberty of thu
Union -rr
: The peltings of the pitiless storm
are now descending in overwhelming
torrents upon the oath bound armies
and political felons of the Republican
3 party who have heretofore domineere6
over the State by the aiC
= of military power. The field
of controversy is another battle
of Bull Run. The moment they
entered the arena of public debate
their leaders covered and skulkec
like criminals before the avengine
hand OF public justice. They call il
vain on the earth to swallow them anC
the mountains to cover them from
the wrath of an indignant people
These foreign fugitives from justice
7 at home-these mendicant squatters
> in the public offices of the State
:, these stealthy midnight robbers OIL
. the votes of ignorant freedmen these
felonious builders of slave pens fol-
fol the sale of the freedman franchise
these concoctors of armed rebellion
in the oath bound Leagues of theil
:, party-have been expelled in mass
from the forum of honorable debate
throughout the limits of the State
They have ingloriously and ignomin
iously fed to the perjured dens and
caverns of their criminal conspirators
:. there to await the summons of Gen
= eral Mcdowell, to be tried before 6
: military commission, on the charge
/; of feloniously conspiring by oath
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