The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-07-04
From the CONSERVATIVES.
Carroll, The Banner County of
NHissiSsipDf.

NHTTOhf, inc hammer county OF
Mississippi.
The calm that follows political
storm, rests over our community like
the soft hush of Sabbath eve-and
all is well. Glorious old Carroll =
The banner county of the State =
Over twenty-five hundred majortyi out
of voting population of only the
rise of three thousand! And what
most pleases us is the fact that we are
indebted for the swelling victory to
the colored people who have nobly
stood by their white friends in this
dark hour of our country. We know
them-we love them-we trust and
contide in them, as they have trusted
and confided in us. Their glorious
rebuke to Radicalism, in it's meanest
form, will ring like a thunder voice
throughout the land, and blanche the
cheeks Of scallawags from Maine to
Texas. Our colored friends have said
S'Ihe South has been ground beneath
the heel of iron despotism for three
long years, and we will rise in our ma
jesty and crush the cormorant brood
that is feeding upon her vitals p
Colored Democracy of Carroll, we
give you our hand, and our hearts
your country shall be our country, and
IN all time to come, we will stand by
you as you have stood by US.
And right here permit us to say to
the Democracy of both colors, that
our triumph has been SO signal it be
comes us to be magnanimous. A true
soldier seldom presses fallen foe too
hardly. We know of colored men in
our midst who joined hands with the
enemy, who but saw tie issues Of the
late campaign cas- through a glass,
darkly" They voted the Radical
ticket! Perhaps, for this, in many in
stances, the white population are cul-
pable for not having properly instruct
ed those who are necessarily depend
ent on others for their information
We allowed the Radicals to work
while we were lying supinely on our
oars. Ours is the fault as much, OF
more, than theirs. Let US not deal
harshly with them. Many of them
have repented since the scales fell from
I their eyes--many of them will be with
them before another election. Their
numbers are SO few in our county, that
we have not the heart to be extreme
and radical ourselves. If another ell,
ectlon is forced, upon the present is
sues, we predict that old Carroll will
f come forth with all her voters, black
and white, and swing into line with
out one dissenting voice
| And above all things, let US deal
honestly and justly with the colored
people in the future as we have in the
past. A few of them (and we know
the number will be very few, if any
may rather presume on the friendship
they have manifested for us in the late
election. The favors some of them
may be disposed to seek, may be
greater than this, or that, individual is
able to bestow A word to the wise
is sufficient. Let us be moderate and
just. The negro is a dependent, docile
! race. While grateful for small kind
nesses, some of them may be eXactino
: Of larger benifcence. Let us pay them
promptly-promise no Hlore than we
E are able to perform, and form it to
p the letter
2 We trust our friends in other por-
Y tions of the county will indulge us in
saying that our triumph at Carrolltor
} is the most illustrious of the canvass
= We had more to combat here than
perhaps at any box in the county, ex.
+ cepting Walden and Greenwood. Out
t of600 votes at Carrollton, we sum up
: SOP Democratic, and only 8 Radical
and this right under the nose of the
r most prominent candidate on the Rad
zeal ticket for the Legislature Ger
: tainly glory enough for one day, and
T not good day for voting at that.
/ Late in the evening three hundred
of our colored Democratic friends
, formed in procession and marched
through the principal streets, headed
by a violin, a tamborine, and a pair
of old fashioned bones-the latter en-
blematical of the "rattling of the dry
: bones among the Radicals. They
, also carried large drawing, repre-
: senting the ''funeraP' of the ''late de
funct." This picture, gotten up with
artistic skill, exhibited ''Old Sootv''
f directing colored Democratic pail
) bearers, carrying four collins, marked
ST. l.. WHITE, L. RILEY, w. GOULD,
and GEO. STovALL," to their last abode
Underneath was the epitaph, which
read as follows:
'DIED of a lingering and painful NAL
ady, contracted June %, 1868
Buried by large and intelligent
procession Of Democratic Freed
, men.
Hark from the tomb the doleful sound,
Let earth attend the scene;
Four stalwart men lie scattered round,
e Blown up by one mer-sheen. -
Time was when human flhsh decayed,
By lingering dissolution
But here be four in death laid low,
By too much Constitution"
Three simply packed their carpet-bags
And to the Devil busted;
Ono died still more horrid death
/ He swelled up, and :" busted ~
We understand that the last gentle
: man referred to was our friend DR..
r Stovall-as it is pretty generally sup
/ posed here that he got more in his
. / 49, nrr Of hnv.