The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-07-07

the Banner of the South, edited by.
Father Ryan:
The Radical party have battered at
that Constitution for more than few
years-have broken it into fragments
and the grand temple of American
Liberty, built by the hands and ce-
| mented by the blood of men grea
pure, and true, rs to-day Almighty Ruin.
That crime history shall lay to their
charge. And now that same party sits
amid the ruins it has made-and glo-
ries in the deed It's representative
is man of slaughter-its symbol is 8
sword CORY with the blood of tie
bIayest; its law is brute force its his
tory is three hundred thousand graves,
and beautiful land laid waste it's
spirit, is anarchic; it's aim is ''rule or
ruin" and its merciless motto, "Te
Victis." 1t stands before the altar of
Liberty-and blasphemes. Into tn
sanctuaries of sacred rights it has
entered and made them scenes of ter
rible sacrilege. 1t laughs to scorn the
majesty of Law, and it bids the people
| kneel down and adore its own dread
| will. 1t believes in the power of
money to corrupt the many and tho
power of steel to awe into submis
sion the incorruptible few. Its lips
are liyid with falsehood; it's heart is
void of mercy its hands are red with
murder. 1t has tasted blood-the
pure fresh blood of Southern hearts
and, the wolf, it bowls for more.
1t has corrupted the North, and the
glorious South, which it could not
corrupt, it has robbed Of all things,
save honor In the darkness of secret
societies it connects the usGrpations
which the bayonets complete. 1t has
dug the grave of Liberty, and has
chosen the man who is best fitted by
nature, and best able by his power, to
drag the corpse to its resting place,
and to bury it there forever. Four
more years let that party rule, and
the epitaph of Liberty, on this
continent, shall be written. Against
the usurpations of that party, the
Democrats of the North meekly pro
tested in babbling words, while the men
of the South, Drawer, went out to bat
tie, and grandly protested with their
| blood From the first boom of Beau
regards cannons to the last Volley OF
Lees muskets, we protested, not
cowardly, on paper-not meekly, in
mere words--but, as true men should
protest, IN the clashing of sword with
sword = in the waving of banner
against banner-in the shock of steel
with steel-in the conflict of armies
with armies-in deeds Of bravery, and
in deaths of sublimest sacrifice. We
did our best to save Liberty-over-
whelmed by numbers, we lost all-all
save the proud consciousness of duty
grandly done, and the sure reward Of
some of the brightest pages of history
that the generations of the future shall
ever read. From the going down of our
flag until this present hour, every day
has brought it's own burden ofwrongs.
Too proud to sue for mercy, we asked
for justice, and it was refused. Not
craven enough to kiss the feet of our
conquerors, we stood amid our ruins
and appealed to their humanity-but
in vain. We gave up our muskets-
they demanded the surrender of our
manhood; we refused, and they who
feared US, when swords were in our
hands, cowardly tainted us, and mer-
cilessly crushed us, because we were
unarmed. One by one our rights
were invaded and destroyed-link by
link our letters were forged and fas-
tened upon us-until, to- day, our beau
tiful land, by the common tie of sor-
row, is the sister of Poland and Ire
land. And meanwhile, every blow
struck at our rights rebound on the
people Of the North, and the shadow
OF tyranny hanging over us has deep
ened and widened, till now its gloom is
cast over the entire country.
There is but one hope, and tina
though bright to others, seems faint
to us. By the deliberations and nomi-
nations of the Democratic Convention
that hope shall be made a reality, OF
its light shall go out forever The
party to be represented by that Con-
vention, is the only party that can save
the country.
While many Of that party stood ar
rayed against US DUNG the war-some
on principle, some without principle
it gave us many friends, who proved
their friendship by their fidelity under
trials and prosecutions. Whatever of
sympathy we have received in our suf-
ferings, we owe to that Party. What
ever principles still lives in the North,
is found in that Party If proper
man be nominated-if the old princi-
pies be enunciated-if the welfare of
the whole country shape their deliber-
ations-if love of true, legitimate
Liberty control their action-and if
the people, awakened to the dangers of
a coming despotism, will rise, and raj
ly, and, gathering up the scattered
fragments of the broken Constitution,
restore it, in all it's integrity and pris-
tine purity, and place as guard over
it FAITHFUL FREEMAN, then shall
South and North be saved. But, if
the Convention, through want of har-
mony, or other cause, should prove
itself a failure = or, if the people