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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-06
A Carpet.Bagger from a Northern
Radical Point OF View.

The arpet-baggers who were defeated
in their attempt to induce Congress and
the President to force them and their
g constitution on the people of the State,
through the truthful and patriotic repre-
sensations of the Grant Republicans and
conservatives, who co-operated in that
good work, complain that Maj. Wof-
fords description of them is the result of
prejudice or preconceived opinions At
ter the signal Reputation Of this clan by
a Republican President and Republican
Congress, sand the adoption of the pro-
gramme indicated by Messrs. Wofford,
Jeffords and their Republican associates
from this State. it is hardly necessary to
say that this attempt to break the force
of Wofords denunciatiOn is simply alb
surd. He knows his men and he has
spoken in plain words what he feels to be
the umadorned truth from close observa-
ton of their conduct. To show that his
description is not the result of prejudice,
but Of desire to expel them as a vile
fungus from his party, and to warn the
whole people of the State against them as
a class unworthy of trust, we will copy in
support of his testimony the statement of
Mr.. Medill, of the Chicago Tribune, the
leading Radical paper in the West. The
colored people (they have no white sup
porters of account may be assured from
what Mr.. Medill SAYS that the Eggleston
party who are attempting to use them as
beasts of burden here in Mississippi, are
discountenanced by the Republicans
abroad. Here IS what Mr. Mcdill says
in his paper:
They Tex rebels entertain an
''irrevocable luminosity towards carpet-bag
"office-seekers and really cannot blame
'tbem, for 1t is a deplorable fact that large
majority Of these gentry are sCADIPs AND
THIEVES; rotten drift,Cood who hare fouted
"do'cn the Mississippi and squatted on the
"o6ices. They bring disgrace ON the par
"'ty to which they profess to belong. They
possess as keen a scent and as ravenous
'an appetite for plumber as the vultures
who fill the air have for putrid carcas-
''ses." difference between these birds of
''prey is that the former feast on the sub
: stance of living men, while the latter
content themselves with the carca-
''sess of dead animals. ItwOuld be safe
''to enter the carpet-baggers for pilfering,
''peeulating and seomdreLism there, in con-
'nection with any of the trade in any
part of the South
Mark, this is the language of North
ern Republican. Not ours
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-06

The carpet-baggers organ. unable 10
meet the arguments of Gov. Browns let
ter, or to assail his position, displays Its
vexation by gross personal abuse. 1t seems
incapable of conceiving any other but an
unworthy motive for any mans act Inc
best reply to this aspersion Is a reference
10 his letter in which he says: There
..can be no difference on the main point.
And that Is that no man should be voted
for for any office, who cannot qualify II
elected Everybody Knows that Gov
Brown. who has occupied nearly every
Office in the gift of the State, including
the very highest, ''cannot qualify, and
he has not asked "A removal of his dIsa-
bilities. He is simply serving to the best
of his great abilities, the people between
whom and himself there have existed
from his earliest boyhoed the strongest
ties Of affection. If nistdrn, this people
are DESTROYS of reciprocating the service
he has heretofore rendered them, the best
thing they can do will be take his advice
and secure themselves from the rule of the
carpet-baggers.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-06
Renubiican. not Radical.

Some of our contemporaries, we notice, are
in the habit of calling such men as Major
Wotford, and Judges Jeffords and Sinrall,
Radicals when in truth, their recent
course shows that they are anything but
Radical, either in their expressed opinions
and views, or in their actual practice and
utilization. They themselves, seem to pre-
fer the name of Republican and SO far as
we are concerned we are disposed to graft
fy them. They are. in fact, moderate, or
conservative Republicans, and not "Radi-
Gals" at all.
Gen. Grant. himself is evidently no Rad
ical Norris Gen ngstreet.-WaterV Valley
Eagle.
The Eagle is in error in regard to the
political identity of Judge SimraIl. He
is not, and has never been, a member of
the Republican party. He is an old line
Wing who made his mark in our'State,
years before the war as one of the ablest
members of that party when such Wings
as Guion, Prentiss, George Yerger and
Lake, gave the influence and prestige of
their great names to it, but failed to lead
it to victory against the invincible cohorts
of the fierce Democratic" Moving to
Kentucky some years before the war, Mr.
Simrall returned at its close to share the
fortunes of his old friends, and was elect
ed by his former constituency of Wilkin-
son county to serve them in the Legisla-
ture, in which body, his mind grasping
the situation, he become the advocate of
the measures Of adjustment proposed by
Congress, the rejection of which fed the
flames of sectional bitterness, and result
ed in the imposition of the harsh policy
which was subsequently adopted by that
body and was endorsed by the people of
the North in the last Presidential election.
Mr.. Simrall is not, and never has been
a Republican in its partizan sense; but is
literally a conservative, and patriot who
strives honestly and faithfully to do his
people all the good of which he is capa-
BILE.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-06

\ cotemporary complains that HE
CLARION has commenced the work OF or
ganization and preparation for the ap-
preaching election, too soon. We have
our opinion about the necessity of timely
preparation and Of efficient organization
TO meet the shock Of the struggle which
will be decisive of the fate of our people;
and our non-action cotemporary has his.
We know something of the agencies
which are employed and the efforts which
are being used by our adversarles to I'M
pose permanent proscriPtive government
and vindictive rulers on our people, to
remain silent and to ask them to fold then
arms in fancied security. Congress has
given them the opportunity to help them
selves; and if they do not embrace II with
all their might and toll with all their con
centrated energies, they Will as surely
pass under this yoke as the sun Shines
1t will then be too late TO call on outside
parties for help; or to lament the fatal
apathy and Indifference which will have
consigned our people, bound hand and
foot to the mercy Of hateful tyrants
who will grind them to the dust. TIC
avert such fate, with due Difference tc
our cotemporary, we cannot begin the
work too early, nor prosecute it too vigor.
ously.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-06


The Clarion wants to force our party to
support the constitution as whole, in the
next election.-Pilot.
The Pilot has not said that its party
Gas it calls the scallawag faction) will not
support the constitution as whole. Has
it? The Clarion don't +" want 10 force y
you to take any position. We sin,pla,
mean to take your party precisely
'chere 1t has placed itself; and to ascertain
this, we viii have recourse to the consti-
tuition (so-called, ito the Gibbs procla-
nation Of November 3rd-to the proceed
ings of the carpet-baggers convention
November 25th-to the address of Gibbs
d Co., to Congress, in reply to Messrs.
Jefords and others-and to the deposit
tons of Gibbs, Fisher and the rest of the
Committee of Sixteen.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-06

A HINT.-Our conservative friends
must not be too quick to judge that every
man has joined the carpet-bag Proscrip-
tionists who happens to receive an ap-
pointment from the Military Commander.
There never was time when that fac
ton were held in greater adherence bv
the great body of Mississipians. There
never was time when there was 50 little
probability oftheir receiving recruits from
the resident population. Their ATTEMPT
to force the Constitution upon them after
its rejection" Notwithstanding the ear
nest remonstrance OF fair-minded Renub-
licans, and their repulse by Gen. Grant
and Congress, confirming the popular
judgment rendered last year, has fixed
their status irrevocably. Citizens should
not be lightly aspersed with suspicion of
affiliating with them to any practical ex-
tent. Verb. sat.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-06
virginia Conservative Convention.

BY this name the party in Virginia
opposed to the proscriptivc measures of
the Radical extremists, met in Conven-
ton at Richmond, on Wednesday last
Resolutions were adopted in favor of or
gaanizing the State government upon the
terms embraced in the acts of Congress.
and appointing a committee to wait ON
Gen. Grant and the Military Comman-
der, relative to the submission of the
constitution. The resolutions pointed to
the choice of Gilbert c. Walker, as 4
candidate for Governor, who is already
IN the field as an Independent Grant
Republican, against Wells, the candidate
of the carpet-baggers.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-06

CoRSERED. card and certificate
of Mr.. John H. Echols, and freedman
Anthony Wells, in response to the test
mony of 1.-The Chairman of the Repub-
lican State Executive Committee" have
slightly cornered this latter gentleman.
The Pilot admits that Peyton, Z. S.
Marshal, did take false oath, but saws
he didn't vote. So Jerry Sneak, when
arrested for robbing a hen-roost, indig-
nanty denied the charge, and when the
stolen property was found IN his NOSES.
sion exclaimed, "Vell! vot of it! They
amt ducks"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-06
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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-06

The people Of Carroll county have been
somewhat astonished that the Military
Commander has removed w. L. Morris
an ex-Union officer, from the Office of
Sheriff And so, they Of DeSoto are as
tonished at the removal from the same
office, of Capt. Joseph Rogers, who per
formed four years service in the Union
army. Sometimes the stone which the
builders reject, becomes the head of the
corner.
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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-06
- Judge Dent

In connection with the letter Of Gov.
Brown, inserted elsewhere, we copy be
low the following tribute to this gentleman,
by Mai. Wofford of the Corinth News -
JUDGE G.. w. DENT.-ThiS most estima-
BILE gentleman, is at present residing at
Washington for the purpose of prosecuting
CERTAIN law suits, yet he does not doif his
citizenship of the State of Mississippi. He
is a citizen of the State, thoroughly identi-
fled with her interest and is one of the most
liberal heightened gentlemen we ever had
the pleasure of meeting. He favors recon
strnction upon a liberal, generous basis, and
has and viii continue to exert his influence
towards the accom- plishment of that end
He is brother-in-law of President Grant
his wife native of Mississippi, and he HIM
self has a large planting interest in the
State.
The people of Mississippi are under last
ing obligations to him for kindness shown
those recently in Washington, who repre-
scented the interest and majority ofthe cit
liens of the State. We hope our people viii
render to him that gratitude he so richly
merits ut their hand.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-06

The return of the Hon. Jacob Thomp-
son to his home from his long exile was
appropriately celebrated by cordial wei
come from his old friends. His response
was In good taste and contained some
wholesome lessons in political philosophy.
What sort of bond will Gibbs, Fish.
er' Eggleston q Co., give that they will
not attempt to break up thenext election,
if defeated?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-06

The tone of the British press in an.
swer to the speech Of Mr.. Summer, Chair
man of the Senate Committee of Foreign
Affairs, is ominous.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-06

TEST OATHs.-The Cincinnati Gazette
(RadicaD is opposed to any more test
oaths. 1t says: Experience has proved
that swearing will not make rebels low
al nor save a country. 1t was supposed
''that by tradition the American people
''were opposed to test oaths, but in the
excitement of war we have pushed the
''oath business to extremity. We sus-
''pect that the whole result may be
summed up in this: that our extra
"oaths excluded only the honorable men
''among the rebels, and admitted the
''worst, who took the oath and remained
''iust as they were before.
1t is pity that the Gazette did not
infuse this sensible idea into the minds of
the Congressional Lawmakers. 1t is a
pity our carpet-bag Legislators have not
profted by it.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-06
4. RAR


The proposition NJ the carpet-baggers
TO throw EggleSton overheard, is opening
the eyes Of the Loyal League freedmen
They had been persuaded with uplifted
hands to swear that they could support
him on the ground that his election was
necessary to their salvation. Now these
same wQuld-be guides are saying in
effect, that he qro1.t do after all: and
consequently the betrayed freedmen are
opening their eyes and wondering what
it all means?
Nothing viii be needed TO leave the
less than one thousand" carpet-baggers
and scailawags in the State without the
support Of Z corpo.ars guard Of freedmen
after their Reputation Of Eeoleston. but
the choice for leader of some renegade
eS-slave driver from the Mississippi bot
tom, or scallawag from somewhere else
who, during the war, carried his slaves
hand-eufed beyond the reach of the
Union forces.
Look out for a stampedei
The Pilot says that the carpet-bag del
egation from jackson attended the Bran
don meeting by invitation All right.
We are authorized to state that Messrs.
EsosEy aud Shelby have, in turn, accept
ed an ''invitation" 10 attend the meeting
OF the Chairman of the State Elk. Com
mittee' on Saturday next. 1t will be a
delightful re-unionl We would like to
be there to see.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-06

SIR Your note by Col. Power, of your
office, is received. The unguarded language
of the article in the Pilot, headed q Brooch
Letter." is not intended as personally often
sIve to yourself. The use OF ephithets such
as "scallawag, : carpet-bagger. &c. is
a very familiar way your press has of casting
odium upon Republicans. But we do not
take it as intended personal otfense. l am
extremely sorry that your sensitiveness has
allowed you to misjudge me, in this delicate
matter, of the use of terms in the discussion
of political differences. Hoping sir, that
nothing which has transpired, and nothing
hereafter will occur, to mar our friendly re-
lations, am, Yours truly,
i. STAFFORD,
Editor Pilot.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-06
\ corresnondent from

\ correspondent from -- county,
writes 1--WE made a good fight against
Prescription last year, but will do better
''the next time The freedmen are well
''inclined, and they will be still better as
F'they become convinced of the sincerity
"of our assurances last summer, that we
fought the constitution not because il
"enfranchised them, but because it dis
''franchised us. The policy advocated
"by THE CLARION is the true one, and
evil win the victory. There is neither
''wisdom nor safety in ultrsism The
''vote here will astonish you
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-06

The Pilot states ua.H. u
mandcr has rendered Oh. .Iu
Treasurer 10 Mr. John DH
the Confederate Duncan E0
that the appointmmth boom
Docs the Pilot meU 10
quotation from tho platform
tional Democracy iuau..
nobody Is "nulyloyaT" aa.'
the Reconstruction ae. Hae
oppressive
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-06

How is John Echols following the cx-
ample Of Simon and Andrew his brother?
Because he has become Fisher Of men.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-06

The Chairman of the State Radical
Coiiilnlttee maze oath before the Congress
sional Committee that ''there was no hone
ior 'he loyal people Of Mississippi (mean-
ing the carpet-bag Proscriptionists.) ex-
cePt the adoption of the plan which was
reJec'eo Dy congress" If this was a true
oa'n' the carpet-baggers party is in a bad
way.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-06

The NORTHERN TOURIsTs.-We are
gratifed to be assured that the sugges-
ton which we have made at the instance
of a number of our citizens, to adopt
measures to welcome the party Of North
ern gentlemen accompanying Col. For
nev, now on their Southern tour has met
general approval. BY Col. Forneys
paper, the Washington Chronicle, we are
assured. that the ''visit is Il purely disin-
''terested one-entirely devoid Of politics
to do what they could to promote
good feeling between the two sections
''and assist in the development Of the re-
''sources of the South" We observe by
the Chronicle that in Virginia, these
gentlemen had occasion, to declare this
intention in the most emphatic manner
At Lynchburg Col. Forney was invited
by club of the Radical party to address
them he emphatically declined-repeat-
ing that he and his associates were not on
political mission that politics was no
part of their business that with n view
to looking at the real condition Of the
South, and frank interchange Of opinion
with the people, so as to promote harmo-
ny, good will, and the mutual interests of
the two sections, they had come, and
would not be diverted from their purpose
In this spirit let them be met here, and
everywhere by all our people irrespective
of party, so that the amplest opportunity
may be afforded them to see things as
they are. The good motive and the gem
erous spirit ofinquiry which prompt them
deserve to be appreciated and gratifed.
We are requested to state that a meet
ing to give form and expression to this
purpose, will be called at an early day
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-06

HE HARBINGER is the title of new
paper which has been established in Cor
NTH, by Messrs. Grooms & Co. 1t has a
wide field before it for making known the
resources and advocating the varied ipter-
ests OF the growing section in which ii is
published.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-06

DIR. Tindall asks the Brandon Repub-
lican how it got the idea that in working
to defeat the Eggleston- Stringer pro
gramme in Washington, he was laboring
for the benefit of the Democratic party?
The charge originated with the Pilot, the
organ of the Committee of Five. Meth
er the Brandon Republican, nor any 9TH
er Democratic paper ever made it. They
have always said that Messrs. Tindall,
Jetfords, Wofford and others, in opera
ting against the carpet-baggers' scheme,
were lahoring in the cause Of THE PEOPLE
At the Alabama State Fair watch
will be presented for the largest quantity
of cotton produced by any white boy nm
der sixteen years Of age, upon an acre of
land; and similar premium for the
largest quantity Of corn grown on an acre
by any white boy under sixteen.
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Negro Candidates.

Three cOlored men have declared them
selves candidates for Congress in Virginia
against the carpet-baggers. We do not
know whether or not they are opposed to
the carpet-baggers' policy Of disfranchi-
sing the whites. We presume they are ;
and If so, the whites viii support them to
a man against their opponents.
There seems to be a general movement
of the colored people in all the Southern
States against the .carpet-baggers. 1t is
for this reason that Mr.. Medill of the
Chicago Tribune, says that these carpet
baggers ARE an injury to the party to
which thew profess To heIony
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-06

The managers of the Eggleston party
are promising that if their supporters will
not abandon them, they will repudiate
their old ticket. After all, that ticket
was composed Of their best material.
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New PaDer AT jackson.

DIR. Tindall, of the Okolona News,
announces his purpose to establish Il pa
per in the city Of jackson. The paper
will be of the Grant Republican school;
and will represent the views of that wing
of the party which defeated the pro
gramme Of the Committee Of Five. He
is a good writer-an independent thinker,
but an incorrigible partizan.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-06

The Okolona News (Republican)-
thinks the disposition of the Mississippi
lease by Congress the best thing that
could have been done, and it meets with
"our entire approval" But the Com
mittee of Sixteen don't see it that way
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-06

The planters could not do themselves
and the freedmen who are i'll their en-
plovment. o. who reside on their premi-
ses, a better service than to read - them
the recent letter of Gov Brown, showing
how Gen. Grant has endorsed the rejec-
ton of the constitution on account of Its
proscriptive measures and defining the
policy of the resident white population ON
the subject of securing TO persons of color
all the civil and political rights that are ac-
corded TO the white race. The letter is
couched in language so plain that its
meaning can be comprehended by the
feeblest understanding and il will q
far towards removing erroneous impress
sions which have been propagated by evil
minds, and too long permitted to remain.
BY this means many who voted with the
carpet-baggers for the constitution last
year, will be induced to vote against the
proscriptive clauses and other authors and
advocates, at the coming election.
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Personal.

If the editor of the Pilot had done himself
the justice to have made in his own columns
the disavowal contained in the following
letter, its publication in ours would not have
been necessary: