The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-09-02

DcmdRded.
Albert G. Brown. formerly United states
Senator from Mississippi aud Afterwards q
member oi the Confederate Sehate; haS a."
dressed the following letter TO Judge Dent;
TERRY. Kinds County, Miss, Aug Is, 1863.
My DtAF JrpGE-- our letter dated July "a
,a. receLEcd rwo three days ago. / have
Zen Inc liberty Of showing il to some of our
influential friends, and am gFauhed IN being
7le ~ say it meets their full appreciation. Ii
Ft. never been e. pected by any of US that you
ra bird. 20 enter the canvass otherwise than as a
republican, or. that being elected, sou 10
minister the State government otherwise
tIaU a. "a republican on the Grant platform Of
e..uaI rights 60 all men. OF course there viii
b.dtsscnters. Entire unanimity is not 10 be
expected ia any great movement; but L am
vsrv certain that ! speak the sentiments Of all
fr.s- va majority Of Our people who sincerely
d..f4e peace and expect 10 get il the basis
ID. equal rights and equal Justice to all men be-
frsrHe law. when / say regret thar the
President thought il has duty to postpone our
,.rri0u - latc period as the 3uth Of NO.
,.r5Eer. Not that H. viii make any difference
TO tie result that viii be lice same odds
a. mem tue election l. held. The late period ap-
tinted win have disastrous influence on our
aterial interests. Cotton picking commences
...,fr the lst OF September with and ends
..s.fl.tae last of November, 50 that a. you see
,. whole season Is 70 be covered by political
.y4e. that promises to be one of unusual
.-.-.-r The negroes. as have seen. are
1,.-Iv excited on politics, and we dread the
efa.i not on the election, but on cotton pick
iry We BIB not complain. Yet we can't help
-,...,g that DO was hardly fair to make our
..,rri,I interests. subordinate 10 the political
Interests III tbe Presidents friends, is sup
-sI inf.Z l4gs Pennsylvania. II is pretty
I5ugu skIHn.3g Tor US but IKE the FELLOW
III s-e are getting used TO 1t.
q.aret more than do the pOstpOnement Of
H. election that the President seems to allow
I.r.clfto be more than half persuaded, not
gfrb-fauding our pTOtest atlOHs, that we are
81 .ir,curp and cannot therefore. be trusted
VIM nv dear SIN our main idea in asking you
o. take the head nf oar ticket was to assure the
p-e-iieut that we were sincere. II we con-
undated trcachery, is il likely we would give
..a leadership 20 the Presidents brOther-in-
I.,v1 Even Butler, think, would give US
credit for more sagaclty than that. Now what
i've we DONE We have protested our will
;.,pe-s tg support the President on his own
,.-,uud.. Use have laid down a platform Of
Trfuciples as sincerely think, IN exact ac-
lrIaHcc with his policy we have invited his
"A tr9tber-in-Iaw, who we suppose to be III full
sympathy with him personally and politically,
D.. stand rs our candidate for Governor, and
we intend ia September TO put a ticket in the
f.ld composed exc 'usively Of his acknowledged
friends and We intend to elect il, if he viii let
o.. when | say We, mean all who agree to
the policy we are pursuing, and that | under
ia {e 10 say, is "a vast majority Of the people of
ssi--ppi white and black. The President
can defeat your election if he Will, and he is
The only power on earth that can do it. Ii he
shows want Of confidence in the 10000 white
voters in the State who offer him their support,
be viii paralyze theirze and neutralize their
efforts, and the consequence will be that
thousands on thousands Of negro votes viii be
sp,uged up by the other side that would other
wise be east tor yoU.
If the President will simply carry ut his
promise made To your friends last winter
and see to il that we have fair election that
Is al we want. To do this he must check up
General Amcs. Is it fair, as commander of
this department, and acting military Gov
ernor Of his State. that he should openly
pledge his support to the other side? Is it
fair that he should turn yoGr friends out of
office, because they are your friends, Union
men though they were, and republicans
though they are, and have been from the
first Is it fair to appoint none to Office but
those who labor on the other side? Is it
fair for the General. holding the relations he
does To VI Mississippi, to be himself a candi-
date for the United States Senate? All this
| charge ana | can prove, and | simply ask
can we. under these circumstances, expect a
fair elections l. the President deceived as
to the relative strength OF the two parties
i'll this State, making his own election the
dividing line between them. | do not hesi-
tate TO give it as my opinion, that of the
white element VINO can read ana write, and
therefore understand what is being done. a
very large majority are now for you. The
negroes will take sides rs they are led either
way. u show the utter weakness of the
other side AmeS, after the most diligent
search, has not been able, with all the cor
Tuptiug Influence of official patronage, to
find men enough in the state, of his way of
thinking, To fill the offices. 1.-THE President
Is determined to uphold such a power as
that at the expense of driving from his sup
port NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of all the white
men in the State and Is a necessary conse-
quence. sooner or later, large proportion
of the colored voters. then all l have to say
is he is a very indifferent political tactcian.
however great he may be as commander of
armies.
The President ought to understand who it
was that first offered to repose entire conf
dence in him before he gives his support to
either side | affirm, and stand prepared to
prove it incOntestably lift is denied. that we
offered rs early as last March to sign joint
address TO the President asking him to make
a recommendation to Congress in reference
to our Mississippi affairs. and pledging our
selves to stand by that recommendation.
whatever it might be. The other side re-
eCtCd the proposition. Who. then. showed
a want of confidence i'm the President?
Was il we, who proposed to leave everything
TO his Judgment, or those who let the truth
be told, who chung to the idea that Congress
would stand by them and force on us an in
famous constitution, which the people had
rejected and which both the President and
Congress have virtually said since ought to
have been rejected d? -four proposition had
been accepted undertake to say there would
to-day have been but one organized party in
Iii>>lSSll)pl NOIlHN vi ttlt iidlilt VI IL party
and Lhat would have been the Grant party. |
our proposition was not accepted; and what |
then? We came homo. satisfied with what |
the President and Congress had done. The |
other side came sOre-headed and grumbling /
Our people commenced organizing in good |
faith to sustain what the President and Con-
gresS had done. The other side refused to |
cooperate, and after awhile they seemed to /
awake, and all of a sudden appeared scram- /
bling as If TO get on to our platform. That /
i they had Turned a4eaincs no hand /
that had fed them-their own constitution
and were vociterouS against that very intol- |
eFance and prescription which they had with |
30 much Nehemence urged on Congress and !
the President only few weeks before And |
these are the people who now claim that the I
President has taken them into favor and |
turned his back on you and your friends.
We shall believe it when we see more of it, /
| do not know what course the President !
will consider it his duty to pursue but this /
! know, that brains and education will tell /
after awhile on the most StOlid in minus, |
eyen on the obtuse intellect OF the negro
If the President is willing to take us, well ; /
if he rejects our overtures of friendship he |
must not blame us if seek society else /
where. liz may as well be understood first |
as last that we do not mean TO give our
cOunJenance or support to men who but a
little while ago, for mere personal aggran-
dizement of their own, would have ground
as 10 dust under the rough heel OF the most
1espC tic government that the world ever
saw. If we had yielded 10 these men, in
stead of relying on the President and Con-
gresS as we did, we should to-day have
been fixed and fast under their iron rule -
Can any one blame us il we refuse to vote
for them now, or IL we refuse to trust to eX-
pressioas of generosity eXtorted from them
Il the last hour2 They fought for despotic
rule until overwhelmed by defeat. We now
demand that they do as the COnfederates
did, stack their arms and take the best terms
they can get. III they will vote with us,
well and with more generosity than they
have shown, after a little while, when they
have shown their faith by their works, we
viii make them captains over hundreds and