The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-12-30

Tine Cmsr OF Virginia, what 40
~ proves. II
The case Of Virginia still hangs fire in
Congress. The difficulties which have
attended It show how complete would
have been the waste of effort In attempt
ing reconstruction under Democratic aus
pices. If this Congress has demonstra-
ted anything, it has shown that it Is cas-
Ter for camel to enter the eye ola needle
than for a State Economically recon-
structed to gain admission into the bliss
full portals of the national sisterhood with
equality of privilege secured We know
that with the management of the election
In the hands of Ames and his mercena-
ries who were hired to carry it, Dem
ocratic success would have been simply
an impossibility. 1t was not question
of votes. but of rascality. Even IT this
impossibility had not existed, the door
way into Congress would nevertheless
have been closed by Beast Butler and his
Jacobins who hold possession of the gov
eminent.
A Democratic success would therefore
have been simply a continuation OF the
gall and wormwood of Radical Military
rule.
The white majority in Virginia having
the election in their own hands wisely
took the precaution to select Republican
(who, though Conservative, was never
theless Republican, for the office of
Governor; and to select Congressional
delegation of the same political class.
And superadded to the acceptance of the
measures of reconstruction originally ten
dered, they ratified the 18th amendment
They took pains also to conciliate Gen.
Grant and to procure recommendation
in his message for the prompt admission
of the State. Notwithstanding all these
precautionary measures and selfdenials,
and opportunities of committees, the boon
of admission is still withheld. Doubtless
after much travail her petition will be
granted, and the old State will once more
have her representatives In the National
councils. But not such representatives
as her Masons and Rives, and Hunters,
of other days. The places they adorned
will be occupied by the Shiny creatures
who have been produced by the corrup-
tions of the evil times in which their base
lot has been cast. However, she will
have achieved what is more to be priced,
deliverance from military rule and the
right to make laws for her own govern
ment. And this is inestimably more val
liable than the CLEAN of transitory pleas
ure which majority of her people, would
have probably derived from democratic
success which, under the circumstances,
would have been barren of profitable re-
suits
Since the above was written, we have
seen a bill which has been introduced in
the Senate by Sumner, and another intro
duced by Whitmore, Ga carpet-bagger
from South Carolina,) remanding the
State to military authority requiring the
commander to reconvene the Legislature
and administer the iron-clad oath to the
members with instructions to unseat those
who cannot take it and to give their seats
to those who can, thus setting aside the
popular verdict and placing the Jacobins
in possession of the State. And this,
too, notwithstanding the decision of the
Administration as communicated to zen.
~,.----y vIAd oath should not
be administered and the recommends
ton of the President that the State be de-
clared entitled to representation and to
all the other privileges that belong to
States of the Union.