The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-06


BEowY, thrown off, as the reader viii
perceive, in the freedom of private cor
respoudence, relates some hitherto unpub-
lished facts touching the history Of the
defeat Of the scheme to impose the re-
iected constitution, with all It's abomina-
tons, on the people Of our State, and
which it, authors Fare but too anxious to
rid themselves Of the infamy Of concoct-
ing.
Since the writer of the letter has left
it to our experience a. a journalist to de-
wise method Of making public acknowl-
edgment Of the services so generously and
opportunely rendered, We know no better
way OF doing it than by presenting the
facts 10 the public as they are told in the
simple and unaffected style Of the Gov
ernor himself albeit VIC have made free
use Of his private letter in performing
the duty he has devolved upon ". 1t L
needless 70 add that every true son and
daughter Of Mississippi will hold in CRATE
full remembrance their sister Mississip-
plan whose untravelled heart has turned
to her early home and testified her devo-
ton To her native State in the time Of its
greatest need
TERRY. HDDs Co, Miss, !
May 3, 1869.
NJ DEAR SIR:
/ have noticed with pleasure, that you
and other Conservative and Democratic cd
| itors in the State. allude in complimentary
terms to the services Of certain Republican
| gentlemen from Mississippi in defeating the
~Fgeleston iniquity' before Congress and
the President. All you say of Judge JEFF
fords. Major WoiIord, DR.. Tindall, Capt.
/ Fisk. Col. Warner, Col. Hodges, and others,
| il emineutly just. You might have said a
| great deal more without exaggeration. But
there j. another gentleman to whose name
! [ nave seen no allusion, and for whose dis
interested services, ] have seen no generous
acknowledgement. That gentleman is JUDGE
DTNr the Presidents brother-in-law.
know more of what Judge Dent did
than any other one man, and L understand
better than others how disinterested he was.
He worked for US in season, and out of sea-
son. His social relations with the President
rave him access to his EXcellency at times
ana under circumstances that could not be
omen to Us all. l bao,g that he improved his
opportunities to make the President under
stand our cause. and that was all he wanted.
Don't msconstrue me. do not mean that
Judge Dent influenced the President lie
only told him truths which, with his sur
roundings and overwhelmed as the Presi-
dent was with great affairs, we could not
have cot to him so well, if at all, through
any other channel. In this way he was inn
mcnsely serviceable to the State to justice,
to peace, to prosperity, and especially to the
President. whose only desire it must be to
do right in all cases.
II il not generally known that Judge
Dent claims to be thoroughly identified
with our State. He tried planting on pref
ty large scale in one of the River counties,
and have Il suspicion, though he did not
tell me so, that he failed. However this may
be, he was altogether successful in another
enterprise in which true Mississippians have
a deeper interest than they have in their
cotton bags. he cO1Tted and married His
SiSsipPj gjr}.
The old citizens of Jackson, and especially
the ladies. who can reoollect back % years,
Il doubt if any of them can, especially the
ladies' viii remember the bright little sun
ny faced daughter of a. c. Baine, the able
editor of The old Wing organ at jackson,
and associate of Mr.,Palmer in that journal.
We'll, that little girl is Mrs. Judge Dent, and
consequently, by marriage, the President :
sister-in-lafv-and, am glad to say,.a true
Mississippian. CoRNELIA was not prouder
to be called a Roman mother than is Mrs.
Dent to have it known that she is a..daugh-
ter of Mississippi.
On one occasion when our cause was in
the very crisis Of its fate, and an hours de-
lay might have ruined il, personally know
that she urged her husband to .'Go, go, and
do all you can for my own. dear Mississippi
lie did 20, and the point was saved.
Services like these coming from an unex-
pected quarter deserve, nay, they demand
some acknowledgement and yet, my dear sir,
/ DO not see how to make the acknowledge
ment. don't want to offend Judge Dents
sense of modesty. nor the delIcacy of Mrs,
Dent by bringing them before the public
And yet feel that they are entitled to the
gratitude of our people. and that our people
would express that Fgratitudei generously
and ACT it nobly. if they only knew Exactly
how to do it.
Your experience as an editor will enable
you to know better than how to do them
justice without offending good taste.
There is one point on which we talked the
other day, and chat is, as to how far we COM
nit, ourselves to Republicanism, or the Re
publicans to Democracy, or either of us to
any other policy, or party, or body by fol-
lowing out the line chalked out at Washing
tOn-a policy which received the sanction of
the President and of Congress.
You and I agreed, think perfectly, that
il committed no one to any thing or any par
ty, beyond the mere point of carrying out
the Washington policy.
l want to be perfectly fair. DO not con-
slider .Jeftords, Wof1ord. Tindall, or any 9TH
er man committed to any extent beyond the
mere point of carrying out the policy that
was laid downat Washington.
When we are rehabilitated, re-organized
or otherwise have disposed Of the destiny of
Mississippi, rs the powers that be may die
tate, we shall see where every body stands. |
intend from that point to take my own course
and l am free to admit that everybody has
the right to do the same. For the present
there Is but one point to settle.
am, dear sir, very truly and faithfully,
Your ob't serv't,
y. g. BROWN.
Hon. +. BARKsDALE.
Opening their Eyes.
The proposition 0f the carpet-baggers