The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-07-29

Whmg VIII we e
Movement
Some Of our Mississippi exchanges
with whom we agree in politics, but from
whom we differ now as to the policy to be
nur~ued by the Conservative element IN
The State. have asked what win We gain
BY Joining with the Conservative KepuO-
leans in the vital contest which VIII soon
he upon US? (And we must remember
that this is the last fight 1t Is to settle
the fate of Mississippi for veal or woe. }
They have seen that the movement Is
respected in Washington By 1t we have
been assured of fair play at the ballot
box. which was by no means certain until
now. Gen. Ames said in his famous
speech to the Radical Convention, Gen
tleman, you have my sympathy, and you
shall have my support" and his acts be-
fore and since show that he meant every
word that he said. Notwithstanding his
acknowledged sympathy with the carpet
baggers and scalawagers he viii have to
give us fair play, and this is all we viii ask
of him. We viii want the votes to come
out of the ballot-box as they go IN; we will
take care that they go in right.
This much has been promised US through
the aid of the National Republican party,
and this much have we gained.
We have seen that large number OF
the leading Republican papers of the
North have recognized them as enuncia-
ting the true principles of Republication.
IF theirs are true Republican principles,
the expressions to our people from this
party are about to cease. This much
have we gained through them, for they
first opened the eyes of the Liberal Re
publicans North to the fallacy of the pre-
vious course Of their party towards the
South, and to the villiany of the carpet
baggers, who have hoped through strife
and violence, and perjury and fraud, tc
foist themselves upon the people of Mis-
sissippi as they have done in other South
ern States
From them we have learned that Pres
ident Grant and part of his Cabinet look
with sympathy upon their movement.
Through them we have been put in com
munication with President Grant, and all
will acknowledge that this is no small
gain, when it is remembered how power
full is his influence with Congress and the
Northern people.
We need not recite what was gained by
us through their assistance last fall in the
fight before Congress. The constitution
with all its obnoxious features would have
been forced upon US, and Eggleston 6
Co. would have been foistered into every
Office in the State, had not Judge Jeffords
Maj. Wofford, Capt. Fisk, and other Re
publicans rendered their aid to prevent thi
most diabolical wrong.
Our doubling friends tell us that som,
Democrats will not vote for these gentle
men. We cannot believe it. We canno
believe that any Mississippian is so lost t.
a sense of duty to his State that he would
be willing to permit her to pass into tn
hands of such men as Ames has appoint
ed, because he does not agree in Nationa
politics with those who alone can proven
it. But admitting that this is so in SOM
parts of the State, it is not so here, thes
votes will be replaced twice over by thi
movement.
In proof of this we copy from the Can
ton Mail statement as to what we hav
gained in Madison county by it. n
paper in the State was more opposed t
Reconstruction in '67 than the Mail, an,
than whom none struck harder or NOR
effective blows at the Constitution and 70
the Democratic ticket last year. Here i
the statement; it speaks for itself:
Madison county stands ready to do he
part toward overthrowing the Radicals il
November. There will be very little show
ing for the Eggleston party here. And vet
year ago no county was so given over an
deeply dyed-in- the-wool Radical as Madi
son. There was none in which Radicalisr
was more rampant, and Conservatism 8
hopeless. But see the change. The Radi
Gals eRdeavored, not long since, to hold
, little revival here, and succeeded Gdnsirdbt
Ia gfrIng an impetus to Conservatism. The
retired from this part of the field with thei
fingers in their mouths. We are all righ
certainly, in Madison, every body, white an
black. We stand ready here to walk rough
shod over the Ultras.
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