The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-11-11


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We viii notice the main points 10 al
Dorn's speoch here, relied upon by hlm %
array Tho races ID hostility and TO elevafe
himself 10 the United States Senate 10y
means Of the supposed cclOred majority.
LIST. He viIIifes the Legislature OF
1S65-5-says that it acted in bad faltn
both to the freedmen and to the federal
government, tHinging defiance In the face
of the latter"
1t might be sufficient to say that the
Union Republican and Conservative par
ties of this day, are not responsible for
the acts of that body. Gen. Alcorn
himself was member. 1t elected him
10 the United States Senate, and if there
is on record single scratch of his pen,
or any utterance, in any shape, disapprov-
ing its legislation in regard to freedmen,
let him produce i'll If it was wrong, the
best defence that can be made for him, is
that he looked quietly on and thus gave it
the moral influence of his approval. But
while he is requiting the kindness of that
Legislature, why does he not have the
fairness to say that it repealed most of the
laws to which he alludes and which were
passed In what he knows to have been the
disordered and unsettled condition of the
public mind at the close of the WARP
As for his charge about bad faith, and
finging defiance in the face of federal
government, (what shocking declaration
in view of all the humiliations to which
we have been subjected, it is abundantly
answered by his own circular, signed 81.
L. Alcorn, Washington, July %, 1868"
in which he said "the terms of the COM
pact of restoration were not light. y
They humbled you in the agony of dis
tress to your own dishonor. + = All
the conditions Of the compact Of restoration
yOu (the white people of Mississippi have
fulfilled" And in that same circular,
speaking of the amendments (the 18th
included he said: "You (the people of
could not be expected to support
them, seeing that they are SO MANY DIRECT
ON YOUR HONOR" Paren-
thetically, Alcorn did not like the Amend
ment then, his disabilities not having been
removed, and it was a sort of Chinese
Wall between him and the United States
Senate.)
End. He charged that the citizens of
Jackson held meeting when the Consti-
tutional CMongreD Convention of 1868
and advised the Conservative
members not to go into the body on the
ground that it was an illegal assembhge.
This is falsehood of Musgrove's fab
rication, and is one of his. usually able
efforts" in that line. The citizens of
Jackson will bear us witness that they
held no such meeting. But the Conser-
tive members of the Convention, Messrs.
Watson, Compton, Gather, Stricklin,
Hemingway, Nelson, and others, will
that they held caucus when
the Convention assembled, to consider
what was best to be done, and that they
invited the attendance of several citizens,
among them we remember, Hon. Fulton
Anderson, Gen. Freeman, and the writer
Of this article, who advised them to re-
main in the Convention and do what they
we're able to secure at least a tolerable
constitution, and generally to protect the
interests of the people against the
schemes of the Radical Destruc-
ives who were known to have obtained
majority of the body; and in this view
he conservative members concurred. |
They did remain in that abode of unclean
beasts and execrable odors, until literally
Jagged out of their right ofspeech by the
majority for whom Alcorn has no word of
'eproach.