The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-06-03
A STATE CONVENTION.

VI INC DemOcratlc OF CONSERVATIVE party
and of all good men of whatever past pc
litical designation, champiOning the right
Of all classes Of The PEOPLE (and there
fore not inapty styled the Peoples Party,
against the DISTINGUISHES Of the Eggle
ston faction, represented by their variou:
Committees, should be held in time fol
effective organization preliminary to the
pending election.
This Convention viii be recognized as
the tribunal whose decision will be final
and authoritative in all matters of con-
troversy in the ranks of the party, touch
ing the candidates to be voted for--the
principles to be declared-and the line Of
policy to be pursued. The objective point
Of the organization will be the final CON
summation of the victory gained over the
DISTINGUISHES in the contest which they
initiated in their Convention of Novem-
Der last, and prosecuted before Congress
with unparalleled bitterness and sublime
audacity through their Committees
Though composed of a large Republican
majority that body rejected their applica-
ton, and on, the recommendation of the
President RENTED the matters of. contro-
versy to the judgment of The People, thus
afording them the opportunity which
they had petitioned through the agency Of
liberal Republicans and conservative
Democrats. 1t will be the resolve of ev-
cry patriot not to trihe away this oppor-
tunity, which will be the last. The sue
cess of the Eggleston clique, no matter
under what guise, or what cunning pro-
testation of reform since their previous
defeats, will ensure the triumph of Pro
scriptiOn, and confirm for many years the
rule of hate and the reign of discord.-
The same despicable class of Adventures
and charlatans who have DISTINGUISHED
two-thirds of the white people Of Tennes-
see and converted Arkansas into a hell
upon earth, viii control the State in all
departments, and ride rough shod over
her down-trodden and plundered people.
Norman will be permitted to take part in
the legislation of the State, nor to hold
the humblest office within the gift of the
people, who does not grope his way
through the dark recesses of the Loyal
League conspiracies. And every man who
does not fall down and worship at the
shrine of radical iniquity will be marked
for persecution. The bafaed conspirators
who howled on the highways in Washing
ton for four weary months, were free to
boast of the prosecutions of which the
people of the State, outside of their own
circle, should be the victims when once
they were invested with the rod of power.
Personal rivalries, if any exist, and diff
ferences of opinion concerning immaterial
questions not affecting the VITAL ISSUE,
will be settled by the Convention; and
then we may hope that the principles
which it represents, borne aloft on the
banners of people struggling with the
energy of desperation and animated by a
common hope of deliverance from evils
which are ever present before their senses
in the horrible condition of surrounding
States that have passed under the yoke
of the carpet-bag adventures, viii be
triumphantly sustained.
What say our brethren of the press
and the People? Shall Convention be
held, and when?
In appointing delegates to the State
Convention, we would suggest to our
conservative friends the wisdom of select
ing in each county a proportional number
of leading and intelligent colored mem
bers, who will attend. No better method
can be adopted to remove from the minds
of the colored voters the erroneous i'm
pressions which the self-seeking partizans
of the carpet-bag faction numbering as
they admit, "less than one thousand" in
the State, have created to the prejudice of
the white population, and to the detri-
ment of both races Let intelligent men
of the African race, be.appointed to the
Convention where they can make known
the views and wishes of their people, and
participate in the framing of the platform
and the selection of candidates. They
can thus bear testimony of what they have
seen, and armed with the truth they will
go forth to enlighten the mlisinformedo Of
their race and direct them In the way they
should go.
The Eggleston party profess to have
abandoned the organization from whose
inquiries sprang the scheme of the Com
mittee Of Five, and the Committee of
Sixteen which brought that faction, in the
opinion of Lynch, under .'the contempt
of Congress. IF there Is sincerity in this
profession, why have they retained the
self-same Executive Committee" by
whose directions the said Committee Of
Sixteen were controlled
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