The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-09-16
Who are Entitled 70 Serve as Members
Of the Legislature and State
r O1Ilcers Generally.


VMCCAC WCMCA
NOW FOR THE LEGISLATURE
The recent opinion of Attorney Cen
eraI Hoar, which has been sent to Gen.
Candy for his guidance in Virginia, re-
moves all doubt on this subject He de-
cides that none are disqualified except
those who are rendered ineligible under
the newly ratified Constitution, in virtue
of which they viii discharge the duties
of their respective offices, after Congress
shall have declared the State entitled to
representation. Provided, however, that
none are not disqualified by the 14th
Amendment to the Constitution of the
United States, which declares that no
person shall fill any State or federal Office
who having taken an oath to support the
Constitution of the United States as an
officer of the United States, previous to
the war, and ajterqcards engaged in rebel
lion, or gave counsel, countenance,
support, or encouragement to persons 50
engaged.
In Mississippi, the Rabid Radicals hav-,
ing abandoned the proposed Proscriptive
clauses in their Constitution, that instru-
ment will disqualify none except such as
are declared ineligible by the above quo
ted 18th Amendment. Consequently for
any and every State Office (so-ealleD
rebels, or other persons are qualified, who
did not hold federal office requiring them
to take an oath to seaport the Constitu-
ton of the United States before engaging
in acts of hostility thereto.
This will leave an extended field for
the selection of members of the Legisla-
ture, and of appointments for judicial
and other officers after the ratification of
the Constitution by Congress.
We would urge the people of the sew
eral counties to bring out their strongest
and most available candidates-only re-
quiring as az, essential condition to their
election that they are not disqualified by
the 14th Amendment, and will ratify the
10Th Amendment, the effect of which is
to make suffrage uniform throughout the
United States as it exists in Mississippi
The Legislature must be saved from
the control of the Malignant Radicals
On that body will devolve the great re-
sponsibility of putting the entire maehin-
cry of the new government into opera
ton. 1t will pass the revenue laws. 1t
will organize the militia. 1t will estab-
the public school system. 1t will elect
Senators to Congress. One of the
branches, thereof, will confirm the judi
cial and other appointments of the Gov
ernor. The Legislature must be rescued
from the clutches of the Destructives.-
They gerrymandered the District so as to
secure'it to them in defiance of justice,
but it is in the power Of the people to
defeat them. At the last election, the
opposers of Prescription carried the Leg
islature and they can do it again by
still larger majority. The power of that
body will be immense. The Radical
Cormorants who are greedy for the sub
stance of the people, as their past acts have
shown, and they viii enter upon a general
system of confscation. Corlessism, as
practised in Rankin county, will be the
order of the day, and in the enactment of
laws authorized to be passed by the Leg
islature, perfect hell of horrors viii be
all over the State:
Now FOR THE LEGISLATURE!