The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-08-05
me Future orSIIssI.sippi.


1t is an obvious and painful fact that,
at present, our State is in a PROSTATE con-
dition, in reference to all her political
and industrial affairs. The gloom of the
present, however, is not typical OF. the
future. The day of redemption draws
nigh. Even now hopeful dawnings Of
early light are visible in the horizon. The
long, long night of darkness and suffering
will, ere long, give way to rsdient beams
of prosperity. Not in. day or year will
this complete redemption be witnessed.
1t must be a question of time. But the
good time lies not very remote in the
coming years.
By the exercise of patience and pru-
dence, and an enlightened use of the
means within our reach, we may effect
the work of political reconstruction with
in the present, or quite early in the next
year. True, that reconstruction will not
be on basis chosen by ourselves, nor will
it accord fully with our views of justice.
But, we shall have reconstruction, at
all events, and a re-establishment of pure
civil rule, ON as good terms as the most
sanguine Mississippian could reasonably
have expected, in view of the situation.
We have, in fact, no choice in this mat
ter of reconstruction, bereft as we are of all
power, and compelled to submit to our
fate, whatever that fate may be. The
State once more in the Union, and our
State Government fully organized, under
the constitution of 1868, Invested of its
more harsh and unjust provisions, and
Government, for the time being, at least,
administered by the Constitutional Union
Republican Party, we shall all breathe
freer. Our hopes will be revived. Our
energies will be quickened. Sleeping
capital will be invested. Industry will
awaken from its long slumber. Some
system will be soon adopted to supply the
great want we now feel for agricultural
laborers. LIN short, the mere work of re-
construction, will Immediately inaugurate
a marked improvement in our industrial
pursuits.
Providence hath graceously vouchsafed to
this lovely cline, natural advantages and
blessings enjoyed by no other part of the
globe. The exceeding richness of our
soil; the great diversity of the generous
and rich fruits of the earth which it pro-
duces; the peculiar and exclusive adapt
edness of our soil and climate to the pro-
duction of the great Southern staple the
mild and salubrious weather with which
we are blessed most of the year the ex-
ceeding beauty of our howery wales; ''the
soft magic of streamlet and HILL" and
the Eden-like spirit of repose and romance
which wells the land of flowers, all COM
spire to render Mississippi lovely home,
and to attract to her shores men of every
civilized country under the sun. Arrayed
in all this surprising loveliness, and pos
sessed of such natural advantages, Mis-
sissippi can and will command population
in the future. 1t is not in the nature of
man to resist the attractions here present
ed. We ,cN regain, in the coming years,
all which we lost in the bloody days of the
late war, Those of US who are actors now
in the busy drama of life, and who have
passed the meridian of existence, will
hardly live to see the realization of this great
in all its fullness; but the rising
generation will and the unborn genera
tons of our posterity will live in the
midst of happiness and prosperity never
vouchsafed to us, in the palmiest days
of the provided the land shall fur
nish enough virtue and intelligence to
guide governmental affairs in the proper
direction, and arrest, successfully the
present tendency towards anarchy and
disregard of the sacred obligation of law.