The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-11-25

In another ceAIH fof me o1LNeuI1Lre
of the reader rse have taken pains 10
present the pnaninent points Of Alcorn's
latest. most absurd, most stupid and most
malignant Address. 1t is dated the 10th
Of November; and the public win not
fail to note that the lunacy Of the man
grows upon him ms the day of election
approaches. We have not space to COM
ment on all the parts of this production.
II describes itself and makes its own i'm
pressions on the mind precisely as any
other object of intense ugiiness will do.
One of the absurd features of this thing
is its arraignment of the people of the
State for sending delegates to the Phila-
delphia Peace Convention In 1866 and
its dharge that they were "ad-
herents of Democracy" Now the
truth is, the delegates" afore-
said consisting of Judge VIM. Yerger,
Hon. II. F. Sin1ran and others of that
school were probably with one exception
Old Line Union Wings, and they viii
testify that the charge against them is
false. Besides, Alcorn himself advised
the appointment of delegates in his AID
dress Of July, 1866, wherein he said:
The convention to which you have been
invited brings the struggle OF restoration TO
crisis. The business Of that assemblage
concerns the people of the whole country
TO the extent OF their industrial prosperity,
If not also of their civil order. To you, my
felloW-citizens of Mississippi, the success of
that informal Congress is one of especial i'm
portance. The restoration of the UBion de-
ponds on that success. The representation q.
which constitutes the prime conditiUn of
that restoration, Is precious to you rs the
fundamental condition of your political lib
erty. tn Philadelphia COsceNtton under
takes to act upon the question, whether you.
children of the revolution of 1875, shall
stand within the government of your faith
ers, erect and free, or lie PROSTATE under its
heel, defrauded, in your Impeachment and
enslavement. into a surrender of your prop
erty, OF your pride, OF your honor.
Again he arraigns the Legislature for
refusing to ratify the 18th amendment,
and insults its members with the charge
that they were acting under the dictation
of the jackson clique, mentioning especi-
ally in this connection the names
of Brown and Barksdale. The i'm
preston of the writer is that
Governor Brown, who was In retire
ment at that time, was not asked for an
expression of opinion and gave none
The charge that the other person named
with Gov. Brown ever advocated the re-
lection of the 18th amendment, is false
hood. We never uttered syllable, nor
wrote line, in favor of rejecting the 18th
amendment. We returned to our jour
nalistic profession in 1867, simultaneously
with the passage of the reconstruction
laws of that year, and the first advice
which we gave to the people of Mississippi,
was to accept the terms offered, including
the 18th amendment. Every reader of
THE CLARION knows how earnestly we
pressed this point through good and
through evil report, and how much we
were censured for our course by some of
the best men in the State, who thought
with Alcorn in 1866, that we had been
sufficiently Inundated by the terms of
fered by Mr.. johnson and accepted by
the State. But what said Alcorn him.
self on the subjects of the amendments
Oath included)? In his July 1866 Ad-
dress he said: Congress has submitted
'to the States for adoption a number of
amendments to the Constitution. Even
eff unobjectionable in themselves, you
could not be expected to support those
amendments, seeing they are so many i'm
quotations ont their honor" Now, the
silly man is actually abusing the Legis-
lature for not doing what he told them
would dishonor themI We know moth
ing that will parallel the inconsistency
and stupidity of this assault unless it be
his attack on the same Legislature for
passing the laws concerning freedmen
though he was member of that body and
and was not known to bave uttered
word against those acts at the time. Or
bis charge that the ante bellum slave
owners were an ''insolent oligarchy"
who "dragooned poor (white) votes"
md were mot friends of public educa-
ion"