The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-07-29

Unless Mississippi IL prepared 10 re-
main indefinitely under the rule Of Ames
and men Of his class, or, worse still,
unless she feels willing to be governed for
four years,-it may be for twelve and
longer-by the Radicals who now MI
nearly every Office within the gift Of the
Military Commander, we must follow the
example set by the people of Virginia
And ace must be prepared to go further.
Not vestige of doubt must be lett IN
the minds of Congress as to our determina-
ton to stand squarely upon Grants plat
form in 20 much as it guarantees "clvli
and political rights to all men,"
IF that is done we will be able to throw
off the yoke of oppression and again have
control Of our own affairs
It il true that the Radicals in Virginia
will do every thing in their power to prove
that the election there was fraudulent. -
True. that no stone viii be left unturned,
no villainy left undone to accomplish
this. The end, with them, ever JustIfles
the means. And we doubt not but that
the same thing will be attempted here
We will have to go through with the same
trials that we experienced last fall. But
the same Congress that was the judge then
will hear our cause in December next,
and we have a right to believe that they
will act fairly by US.
In the Republican party North, as here,
there are men who are honorable, and we
can trust them. We must, therefore,
place ourselves in such a position that
they can aid us, and be true to the constit-
uency that elected them. There is no
denying the fact that the people of the
North are determined upon the recon-
struction of these States upon the Con-
gressional plan. That being so, if we
want the aid of the Moderate Republicans
in Congress we must come up to their
ideas of justice and right. There the
contest will be-as there can be no doubt
as to our ability to carry the election-the
fight at the polls will be but skirmish,
prior to the battle.
We have said that justice would be
done US. In proof of this we give the
following extract from the Cincinnati
Commercial, the ablest edited and most
influential Republican paper in the north
west. Mark well its words:
Wendell Phillips shrieks for the protec-
ton of the loyal blacks of the South. He
means the protection of the bayonet. There
is another and better professionalism of the
good will of the whites. If that can be
gained by the removal of political disabA-
tiles from the whites, let us have the gain.
If we have the DO wer to- govern the South
exclusively through the blacks and North
ern emigrants, we ought not to use it. But
we have not the power, and to attempt to
shape the policy of the Administration to
the support of black States differed chiefly
by those who emigrated South to get office,
would be fatal folly.
The South has profited by the lessons of
the war. The fact that those who were reb-
els are accepting, as the solution OF the
problem of reconstruction, the broad and
generous doctrine of universal amnesty and
| impartial suffrage, shows growth and health
| and is full of comprehensive promise OF
good.
Old Virginia is upon Greeiey's platform
now for amnesty to all, and suffrage TO
all, is Greeley's own platform. Tennessee
is coming upon it. Mississippi will take her
stand upon it in November. The Fifteenth
Amendment will be adopted. Then the ne
groes in Kentucky and Ohio, as well as in
Virginia and Mississippi, will have the right
of suffrage.