The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-09-23

I in favor Of the Union Republican anu
Conservative State ticket, in the End D'Hr
trict, but there seems TO be division N TO
gard to the Congressional nomination
We desire to correct an impression OF
the Water Valley Eagle that ''the State
Convention nominated a candidate for
Congress in that district TIE State Con-
Uesation had nothing to do nth IL. The
nomination was made by District meet
ing during the sitting ofthat Convention
Of the number in attendance we are not
advised, but we are certain that the meet
ing was composed exclusively of delegates
from that District.
1t is alleged that the representation in
the meeting was partial; and consequent
" considerable dissatisfaction exists, or
appears to exist, with its action. Anoth-
er Convention has been called at Pitts
boro', but we are not apprized that the
friends of the nominee Judge Kellogg
of the first Convention, intend to be rep
resented or have expressed willingness
to abide its choice. We are apprehen-
sive therefore, that the Pittsboro meeting
will fail to produce harmony. In this
event, it would seem the part Of wisdom
for the competing candidates, and their
friends, and all the opposers of Radical
ism, to agree to hold another and full
convention with the understanding that
its decision is to be final.
A convention falls short of its true OBJ
ject and fails of its mission when it does
not reflect the will of the party il claims
to represent, and fails to command their
assent.
In saying this much, we would not be
understood as approving the political
grounds of objection to Judge Kellogg.
The renewal of the issues of the war, on
either side, is hazardous experiment to
the friends of Reconstruction and Peace.
The old wounds will not heal if we con-
tinue to scratch them. Judge Kellogg is
charged with having favored the confisca-
ton of Southern property during the war,
and as war measure. The same course
was adopted by the Confederate author
tiles with reference to the property of fed
erals or fallen enemies, as they we've
called in the Act, and no confederate
could have opposed it without mourning
the hostility of the people of his section
as an talien enemy" himself. 1t should
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who carried the sword and torch through
Georgia and the Carolinas, ''confisca-
ting" all kinds of property for the use of
his men, and destroying what they could
not consume, was Gen. Sherman who
when fighting was over, proposed to grant
the terms ofhis treaty with Gen. Johnston
to the defeated party. They were the
most liberal ever offered to a conquered
people, and were rejected at the dictation
of President johnson. 1t is an occasion
of. congratuJation in the South that the
same Gen. Sherman is now at the head
of the war Department. The favorite of
the Southern conservatives for President
last year, was the most successful corps
commander in Gen. Grants army; and
and it was claimed as peculiar merit of
Mr. Seymour, their candidate, that his
timely agency in sending forward troops
to the field saved the Union cause at a
critical juncture.
As for ''the tax of three cents pound
on cotton" which Judge Kellogg is alleged
to have favored, it should be remembered
that it was a measure, as his resolution
expressed, incident to the 'eriSting war.
Imposed during the war, it operated not
on the people of the Confederate States,
or the men who were true to their gov
eminent, but on that despicable class of
spectators who joined neither side and
plundered both. That duty was a very
different thing from the tax which was
wrung after the close of the war, from
the impoverished and suffering people.
The former was war measure which OPP
Grated on the heartless spectators, who
were sometimes within and sometimes
without the federal lines as they were
lured by the scent of plumber. True
Confederates did not feel it because they
were raising supplies for the subsistence
of their brethren who were at the front
The latter tax was imposed in time of
peace, and was the work of partizaps as
mean, cowardly and revengeful as the
leaders of the Radical party have proved
themselves to be by their conduct towards
the South since the surrender of her ar
mics. If we mistake not, Judge Kel-
logg received an appointment from Mr..
Lincoln and retired from Congress before
the close Of the war.
THE PRESIDENT AND THE MISSISSIPPI
! ELECTION According to late despatches