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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-07-01
The Coming EIectfOn---The Iron.
clad TEST.

I -. 80
1t is stated that the Military Com
mander of Virginia has ordered thatsthe
iron-clad oath shall be required of mern-
bers Of the legislature to be chosen at
the pending election. This ruling is ar
bitrary, and wholly unauthorized by the
reconstruction acts. Those acts require
the application of the iron-clad test to all
State officers appointed by the Military
Commander under the provisional gov
eminent. But the rule necessarily ceases
with the organization of the new govern
ment. The members elected to the Leg
islature, and to other offices created by
the new constitution, will hold their places
by force of that instrument long after the
State shall have been restored to the
Union.
If the requirements of the reconstruc-
ton acts are strictly complied with, no
restriction upon the right to hold Office
win be enforced except what is provided
in the 18th amendment, which declares
that "No person shall be Senator or
" Representative in Congress, or Elector
"of President and Vice-President, or hold
"any Office, civil or military, under the
United States, or under any State, who
chad previously taken an oath as a men,
"ber of Congress, or as member Of any
.'State Legislature, or as an executive or
Judicial Office of any State, to support
the Constitution of the United States,
"shall have engaged in instruction or
rebellion" &c.
Thus, in the contemplation of the act
of Congress, no person is to be excluded
from any State Office who did not take an
oath to support the Constitution of the
United States, in some one of the capaci-
ties named, previous to engaging in hos
tilities to the United States, no matter
what military or civil employment he may
have had in the service of the Confed-
eracy.
If contrary to the intention of Con-
gress, its restrictions are exceeded in the
constitutions framed for the new govern
ments of the Southern States, those pro-
visions will be the measure of the qualif-
cation of incumbents Of Office, and not
the will of the District Commander, who
will have no more authority to decide the
eligibility of members of the first Legis-
slature under the new government than of
the Legislature to be elected a century
hence.
This much was conceded even by the
Committee of Five, who in their Procla-
nation of November 3rd, announcing the
success of the Buzzard Eggleston ticket
and constitution, graciously admitted the
election of number of members to the
Legislature who had served in the Con-
federate army.
We are not inclined to believe that the
District Commander Of Mississippi will
follow the arbitrary example of the Vir-
ginia autocrat; but it will be well for our
people to reflect upon the possibility of
such freak, and to be prepared for the
emergency. Steps will be taken to ascer-
tain his views in advance, so that the peo-
pie may be prepared to shape their action
accordingly in the selection of candidates
for the various officers to be filed
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What GEN. Ames haas Discovered
Gen. Ames knows one thing, and that
is, that the schemers- of the Eggleston
Clique will not do to be trusted At
their instance, he expelled DIR. Catchings
from the Office Of Probate Judge of Ran
kin county, an experienced legislator and
sagacious statesman who is capable of
filing the highest Office in the gift of the
State, and who had accepted the Office
from which he was removed solely to
crafty his neighbors of Rankin county.
Gen. Ames knows that the schemers
gave him pledge that they would IRE
construct" the Executive Committee" of
the Eggleston party; and he has found
out that they only shuffied over again the
same old deck with which they had been
playing their tricks from the beginning.
They deceived him by using the
name of Mr.. Niles, of Alfalfa, who is
known to be Republican of as liberal
views as Judge Jeffords, Col. Warner,
Col. Norman, Judge Field, or Capt
Speed, and who has exposed the decep-
ton by publishing that he has never had
any association or utilization whatever with
the Committee" who have used his name
without his knowledge or consent and
against his wishes.
Inexperienced, as Gen. Ames was, in
the arts of political management which
he ought never to have undertaken as an
officer appointed to execute the law as It
stands, and to know no party or clique
in the performance of his duty, 1t was
not to have been expected that he would
entirely escape the snares laid for him by
these wolves in Sleeps clothing. He has
now ascertained by experience, the de-
ceiptful game they are playing and has
commenced to correct the errors into
which they have betrayed him, as evidenced
by his restoration of Weston in Holmes (;
by his removal of Jamison and Woodman-
see; and his appointment of Brill in
Harrison.
Having freely censured him for going
beyond the intentions of even Radical
Congress in the matter of removals and
appointments as testified by his own adj
missions implied in the retractions referred
to, we cheerfully place these acts to his
credit, and do accept them as omens that
he will yet prove himself to be the just
and upright man the people. of State took
him to be in the beginning. And let him
not suspect by this commentator, that
we seek a partizan advantage. We only
ask fair play. We are not in condition
to aspire to a mere partizan triumph in
this election which has reference to State
issues entirely
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We have just learned from good au-
thority, that the District Commander has
removed A. J. Jamison from the office
of Probate Judge, and J. B. Woodman-
see, from the Office of Probate Clerk of
Chickasaw county. Jamison was the can
didate for Lieutenant Governor on the
Fggleston ticket for Governor, last year,
and Woodmansee was a candidate for the
Legislature, and both were proclaimed"
by the COMMITTEE OF FIVE to have been
elected. The District Commander thought,
however, that as Congress had not been
gracious enough to force them on the peo-
pie at the point of the bayonet, conform
ably to the fervent prayer of the Com
mittee ofSixteen, they should not 90 with
uot their reward. But suddenly the scales
have dropped from his eyes. He has dis
covered that the verdict of THE PEOPLE
against them was right; and convinced
of his error, he has retraced his steps.
Now, having taken a start in the right
direction, let him re-establish himself in
public confidence by promptly correcting
all his mistakes. He must have seen
that the Eggleston Clique are bad ad-
visers, and that If their counsels are fol-
lowed longer, will wreck him inevitably.
Let him make haste to restore tothe place
which they filed acceptably to all the peo-
pie, white and black, Catchings, of Ran
kin county; let him restore Hopkins, of
Claiborne; Morris, of Carroll Rogers.
OF DeSoto; Gee, of Calhoun; McClov,
Of Hinds-all good men and true, who
were not embraced in the classes designed
for prescription even under the harsh
law which he is administering.
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In reply to proposition of the South
ern Journal, that the Press Association
of this State be convened, in order to
make arrangements for paying a visit s'to
our brethren of Illinois," Mr.. Signiago,
of the Grenada Sentinel, President of the
Association, replies that such meeting
would be impracticable, and that the visit
itself would not be expedient, inasmuch
as it is proposed to be made in the midst
of the political contest, when the labors
of the editorial fraternity viii be needed
at home.
There is another reason against the
proposition, which to our mind, ought to
be conclusive. And it is, that no invita-
ton has been extended by our ssbrethren"
aforesaid. and the visit to them would
be like the intrusion Of poor relations.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-07-01

The latest intelligence from Virginia is
embodied in the following dispatch
kilograms from Virginia say that consid-
cradle excitement and interest were mani
Tested to-day over several nominating con-
ventions for Congress. The probabilities
are that the Constitution will be adopted,
and the test oath and Acknowledgement
clauses be defeated. Both parties claim that
their State ticket will be successful; but
unless a fatal apathy prevails among the
white population, Walker will be elected
and the most proscriptive Of the Radical
candidates for Congress defeated. The man
ner In which the State has been gerryman-
dered will most probably give the LegIsla-
ture into the hands Of the Radicals.
We repeat our apprehensions of defeat
in Virginia, under the influence of the
same causes which have placed the
other Southern States under the proscrip-
tive rule oftheir enemies-viz.; APATHY"
and "dignifed sullenness" by the mass
of resident white voters. They viii see
their error as it has been seen in Arkan-
sas and elsewhere, when too late.
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1t is a complaint Of the RAIDS, that the
whites object to giving employment to
loyal leaguers who have taken an oath to
deprive them of their political rights. =
And yet, these same worthless have In
fueneed the District Commander TO ex-
pei from office every man, whether Re
publican or Conservative who is not in
full accord with them. In the eyes of
these worthless, it is a monstrous crime
for citizen to refuse to contribute to the
support of man who is confederatino
with his avowed enemies in depriving him
Of his inalienable right to participate in
the legislation of his country; but it is
entirely proper for the Radical Comman-
der to eject from Office a worthy and ca
pable man because he does not advocate
the heresies Of the Radical extremists.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-07-01

We will venture to say that there is not
man, woman, or child in Kinds county,
outside of the Eggleston ring here in
Jackson, who will not bear cheerful testi-
mony to the following statement in refer
ence to the late Sheriff, Col. McCloy. A
firm Republican, he had, nevertheless de
ported himself, in his public and private
capacities as Registrar, Sheriff, and citi-
zen, to command the confidence and respect
ofall parties. His qualification was univer-
sally acknowledged, and his integrity un-
impeached.
To the conduct Of such men much is
due for the removal of the aspersities en-
gendered by the war. His expulsion is
the more extraordinary, since his place
has been assigned to a mere STRIPPING
from Western New York, who has just
carpet-bagged into the State, and has
neither interest nor acquaintance among
the people ovre whom he has been placed.
VIII not the District Commander, follow
ing his own example in the case Of Col.
Weston, who, like Col. McCloy, was re-
moved under bad influences, retrace his
steps in this instance?
REMOVAL OF Cor. McCLoY .---Official notice
was received at the Probate Clerks office, in
this place, on Friday evening last, of the reno
val, by Gen. Ames, of Col. JOS McCloy, from
the Office of Sheriff of this County. Colonel
McCloy was in the Federal army throughout
the war, and settled in this County, plan
ter. at its termination. AS "A citizen, he has
conducted himself with marked propriety, and
has won the esteem and friendship of all who
fave had intercourse with him. As Sheriff Of
the County, we have never heard whisper to
his disparagement Certainly, the affairs of
the Sheriff : office in this town, were never in
a more satisfactory condition than under the
administration of Col. McCloy and his reno
val is regretted by our citizens in body. Col.
McCloy received his appointment from Gen.
Gillem, about twelve months ago.-Raymond
Gazette
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ANOTHER GOOD ACT OF GEN. AMEs.
The Central Star announces that the
District Commander has reinstated Col
Weston whom he had removed from the
office of Sheriff of Holmes county. Col.
Weston was an appointee of Gen. Gillem
had made an unexceptionable officer
and being a Republican, but liberal one,
his removal could have been attributable
only to the Vaccinations of the leaders
of the Eggleston Clique, the same set of
Low-Downers who managed to effect the
expulsion of DR.. Catchings in Rankin
Capt. Rogers in DeSoto-Capt. Morris in
Claiborne-Mr. Hopkins in Claiborne
Col. McCloy in Kinds, and other able
and worthy incumbents who filed the
Offices they occupied in the interest of the
people and not of Ciques.
Let Gen. Ames, having thus set the
example of restoring men to Office who
have been removed without cause, follow
up the work and thereby restore himself
to the confidence of the true Reconstruc-
ton people of Mississippi. He has now
found out what miserable deceivers the
leaders OF the Eggleston Clique are, and
he has ascertained moreover that the con-
servatives are seeking no political advan-
tages. All they hope to achieve, is fair
and honest reconstruction of the State
strictly in accordance with the plan of
Gen. Grant, viz: with ga constitution
''that will secure the civil and political
'rights of all the citizens of the State"
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Southern Agriculture.

The editor Of the ST. Louis Rural
World, in publishing the result of his OBJ
servations in "the cotton region" during
recent trip down the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad, makes the subjoined comments
on the system of agriculture generally
pursued in the States named. An OK
cuse for the defective implements used in
agriculture is found in the impoverished
condition to which most farmers were re-
duced by the war. But there is no apol-
ogy except such rs is found in the natural
propensity Of man TO slothfulness, and
proneness TO follow the beaten track, for
the imperfect method of preparing the
soil for planting. Says the writer:
agriculture in Alabama, Mississippi ana
Tennessee, IL being carried on In the most
primitive style. We believe not a single im-
provement has, as yet, been made, and the
labor is being done by the same class of OPP
eratives and with the same tools as before
the war. We saw no field, that we now re-
member, that was being or had been tho
roughly plOwed. Generally a man would
enter the field with his mule and "A small
one-hoTse pillow, and taking the last years
ridges of corn or cotton for his guide, would
throw up ridge between the rows; this
would be leveled a little and then planted 10
corn or cotton-the unplowed strip being
cultivated during this season. IL Is not 70
be wondered al that the result Of such tillage
is not always satistactory-the wonder Is,
that they have any crops at all besides the
other error Of requiring four hands 20 Cpcr-
ate with four plows and four mules. Sup
posing the planters should take good gang
plOw, and first pillow the entire field-oHc man
could operate this and the four mules would
all be hitched up 10 one plow. Next, lay of
the entire field, and take good corn planter
and two hands, with good team OF mules, |
could plant in the best possible manner from |
twelve to fifteen acres, Off as now, in /
drills tMentY acrcs Of corn per dnN.n
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]
The people Of Mississippi must remem-
Der that they are on the verge of a Water
loo struggle with the-desperate adventur-
ers, whose policy is to disfranchise large
number of her citizens. They must remem-
Der that the same faction that dictated
the proclamation of the Committee of
Five, announcing that the rejected Con-
stitution had been adopted, and that the
ticket identified and defeated with it had
been elected, is is still in the field, bent
on their diabolic purposes. 1t is under
the lead of the same men, and its edicts
are issued through the same committees.
The Committees of Five" and 'eSix-
teen," and the State Executive Com
mittee" of the selfsame clique, are still
busily at work
1t is by the dictations of this faction.
that Southern Loyalists-that soldiers of
the Northern army-that Confederates
whose disabilities have been removed
are expelled from Office, not because they
cannot qualify under the law of 1862,
but because they are in favor of the Grant
doctrine of securing civil and political
rights to white men outside of the LOYAL
Leagues, as well as to white men and
black men who are inside of those sane
tuaries of political tyranny and prostitu-
ton.
The conspirators profess their willing
ness to vote against the proscriptive
clauses which they placed in the Consti
tuition, and which viii be marked ont
by Gen. Grant; but they are making
these professions under compulsion, and
when once lodged in power, they will
practice the most hideOus despotism ever
devised by tyrants to attain the ends OF
malice and revenge They profess mod
Grafton, but they are even now practising
prescription far beyond the requirements
of the rejected Constitution Witness
the prescription of such men as Catchings,
and Hopkins, and Rogers, and McCloy.
and Fisk, and Gee, and Morris. whose
removal was not requiredsby the acts of |
thorough Republican Congress, but the
DEGREES of the Committees representing
the extreme Radical faction known as the
Eggleston party.
1t will be idle to purge the Constitution |
Of its Objectionable features, if you per-
init the Extremists to triumph, who win |
practise proscriDtion N, administrator The
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-07-01

NIRGINIA.-Later accounts have some
what dispelled the apprehensions We in
dulged of defeat in the Old Dominion IN
consequence of divisions among the con-
servatives on the question of ratifying the
expurgated constitution. They have adj
ded considerably to their numbers in the
new registration. Besides, we note that
Ex-Gov. Smith, Stuart, Baldwin. Goode,
Flournoy, BOcock, Staples, Gems. KEN
per, Early, Mosby, and other trusted men
of the THE PEOPLE have taken the
stump for Walker, the. candidate of the
Conservative Republicans-the Conserv-
alive nominee, Col. Withers, having with
drawn.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-07-01

ANOTHER COOP TURN The removal
of Jamison and Woodmansee are not the
only things we are permitted to place to
the credit of Gen. Ames. We are per-
mitted to state, on good authority, that
he has appointed to the office of Probate
Judge of Harrison county, Mr.. Jno. Brill,
a decided Conservative and Democrat, at
that, contrary to the remonstrances of the
Bitter-Enders, and on the recommends
ton of moderate Republicans and Con-
servatives, who have assured him of his
capability and his acceptability to the peo-
nile
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Hon. Jason NmEs.-We reiterate
that the call Of the Eggleston Clique for
a Convention of the DISTINGUISHES, on
the first July, over the name of this gen
tleman, is BOGUS. Mr.. Niles has pub
lished that he has no association, what
ever. with the Committee :" that he has
attended none Of its meetings, and that
his name was used as Chairman without
his knowledge or consent" and "against
his wishes" There is no excuse for this
unauthorized appropriation of Mr.. Niles
name, except the desperate straits to
which the DISTINGUISHES have been
driven.
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CARPET.BAGGERs' PLAT.
FORM.

PRoscRIPTIoN.-In proof of which, see
Franchise clause. No. z, OF the Eggleston
Constitution, permanently establishing test
oath excluding from suffrage and holding
office large class of capable and meritori
Gus citizens irrespective of party, who are
nevertheless saddled with the burthens of
government. Consequently it means:
Disfranchisement;
Class Legislation;
Exclusive privileges;
TaXation WITHOUT Representation.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-07-01

1t is refreshing to turn from the dis
gushing twaddle of prejudiced men and
craven demagogues in regard to the causes
Of the war, to the statesmanlike EXPOSE
ton which is contained in the unanswera-
BILE letter of the Hon. A. H. Stephens
published elsewhere. As a vindication
of the truth of history and an appeal to it
from the current slang of ignorant and
time-serving partizans, North and South,
it is invaluable.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-07-01

The party of EgglestOn, Gibbs q Co,
are to hold their Convention in this city
on Thursday. There will be a great
noise of Chinese gongs and tin-pan thun-
der after the fashion of the Mongrels, but
it will all amount TO nothing. 1t is a
familiar sound. We heard it last summer.
And again it was repeated when The
COMMITTEES made their attempt TO have
the rejected Constitution and candidates
forced on the State at the point of the
bayonet.
The Conservatives, undaunted, and
preserving their strength for the final
onset, when the ball is opened,
Will come as the winds come when forests are
rended,
Will come a. the waves come when nayics are
stranded.
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our PLATFORM.

"Such Constitution and Laws as viii effec-
.I1p nsorsons'GGen. arant's Messaoe nr II
7til, 1850.
Which means restoration OF civil govern
ment; no prescription universal amnesty
and Equal Rights before the law 10 all. de-
NAL of just &c TO none; no exclusive emol-
uments or privileges to any class; taxation
with representation.
And 70 the end that all persons, white an
black, rich and poor, may enjoy the full
benefits of free government, and the fruits
of their toll, we will add Low Taxes and
an economical government.
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KUN None but Eligible Men fDr
Office.

The occasion is opportune for the pub
ication of the following letter from Hon.
Mr.. Beck, Democratic Congressman from
Kentucky. More assiduously than any
other man in Congress did he labor TO
save our State from the humiliation and
wrong of the infection of the rejected
constitution and candidates on them and
now on the verge of another canvass. his
counsels deserve to be heard and needed
He warns Mississippians to elect no man
Congress who cannot take the iron-cIad
oath. All over our State there are mon
we can trust and would gladly support if
relieved of their disabilities, but if thew
cannot take this oath, it is a waste of
time and strength, and loss of opportu-
nifty to elect them. We repeat, let rs
work for the attainment of practical ends
now. Let ambition sleep; and let the
generous patriot bide his time:
WASHINGTON, March 18th. 1850.
DEAR SIR Inability to take the oath of
July, 1862 is as complete bar to takino n
seat IN Songress as disability to hold Office
UNDER the fourteenth amendment. You
ought to be specially careful to select men
whose disabilities have been removed or
who can take the oath, (so-caIled.1 a. Il IL
not improbable in this stage of progress flat
All votes cast for person Ineligible under
% me Ia" Oh 1861 or the amendment are
thrown away, as much so as If cast for
woman or boy, and that the Contestant IL
July elected. would not run anv risk on
that question. would rather send even an
inferior man than have the question made. |
knowing this Congress as do. --->-S'
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NATIONAL REPUBLIcAN.-We are in.
formed that Messrs. McCloy Il Co, have
issued prospectus for new journal to
be published with this title, in this city,
and to be devoted to the advocacy of the
doctrines promulgated by the moderate
in their Convention of the
23d inst.
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A correspondent informs the American
Entomologist that by burying few slices
OF onions In ants nests, he has caused
them to abandon their quarters. The same
paper learns from the horticulturists that
two or three table spoonsfull Of kerosene,
used IN the same way, viii produce the