The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-07-01
The Success of ahe 1Eevenmema 0f ahe
Liberal epubIfcans---so Var.

Liberal RepabIicans---8o Par.
We viii naught extenuate nor set down
aught in malice in regard 10 the Gonven-
ton of the Liberal Republicans Cor, n<
they have styled themselves in their plat
form, THE NATIONAL UNION REPUB-
LIcANs,) which met in this city on the
23d Undeniably, it was SUCCESS. 1t
was success in the numbers, respecta-
bility, talent, and solid material which
composed it and, above all, a success in
making deep and broad the line which
separates their organization from the sell
fish, grovelling, and diabolieal spirit of
Prescription which distinguishes the poll
cy of the Egglesten faction of extreme
Radicals, and in marking out path to
the restoration of our relations to the
Union, in the most conciliatory, just, and
peaceful method compatible with strict
adherence to the reconstruction laws.
Advocating the restoration of the State
to the Union, on the basis of Gen. Grants
recommendation of Constitution that
viii secure the civil and political rights of
all, the platform of the Convention de-
tracts nothing from those acts, nor does
it add to their requirements. On the con-
trary, planting itself upon the rock which
underlies true republican government,
the Convention recognises the fact that
after years of vexatious turmoil and
wasting strife, every citizen who is faith
full to his pledge of allegiance, and not
convicted of crime, should have his po-
litical disabilities removed, and be per-
mitted to take part in the legislation of
the country.
1t is needless to say, that with men
who advocate this magnanimous policy,
which was unquestionably indicated by
Gen. Grant when he defeated the scheme
of the Eggleston party to force the re-
jected constitution and candidates on our
people, and in his special message to Con-
gress, embodying the liberal sentiment
which we have deemed worthy to place at
the head Of our columns, we can have no
cause of quarrel.
When the authors of these resolutions,
Republicans though they be, declare for
Enfranchisement and against Proscrip-
ton, we know they mean what they say.
They are following the path which they
marked out when they repudiated the
scheme of the Committee of Five to force
the constitution on the State-when they
refused to obey the behests of the packed
Convention of November 25th, and amid
tempests of abuse, FASTENED to Washing
nation of that political scheme of I'M
paralleled wickedness and atrocity. We
Will no more repel their effort now IN the
way of recognizing our State on the most
terms consistent with the ar
bitrary measures of Congress, than we
repeled them in the brave effort which
they successfully made to deliver our
State from the Ubiquitous schemes of THE
COMMITTEES before Congress, after the
defeat of the Eggleston Constitution by
the people. Our necessities are as dire
now as they were then. The wolves that
hover around US, are ravenous now, as
they were then. The fangs of the vipers
are as sharp, and their poison is as dead
ly. Their designs are as fatal to the
liberties, peace, prosperity, and happiness
of the people of the State, now as they
were then.
Differing, as we do, in our political re-
lations, so far as they refer to national
party organization, from these Liberal
Republicans, but agreeing with them in
the main object to have our State restored
to her civil and political rights, on the
basis Of a generous forgetfulness of the
past, and cheerful hopefulness of the
future" with malice for none, and chart
ty for all-(but those who are prosecuting
our oppressed and suffering countrymen,)
with all our hearts we bid them good
speed to the end of the goal for which
they have set out.