The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-09-16
TarbeIl's Statenena Of Mississippi
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The Radical Convention Of November
25th last, adopted an address to Congress
alleging that the people of Mississippi had
been guilty ''of every species Of Outrage
in order to defeat the DISTINGUISHING Con
stitution, and petitioning that it be impo-
sed upon them by Congress whether or
not, and that the Eggleston-Jamison tick
ct be declared elected.
From this atrocious scheme of the ma
iority, the Union Republicans "bolted, "
and here was formed the germ of their
organization on the liberal basis of Uni
versal Amnesty and Universal Suffrage.
The Malignants appointed a Commit
tee, consisting Of J. Tarbell, A. Mygatt,
A. Anderson, J. L. Aleorn and others 10
proceed to Washington and urge Congress
to execute the programme with dispatch.
Among the statements filed before the
Committee in support Of the scheme, We
find one from j. Tarbell, who advertises
himself as Secretary of the Republican
(Bitter-End) State Executive Committee;
and is the author of the July platform
of the Bitter-Enders--th same on which
they took refuge after their repulse by
Gen. Grant and Congress.
In another column we have reproduced
an instaIlment of this testimony 1t is
by the light of these declarations, that
the antiquities of the July platform are
made clear; and the real intent of its
author and endorsers revealed.
1t will be seen that the witness set out
with the calumnious accusation that the
election which defeated Disfranchisement,
was "a deliberately concocted fraud,
Through premeditated intimidation and
violence"
That he petitioned Congress to "Iatiiy'
the rejected Constitution; and that he
urged that body "to incorporate the test-
oath into it" Meaning, we infer, the IRON
clad oath, in addition to the proscriptiye
clauses original y. inserted.
That he deprecated the policy of "Uni-
versal Amnesty and Universal Suffrage
which he said would be the Demo
cratic platform in the event another cleo
ton was ordered, and ON which he pro-
phetically said the opposers of Proscrip-
ton could carry the State by $1,000 ma
jority.
Now, if Tarbell was in earnest when he
made this statement before the Recon-
struction Committee about the absolute
necessity Of incorporating the test-oath"
permanently into the Constitution, is his
July Platform to be interpreted as a con
tradiction of that statement? And if he
really thought Universal Suffrage and
Universal Amnesty, to be Democratic"
doctrine, how are we to believe the inter
prefers of his July platform who declare
that il means precisely that and nothing
else? Have the Bitter Enders appropr- !
ated Democratic" thunder; and all for
the sake Of being defeated according to
Tarbell logic, by fifty thousand majority ? |
But let the reader examine this strange
story of Tarbell about Mississippi politics
for himself. 1t will bring to light the
once open, and now thinly yelled purposes
of the DISTINGUISHES and emanating |
from the same source that produced the
July platform OF the AIalignants, to be
appreciated it should be studied in con
nection with that instrument.