The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-10-07


bearer of the Republican (RadicaD party
of the State, > now drawing to it, close,
was written on the 29th. The "hon"
actually sets out with roar gentle as the
cooling of the dove; but unable to main
tain the part, he soon puts on his fero-
cious nature and treats the opposers of
Radical domination, TO the smile Of ga
villain with a smiling check"
True to the spirit Of his Walker letter,
he charges them with faithlessness in
their professions to the colored men. All
this abuse, he levels at the Democratic
party" which he well knows has no ticket
in this canvass. In the canvass of last
year, that party was composed OF the en-
tire resident white population with the ex-
ception according to the Pilot Of 'less
than one thousand" carpet-baggers and
renegades. We will not consume space
to discuss the attitude Of the National
Democracy. 1t has no candidates in the
field, but it is well to say that it is not
true that their National Convention
of last year declared against uni
versal suffrage. 1t expressed no opinion
on the abstract question of suffrage. 1t
declared the reconstruction acts unconsti-
tutional, but in doing 90, it followed the
example of old Thad. Stevens himself,
H. Do+~o,, Go;,.+ e tLo. oJ1ona+as ~ a+or-
nal political damnation. But what have
the Union Republicans Of Mississippi to
do with the opinions of the Democracy Of
Ohio, Pennsylvania, etc? Certainly they
are not more responsible for the opinions
of men not of their faith, than the Bitter
Enders are responsible for the utterances
Of Senator Morton, the great Radical
leader of the West, who says that three
years ago forty-nine out of every fifty
Northern Republicans were opposed TO
the negroes voting in the South much less
the North. Or for the opinions of anoth
er Radical leader (Senator Trumbull,)
in 1867, that ''the Radicals want moth
ing to do with the negro. !; x The
Republican RADICAL party are the white
mans party" Or for the opinions Of
TARBELL, the Grand Secretary of the
Radical Committee, who said that t'negro
suffrage is a measure of the most stu
"pendous wildness, and humbug of this
cor any other day ?" These are all rep
men of Alcorn's party, and
vet we do not charge that they are actu-
ally opposed to negro suffrage. They are
willing for the negro to vote provided he
will use his suffrage to create aspoilsmen's
monopoly for the benefit of carpet-bag
and scalawags.
His reference to the Tennessee cleo
ton to illustrate the imputed 'faithless-
ness" of the victors over the Bitter-En-
ders in that State, is unfortunate. If he
had read the speech Of Mr.. Etheridge,
the great conservative leader, delivered
since the election, he would have known
that the whites in that State intend to
protect the colored men in their right to
vote. The sorrow that he never fails to
express whenever he opens his mouth, in
of the victoty which enfran-
ehised 100000 white citizens of that
State, has beclouded his ideas, and per-
verted his judgment. Moreover he pro-
fesses to have a knowledge of the inten-
tons of the Liberal Republicans which
the colored men of Tennessee themselves
have not obtained. They seem pleased
with the defeat of the Bitter Enders, and
confirmed in their purpose to oppose
them. At the very moment the brain of
Gen. Alcom was in the labor of this pro-
duction, the wires were conveying the
news that the Radicals were beaten-2, 800
votes in the Nashville election on the 18th,
and that even in that stronghold a major
ity of their eolored allies had abandoned
them
The Radical "standard-bearer" is very
sweet in his professions of the the willing
ness of his crew to secure the blessings of
a general amnesty" They want the
votes of the people, and their hope of
plumber are in deceiving them. But
what did the Committee of Sixteen of
which he was member, say to Congress
when they wanted the DISTINGUISHING con-
stitution forced on the people, last spring?
They insisted that nothing less than the
permanent incorporation into it of the
would suit them. Anything
short of it, they exclaimed, "would be
''a surrender to the Democracy-a sacri-
''ice of Republican (Radical) principles "
Ard to prove their earnestness, they de
flated the bill removing the disabilities of
a large class of our people, and procured
the passage of the resolution applying
the iron-clad test to every man elected to
office by the people of Mississippi.
The Radical standard-bearer promises
great things to the people in the way of
building railroads, and establishing pub
lie works. The means that will be left
to them after the adventures have filed
their carpet-bags-after they have proved
upon their treasury, plundered their es-
tates, and coniscated their lands-will
scarcely be sufficient to accomplish all
these wonderful results. Indeed, at the
end Of four years, they will be over-re-
joiced to know that they have been able
to keep soul and body together.