The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-12-16
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The failure of the white people to take
an active part in the late election, tells
the story of the Radical success. The
same reports come to us from all parts of
the State The fernando Press states
that thirteen hundred whites in DeSoto
county did not 90 to the polls. AT least
fifteen hundred staid away in Tishomingo
Probably a thousand in Tippah. Two
hundred in Rankin. Several hundred
in Madison Hundreds in Kinds Very
many in Harrison, and 50 on throughout
the State.
This strange non-action Of masses Of in
| telligent voters, was due to several causes
and though variant, operated upon differ
emf minds, but produced the same result
LIST. THE INFLUENCE OF THE FEDERAL
ADMINIsTRATToN.-By many it was be-
lieved that the Presidential election Of
last year, was decisive of the result in
this State. The success of the Radicals
foreshadowed the inscriptions use Of the
power Of the federal head to reorganise
her government in their interest. With
the whole machinery of the election
welded by the hands Of despotism, the
undertaking was of e.lsy accomplishment.
The attempt Of the Conservatives to re-
struggle, by pledges OF strict compliance
with the reconstruction acts, and by the
nomination Of a State ticket composed
chiefly of Republicans, having for its
! head a member of the household of the
President, failed The plan was well
| conceived, as it was honestly meant, but
it did not avail to conciliate the proscrip-
tive partizans who diet ate the policy Of
the President, and the original plan Of
the Proscriptive Radio ais to have the
State government, REQ rganized by that
party, or not at all, was remorselessly ex-
ecuted The represents tons which were
made to the Washington authorities Of
the corrupt and unscrIpulous manage
ment of the Military Commander, con
frmed them in the opin ion that be was
the proper man for the place. Discour-
aged bv these evidences OF the purpose OF
those who had the power to do as they
wished, to carry the election In the Radi-
cal interest at all hazards, and at any
cost, thousands Of voters stood aloof and
refused 10 act a part in what they hon
estly regarded as Il mere mOckery of an
election.
2nd. For THE CONs TTrUTIoN. The
army of non-actionists r eceived large ac-
cessions from a class of persons who were
unwilling to vote If or" a constitution
which they opposed ! Nth all the vehe
mence of cordial detest; "a ton in the pre-
vious election. The offspring of corrup-
ton, and born of proscr iption, they re-
garded it as intrinsically unclean and
could not be persuaded to touch it, di
vested of its most objectio nable features.
To these classes were joi ned others who
were influenced by entirely different con-
siderations but whose decision was
equally fatal to a Conserv atiye triumph.
Wearied with the condit ion of military
misrule and anarchy to Shich the State
had been reduced and anxious for the
restoration of civil authority, they were
induced to believe that reconstruction
would be more speedily accomplished
through the success the Radical Repub
lican State and Compression al tickets, than
of their opponents, who tn ough claiming
to he Republicans, were loo ked upon with
disfavor by the Administration. The
of Gen. Alcol II who had no
motive of revenge to satisfy against peo-
pie to whom he had been indebted for
signal marks of confidence when they
took the decisive step of secession, and
again at the close of the war, and who
had consented to become the leader of the
Radicals on the platform of his own die
tation, of Universal Amnesty and Uni
versal Suffrage, and would accept the
position on no other-strengthen them
in this belief and confrme / them in their
inclination to become mac tive observers
of the contest, and in som cases even to
gravitate to the Extremists.
These are the leading causes of the
great Radical victory. Il will be useless
to speculate on its fruits Time will soon
reveal them.