The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-03-25

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tails is more painfully evident
than to journalists. 1t reveals
itselfto them in a thousand dis
gusting methods Tin all sorts of
people) of which the outside |
public know nothing. Sometime |
or other, we viii devote a special
chapter to this subject.
Our present object is merely TO
make brief mention of the recent
attempt of the negro politician
preacher Lynch in this line, and
to draw a lesson from it. The mat
ter is not intrinsically worth the
space we have given to it, but
we have done so for the purpose
of a remark on the circumstance
out ofwhich has grown his charge
of attempted assassination which
has been telegraphed to the four
ends of the Union to the unspeak-
able horror of Radicaldom.
His story is that three shots
were fred while he was holding
meeting in the Court House OF
Lexington, around or about the
building. One of the three shots,
he says, entered the window near
his head, and the evidence OF the
charge is that a pane of glass
was found broken the next morn
ing. OF the range of the other
shots nothing whatever is said,
but the inference from his own
statement is that they were fired
at random.
His whole story bears the marks
of absurdity. What assassin
would fire one shot to kill, and
two other shots in the air simply
for the fun of shooting? Or if
the taking of life was seriously
meditated, is it probable that all
three shots would have missed
their object.
We are informed and do not
doubt the correctness of the infor-
nation, that the whole thing was
was a prank played by mischiev
Gus boys without the remotest
intention of doing Lynch the least
bodily injury. The gun-shots
were the harmless explosions Of
boys playthings and the assas-
sins were like Falstaff's foemen,
men in buckram. Indeed there is
but one parallel to the ferocious-
ness of the assault, and the blood.
lessness Of the result, since the
adventure of Shakspeare's hero,
and that is the memorable raid of
Sharkey, Wharton and Potter on
the COMMITTEE of Five" while
they were celebrating their orgies
in the Capitol last summer and
which has formed the staple OF
the most thrilling chapter in the
history of the rise, progress and
downfall of carpet-baggery in
this State.
AS it was necessary for Judge |
Sharkey to explain to the Com
mittee Of Congress the real OBJ
ject and character Of his visit to |
the rooms of the Committee of |
Five, which the ingenuity of Gibbs
u Company had fabricated into
a murderous assault, though no
body was hurt, SO it will be ne
cessary for the community of Lex
ington to vindicate themselves
from the grave accusations of
Lynch, which have been trans
mitted to Washington to form a
link in the chain of proof so much
sought after, that "free speech
and religious liberation do not
exist in Mississippi" and that,
her white people are
it not to be governed by
and honorable officers
If the United States army, who
would scorn to persecute them in
heir helpless condition, but to be
uled by Lynch himself and the
Ian of which he is a prominent
eader.
Our people are so intent on at {
to their own pursuits, and :
eek SO little of the doings and :
ayings of Lynch and his class,
hat, notwithstanding all the trials 6