The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-07-08

Dalneu Ieauefs OF the 1acuOHf VI ~ 4
Radicals, have in their desperation at
| tempted TO save themselves from crush
ing and final defeat by clinging to the
fortunes Of Gen. Alcorn. And strange
enough this melancholy wreck Of once
boz eful and not altogether unpromising
politician, prompted by Ike motive OF
solf-preservation has tied ON to that bank
rupt faction in the hope that ii VIII be the
means of lifting him from the Slough of
Despond And thus each of these bro
ken-down, jaded and spawned objects,
both too weak 10 stand alone, is trying to
ride the other.
This is a true picture of the relations
which subsist between the disreputable
and discarded Eggleston party and Cen
Alcorn. Both are insolvents waiting on
insolvency; and both must inevitably 60
to the bottom.
Personally we feel no unkindness to-
wards Gen. Alcorn. Indeed, we look
upon him more with sympathy than with
hate; but if we had been his enemy, we
could wish him no luck worse than the
speech which he delivered in the Radical
Pandemonium, on Thursday night. He
succeeded in pleasing nobody, and in dis
satisfying everybody. Gen. Acorn was
the burthen of his song; and his main
object seemed 10 be to post up his own ac-
count of Good and Evil. And though
he seemed perfectly happy summing him
self in the light of his own history, the
audience had evidently concluded long
before he had finished that Evil had a
large balance to its credit.
As he has been everything by turns,
and nothing long, his speech was neces-
sarily disjointed affair. He said many
bitter things to please the Low Down
Radicals and TO cater to the depraved
tastes of the wretched crew he addressed.
But in apologizing for his former sympa-
thy with the Confederate cause and de-
elaring that he voted for the ordinance of
secession and would have fought against
the old flag" to the death, if Mr. Davis
had given him something snug, he dis
gusted Tarbell, Stringer, 81 Co., beyond
degree They applauded his declaration
to the echo that he "rejoiced when the
flag of the Confederacy went down. >
But they found nothing to awaken COM
mendation in his admission that he HIM
self waSone of the very men who from
the dome Of the capitol of Mississippi
flung the same flag to the breeze and would
never have deserted it if (to use his own
language, } he chad been appointed Brig
adler General, or even Colonel in the
Confederate Army"
1t is hardly worth while to say that the
vaIorous General drove his spear into the
dead body of the ante-bellum Democra-
cy; that he took especial delight in pluck
ing his old crow with the ex-President of
the Confederacy-and that for two hours
his cauldron boiled and dubbed with
black spirits mingled with hays broth
He proved that he had been a Union
ist and a Secessionist.
That he had unfurled the Confederate
flag, and ''rejoiced when it went down."
That he had been for the 4th amend
ment and against it,
That he had supported the Eggleston
Constitution.
And for this the people of the State
could have forgiven him in the general
desire to let by-gones be by-gones, but
when he admitted that he had favored
the Ubiquitous scheme of the Committee
Of Five to have the constitution after it
had been righteously rejected and the
Fggleston candidates after they had
been Indignantly repudiated by the peo-
pie, forced upon them through Congress
sional agency, at the point of the bayo-
net, the cup of forbearance and forgive
ness was filled to overlooking.
In attempting to justify his vote for
secession, he disguised the Radicals to |
such degree that they were scarcely
compensated by the joy he expressed over
he downfall of the South.
1t is not necessary to describe the emo
ions which were awakened in the bosoms
If Southern men.
On the whole, the speech was a disap-
continent. 1t satisfied nobody but its
uthor We believe the RAIDS themselves
will now agree with the Conservatives, that
he only thing that can be done in de
'eney with him, is to hustle him off the
tage from public observation, and into
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