The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-12-09
TIE EFGTsLATTRE.

the knowledge we have been enabled to
obtain of the members. win be largely
composed of the same malignant stripe
which constituted the mongrel Conven-
ton of 1868 Many Of the same men
that devised that scheme of prescription
and afterwards endeavored by fraud and
corruption to impose it on the people,
have been returned to the Legislature.
Prominent among them we find the
names of Gibbs, Chairman of the Com
mittee of Five, and spokesman-in-chief OF
the Committee of Sixteen; Stringer,
(colored) the cunningest and most vim
dictive Of all that class of ambitious adj
venturers who dissatisfied with what
nature has done for them are seeking to
be revenged on the whites and have
sought Mississippi as a field of operation !;
Newsom, (colored) Caldwell, (colored)
Henry Mayson, (eolored) Mygatt, Clarke,
Sites, (colored) johnson, (colored)
Stewart, (colored) Morgan and Ballard.
To these names might be added others
which figured in the proceedings Of the
mongrel Convention. They have been
recruited BY large accessions from the
same class Of malignants and are known
only to our people as identified with the
policy of hatred, strife and prescription.
The months during which they were in
Convention, are bitter memory, and the
temperance of their familiar names,
cannot but revive the unpleasant scenes
with which they are associated. Beaten
in THEN attempt to disfranchise large
numbers of the people Of the State, they
protested in the late canvass, to have
abandoned the policy Of prescription and
made liberal declarations of their inten-
ton henceforth to promote peace and
substantially to advance the real interests
of the State. If this be their purpose,
there can be no motive in the mind Of
any good citizen to interfere with it by
pre-judging their acts With our backs
to the past, let US look to the future, and
adopt as our standard ofjudgment, the
good maxim Of Judging the tree by its
fruit.
Chased as Radicals, because they were
the candidates of the wing of Republicans
known as Bitter-Enders, are quite
number who judged by the ordinary
springs of human action cannot counten-
ance the revolutionary measures that
have marked the career Of the Radical
party in Arkansas, Tennessee and other
States in which it obtained temporary as
tendency They are Mississippians by
long residence in the State. They have
shared the prosperity Of her people, and
have been with them in the days of ad-
versity Some of them, in better times,
have been the recipients of favors from
the people they are now to represent in
her councils and it Is not to be supposed
that they will Intentionally add one feath
er's weight to the burthen Of sorrows that
aflict them. 1t is needless to mention
names. They are known to the public.
Some Of them, probably all, gave as a
reason for their utilization with the party
which elected them, that its leaders had
pledged themselves to conciliatory poll
CIV, and that having the favor of the Adj
its success would be the
shortest cut to the readmission of the
State into the Union upon just and lib
eral basis Their election is the signing
of the obligation which binds them, if
they are patriots and men of honor, to
make it good. They have laid their
hands upon the name of the ravening
wild beast of Radicalism and will prove
themselves benefaetors to long suffering
people if they should have the will and
the power to hold him in check