The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-09-23

Remarl<s Of Hon. w. p. HARRIS
We copy below verbatim report 0
the eloquent and conclusive remarks o
Hon. w. p. Harris at the recent meet
ing of Union Republicans and Conserve
tives in this city, In favor of supporting
the ticket headed by Judge Dent:
Mr.. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN:
L obey the call made upon nae, 50 far as 4
say just a word or two. / have made up MI
mind, and 1t did not take me long to make i
up, to support the nominees of the Nationa
Republican Convention without ifs or ands
and without any mental reservation Whit
ever.
i want civil governments government
responsible to the people over whom it il
erected, and a government OF that liberia
cast which will reconcile us all, black anC
white, to each other, and at the same time
reconcile us cordially to the government and
people of the United States. In my opinion
the success Of these nominations will secure
these happy results, and looking over the
political field, see nothing else that will.
l care not what complexion may take
or what political character may be impress
ed on me by this Sep. am resolved TO take
it, impelled by strong sense OF duty to the
State, and under the conviction that 1t is de-
manded by the necessities of our condition.
IL is of little consequence whether be call
ed Republican, Wing, or Democrat. Give
us good government, . responsible govern
ment; give US men to administer it who will
administer it, not for themselves only, but
tor the whole people, and then call me what
you please.
L am for giving aid and comfort to the
Boilers, so-ealled, in derision. Boilers, for
sooth? Boilers from what and to what ?
that is the question To borrow Mr.. Web
ster's idea, we must look at the terminus a
quo and the terminus ad QUEEN. What did
they bolt from? Did they bolt from the
Republican party Mol Did they bolt from
the Administration of Gen. Grant? No !
Did they bolt from their principles? mol
Then what was it, Mr.. Chairman, they bolted
from? They bolted from that proscriptive
and abominable constitution now the abb
hored object of general exeeration, and the
attempt in violation of the freedom of cleo
ton, to impose 1t upon an unwilling people,
rapacity which bound thousands of inteili-
gent white voters, hand and foot, in order
that they might be incapable of offering re-
sistance to the schemes of plumber and OPP
preston which that constitution was plain
ly designed TO foster and uphold. They
bolted as the Isralites bolted from Egypt
from making bricks with straw-as the Pill
grim fathers bolted from England and intol-
erance, as our revolutionary ancestors bolted
from the Stamp Act.
Their boiling is likely to be memorable
and honorable in our annals. They were
the pioneer boilers, but soon large colony
of boilers clustered around them. First
and chief amongst them was an illustrious
man, General Grant, the President of the
United States. He boltsd from that consti-
tuition, and if l may be pardoned for poor
play upon words, he proved to be thunder
boiler, and brought to his side Ben Butler
of Massachusetts, chairman of the recon-
struction committee. He bOlted from that
and then followed the recon-
committee itself, and then follow
ed the Congress of the United States. They
repudiated it. Lastly, the adherents of it
say they bolted from it. That would have
been wrong. They were shaken violently
from it, ana followed with disconnected and
aspect at distance, remote, un-
melancholy. Slow" and just here
Mr.. Chairman, is the secret of the persecu-
tons which have been instigated against The
men composing the liberal Republican Or
ganizatien. The adherents of that execra-
BILE constitution, saw these men standing
immovably between them and the golden
hopes and bright visions, which their close
erected by their constitution, in
spired. They feel as all men feel who are
foiled in an unworthy enterprise. They ex-
perience the humiliation of being compell- |
ed to condemn their own work and to APP
plaud what the boilers have done, and they |
have not and will not forgive them for this |
and this modification.
Now, therefore, let US give to these pio- |
neer ssbolters'' who struck out boldly from |
and oppression to tree con-
'titution and Universal Amnesty and Uni |
Tersal Suffrage, our support as men who |
the torch from the hands of incen- |
liaries. Let us sustain them by that great |
Effort which we were prepared to make, and |
we're willing to make TO escape the calamity |
which they contributed to avert.
While am up 1 propose to make clean |
breast of it. intend to sustain the admin
stration of General Grant, by the means |
'egarded as the most effectual, and that is |
Sy assisting to elect his truest friends to rep
resent US in Congress, and, to the chief off, |
les of the State, and such / take to be the |
majority of the gentlemen on the ticket of |
he National Republican party, In view of |
very responsibility have come to this con-
,lusion. 1t is the certain solution of our |
difficulties. 1t will reconcile all antago-
lisms, put an end to strife, give us a free |
Ind liberal government-restoratio to our |
political rights and peace.