The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-06-24

why fhe CarPet-Baggers OBJeca 90
Jabge Demf-
The carpet baggers' organ, the Pilot,
has emphatically rejected Col. Nelson's
proposition to compromise our Disputes
here in Mississippi by uniting on Judge
Dent as a candidate for Governor.
The objections of the Pilot are curious
enough. 1t SAYS Judge Dent is not ut 10
be supported for the office on the ground
that he was s'exiled from his home for
being a rebel sympathizer during the
sEwar." And secondly, that he is mot a
citizen of the State" To the first objec-
tons it may be answered, that if Gen.
Grant who is the accredited representa-
tive of the s'truly loyal" sentiment of the
country, could afford to confer high office
on Gen. Longst=eet, who was the right
arm of Gen. Lee, and did entertain seri-
Gus thought Of appointing him in his
Cabinet, the '1oyalty" of Mississippi
could not be successfully impugned if she
should elect ''rebel sympathiser to be
her Chief Magistrate.
Besides, how is the Pilot to reconcile
Its support of Marshall Ney" for Gov
ernor, who voted for the ordinance of Sc
cession and accepted service in the army
of Mississippi against the Union-who en-
listed troops for the Confederacy and
would, as his home organ stated the other
day, have accepted Generalship in the
Confederate army if it had been rendered
how, we ask, can the carpet-bag organ
reconcile these facts with its objection to
Judge Dent, for the reason that he was
simply a rebel sympathiser?"
The second objection on the score of
citizenship, coming from the representa-
tive of the carpet-bag adventures, is the
sublime of efrontery. If~the Old Boy
rebuke Sin, his assurance is modesty
compared to the impudence of the
carpet-bagger who finds occasion
to object to person holding
office in our State ON the ground of not
being a citizen! Under carpet-bag dicta-
ton many offices have been conferred up
on persons who have not resisded in the
State week. 1t was the carpet-bag
Committees who procured the application
Of the iron-clad test TO Mississippi, and
who defeated the bill removing political
disabilities. At least, the public has
high Republican authority for SO believ-
ing.
Judge Dent, unlike the knights of the
carpet-bag, has large interests in the
State-has spent much Of his time here
since the war-cOnsiders himself in the
true sense of the word, one of her people
and did them great service on a memora-
bic occasion which they cannot soon for
get. If they are willing to trust him, We
do not see why the adventures of the
fraternity who according to
their organ are 'IesS than one thousand"
of the whole population of Mississippi,
unless it be that the arrangement would
interfere with the qualification of their
ravenous appetites for public plumber.
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The Pilot, carpet-baggers' organ, woos
the liberal Republicans half coax
ingly, half threateningly. In one breath
it calls chem ''bolters" and E'Judases,
and in another tells them that if they will
take up their abode in the house of the
Eggleston Clique, ''the best robe and the
fatted calf shall be in waiting for them.
1t absurdly argues that there is no occa-
sion for difference between the liberal
and the Clique; and yet it
has denounced the Circular of the for
mer, promulgating the doctrine of
Peace" and arraigning the Clique and
its Committee" for their malefactions,
in the most violent terms. The difference
between the Clique and the Liberals dis
played itself in the INSCRIPTIONS attempt
of the former to dragon them in the sup
port of the Ubiquitous measure devised by
the Committee of Five to place the State
under the rejected constitution. The au-
thors of the Circular" were arraigned
by the Eggleston Clique through its or
gans in Mississippi and by the Committee
Of Sixteen before Congress. The Chair
man of the Executive Committee made
oath that they were acting outside of the
Republican party in opposing the iniqui-
ious programme; and the war thus in
augurated has been prosecuted with un-
ferocity until the gently wooing
expedient was essayed in the Pilot of Fri
lay. The difference between the Liberal
and the DISTINGUISHES in
his State is the same that exists between
the Walker and Wells party in Virginia;
between Senter and Stokes in Tennessee;
and between Hamilton and the Bitter
Enders in Texas. 1t is the difference be- |
-ween Magnanimity and Revenge-be-
tween Justice and Tyranny = between
Honesty and Fraud-between Peace and |
Contention.
1t may be proper to state that the form
II Probate Judge of Calhoun county who |
his Office. under the operation
IF the iron-clad test which the Committee
If Sixteen procured to be applied to Mis-