The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-08-26


gument Is against the Democratic
party" though he well knows that this
party is not III the field, neither rs il ex-
isted before the var nor as at present
composed of both the old parties combined
1t is not ON trial, and We are not to be
drawn from. the discussion of the vital
issues of the canvass into its defence.
The contest here, as in Virginia and
Tennessee, is between the Radical TX
tremists, as represented By the Eggieston-
Alcorn Clique, who framed the disfran-
chising constitution and gave their money
and time to have it forced by the bayonet
on the people after they had rejected it,
and the National Republicans, as sePre-
scented by Jefords, Warner, Field,
McCIoy, Adam, and others, who opposed,
the iniquitous project, and are the cham
pions of Universal Suffrage and Univer-
sal Amnesty, Equal Rights to all, and
Peace among men in deed as well as IN
word. The Democratic party has been
warned by the party which represents the
will of the nation, not to seek admission
into the Union with Democratic State
officers and Democratic Congressman, un-
der penalty of being kept under loathsome
and despotic Radical military rule, and
they have determined therefore to make
choice between these two contending par
ties, both Of which claim to be opposed to
Prescription, though one of them has
falsifed its declarations by endorsing the
intolerant rule and proscriptiye practices
of the Ames Administration.
Referring to the National Republicans
and their supporters, he charges that they
are attempting to deceive the freedmen ;
that they are not for Universal Suffrage
though they profess to be. This is a
beautiful charge to emanate from Alcora,
who now claims to be the simon-pure
champion of the rights of negroes, (but
who admits in this speech that he 'sop-
posed their freedom" against Messrs.
Jeffords, Warner and other Republicans
whose real offence to Alcorn, Ames q
Co., is not because they are not for con-
ferring suffrage ON the negro, but because
they will not enlist I'M a crusade against
the whites to the injury of both races.
Deception, forsooth. Didn't Tar
bell, of the Eggleston-Alcorn Executive
State Committee, publish, two years ago,
even after Congress passed its acts en-
franchising the negroes, that they were an
ignorant race, unfit for suffrage? And
what other use now have Tarbell & Co.
for the vote of the negro except as a
means of DISTINGUISHING the whites and
fastening themselves like leeches on the
treasury of the people,
In this speech, Aleorn, among other
absurd things, blames the people who have
had control of the State, for not securing
representation in Congress before now.
He says we ought to have obtained admis-
sion years ago. He has a personal griev-
ance. He did not get into the Senate.
In 1865 he published an address explain
ing why the State was rot admitted. In
that address he said the people had done
everything they honorably could, to secure
representation he extolled the Conserva-
tive Republicans and Northern Demo-
Gratis, and laid the whole blame at the
door of the ultra Radical party of Butler,
Boutwell, & Co., with whom he is now
consorting. He ungrateftllly kicks the
dead Lion to whom he then paid court,
and pays deferential homage to the vile
Beast whom he now supposes to be mas
ter of the situation.
With equal recklessness he says the dis
franehising constitution was adopted" by
the people and rejected" by Congress
and worse still, that the conservatives who
opposed Acknowledgement from the begin
ming, and who remained in the Conven-
ton of 1868, as long as they were permit
ted. to dos so, by the insolent mongrel crew
controlling it, without sacrifice of seffre-
spect, are to blame for the insertion of its
proscriptive clauses Is there any use
arguing with partizan who is desperate
enough to risk such statement? We
will simply content ourselves by holding
it up to public view, and commencing it
to the charitable consideration of certain
Home Folks who are reputed to have
been members of the Water Valley and
Memphis caueuses called to arrange a
programme of which, according to our
neighbor of the Pilot, ''scalawags and
carpet-baggers" were to form no part
OF course the Eggleston-Alcorn Ring
through their spokesman, deprecates the
election of Senter in Tennessee. He is
good enough Republican for Brownlow
even, but not for Alcorn. The man who
consorts with the Ring of DISTINGUISHES
in Mississippi, cannot tolerate an election
which struck the shackles from 5000.
DISTINGUISHED taxpayers of Tennessee.
Alcorn is SToKER of the deepest dye.
And the scheme of introducing Chinese
laborers comes in for its share of misrep-
resentation in the interest of the Disfran-
chisers. 1t is charged to be measure to
supercede the blacks, when everybody
knows that it is designed to reinforce the
labor already here. The scheme thus
characterized as a Democratic measure
by this Radical leader, has been urged in
a series of measures by the Washington
Chronicle, the organ of his own party
Chinese immigration is opposed by the
California Democracy, and is advocated
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