The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-11-18


A Prospective Radical SPecuIa-
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1t has not escaped notice that Forney's
Press has made significant illusions to
what it is pleased to call Mississippi and
repudiation." Even the Pilot, the organ
of the carpetbag adventures here in
Mississippi, was SO unguarded in the
beginning of the present canvass as to
breach that ancient topic and to indulge
a fling at the people of this State.
There is ground for belief that if the
Radicals obtain control of the State gov
eminent they will use the alleged claims
on account of the Union and Planters
Banks, as vast specializing machine.
These repudiated claims amount, princi-
pal and interest, to about twenty millions
of dollars. For ourselves we never be-
lieved them just and always held that the
people did right when they refused to be
saddled with them. There were many
good citizens who thought and voted diff
ferently. But we are satisfied that all
the old citizens will now agree that in the
changed condition of affairs, and the gen.
eral impoverishment of the people, the
whole question of payment ought to be
indefinitely postponed.
But not so the adventures. Money is
what they are after and it is necessary
for them in order to get control of the
purses of the people, first to get possession
of the law-making and the law-executing
departments of their government They
have taken care to place at the head of
their ticket consistent bond payer. In
his celebrated Circular of 1866 Gen.
Alcorn declared that it would be ''CoLD
FLOODED INFAMY" for the people of this
State not to pay their share of the nation
al debt contracted in the war which result
ted in the destruction of several hundred
millions of dollars worth of property and
the desolation of their homes-a rather
strong expression when it is coupled with
the fact that they were required to repu-
date their own debt incurred in the strug-
gle to maintain the cause they believed
to be just. If Gen. Alcorn no dis it to be
an infamous crime to mediate the repu-
diation of that debt, how much stronger
must be his belief that the older claims
which he always held to be binding, ought
first to be paid?
Carpet-bag legislation has repeated it.
self successfully in every one of the Rad
icaIfy reconstructed States
In Tennessee the adventures availed
themselves of the opportunity which the
Acknowledgement of 100, 900 of the intel
ligent taxpayers afforded, to burthen the
State with debt of Fifty millions of dol
lars.
North Carolina is already hopelessly
bankrupt.
A brood of peculators have been ply
ing their calling in all the departments OF
the Louisiana government, and the high
ways are filed with the stencil of the
rottenness which aboundS.
In Florida, the carpet-bag Governor is
openly charged, and we believe, he has
been indicted, for robbing the public
treasury.
In Arkansas, the adventures have
played a strong game. They bought up
some old bonds of Real Estate Bank,
repudiated some twenty or thirty years
ago, and then hribed the Legislature to
make an appropriation for their payment
The people should be warned against q
similar game in this State. The holders
of the bonds now amounting to $50, 600
600. in order 10 make q big haul at the
cotton crops Of the nexttwo years, before
the taxpayers could have an opportunity
of arresting the robbery by another cleo
ton, could well afford to expend large
sums in imitation ofthe villainy practiced
In Arkansas A so