The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-06-10


The Kosciuko Chronicle has temper
ate article which we have read with unal-
loyed satisfaction, reviewing this gentle
mans political course and indicating him
from the intimation of the Canton Cit
zen of being Radical extremist. We
ourselves have inclined to the belief that
Notwithstanding he signed the Eggleston
constitution and seemed to sympathise in
the convention with the majority, and that
for months his name has been used on the
Committee Of the Eggleston clique, that
the version of his present political status
as defined by the Chronicle, and under
stood by some of his personal friends, is
really the correct one And we trust
that we are not mistaken.
The time has come, however, when his
position should no longer be matter of
conjecture. He has become an object of
prominence in the canvass, by reason of
his appointment to the Craftsmanship of
the Executive Committee of the Bitter
end Radical organization, in which he is
made to appear, (unless he withdraws
from that position) as partizan of the
Eggleston Disfranchisers against the
friends of Equal Rights.
1t is idle to say that the men with whom
his name is associated, are not committed
to Prescription. AS well say that the
worm will not crawl; md stink, or that
the viper will not sting and poison. Avail
ing themselves of his reputed conserya-
tism, these Bitter-Enders are employing
him as a masked battery from which to
strike down his former political associates
of the old Union party Gas well as seces-
sionists,) prominent among whom are the
Sharkeys, the Johnstons, the Vests, the
Hudsons, the Andersons, the Kings, the
Lamkins, the Watsons, the Walters, the
Brantleys, the Evans, the Watts, the
Simralls, the Hillyers, the Potters, the
Lowrys, the Catchings', the NELSON'S, and
Others of like antecedents with his own.
We are prone to believe that this use of
his name by the Eggleston spoilsmen,
will not meet his approval; but its con-
tinued employment in that capacity will
remove all doubt.
1t is true saying that, ''we cannot
serve God and Mammon. "a man can
not be in perfect Indifference between two
objects which are Incompatible" The
gulf which divides the DISTINGUISHES and
the friends of Equal Rights is deep as the
line which separated Lazarus from the
rich man.
1t is true, too, that man is known
and must be judged by the company he
keeps And who compose this Executive
Committee of the Eggleston faction?
Gibbs, the Chairman of the Committee
of Five and author of the Proclamation
announcing the election of Eggleston and
the success of the DISTINGUISHING consti-
tuition after the fair and righteous defeat
Of both.
Fisher, the leader of the Committee of
Sixteen, who petitioned Congress to en-
force the Proclamation of Gibbs by spe-
cial act, and failing in that, urged the |
passage Of law to install the mongrel |
Convention indefinitely as the supreme
authority of the State.
Aaron Moore (negro delegate to the
Convention who voted for all the odious
measures devised by the adventures for
the oppression of our resident white pop
uIation, embracing according to their or
gan, all the white citizens in the State
except zone thousand" or "less."
Stringer NEGRO carpet-bagger,) who
co-operated with Gibbs, Moore q Co., in
the Convention and who swore before the
Committee of Congress his terrible oaths
concerning the murderous designs impu-
ted to ex-Chief Justice Sharkey and the
citizens whose names were connected with
his own.
Is Mr.. Niles willing to be associated on
a Committee composed of these agents of
Disfranchisement? His friends who CO.
operated with him originally in the re-
construction policy on which he was elect
ed to the Convention, and his former po-
litical associates of the old line Union
Wing school, would feigu hope that he is
not