The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-07-08
The Platform Of ahe ESgIesfon
Faction.
a Hocus Pocsts Piece Of lEdetGaerg.
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n Hocus Peciss Piece Of lfaetiaezg.
The platform Of the Eggleston faction
viii be found in another column.
The desperate effort of its contrivers TO
make an impression that they have been
seoureed by the righteous judgment of the
people and the contempt of Congress and
the President, to repudiate Prescription,
without having really done so, is the dis
tinguishing feature of this patchwork
They would have it believed that they
have abandoned this heresy to escape
chastisement at the polls, on the same
principle that the rogue tries to avoid pun
ishment by taking to his heels when
caught in the act.
The platform contains vast deal Of
glittering generality and Understanding
profession, and clap-trap humbuggery
generally to deceive the unwary; but the
poison of prescription and hate, of cal
umny and revenge, malice and uncharit-
ableness, Turks in its every syllable, line,
and paragraph.
1t afiirms propositions which nobody
denies; and it denies what nobody afirms;
| but remove its thin crusting of soft phrase,
and mark how the whited sepulchre reeks
with its odor of dead mems bones and all
manner of corruption.
There is. declaration about Stree
speech" Who forbids it? Can the pa
thence and forbearance of our people be
doubted since Henry Mayson, the colored
Radical, stood in the courthouse built by
the citizens of Rankin a. their hall of
| justice, and for two hours denounced them
without interruption, cas- "rebels, +"
''knaves" and ''scoundrels?"
There is a declaration about 'just and
economical government" Who denies
Justice but the Clique whose will is
now the law of the State, which forbids
trial by jury, and expels men from their
offices for opinions sake? Who practices
extravaganza but the faction that squan-
dered hundreds of thousands of dollars
in Matching the rejected constitution
which was designed to feed vast army of
blood-suckers on the substance Of the peo-
pie?
There is pledge about reforming the
Ubiquitous and unequal taxation and as
easements which discriminate against
'9abor and laborers." If this reform is
needed why have not the Radical rulers
permitted Legislature to assemble in
this State for three years so as to adapt
taxation to the requirements of the times?
During all this period they themselves
have had unlimited control of the subject
and are responsible for abuses, if any ex
list. But do they mean that property, or
capital, is not sufficiently taxed? And
are they so stupid as not to know that to
increase the tax upon property, will not
react upon labor? For instance, are they
ignorant that when they placed a tax of
fifteen dollars bale on cotton, that they
did not rob the black man who did the
labor, as well as the white man who fur
nished the capital?
There is protest against schemes de-
"signed for class immigration, such as
"laborers only, or favoring one section or
country, or people, or portions of people
cover another" Against whom is this
malevolence INDUCED? Who has invited
''laborers" only and asked capital to stay
away? Who believes that one can be en-
ployed without the other? Our people
have invited both. There is only one
"class" they have not invited. They are
neither '1abOrers" nor capitalists, but are
described by Harper's Weekly, Radical
paper, as the miserable vermin who
have been sent South as government of
icials, and by the leading Radical jour
nal of the West, the Chicago Tribune,
''as the strolling, pilfering, political black
'legs of the North whom the people of
the South are not able to bear and from
''whom they cry aloud for exemption"
But in no portion of this Platform does
OILY CANNON exhaust the resources of
cunning so much as in its political as
poets.
The promise is made that the Eggleston
Clique will Sshail with unfeigned delight
''the day when the spirit of liberation
: now dawning on our State, shall be so
{ firmly established as to warrant Con-
Egress and the nation in declaring disabil- !
Z Hities and restrictions forever at an end
when there shall be no citizen of Missis-
sippi clamoring for his rights.
Which means that the self-righteous
and seallawags are hope
full that the time for removing the shack
les that restrain large class of citizens
of all former parties in Mississippi, of
their right to vote and to hold office, is
coming in consequence of the improved
behavior of the said classes, and that
their contrition and repentance viii some
lay warrant" Congress in permitting
them to take part in the legislation of the
government which exacts their allegiance
md taxes them for it support When
his hope deferred will be realized, we are
not informed. But the loveliness of this
eature of the Platform consists in its pit
full insinuation that the, infamous policy
If Prescription which its authors advo-
ate, is due to the intolerance of the pro-
eribed classes.
By the light of this resolution. the sub .