The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-02

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rerro1uces IN fl.t nsens1Iy and
UngodIy q l,o,nfnin ions ef 1Ion-
greI nkepablfcan parity
a recent article In the Pilot, to whose
editorial columns it has been formally an
nounced that the Governor himself is
contributor, in the ludicrous absurdities
of its logic, exceIs al the examples
which have hitherto been displayed by
him in that line.
1t consists in the abortive attempt to
demonstrate that the principles of '3the
Republican party are to-day eractiy the
''saDse that were contended for, not only
"6y Old Line WHigs,blt old Jefersonian
sDemocrats az sceR.
Hear that, old Wings; listen, oh We
Democrats OF doubtful faith ! In oppo-
sing the revolutionary, destructive, inn
moral and degrading doctrines, and In
famous practices of the party whose
apostles and leaders are Summer, Beast
Butler, Fred Douglas, Bullock, Jim
Lynch, Hiram Revels, Morton, Holden,
AIcorn & Co., you are making war upon
"exactly the same principles for which
ssas old Wings and as old Democrats con-
s'tended in the past. Right here the
question arises, how if the politicians and
voters of these two schools differed wide
ly in former times, could they now join
hands upon the self-same issues on which
they differed and yet both stand where they
formerly stood? If the dead and buried
issues have been resurrected, it logically
follows that former Wings and Democrats
cannot all support them, and all preserve
their consistency, as the Pilot logician
would have them believe. But the truth
is the measures that once agitated the
country have not come from their graves.
The are as dead as the men who lived be-
fore the flood. Principles are eternal
But to say that either the principles or
measures which were advocated bY either
of the old parties in former times, are re-
produced in the vile, filthy and beastly
denominations of the Republican, or Rad
zeal, or Mongrel party of the present day,
of which the white, black and yellow
champions above named, are the repre-
sentatives, is to perpetrate an absurdity
too gross and ludicrous for serious COM
ment.
AS for the Wing party, it may with
truth be said that it was exactly the anti
podes of the Black Republican Mongrel
organization of the present day. The one
was distinguished for its moderation, its
!. conservatism, and its invariable hostility
to rude innovation upon established Gus
tom and laws; the other is Jacobinieal,
aggressive, agrarian, revolutionary and
radical.
Was the party of Henry Clay the
champion of military supremacy over
civil government? On the contrary, he il
was who uttered the memorable sentiment
that it would be better for the country
that it be smitten by the triad of furies,
War, Pestilence and Famine, than be
cursed with a military ruler who would
convert the government into Z central
all-absorbing despotism.
Did the Wing party ever advocate
when out of power, or enforce when in
power, the doctrine that States should be
reduced to the condition of Conquered
Provinces, subject to the unbridled will
of military rulers with the lives and prop
erty of the citizens at their disposal2
Did the Wing party ever assert the
power in time of peace when no enemy,
within or without threatened, or the pub
lie safety was endangered, to suspend the
privilege of the writ of habeas corpus,
and the right of trial by jury?
Did Wing Administration ever claim
the power, or exercise it, to drag citizens
from their homes with the federal soldiery
load them with chains, immune them in
dungeons, deny to them the privilege OF
j udicially testing the legality of their i'm
prisonment, and stake their liberties and
lives upon the result of drum-head trial!
Did Wing Administration ever assert
it to be the province of the federal gov
eminent to thrust its intermeddling hand
into the local concerns of State and
prescribe who should and who should moi
exercise the right of suffrage?
Did the Wing party ever advocate the
establishment of TEST OATHS to ex-
clude hundreds of thousands of the most
intelligent. virtuous, conservative and
patriotic citizens of the country, from
participation in the government?
If the measures of the Wing party have
been reproduced in the denominations OF
the Republican party, how comes it, oh
We sage of the Pilot, that such Wings as
Amos r. Johnston, William L. Sharkey,
William Yerger, William T. Martin, r.
l.. Hudson, William II. Miles, James I.
Harrison, and other distinguished citizens
who were shining lights in that party, and
ornaments to any State, are not permit
ted by the selfsame Republican party to
fill any Office for which they might be de-
signated by their felIow-citizens? Have
they not fallen upon evil times, if it be
true that their old party in its renewed
state refuses them the boon which It glo-
ries to confer upon their former slaves?
Did the Wing party ever set up as the
test of the orthodoxy of its members that
they should subscribe to the dogma that
tbs natural distinctions created by God
| AImightv for His own w;sa nurnosas