The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-25
The Objective Point of the Third
Party Movement is the Won
SreI Camp.

through the HuOC at Ine INSTANCE VI lhC
esfew" who initiated the cold Line Wing
movement that they have no design what
ever of recognizing the Wing party, see
ing that the effort would be abortive, and
that their organization would be mere
local faction at most 1t therefore follows
that their objective point Is the Radical
party.
In the catalogue of crimes there Is moi
one which has not blackened the record
of that party in its dealings with the
Southern people. To become Repub-
lican and supporter of Republican poll
CIV as developed in the Administrations Of
the reconstructed States is practically TO
enlist on the side of murder, robbery,
miscegenaticn and social degradation I'M
der the forms Of law.
To plunge into the depths of such an
nfamy must argue a deplOrable state of
desperation. And vet there is no better
excuse offered for it than the gratifica-
ton of spites which were engendered in
contests that occurred before the war; and
the pretended apprehensions that the per-
sonnet of the Democratic organization as
| it then existed may be restored to power.
1t is forgotten by the advocates Of the
movement Of there really be any out
side of the imagination of Radical sche-
mers) in their hot haste to crafty an I'M
worthy spirit of revenge at the cost of
honor, against former political party,
that they are striking at a mere name
most of its prominent leaders having pass
ed away, and others that remain, having
sought relief in private pursuits from the
turmolls of political life. Nor is it dis
covered that in avoiding the shadow of
what was once hated, old line Wings who
weakly succumb to this movement VIII
find themselves .marshalled by such OF
their old political foes in the North as
Beast Butler, Logan, and Boutwell,, to
say nothing of Grant himself; and in the
South by Holden and Jo9 Brown; and
arrayed against such of their former rep
resentative Wings as the Filmores, Ewmgs
and Doolittles, in the North, and the Shar-
KEYS, WatsOns, Grahams, Stuarts, Bald
wins, and Carrots Davis, in the South.
1t is poor reason at best, for com
; hitting such dishonor as to become an
apologist and defender of Radicalism as
; it has exhibited itself in the treatment OF
the South by the dominant part and il
the acts of the plunderers into whose hand:
it has delivered her people, to allege the
disposition of members of the former Dem
ocratic party to monopolise the Offices Of
the recognized government But nothing
: can be further from the truth. In all the
Southern States there is but one Demo
crat of former days now filling the office
: of Governor, and that man is the infa
nous Holden himself, who received his
reward from the Radicals by means OF
} federal usurpation. In Mississippi, the
r Provisional Governor by appointment o.
President johnson was Judge Shalkey
whose political leadership as a Wing wa:
, acknowledged. For appointing him anC
? others of his school to office, Mr.. johnson
: was denounced as a traitor to the RepubIi
: cans. And after the State Government
t which was subsequently torn down by tn,
: Radical vandals, was re-established, al
D parties united in electing Gen. Hum
: phrevs, another Old Line Wing, to tn,
: office of Governor He was expelled
: from office by Radical bayonets welded
by so despicable knave as Ames, actin,
I as the tool of the very party which hi
former political associates are now invited
: to join
Under former political divisions tn
, Legislature elected cotemporaneousl,
with Gov. Humphreys contained in tn
House 60 Wings and 40 Democrats, ant
in the Senate IS Wings and - Demo
Gratis. That Legislature elected two OLE
Line Wings to the L. S. Senate, but tn
: Republican majority of that body refuse,
to admit them to their seats. In the presen
Legislature two-thirds of the conservativ,
.
andwe will add that they all repudiat
the pretended Old Line Wing maneuve
as a movement in the interest of the Re
publican party to ward off whose atrociou
measures they have expended their almos
strength.
Away, then, with these shallow pre-
. texts for going over to the Radical camp
If men have in truth tasted the flesh pot
on condition of abandoning their prinei
e piles, and have counted the. cost of takin!
up their abode with the enemies and per
: secutors of their own race, kindred anf
people, let them do so openly. 1t is idle t.
: invent a pretext for their apostacy so thin
that the real motive of it will "glmme
: in blind mans eye"
Having written this much upon the
real objects of the schemers, we will con
clude with an extract from the Brandon
, Republican (Old Line Whig) showing
1elso aoW not be IN the Contention if, con
trary to human probability, it should be
held:
Suppose, however, that the meeting is
held. and an Old Line Wing should enter
the Hall. He would see one prominent
chair vacant. He asks the question. where
Is the venerable Chief Justice Sharkey-tht
distinguished Judge who, upon the bench,
made for himself national reputation ?
The answer comes in laundering tobes from
the unspoken patriot: II have no sympathy
with any such movement.