The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-09

ANOTHER LETTER FROM WILLIAM.
What the yeomanry think of the orn-Rev-
els State government.
East MIssIssIPPL, Mry 27,:1s7I

EAST MISSISSIPPI Mry 27,..1s70.
Editor CldrioR:-I wrote you letter som
days ago, about ignoring Mr.. Tarbell, an'
you printed my letter in your paper, and an
swered it. That was kind of you. You
said something in your answer about Mr.
High c. Brown, and l write to SAY some
thing of him, Gov. Alcorn and others.
read THE CLARION, and you stated in one Of
your papers, that Gov. Alcorn pronounced
an Grafton at his inaugural. That Grafton
was so carefully prepared that the Governor
read it from printed slips. In that address
he declared that he would appoint to the
Bench none but men, learned in the law,
honest and sober. That is the way you had
it in your paper. Now you say he has ap-
pointed High c. Brown. / suppose he APP
pointed him for ssober." Mr.. Frantz says.
FL. c. B. is very solemn. Who has the
Governor appointed for honest? Learned
in the laws" that's good. "Honest;" that's
better. sober" One of my neighbors
says that one of the appointees to the Bench,
has been known to take a LeetIe too much
That won't do for sober. Another of my
neighbors, who used to live in Alabama
says Judge Leachman is '.harmless so far as
his intentions co. This is damning with
faint praise.
Mr.. Editor, last fall You showed up Gov
Alcorn's past inconsistencies, until 1 felt
bad about it, and some of us thought you
were prejudiced; but the Governor told US
what Kind of Judges he was going to APP
point, and we all liked it nightly. Now
he goes and appoints men that never did
q
known ignorance of the law, and men that
society will always 'ignore." Gen. Bob.
Lowry thinks, Il told you so - imagine
How can Gov. Alcorn reconcile his inaugu-
raj address with his judicial appointments?
Wiley L. Harris, Amos II. Johnston, Geo. l..
Potter, 7. j. Wharton and VIM. Yerger, l
am Informed, live in Jackson: Marshall
Harris and McGarr, live in Vicksburg, and
yet we find Tarbell and Brown, on the Su-
preme and Circuit benches, Hamm, | am
told, lives in Meridian, but Leachman is
Judge. James L. Harrison resides in Co
lumbus, and is always sober; but Orr goes
on the Bench.
Mr.. Editor, Governor Alcorn knows what
is right, and he has embarked upon per-
ilous voyage to greatness. He knows that
all this twaddle-which you hear about ''col-
ored friends is bosh. He knows the negro,
IN all his peculiarities, and he knows that if
some political Hercules were to appear land
d1pedr he tciiD his first job would be TO clean
the negroes and white 'riff-ratf" out of the
Legislatures of the several Southern States.
Governor Alcorn has more than ordinary
ability, has great energy, has accumulated
wealth, and has morbid appetite for posi-
ton. Sprung from obscure origin, his ear
ly associations were not such as TO develope
that nice perception of moral obligation,
which distinguishes the life of George
ashington-hence the painful distance be-
tween his declarations and his actions, and
hence the facility with which the Governor
ceases to be an aristocrat { y moving and
acting with Southern gentlemen, and learns
to declaim for the poor white man, and
avoid his admiration for the negro. States
is tavorite word with Governor
AlcOrn, in his addresses on the questions of
the hour" L am not acquainted with states
but one of my neighborS has some
books, and / have read little at odd times,
have concluded that either those men
whom my nighbor's books call statesmen
We're sadly out of the way, or Gov. Alcorn
is not going right.
Mr.. Editor, l may be going wrong, for
belong to the "white trash; - but it does
seem to me that the Legislature is not the
place for ignorant negroes or low white
men, and it further seems to me that man
of Gov. Alcorn's decided ability knows it,
and must feel that the ''fruition of events
will leave him a miserable, old man, stand
ing alone, in gloomy isolation, without the
sympathy of his race. Poor Gen. Long
street!
The question of the hour is the deliver
ance of this country from the ruinous ma |
and the smothering embrace of
the negro, whose ancestry are traced only
step to barbarism undeceived by one act of
or civilization. The negro is
trifling with events; for power in the hands |
of vindictive men has only to serve its pur-
pose. and the African, left to himself will
find his level. Over here, we feel like the |
children of Israel did when they sung the
songs of Zion, near the banks of the Eu-
pirates. and pinned to build the new Temple, |
the hope of fee or reward. Speak
out. Mr.. Editor, not for vengeance, not for
retribution, but to advise the people how to |
act together to raise Mississippi to place |
where her intelligence and her virtue, and
her beauty will be her pride and her best
support. The negro will be blessed more
than the white man by such consumation. |
NV neighbors would like to see Gov. Alcorn
heartily with his old associates. obliviOus of
promotion, except what might come from
the deliberate Judgment of his fellow-citi- |
zens.
Oh! what reward for service and devo-
ton il the grateful affection of people, at
once the most generous and chivalrous of
the earth! What visions of ecstacy must
have opened up before-the last representa-
tive of this (COfumbus) district, in the u. s.
as he breathed his last at Gettys-
burg! whole lifetime of reward
was crowded into the moment of
his death, by the consciousness, that
of considerations of sue
cess or failure, in respect to the cause in
which he died, two millions of eyes would
weep with knowledge OF his fall, and
million of grateful hearts would be the safe
repositories of his fame.
This letter is too long to print, but you can
read it yourself. l am going TO move and
may not write again soon.
WILLIAM