The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-21
Respectfully.
q. G.. CHANDLER.
MORGAN'S LAST RAID.
4 Capet- Bag StatesmaH Pitches into a
Radical Newspaper.
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E,lH0r Clari0n:-There are n great many
people in the world. What a blessing 10 the
human family IL is that all do not think, feel
and act alike. How great i that wisdom
which provides that
"The talents unto which a man Is born, be
they few or many,
Are dropped into the balance OF account,
working unlocked for changes,
And perchance the convict from the galleys
may stand above the hermit from his cell,
For that the obstacles In one outweigh the
pTopehsiOns in the other
Some men are born wiser than their fellows.
Others, so wise, that TO tread outside the
beaten paths their fathers trod, would be an
admission of their ability To walk alone.
That class prefer TO carry about them to
their graves their swadling cloths which Is
usually more largely the gamer by their
having lived than the world IN which they
lived, TOR the evident reason, that the grave
is the only place on eaI TIA that could contain
them. Being content TO live of what their
fathers lived, and to rest their souls on what
their fathers rested theirs, IL Is doubtful
whether they ever get beyond the grave.
Many more are born wise but don't know II,
and 90 delving into the dark, uncertain, un-
known PAST in search Of wisdom, and when
they ind a ruin Of ancient lore one OF the
past peculiar to the past; a fountain TO which
the paths Of generations Of the past all cen
tre-they cry Eureka! The present to this
class has nothing real in it, the future moth
ing worth seeking after or living for. There
IL another class who will not walk In beaten
paths for the sole reason that their fathers
made them, thereby betraying very doubt
full parentagc, or fictitious eXistance.
Newspapers, OF modern time at least,
claim to be the educators of the human
family-to speak for the family-to repre-
sent the characteristics Of the family. There
are many newspapers In this Gland of the
free and home Of the brave
Their characteristics are as diversified "a
are those Of the family-the human family.
You find newspapers fitted 10 all ages,
classes, interests, religious and social and
political casts; IL is their business, or seems
20 be their peculiar province, TO represent,
Il mean no reflection on the "Clarion. y
One class of our newspapers were wise In
their day and generation, but as they grow
In years begin TO LEAN for support. Their
wisdom and years have bent them; they no
longer stand erect with a future dependant
upon themselves. There are some of this
class in the South, others, North. / know
one North. IL Is called the Chicago Tri-
bunc." i believe IL has several Editors :
One Oh politics, one on commerce, &c. one
on local, one on something, one on meta
physics, one on the state Of the public pulse
and one on astronomy. / think there Is
also another, an ubiquitous individual, who
does the small work of throwing mud for
pay. The Tribune has recently grown very
wise, 1t has taken the alean." IL hopes to
todying TO supposed public sentiment. IL
is in error. Ii seeks by attacking mis-
sissippi Senator" and ridiculing what he
says, TO make an argument against the re-
suit OF reconstruction In Mississippi; In 30
far as the Tribune measures the respectable
ity and intelligence of the Mississippi Leg
islature by the object of his ridicule. The
Tribune seeks BY misquOting, distorting aud
lieing to do this, or else does IL In the Inter-
est Of the most outrageous Of schemes 10
swindling the property owners and tax
PAYERS Of the lower Mississippi basin. I
refer TO the Louisvitle-Louisiana Leyee
scheme.
That the purpose Of the Tribune Il one or
the other OF these objects. Is evident from
the fact that, In an article OF over one coli
umn in length 1t had nothing whatever TO
say on the merits of the proposition ,yhose
author It 50 basely attempted to falsify or 70
criticize the authors purpose. Had the
'Clarion" chosen TO have reflected by It's
comments on a mississippi senator" upon
the intellectual status of the Legislature of
Mlsslssippl,no one would have been wronged
For the Chicago Tribune 20 do so In the
manner In which Il has In its issue OF March
18th, discovers the spirit Of the demaQ0Rue
10 be the power controlling It's colamns,
and not that Of a vile, generous and nation
n republicanism.
i am. sir,
Your very obt. servt.,
A. I. MoRoAN.
JACKSON, Miss, April 18th, 1870.