The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-05-12

There are certain scalawags In this
State who for the sake Of Office, have
joined the Radical party, and are
ashamed Of their associates. Notwith-
standing they are reaping the fruits of
their treachery, they realize a sense of
degradation in their new position which
makes it decidedly uncomfortable. The
offices they hold have failed to compen-
safe them for the sacrifices they have
made. And like the fox in the fable they
are but too eager to involve others in
like predicament with themselves. Not
satisfied with their pay nor with the as
ISOLATION of earpet-baggers they are indus
triously striving to make the prejudices
which are supposed to exist on account of
former political differences, subservient
to their scheme of obtaining recruits TO
the Radical party and thus surrounding
themselves by more respectable element.
They have all at once refreshed their
memories of the old Wing party whose
existence terminated half a generation
ago. There is not a principle in common
between the beastly precepts and practi-
ces of the Radical party and the old par
ty which had Clay, Webster, Crittenden,
Corwin, White and Rives, for its repre-
sentatives. The one Is Jacobinical sub
terranean, agrarian and destructive; the
other was. conservative Of the measures
and reverential Of the landmarks reared
by the trainers of the government. Be
sides the leaders of the Radical party
were never Wings. Grant himself was
Democrat; and the present popular
leader of the Radical party, Beast But
Ter, was a secession Democrat, as attest
ed by his course in the Charleston Con-
vention. In Mississippi politics, the few
accessions to the Radical party are about
in equal proportions from the former
Wing and Democratic parties.
Our cotemporary of the Brandon Re-
publican formerly Whig) presents the
subject forcibly i'll reply to an inquiry
touching the course of Mr.. Clay's old
political associates in Kentucky:
ANswER.-As far as we know and can as
certain very large majority OF the person.
al friends and admirers of Henry Clay in
Kentucky, took sides with the Democracy
as against the Radicals, and so great was
the strength then of the Democratic party
in Kentucky that the Radicals had mere
corporals guard in that State.
George ID. Prentice, the leading Wing in
that State after the death of Henry Clay, did
not hesitate to affiliate with the Democratic
party till the day of his death.
1t is alleged that the Old Line Wings
should go with the Radicals because they
know how bad the Democrats were. Well.
suppose we go to the Radicals. will we
cape the companiOnship of these same Sc
cession Denoerats-will we not be Jump
ing out of the frying pan INTO the fire:'-
Let us Gee:
The Radical party of Mississippi contains
nine tenths negroes. who are Cover Ied and
controlled by a small minority of whites.
and these whites are divided into carpet
baggers, whose former politics no Que knows
or cares to know, and a few old citizens OF
the State-the latter Low being in the aScen-
dant, So, few old citizens of the state
now Fun the Radical machine. Well. sup
| pose we join the Radicals. We meet In
| cou"c ell and caucus such secession Democrats
! as Jehu Orr. II. w. Flournoy, Buck Han
cock, Green Chandler, Joe Bennett. @. 5.
! Mcmillan, and scores of others who are now
| among the professed leaders of the Radical
! party in this state! Aud just go up North
| and fall in " it'll Beast Butler, one of the
| rampant secession leaders at the Democratic
| Convention at Charleston in 1850, and now
4 the leading Radical in the lower House OF
| Congress! Let us stop. Enough is said TO
/ demonstrate to every sensible and patriotic
man that no Old Line Wing has any BUSH
ness in the Radical party.