The weekly clarion., 1870-01-01

all devouring, but nevertheless impalpable
monster called the jackson Clique,
has existed in the imaginations of some
weak-minded and mean-heaTted people,
who have made it their business to pelt
it with all manner of opprobrious ePl-
thet- 1t has been the fate of this smagi-
nary concern, whatever it s,or by whom
sover composed, to furnish food for the
morbid sensibiIities of the vain, the con-
ceited, the selfish and the malignant, to
prey upon, under all circumstances,
whether of prosperity or of adversely. Ii
the party with which it is supposed to be
connected, in dispensing honors fail, as 1t
is sure to do, to discover and to reward
these cavillers, they forthwith turn with
savage prey upon the ''Chque to whose
intermeddling hand they invariably at
tribute their ill-treatnent If the party
from whatever cause, fail of success,
more than ever is the poor 'Cllque
chosen to be the scape-goat on whose de-
voted head are to be piled all the evil
consequences. The children of Israel
/ had their beast of burthen for their crimes
and misfortunes The Egyptians offered
up victim to their god, praying that all
the evil hanging over them might fall up
on its head and the HindOos had their
sacrifice Why shall not the offended
patriots of these times, particularly they
who have a crow to pick with the public,
have their vicarious sacrifice; and why
should not this ogre of the jackson
Clique" serve their Purposes
The result of the recent Mississippi
election furnishes the latest occasion to
malcontents for heaping their virtuous exc,
crations upon the "Clique." In their
desire to do the work we'll, they have dis
regarded every other consideration
They have forgotten the remissness OF
those who by refusing to lend assistance
to the conservatives, contributed to the
success of the Radicals and they have
overlooked the avOwed intention of Ames
"to carry" the election with or without
legal votes, and the unlimited means
placed at his disposal for accomplishing
his end. The importation of notorious
corruptionists to manage the election and
to manipulate the ballot-boxes = hi;
agencies of intimidation and fraud, t.
make it a mere form preliminary to hi
predetermined announcement of the sue
cess of the Radicals, against which Meth
er organized effort nor numbers cOulc
have prevailed-are nothing in the Jaun
diced eyes of the grumblers, compared t.
the omissions and commissions OF th'
"Clique."
1t is needless for us to say that the ad
dress which did honor to its immediate
author, Hon. A. r. Johnston, which wa
approved by large number of the intel
ligent and patriotic men of the State
and which indicated the plan of the cam
paign for the opposers of Radicalism, wa
not the creature of a ''Clique. But n
matter with whom it originated, we main
tain that it suggested the only plan whic
offered the least prospect of securing
fair election, without which the defeat c
the Radical party was an utter impossibi
, ity. The nomination of a straight-Ou
1 Democratic ticket which some new fledge
l Democrats profess to believe might hav
: saved the State would have furnished
| pretext for the use of agencies even NOR
unscrupulous and despicable than wer
actually employed by the manager-in-chit
of the election in order to ''carry" it, an
the result would have been precisely tn
same. But even if that party, pure an
unadulterated, had been triumphant
the election against the capacity of tn
tools of Ames to stuff the boxes and Civ
, the victory to the Radicals whether the
had actually won it, or not, everybod
with discernment above a Ounce, know
f that the effort would have been wasted
: and that the Radical Congress, woul
: have answered the Democratic victor
with a shout of defiance and q comman
that the disgusting rule of the petty t!
rant who now lords it over the people {
the State, (and from which we are thanl
full for the prospect of speedy delive
snce) be continued. 1t is not a delive
ance in the form we preferred, as ou
humble efforts in the canvass will attes
Nevertheless, it is one which brings th
State much nearer the opportunity whic
good men are craving, of the open tiel
and fair fight of free election again!
Radicalism. Reconstruction through
a Democratic victory was simply an in
possibility. 1st. Because, with all the
S power and enthusiasm it would have bee
: a hard task to have obtained an acknow
! edged majority over the party which maj
e aged the election and was determined Il
n matter which way the votes went, to on
count them. And, 3D., for the reaso
that after having accomplished that 81
perhuman achievement, the Radical Coz
, gress would not have recognized the
action. With knowledge of these fact
the conservatives tried the only plan th'
was left them. 1t had been tried in Vi
: ginia with appearances of success. B'
even in their failure, they have the col
ISOLATION of knowing that they have sec'
/ red a constitution which enfranchises e
u cry citizen of the State; that they are
u have at least the semblance and part
Z the substance of civil government, ar
X above all, that they are to be rid of Anne