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

nv out of the parsy for AdvOca-
ting Amnesty.
The 'sbad eminence" on which Gov.
Alcorn finds himself pinnacled, is I'M
comfortable. His honors as the occu-
pant of the position into which he was
thrust by outside pressure against
the protests of the virtuous and
intelligent portion of the people,
have withered. He feels that he
is nailed to cross between two thieves,
enduring mortal agony, with little hope
of recompense unless by virtue of official
patronage he can seduce others into a par
ticipation of the martyrdom he is suffer
ing.
He is not satisfied with the companion
ship of Lynch, though with ayidity
he clutched the thousands of sable votes
which Lynch commanded.
He don't like the association of Revels,
though he helped create the causes which
put Revels into the Senate.
He is not content with the companion
ship of Ames, though Ames lifted him
into Office on the point of his bayonet.
He abhors Gibbs who as chairman OF
the Committee of Five, made himself
conspicuous as Republican leader.
He kicks Fisher out of the Pilot,
though Fisher as Chairman of the Com
mittee of Sixteen, laid the groundwork
of the plan which gave victory to the
mongrels in the late canvass,
He turns the cold shoulder to Stafford,
the best of them all, who first discovered
in the Sage of CoahOma, the "Marsha
Ney" of the Mongrel horde who was tt
become the chief beneficiary of the infa
nous plot to hand the people of Missis
sippi over to the mercies of the vulturei
who are feeding ON their vitals.
All these were his aiders and abettor
his accomplices and co-conspirators il
transferring the State to the detestable
disgusting rule under which her people
are grooming and suffering.
But now, these things having beer
accomplished, even while the fesh-pot
are smoking with ill-gotten spells, per
picked and disconsolate, he looks eagerly
and wistfully around and exclaims to th'
thousands of DISTINGUISHED Wings anC
Democrats of former days who, once di
vided are now knit together as one man
"came into the folds of the Republical
''party where | am perched. am mis-
''erable without you. :" Its principles ar
exactly the same that were contendet
''for not only by old line Wings, but OLE
"Jeffersonian Democrats as WE'LL" Ala
that sane man should so far lose his rea
son, or his confidence in others sanity, a
to utter so absurd thing.
Did ever you hear Of an "Old Lin
Whig," or ''Jeffersonian Democrat il
former times advocating the suppression
of State governments.
The supremacy of military authorit
over civil law.
The denial of the right of Habeas Coz
pus.
The denial of trial by jury.
The arrest and imprisonment of cit
zens by the military.
The Reputation of the natural distinc
tons of color.
T The invasion of the churches an
schools, and railways, and hotels with tn
abolition dogma that ''caste" is an obsc
lete idea?
Why, sir, in thus pleading for the com
panionship which to your credit you con
fess would be more congenial than tn
miserable rabble of scalawags and carpet
baggers who were your accomplices in tn
late farce of an election-and who nov
swarm like filthy vermin over and abou
you-do you not know that in the advo
cacy of Test Oaths and Prescription
your leaders present at the very thresh
hold, an insuperable barrier to the en-
trance of any honorable, high-minde'
citizen of either party into the Mongre
ranks?
Now for the proof.
The other day, Senator Ferry, of Con
necticut, who was elected as Republican
wearied of the tyranny of his party ant
partaking of the resentful spirit of tn,
masses which is consigning it to an igno
minious grave-ventured to speak on
against Prescription, and to enter ples
for Amnesty to the prosecuted whites o
the South. What followed? The Rad
ical pack in the Senate, led on by Morton
set upon him with the ferocity of enrageC
tigers, and denounced him as hereti,
who had abandoned the true faith of hi
party. And following up their attack
Forney's Chronicle, the recognized organ
of the Grant Administration, formally
read him out of the Republican rank,
and proclaimed that in advocating Am
nesty he had separated from them and en-
listed with the Democrats. Here is For
ney's edict:
From the Washington Chronicle, May 18th
The most remarkable harangne which has
been beard in Congress tor a long time was
uttered in the Senate yesterday by Mr.. Fer.
~, of Connecticut. His zeal in behalf OF
the leading rebels of the South, who are &c
severely punished by not being allowed to
hold office, amounted almost to frenzy. In
| his denunciations he cast about him most
furiously and in utter recklessness. In de-
Tense of his rebel clients he dttacked his foyne,
political friends tcsth the bitterness achich Il
characteristic Of a recent proselyte. His harsh