The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-21

official organ of the Administration, con-
tains the following Washington despatch
learn from the highest authority to-
night that the President has abandoned all
idea of issuing a general amnesty proclama-
ton at present. Some time ago the Presl-
dent thought of Issuing such a proclamation;
but the conduct of the ex-rebels lately mas
been so violent that he has wisely conciu-
0ed that the time for such generous act
has not yet arrived. The executive is daily
in receipt of official information when
shows that many Of the eo-rebetS are dcttag IN
a manner calculated IL suggest measures J0T
restraining them tastead Of granting them more
enlarged pTiriIeges If there is no general
amnesty issued for years 10 come the rebels
have nobody but themselves to blame.
SO much for the pledges which were
made by the agents of Radicalism IN the
South that reconstruction under the aus
pices of Republican leaders would be
accompanied by universal amnesty 1t
was under pretence Of trust in this pledge
that many persons who had hitherto OPP
posed the Radical party and despised 1t
for its cowardly and inhuman prosecutions
of the Southern people after they had
laid down their arms, not less than for
the Jacobincal doctrines that constitute
the basis of its OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
their association with it in the late canvass.
If our readers will turn TO their letters
and speeches, they viii find that this was
the main apology which they made for
betraying their friends.
But what has been the result? These
betrayers have found Themselves in the
enjoyment of the rewards that were prom
ised them, but where is the Universal
Amnesty" of which they prated so loudly
before the election? The foregoing an
nouncement tells the story. The very
men who were thus elevated to power
have themselves become the active agents
of prescription, by furnishing to the
Washington authorities an excuse for
withholding amnesty. Witness the re-
cent TRADE of Hamilton, the Tex |
as Senator" Witness the call of Gov. |
Holden of North Carolina for federal !
troops And to bring the matter nearer
home, witness the special message of Gov.
Alcorn recommending the organization Of
an effective militia and the appropriation
of a secret service fund on the ground that |
the spirit of lawlessness and turbulence
existing requires the application of these
remedies. This is the
character of the ''oficia1 information
which we are assured has induced the
President to postpone his recommendation
-or an act Of General Amnesty.
kilograms represent that Hamilton, the
Senator from Texas, has made
4 more furious and bitter assault upon
the people of the South than has emana-
ted from the most rabid Radical in Con-
gress not exceeding the TRADES of Butler,
he Beast. In keeping with other scala
yags who have cast their fortunes with
he prosecutors of their own people and
,een elevated to dad eminence" by the
,ayonet, he charges them with lawless-
less and asks that the agencies of despo-
ism be kept in full operation to grind
hem in the dust. These miserable crea-
ures, having outraged the people, know
themselves to be loathed by the people,
md even while in the enjoyment of the
places they occupy, are goaded with
ense of insecurity. Hence they are con-
family supplying the federal authorities
With fabrications of ''rebel outrages,"
nd calling for the establishment of eff
ective militias to enforce the laws against
rhine.
1t was the promise of these worthless
'efore they obtained office, that their
rst act would be to ask the removal of {
he federal troops, but they take good
are not to comply with their pledge. Is
here a single instance on record in which '
carpet-bag or a scalawag Governor has
sked that the people over whom they
ave been appointed to rule, under the
lockery of popular elections, might .be
elieved of the presence of federal troops :
The Colonization of the Negro in Liberia !
ccording to the report of the African Col
~ foil of :