The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-03-17

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No country can be great and prosperou
whose productive force is dispropOrtionet
to the extent Of its territory, The Soutl
needs small farms and more labor, ans
that of diversified kind, fully to devel
op its enormous capacity. There are M
obstacles in the way of the attainment o
these ends The viii is all that Is needed
to turn upon the teeming valleys of tn,
South a stream of labor By whose magic
agency the wilderness viii blossom as tn,
rose and the waste places be. built up
All through the North there are thous
ands upon thousands of people who IL
former years declined to take up then
abode in the South, on landing from Eu
rope, because they were not willing tC
enter into conflict with slave labor, but
who attracted by her varied advantages
of soil and climate, would cheerfully dc
so now if assured of generous welcome
and steady employment The long and
severe winters of the North are a fearful
blight on the industry of that section.
The wages which the laboring classes earn
in the few months of harvest season are
consumed in the winter, and with each
recurring year they find themselves poor
as when they commenced the struggle OF
life. These people gladly come to the
South and till her soil if the present occu-
pants will make known to them that they
will be welcome and that faithful toll will
receive its due reward.
But to Europe We must look mainly
for the recruits for our army of laborers,
and of sturdy and industrious settlers.
Let proper steps be taken to inform the
immigrant of the superior advantages of
our section over all others in health and
productive capacities, and the aid we
need will come But it will not come if
we remain idle and Indifferent while 9TH
ers more provident and enterprising are
at work. The fate of the South is in the
hands of her own sons. Well and prop
erly directed efforts only are required to
restore her to affiuence and prosperity.
The Bright side Ola Dark Picture.
Even in misfortune there is a reflection
that fate has done its worst, and that our
purpose is formed to endure whatever
may be in store for us. 1t is in this
frame of mind that we are prepared to
bear the Radical State Government which
military violence and fraud have erected
over us.
The career of the mongrel governments
in the other reconstructed States which
are composed of the same material, and
have been established by the same wick
ed agencies, are full of evil cmen to the
people of Mississippi. History records
no more hideous practices of wrong to-
wards the people by those in authority
than have been perpetrated by the es-
adjustments existing in Arkansas, the
Carolinas, Louisiana, Florida, and Ala
bama. We wish we could indulge the
hope that different consequences will flow
from similar courses in Mississippi. I'm
questionably the beginning which has
been made by the election of Ames to
the Senate who prostituted his more than
kingly powers to secure his elevation, and
of his yoke-fellow, Revels, prognosticate
frightful accumulation of evil.
But with all this prospect before us of
misrule, there is relief in the reflection
that our people are rid of arrests without
warrant, and of trial by military commits
sion; that the privilege of the writ of
habeas corpus is restored as safeguard
against illegal seizure and imprisonment,
ard that We are once more to enjoy the
right of trial by jury. True, the restora-
ton of these privileges is not to be I'M
mixed with the evil of incompetency and
prejudice, but even in the form in which
they have come, they are immeasurably
advanced beyond the injustice and tyran-
ny of military arrests and trials. 1t is
for this reason that Notwithstanding the
repugnance of our people to the mongrel
concern with which they are to be cursed,
until itruns its course, they have expert
enced sense of relief, and been permit
ted to enjoy a glimpse of light in the
surrounding darkness.