The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-10-20

On last Thursday Justices Court nj
this town was the scene Of edisgracefali
and humiliating trial. Two persons
we're arraigned for stealing, both official
dignataries of the Republican party byI
the especial favor and distinguished con-
federation of ''the eminent man who'
''sways the destinies of Mississippi" and
both carpet-bag, or imported negroes,
named Werles and Furniss.
Werles is State Librarian. He was
appointed in place of a white man who
mad been elected by the Legislature butt
was removed by Alcorn on the alleged
ground of the informality of his election
Why this upstart negro was thrust Into|
the Office of State Librarian for which be
was so utterly unqualified, and in which
he would necessarily be thrown into con
tact with the entire legal profession of
\ the State, besides all others having occa-
sion to visit the Library, has been mat
ter of indignant conjecture. Some have
supposed that it was done to crafty a
spite against the bar of the State and es-
pecially of this city; some nave charita7
bly, thought it an error of head rather
than of heart, an illjudged acknowledge
ment of his gratitude to the negro popu-
Iation to whom, next to Ames, he is in
debted for the place in which he sits so
uncomfortably, and on whom he feels bis
dependence for sympathy and support
land some have thought that his motive
was to force upon others sort of social
contact which his own dependence on the
favor of the colored race makes an una
voidable necessity with him in his present
anomalous position. But no matter
what his object, the invention, whether
" of malice-political expediency-or de-
sign to infringe upon the social habits of
3 the class referred to-was n weak one,
and like other seed planted in folly and
wickedness, has produced its bitter fruits,
and returned to plague its author.
Under the administration of this pet,
! it was notorious that the Library had be
come a common centre of the dregs of
society, a resort of white and black scum,
which decent people avoided as pest
house. And the developments in the
trial show further that it had been con
7verted into den of thieves.
The accomplice or associate of Werles,
If not the principal in crime, Fu@iss,
WAS until lately the chief clerk in the of
fee of the Secretary of State by favor of
Lynch, (another carpet-bag negro) and
the present Circuit Clerk of Warren
county by appointment of the ''eminent
man" himself.
As the parties on trial were distinguish
He'd officials, so were all others concerned
in the affair." The committing magistrate
himself was a Republican appointee. =
The principal witnesses were j. l.. Al
corn, Governor; James Lynch, (colored)
Secretary of State; H. Musgrove, Auditor
& lof Public Accounts; Jonathan Tarbel
sof the Supreme Court. The prosecuting
attorney was J. S. Morris, Attorney
General, and the counsel for the accused
was Simon Jones, another Republican of
#fcial. 1t was a Radical entertainment
from beginning to end. The purchaser
II of the stolen property who "blowed" upoI
Werles, was Captain Cass of the "GranC
& Army" and Receiver of Public Monies
q and by the voluntary confession o
Werles the fact was revealed that ont
John M. Langston (negro radicaD, VIII
came to this State on prospecting tou
recently, was one of the benefciaries o
1.-THE robbery. Furniss testifes that Lang
Nston applied to Werles for g some Stat
e documents ;" and Werles acknowledge
that he packed up the documents to b
sent to Langston, though he says he die
Hit at Furniss instance.
The noteworthy feature of this tran
saction is the display of virtuous indigna
ton by the Radical dignataries over tn
misstep of their erring brother, Werles
They forget that they themselves are re
sponsible for the wrong in placing tn
IN poor blackamoor in position for whicl
he was wholly unsuited and are com
pounding for their own stupendous I'M
quities by making great parade of thei
A. wrath over his comparatively small one
He is tho scapegoat of these hypocrite
and pretenders.
He has appropriated a few, hundred
dollars to his private uses and that.of hi
Friends while they have robbed the peo
pie of hundreds of thousands. For ex
ample, how does his crime compare witt
the act of the Legislature, signed by tn,
Governor, and executed as a law of The
n State, authorizing the Auditor of PabLi
q accounts to levy TAX of $500, 900 OF
the people, in addition to the proceeds o
the iniquitous revenue law, to transfe
their earnings to the pockets of the spoils
men? eye blind which strain at gina
''and swallow camel Woe unto you
"Scribes and Pharisees, hypocritesl TO
we make clean the outside of the cup ant
''of the platter, but within they are full
fof extortion and excess.
The Late Elections.
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