The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-11-10

cate preference for Alcorn, scalawag,
over Powers, carpet-bagger. They are
the expression of choice between evils.
Its authors prefer to endure the ills they
have, rather than to run the hazard of
those they know not of. In this express
sion, they ask to be joined by the Con-
seryative people of the State generally.
Others can exercise their pleasure, but
The CLARION very respectfully declines
to unite in this petition. We do not pro
pose to interfere with the programme of
the party placed in power by the unjust,
iniquitous, and corrupt agencies employ
ed by the Radical rulers further than to
assist in the good work of concentrating
the energies of the people to crush out
the whole concern. They are intruders
and usurpers. They were not legally
elected to the places they occupy. Twen-
ty thousand or more Of the tax-paying
citizens Of the State, were not even
permitted to go through the form of vot-
ing. The election was held exclusively
under the control of a militry pretender
who aspired to seat in the q. $. Senate,
and employed as his agents in many IN
stances, notorious corruptionists, import
ed from the slums and gambling hells OF
New Orleans, Memphis, and other cities,
and hired to carry the election. Among
the participators in this outrage, we can
have no choice. The whole of them are
guilty and will be held equally responsible
to the people for the abuse of their ILL
gotten power, each according to the part
he bore and the mischief he is capable of
committing.
We are at loss to conjecture the
grounds on which the Greenwood meet
ing indulge the belief that the interest of
the State will be more safe in the hands of
Alcorn than of his co-conspirator, Powers.
Both were the willing and active instru-
ments of Ames, in inhicting the curse of
Radical misrule on the State. They oc-
cupied precisely the same position in the
canvass; and so far as the public are in
formed, they have co-operated heartily
and dwelt in blissful harmony together
since they have been in Office. On one
measure only, they have differed, and
that was the Printing Villiany. If any
other practical difference has been develop
ed in their policy, from which the Green
wood meeting has drawn the inference
that Powers would inflict a worse rule on
the State than Alcorn, we have not been
able to detect it by the closest scrutiny.
Do our friends stand in awe of muir
derous. plundering banditti, under the
name of Militia? The system originated
with Alcorn himself, who signed the bill
when ii was put into shape by the Legis-
lature.
Would they be saved from the Mongrel
school system? For this, he was respon-
sible. 1t has become a law through his
Executive sanction, and the agents con-
stituted by it are busily engaged in put
ting it into operation.
Would they obtain relief from the
grinding expressions of the new. tax law
by which their burthens will be increased
fo1r-fold?. For this measure, having APP
proved it, he is certainly as culpable as
Powers, who could have had but a cast
ing vote in one branch of the
Legislature, in the event of tie
Is it to be expected. that there will be
increased prohagacy in the expenditure
of the peoples money, if the head of the
Executive Department is changed? This
is unreasonable. There is limit even to
Radical excuses and it is not to be
supposed that the rulers will dare to in
crease the present tax with the certainty
that every recurring day will bring them
nearer to their final trial and doom.
There is no comfort to be drawn from
prolonging the Alcorn regime on the
score of economy, even as contrasted with
the worst Radical management, when it
is remembered that the expenditures of
his Administration in the first six months
amounted to nearly if not quite million
of dollars, which were more than double
the yearly expenditures Of preceding Ad-
ministr4tions. Not content with the i'm
positionof the enormous scheme of rob-
berry in the form of the ordinary revenue
law, he caused to be passed a measure
for the issuance of bogus currency to
redeem which the people are to have an
additional burthen of Five Hundred
Thousand Dollars laid upon their shout
ders. This is a pet measure of the
Eminent Man who sways the destinies
of the State"
How has he redeemed his pledge to
appoint honest and capable incumbents
to office Let the constantly recurring
reports of malfeasance and downright
robberries answer. How about appoint
ing Judges s'learned in the law above
their fellows?' Ben. Cunningham, AL
derson and others of that kidney are
examples. He selected these incompe-
tents from a bar from which the entire
judiciary department could have been
composed of perfectly unexceptionable
material.
Who, but he, is responsible for the
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