The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-03-17
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+ THEIyAUGURAL AIDDREsss
We publish in full in this issue the In
augural Address Of Gov. Alcorn. Com.
ment upon it i scarcely necessary. II
speaks for itself. He makes some fair
promises, which viii be received with
pleasure by Mississippians, but if we are
not mistaken they Will afford little COM
fort to the hoard Of carpet-baggers and
scalawags who have gathered at the seat
OF government eager for Office. That is,
If Governor Alcorn intends to make good
his pledges, to appoint only honest, COM
petent, and sober men. We cannot
understand how there can be much re-
joicing on the part of negroes and their
carpet-bag friends, when they heard the
following wealth, intelligence, social
position have been always, as l trust
''they ever shall be, great powers in the
estate, conscious, as they must be of
having neither wealth, intelligence or
social position.
In the Address we find but one source
from which the extreme Radicals can
| draw comfort, and that is, in his threat
to use the Militia if he should deem prop
er. And just here we will tell Governor
Acorn and the Radical party that
negro Militia will get their hands full if
they attempt to repeat in Mississippi the
scenes which CIayton's blood-hounds en-
acted in Arkansas.
The Governors talk about Thousands
''of our worthy whites have ever re-
''mained, to a great extent, strangers to
''the helping hand of the State, " is mere
ly iingling of words which he knew he
did not mean at the time. EncircIed as
he has been with large plantations in the
Mississippi Valley, and considering him.
self as he did, far above the yeomanry of
the State, he has known very little about
them, and still knows little, if he imap-
ines that they will fall down and worship
him when he tells them, heretofore YOU
have been shares and now you are to be free
men. The negro party will relieve you.
1t is an insult to them to say that they
have had the ballot all their lives and have
been in the majority, and yet have been
so Ignorant that they knew not how to free
themselves. But now the conquering
negro. comes with ballot in hand, and will
do for them what they have failed to do
for themselves.
When the Governor tells the people of
Mississippi that he was ga rebel after the
fashion of Ceser," those that remember
his campaign of60 days into Kentucky
will be highly amused, the Governor
made mistake, he intended to say that
he was g. soldier after the fashion of
of Falstaff..' But be that as it may, if
Gov. Aleern prides himself upon his Con-
federate record and is satisfied with it, as
it is, it can do no harm for him to be so;
we can but think however that he has
said enough about it. 1t is well known
that in every speech he has made, and in
every public letter he has written-and
they are not few-since the surrender,
he has given the war record of the Alcorn
family to the people of Mississippi until
they are thoroughly posted.
OF his attack on the Democrats and the
Democratic party we have but little to
say. For thirty years Gov. Alcorn has
been hammer!ng away at them and the
solid front they still present shows how
little harm he has done This was the
case in the past when the Democracy of
Mississippi was battling with the old
Wing party, of which the great Prentiss
was a leader Then the issue was, under
which banner should the constitution our
fathers framed in safety rest. How much
less now is the danger to Democracy from
Gen. Alcorn's tongue, when Wings and
Democrats stand side by side under the
banner of Conservatism battling for the
protection of the old land marks of our
fathers against Radicalism.