The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-03-31

Mr. .Eitor 81 see that the Judiciary
Committee Of the Senate of the Initeu
States has reported, with only one dissent
ing voice, against seating Gen. Ames in
that body as Senator from Mississippi
This committee being largely Republican
and selected with special rrgard to its Foti-
tics and legal ability virtually settles the
question against Ames and all his aims.
That he is not entitled to a seat in the Sem
ate. upon tile ground that he is not a citizen
of this State but another State, is too clear
under the Constitution and laws of the
United States to admit of n doubt-and that
he and the assembled wisdom that elected
him did not have the sense and information
to see and know il. is a poor compliment to
either-and sad reflection te the people
The idea of man aspiring to the Senatorial
guardianship of great State, and the Leg
islature of that State, so holy and lOyaI, fresh
To d1lOiRted from bezotc with the sweet scout
of doing old things away and making ali
things Heso ''in the new order of things as
Gov. Alcorn says, did not know that citi-
zenship of the State was necessary for L.
5. Senator, furnishes more food, material
and fuel for the critic than he could work
up in half a century, aud than the people
can shoulder without just apprehensions
and alarm for their safety. l have often
reflected upon and repeated The Lords
Prayer" with view to ascertain that part
most suited to our condition, and whatever
may have been my hesitation and doubts on
that subject heretofore, l am now decided
in my mind that it Is to be found in the
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pose Gen. Ames would select the part word
ed, LEAD me not into Temptation for by it
have lost all my offices. see our Legisla-
ture is now engaged in the further folly of
legislating a suspension of the Constitution
of the United States and the laws thereof,
so as to let Ames be seated. | suppose they
have just read that part of Gov. AlcOrn's
Inaugural which declares the ''civil power
of this State Gin the new order of things')
at once "Omniscient and Omnipresent to
the traveller and immigrant Ames being q
"traveler" and the Legislature civil
power" let the United States Senate trem-
bic and shake in its breeches for its safety.
for the Legislature of this State Alcornizcd,
"Omniscient and Omnipresent" is after it
with no good aims. But we learn that /; the
Senate proves too strong in this contest and
takes the breeches of this '0mniscient and
Omnipresent civil power down button
hole lower, then Ames is to come to this
State, declare himself an iHtdJ1ant, select and
designate place Of abode, and then the Leg
isIature will re-elect him Senator. 1t strikes
one most fOrcibly that he would come ''too
late to get his supper" like poor Dan tucker.
Let me say to Ames and the Legislature,
that Mississippi is n0,o Ia the Union and has
a Constitution herself, and that Constitution
requires that before any man can be an
officer of this State he must have resided ia
the State two years before his election. and
if the Constitution of this State does not APP
ply ina letter to the Senatorship i'm Congress,
it does in policy and spirit. The Constitu-
ton ofthe United States means an inhabi-
tant i'm good faith, and not one wh0 Is inn
ported or imports himself from another
State with the manifest, if not, dUolced olr-
pose Of getting the office, bought and sold citt-
zen. Truly such an idea and transaction
would be degrading to both parties and in
spirit and policy violation of the funda-
mental laws of the State and the United
States. Where is the precedent for such
bargain and intrigue: l therefore see no
chance for Amcs on his ne,g citizenship, de
qutred after that Constitution took effect. 1t is
hard to die and know of no one as little
prepared for that solemn hour and result as
Gen. Ames, with all his high aims, and per-
haps as little regretted, by those who know
him well. We should be comforted, for
''what is his loss is our gain"
ALcoRN IN SECRET.
see that Senator A. T. Morgan. of Yazoo
county has introduced bill to appropriate
100000 of the peoples money to ''Secret
serrice'' by the hands of Gov. Alcorn, also
that Senator Warner, OF Madison, has intro
duced bill to appropriate $4,000 to a
''secret service" by the Governor, and lastly,
the Governor has sent in message to have
the militia organized, armed and equipped. and
mOdestly asks for the creation of ''secre,
SerUice' fund to be expended as he pleases-
and nobody is ever to know when. how, for
what or where-for such Is the very office,
nature and object of such fund. lie wants
to send out his secret and UnkRotoR spies to
eresdrOp our homes and families and establish
a system of espionage (''in the new order of
things") upon our heels, hearth and
ing some poor old fat-woman, like Mrs.
Surratt for having some sympathy for her
native land, blood, color and people-all this
in State where he has 10000 supporters
more than any and all other parties-and
who live in every county, town, crossroads,
post office, county Office, district Office, State
office, civil Office, military office, sworn to
detect and arrest all crime-and indeed they
live and stand guard and watch in almost
every house and family in-the State. Great
God /! is it true that we have come to thiss
Had we done this, the bowls of Hell would
have been drowned in their yells to the
President and War Department for Federal
troops and Gen. Ames to suppress disloyalty
Better by far be satisfied with a fund for
the 'public service" acquired from poverty
stricken people, already groaning under
oppressive taxation, and do your ''secret
service in your ''closet" to your God, who
seeing your good works, will reward you
openly"
Yours,
". BEN.-
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