The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-09-08


teemed as the KosciuskO Chronicle,
though we confess that we were not a
little chagrined when we found it class
ed with the Radical papers which were TO
have been the benefciaries of the Printing
Villainy concocted by the adventures
who are carrying on wholesale system OF
robbery in this State. We were the more
surprised when the Chronicle by its 81
lence acquiesced in the scheme and con-
fessed its willingness to become party TO
what the Republican chief who sways
"the destines Of the State of Mississippi
branded as a fraud. But We were thus
somewhat prepared for the Chronicles
dissent from the opinion We have express
sed that the intelligent and patriotic peO-
pie of this State ought emphatically to
resent the attempt Of the Radical mana
gers to mongrelise the State University
and to prostitute it to the base uses Of
most Infamous and desl i;alle political
organization.
The Chronicle referring to the Board
Of Trustees, says that their action "most
/ s'efectually refutes the charge Of THE
/ "CLARIoN that it is a Radical Board
( The Pilot Is our authority. In its issue
ofAugust 22d, it calls the concern RE
PUBLICAN BOARD" and boasts that the
infusion of the YANKEE Radical |
ELEMENT WILL prove a blessing God
help Us ''to the University and the
State"
In the same connection the Chronicle
refers to the appointment of Judge Camp
bell and NJ. Lyon in the Faculty. The
record of the former is cited in proof Of
his political soundness. No man can be
taken on his past record, or on trust, in
these times. The question is not whether
Mr. Campbell was a secession candidate
for the secession convention-not whether
he was a member of the Provisional Con-
gress which accepted war against the
United States as a consequence of seces-
| sion-not whether he was defeated for
the Confederate Congress by Hon. o. r.
/ Singleton on the cd 40, or fight plat
form-not how long he served in the
| Confederate Army-not whether Mr..
! Davis in token of his confidence in his
Confederate loyalty appointed him on a
Military Court-but how has he stood in
all the bitter years of trial in the unequal
and terrible contest against the powers of
Radical darkness through which We have
passed since 1865? Longst1eet himself
accepted office under Grant and this day
is chief instrument to do the Infamous
| work of the Radical prosecutors of his
countrvmen in Louisiana. Judas Is
CARROT was favorite disciple of the
Savior and afterwards betrayed him for
thirty pieces of silver.
Now if Judge Campbell is true to his
former record, and has been an opponent
of Radical domination in this State, and
has given no aid or encouragement to it
by tacit acquiescence, or otherwise, let
him say so publicly. Positive acts and
emphatic words are wanted, not musty
records.
As for Mr. Lyon, the Chronicle itself
states that he has no such record AS that
of Judge Campbell to rest upon. ''He
was during the war; and is Union man"
quoth the Chronicle Doubtless the
Chronicle might have put it stronger and
said that he is a Republican" without
missing the mark. But how has he
stood towards the University upon which
he has been foistcd not only as Trustee.
but as member of the Faculty? A cor
respondent Of the Columbus Democrat,
published in his own town, makes this
statement:
lit is notorious fact that up to the date
of the Radical State Administration, Dr.
Lyon had uttered no arord of public approval,
giren no out,rard act Of interest in the STATE
University. On the contrary, every son he
had, he educated in a Yankee school Not
content with this, he used his personal
influence to induce others to go with them
to those Yankee schools. Practically he has
been its enemy, and stood in the aeay Of lis at
raacemem."
On the subject of his politics, the wri-
ter adds:
''Dr. Lyon has been suspected of Radical
utilization. He has been
by numerous letters of recommendation and
personal solicitation to Gen. AneS and Gov.
Alcorn connected with the appointment of
Radical officers for this section of the State
Hence it appears that the very man
whose appointment on the Board and in
the Faculty, as manager of the institu-
ton and as teacher of the young men of
the State, has been an ''enemy of the
University used his influence to
build Yankee" schools elsewhere to its
neglect-and has been in political ''affil-
iation" not only with Alcorn, but with
ABles, of whose cruel, vindictive and cor
rupt career in this State it is impossible
to think without execration.
If the Chronicle itself is not in affilia-
ton with the Radicai party it must concur
with us IN reprobating the scheme to
Radicalize the University. But if it is,
we cannot expect it to disaPprove of what
we think great wrong 10 the people of
the State
The Washington Era, Fred. Douglass |
paper, and the organ of the Beast Butler
wing of the Radical party, finds in the
cruel, cowardly and vindictive policy of
its party towards the people of the South |