The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-07-14

Some 0f our most yalued republican
| friends seem 20 be afflicted with symptoms
Of disease which, for the want Of better
name zoe friU call Old line sohig on The BRAIN
For our4IE though contrasting 70 a strong
repugzlance 20 the democracy, because that
party soas che alhor Of he disgracefaE calamity
Of c5Ud acar which has so recently afflicted
our State and country, we are yet unable 70
see IN what respect the old wing party, as
party or as individuals. was any better than
the democracy 1t Is true that the wings
did mot originate the criminal adventure
which brought on the war.
The truth il we have great love for either
old line whig or old line democrat who are
with rs to-day; and we do not care fig
what either class has been. except so far as
their antecedents may show what they now
are.
This is the usual fippant style Of deal
ing with the war issues, from the discus
sion of which no good can arise. As we
are living in the present we have studi-
ously endeavored ''to forget those things
(which are behind, and to reach forth
''unto those things which are before. =
Nevertheless, it is due to truth to keep
the record right.
The party on whom the responsibility
of the sectional trouble really rests was
the Black Republican party, whose per-
sistent violations of the constitution were
the causes which led to separation. But
for these violations of faith, there
would have been no issue to create a
breach between the States.
We can speak confidently for Missis-
sippi when we assert that when the rug
ged issue was finally presented to the
South in the election of a sectional Pres
ident, all parties were united in the
scheme of separation for the purposes of
selfprotection, though there were indi-
vidual exceptions. A year before the
occurrence of that event, Hon. w. A
Lake, distinguished Wing member of
the Legislature, in anticipation of it, of
fered resolution in the lower branch of
that body, declaring that it would render
such action necessary, and the resolution
passed by an almost, if not entirely unan-
imous, vote.
The Convention which passed the or
dinance of secession, was composed of an
equal number of both parties; and those
who were widest apart, differed about
non-essentials, while agreeing upon the
main point.
The Legislature was in session while
the Convention sat, and in the former
resolutions were passed unanimously de-
claratory of the necessity of separation
and charging the Northern majority with
the blame of creating it. The mover of
these resolutions which embraced fear
full array of charges against the North,
longer than the Declaration of Indepen-
dence, was member of the Wing party,
who strange enough was referred to not
long since in an organ of the carpet-bag
gers as convert to the very party which
he then solemnly arraigned for all the
monstrous crimes described in his indict-
ment, before the war, and which has
originated the system of cruel, cow
ardly, proscriptive and vindictive meas
ure by which the Southern people have
been oppressed, vexed, splnndered and
humiliaetd since its close. If the never
of these resolutions were called upon to
cite redeeming act of the Republican par
ty which, according to his own testimony
delivered under the solemnity of an oath,
has damned it to eternal infamy in the
Southern heart, he could not, to save his
life, respond except by saying that it holds
the purse and the sword and dispenses
the loaves and fishes by which the venal
and the corrupt have been drawn into its
embraces and induced to barter away the
rights and honor of their own country
men.
This class of time-servers do not belong
exclusively to either of the old parties. =
If the combination in this State, which
represents the vile and proscriptive spirit
Of the loyal Republican organization, can
gain any permanent advantage by these
recruits, whether they be Sc
cession Democrats or old line Wings.
they are welcome to them.