The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-05-05
80 E1rOfiigacy and Corruption OF
Radical NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
ola Republican Senator.

4 II THE CLARION has published about
the rottenness and decay of the recon-
structed State governments, or rather of
the administrations which are executing
them, and of the detestation in which
those administrations are held by the
more respectable and intelligent portion
of the people, and the cause of the re-
sentiments which are occasionally dis
played towards them-is fully sustained
by Mr.. Schurz, leading Republican U.
S. Senator from Missouri, in an able
speech against the Georgia outrage. To
use his own expressive language, Senator
Morgan and other Radicals who Law down
the law for that party, had, for the most
vindictive of purposes, "unrolled a
gloomy and bloody tableaux of horrors
lin the South" 1t was shown bv Mr..
Schurz that these pictures were to a
great extent imaginary, and designed for
political effect. But ASSUMING that there
was disquiet in the Southern mind which
at periods, was displayed by violent acts,
he attributed it to the cause which has
been frequently pointed out in these
columns-the INSCRIPTIONS and despica-
bic character and outrageous acts of the
men who have been put in power, and
kept in power, by military usurpation.
Here is what the Missouri Republican
leader even from his own political stand
point, has been frank enough to declare.
We copy from his speech as published in
the Globe of the 21st.
1t is well known and cannot be denied
that during the confusion of the reconstrue-
ton period men have risen in some of the
late rebel States into prominence and Office
utterly unfit for responsible position, and
that things have been done under their
leadership which would have brought dis
grace and destruction upon any party in anu
State ever so free from rebel spirits and
from kukluX organizations Sir, L say this
with fearless frankness; 1 say this as an
honest man; l say it as an earnest Repubz-
can. Our strength is in the conscience of
science if we attempt to cover Trofigacg and
corruption with the shield of partisanship
We owe it to our great cause that we should
neither be deaf to the just complaints ofour
opponents nor be blind to the short-com-
ings of our friends. We should uncover
them in order to correct them.
repeat, that while in some of the South
ern States the leaders of the Republican
party are such as to crafty our pride, in
Others things have been managed in a man
ner so scaRdatous as to justify me in saying that
the Republican party there aud the loyal people
haze some OF their tcorSt and most dangerous
enemies in their OtcR ranks. Into those States
you may send ever SO many soldiers, and
you may put ever SO many districts under
martial law, and yet the Republican party
will not become fairly grounded there until
it delivers itselfof its corrupt clements for in
order to secure the adhesion of the masses
you must first command the respect and
confidence of the people. If the loyal men
of the South desire the Republican party to
strike a firm root in their soil, they must
see to it that only their very best men are
raised to places of influence, power, and re-
sponsibility. They must learn to estimate
at their true value those who disguise with
voeiferous, extravagant, vindictive demon
STATIONS of radicalism their Inscriptions
to place their individual advan-
tage over the common good. In one word, |
they must show that they are able and de- |
to give good and honest govern
ments to those States. What / say may |
have harsh sound; but repeat, i enter |
tain a strong liking for the truth; for
know the bold recognition Of the truth is |
the strength of good cause.