The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-11-17

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The November elections have resulted
better than we inferred on receipt q the
first reports. With occasional exceptions,
the Conservatives have everywhere made
large and substantial gains over the
thoroughly organized party which il now
in possession of the government and
which unscrupulously employed its tire
mendous agencies of the purse and the
sword to maintain its ground.
According to the most authentic esti-
mates We have examined, the Radical
majority in the House Of Representatives
has been reduced from ia to p, which
leaves them bare majority. But from
the members who constitute this major
ity, are to be deducted several who differ
from their political associates ON the
questions of Tariff, Taxation, &C. They
owe their election to Democratic votes,
and will not be inclined to subject them
selves to the discipline of a Radical
caucus.
Thus, has the boosted majority of the
arrogant, truculent and reckless party
which has tyrannized over the minority !;
torn down State governments and built
them up again to suit their own plans of
political aggrandizement over-ridden
the Constitution and all its guarantees
Of civil authority and personal freedom
and substituted for them its own unbri-
died will-been reduced to a mere cipher;
and all that remains of it stands like a
guilty wretch trembling before the judg-
ment seat of an indignant people who are
arising in their majesty to assert their
rights and to restore the Constitution.
All the expedients to which the Mon
grel rulers resorted, to spare themselves
the humiliation of this defeat, have failed
them. In the Northern States, the 18th
Amendment which they fastened to
proclaim the supreme law of the land
without giving the people thereof a fair
opportunity of choice, has reacted power
fully against them. For every vote
which it has brought them, they have
lost two and this is but the beginning
of-the end.
But this measure was not the mair
lever which moved public opinion in tha'
section. 1t was against the corruption
] profigaey, enormous debt and over
| whelming burthen of taxation, against
which the toiling masses revOlted, know
! ing that the issues of what they called
slavery" and rebellion" had been set
| tied.
In the Southern, or former slave
States, the disappointment of the Mon
grels, and the defeat of their plans, have
been still more signal. The thirty-seven
thousand new voters on whom they relied
to give them control of Maryland, have
served to fix that State irrevocably in the
Democratic column. The same may be
said of Kentucky. In Missouri, by 6
singular execution of retributive justice
their scheme of DISTINGUISHING 10000 o.
the men of property and intelligence il
the State, has been the means of produc
ing an irreconcilable division in their owl
ranks, and of securing a defeat of theil
own Administration, by 10000 ma
jority. And the same election which
brings out this vardict, removes from
these disfranchihed citizens their disabili
ties, and swells the Democratic column
with the addition of seventy thousand
voters, thus repeating the story of Ten
nessee which has revolutionized her dele
cation in Congress the complexion O
her judiciary and Legislature, and elected
a Conservative candi ate for Governor
Gen'l Brown, by so or 10000 majority
The redemption of Alabama, Arkansa
and Florida, from Mongrel misrule, is
cheering augury for Mississippi Thei
people have passed through the terrible
ordeal of fire, sword, pestilence and fam
inc, which are the inevitable accompani
ments of Radical government but the
rod of their oppressors is broken and the
daylight of renewed prosperity dawnl
upon them.