The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-12-08
:. 1IARTTAI. LAW AND HEEH.HTA-
nv IsIT-TEL.


q To-night's the day, speak 1t to my sor-
We are all % be blown up Tomorrow
We hasten to lay before our readers
the very peculiar and characteristic
epistle Of the = Eminent Man to the
people Of Lee county. 1t viii be seen
that he improves the occasion Of their
peaceful and respectful declaration in
favor of law and order, and their pledge
to aid in enforcing it, to flourish threat
Of chastising all offending persons with
g martial law and military bittel. "
(Shade of Websteri) Any other Gov
ernor who did not happen to occupy
place prepared for him bt arbitrary and
illegal means in violation to the rights of
the people to free election, and there
fore felt not the necessity of making
boast Of his authority unrighteously ac-
quired, would. have made simple ac-
acknowledgement of the pledge of the meet
ing, and commended their readiness to
aid in the promoting the public peace.
But it was an opportunity not to be lost
by this most absurd of all Governors, and
here we find him making himself ridicu-
lous in the attempt to prove that he is
sure enough a Governor. But since the
people are not responsible for his election,
they would have but little cause of COM
plant if this was all that there is of his
performance. His crime against the
State is not so much the illumination
of his threat to visit her sorely ag-
grieved and outraged people, with mar
tial law and military bittcl," but the proc
Iamation which he makes from the Elk
eeutive office, that the crimes of cowardly
assassination and lawlessness are rife
among them. 1t is this pandering to the
hate and prejudice of the uniformed
elsewhere-this fTel to the fame of politi
cal prescription by which they have sc
severely suffered-that they have cause
to complain of. The party of whose in
tolerance and vindictiveness, all the
measures of hate and revenge towards the
South have been born, lives on such pap
ulum as this Executive emanation furnish
es. The atrocity of this assault on the gooc
name of the State, is only equalled by
the attempt to make others responsible
for plunderiDg the treasury of the fifty
thousand dollars known as the Secre
Service fund, to be squandered in feeding
the whelps that are bounding the people
procuring perjury and God only know
how else, except the authors of the iniqui
ty themselves, inasmuch as the law re
lieves them of the obligation to aceoun
for its expenditure.
| 1t will not escape observation, that t
the terrors of martial law and militar
6ittel," are joined the threat to @ sink III
State IN financial ruin" (the italics his,
if so and so, is not done, or not ceased
be done. Who before ever heard of
Chief Magistrate threatening fnancia
ruin to the people whose affairs h
claimed the authority to administer
We can recall nothing to equal it in his
tory, unless it be the example of the Spar
ish Inquisition when the people were be
headed, burned ond otherwise mercilessl
prosecuted, a historian of the tyrant /
praise of his acts, recorded that "nothin
"lcas left undOne BY the magistrates rchic
& could serue for the correction and amenC
"nlent Of the poor people =