The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-04

The Republican Leaders Violate |
their Amnesty Pledge.
The sense of the nation has been
shocked by the persistent refusal of the
Republican leaders to restore the mass of
the intelligent people of the South to
the enjoyment of the political rights of
which they have deprived them in the
spirit of vindictive, cruel and cowardly
revenge. Another Congress has closed
its labors, and this act of justice, de-
manded by the patriotic and magnan-
imous of the North, and repeatedly
pledged to the people of the South, has
been withheld by the representatives of
of the party which inflicted the wrong.
These Republican rulers have gone back
entirely on their professions of Uni
versal Amnesty. None of the prom
inent leaders now make pretentions of a
wish to extend Universal Amnesty. The
extent to which those who are most
liberal go, is measure with numerous
exceptions; but such measure as that
even was rejected by the majority.
Three days before the adjournment of
Congress (12th of july Mr.. Farnsworth
of Illinois, proposed in the House, bill
TO remove the disabilities imposed by
the 18th amendment (itself the offspring
of Republican malignity) expressly Ex-
CLUDING from its benefits, however, the
following classes:
| LIST. Whoever, having been educated at
the Military Academy at West Point, or the
Naval School at Annapolis, shall have been
| engaged in the rebellion and insurrection
against the United States, or given aid and
| comfort to the enemies thereof.
2nd. Whoever. having been member OF
either House of Congress of the United
States, shall have engaged in rebellion
| against the same, or given aid or comfort to
the enemies thereof and whoever was a
member of the so-called Confederate Con-
gress.
3rd. Whoever shall have held the offiee
| Of head of one of the Executive Depar-
ments of the Government of the Unitel
States, or minister plenipotentiary, or min
ister resident, or judge of any court unde-
| the United States, and shall have engages
in rebellion or instruction against the same
or given aid and comfort 20 the enemie:
thereof; and whoever shall have held ethel
of the like offices under the sO-called Con
tederate States.
4th. Whoever, as a member of conven
ton, shall have voted for or signed any or
dinance OF secession of any State, or hell
the Office of Governor of such State Will
the same was in rebellion.
5th. Whoever, while in the service of tn
tso-called Confederate States, treated witt
cruelty, or otherwise than according to tn
usages of war, any prisoner of war held b,
authority of the so-called Confederat
States:
On the question of suspending tn
rules for the introduction of the bill, tn
, vote stood, ayes 70, nays 101. (Con
; Globe.) The negative votes acre all RI
publicansl AND EVERY DEMOCRAT VIC
TED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. Among tn
Republicans, we notice the names c
Beast Butler, Dirty Work Logan, (bot
r renegade Democrats) Covode, CARTEL
and other prominent leaders. Mr.. Ed
ride, speaking as a Democrat, for hin
self and other Democratic represent;
tives said: 81 vote in the affirmative
because I am IN favor of remaoring pOIit
: cal disabilities; BUT DBsPIsE THE E1
Y CEPTIoNs, SPIT UPON THEM"
And so the bill, Notwithstanding i
, partial provisions, was lost; and til
5 enactments depriving large classes {
e freedom, tax-paying American cit
zens of their inalienable rights, still r.
main in force on the statute books
+ monument to the infamy of the part
a which originated it. 1t finds appropriat
a champions and representatives in ii
combination which composes the dcspe
! ate political insolvents, broken dow
hacks and adventures, of the Republics
f party in the reconstructed States.