The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-07-13

The State Adminfsaraffon and the
Radical War Upon our
Citizens.
1t has been repeatedly stated without
contradiction that Gov Alcorn is particeps
eriinlinis in the vindictive persecution of
citizens of the State now held in durance
vile by federal soldiersand on trial before
ajury packed for conviction in the federal
court at Oxford.
We have been prone to regard these
rumOrs as mere scandulous inventions;
but their continued repetition without
contradiction and the accommodating testi-
mony of their correctness, leave no room
for further doubt of his completely in the
shameful and outrageous proceedings.
1t is stated that he is bounding on the
prosecutors and aiding and abetting them
with money contributed by the taxpayers
to the support of the State government
in the performance of its legitimate
functions, and placed at his disposal by
the Mongrels in the Legislature under
the name of Secret Service money.
As late as the 18th of March Gov.
Alcorn sent the following despatch to
Washington designed to contradict the
falsehoods of certain carpet-bag leaders
in the State that her people were in a
condition of lawlessless and that the civil
authorities were not competent to enforce
the laws and preserve the peace. One
of the dispatches to which the following
was an answer was forwarded over the
official signature of Warren who had
foisted himself. into the Legislature as
Representative of Leake county and who
will probably have the presumption to
be candidate at the ensuing election
EXECUTIVE MANsIoE)
Jackson, Mss, March IL, 1871. ( IS
HoN. A. AMEs, UNITED STATES SENATE AND
GEORGE >. HARRIS, j. l.. MORPHIs, AND
L.. Perez, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
WASHINGTON, ID. c.:
am informed that dispatches have been
forwarded to Washington, derogating from
| the power of this government to enfore the
7 law. desire TO correct that Misrepresentation
and to state that IL finds no jltStif location in fact
a riot occurred at Meridian, but was prompt
| ly suppressed. The parties are now under
going legal investigation. Some minor
| outrages have been committed in other
points of the Alabama border in the night
by parties i'll disguise. My only difficulty
| in these crimes is to discover the wrong
doors, but that overcome, as l confidently
hope it will be, this government is powerful
| to make them fear the consequences of their
crimes. Save jim these cases Mississippi pre-
Seats an uabroken Evidence of ciuH obedience
and order.
j. L. ALCoRN, Governor.
Further than this, on the 9TH of April
several weeks subsequent to the trans
mission of the foregoing despatch-Gov.
Alcorn published an elaboratly prepared
letter to the N. Y. Tribune in which he
efectually demonstrated by facts and
figures the law-abiding conduct of the
people of the State and testified to their
rapid approach to condition of ''absolute
repose" as a peaceable and law-abiding
community under civil rule. He
denounced the statements which for
partizan effect had been made to the con-
trary as ''libels'' and their authors as
calumniators and "swindlers. From
this letter of Coy. Alcorn we will present
some extracts Which will refresh the
public mind After analysing the sta
tistics of violence under Ames' military
rule and under the existing civil Admin
| istration, he said:
| The foregoing analysis shows an extraor-
| binary aggravation of violence in the last
| half year of the Military Commanders act
ual rule. 1t shows also, that, after his de-
| p1rture, tue aggravation went on under the
rule of his appointees; and did so with an
| impulse which bore it forward in its bloody
work for short period after the restoration
of civil government. But the transition
/ from government of force to a government
of law having been fully passed, the half
year of the full and free operation of.law
shows a most gratifying falling off in deeds
of violence. While military power in Mis-
sissippi is seen in the above statement of
official facts. to have been deScending by ra-
pid strides i'll the development of anarchy,
cirU power in Mississippi is seen in that
statement, to be ascending by rapid strides
in the development of absolute repose.
The facts offered here are addressed to
| your judgment and conscience. They are
cited in proof of the conclusion that ia the
| calumnieS put upon us. this State has been
made the subject of gross misrepresenta-
| ton.
And here is what he said in relation
to the authors of these ''libels:"
'With this proof thus made, let me now
ask who is your authority for most of the
scandals which have recently found utter
ance upon men and things in Mississippi. in
the columns of your journal? If you give
me the name of your jackson correspond
ent, think L can show you that the public
| has been cautioned against him in the news
| papers of Memphis, Little Rock and Vicks-
1 burg, as a swindler. And if that evidence
/ as to character should not be sufficient TO
convince you how unworthy his statements
| are of any creuence, l think can place YOU
| in possession of documents that prove him.
in his attempts TO corrupt this Legislature,
to be an arrant sharper and knave. Though
| the statements of such an individual be
| worthy of any notice as reflections upon a
man of honor, the New York Tribune is
certainly not the journal in which they
/ would be looked for as accusations of q Re-
/ publican administration,
| The libels uttered on this State through
| the vehicle of letter read in the National
/ Senate from a member of the Legislature,
were not verified before the public by the
writer's name. Why was the name with
| held? An excuse to the effect that the
mans personal safety demanded it would
be simply purile; and in the eyes of all
| men who know the present temper of our
| people, cannot save that Withholding from
| being set down as a self-ihpeachment of
| the writer's truth. At this point that let
ter has, L think, received alIthe attention to
which it is entitled; but if any concurrent
proof in the case be necessary, it may he
found in the baseness which it puts i'm evil
dence when dragging in even a false light
before the Senate of the United States,
business proper TO my private life.
Mr.. Higgins is an Assistant Assessor of
Internal Revenue. He is stationed in one of
the counties of Mississippi bordering on AL