The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-11-30

Rps. CLAR1oS-I have lived up TO date,
nd ssstill live, Ehough times are very un-
ssffs factory. To-aay the u, s. Court begins
it, session nc Jackson, and some OF our best
citizens are either on your streets or in jail,
for Mr.. Shaughnessy fwhat a name. has
been at work in these ends of the world.
The manipulations of Reed and Wissler, OF
blessed memory, made many votes for The
Democracy fWfhe late election. Shaughnes-
~ will add very much to Democratic pres
tige before he has done. 1 tried to election
ee- oyer the creek, and carried some of
your campaign documents to our singing
.hool, but the old lady, of whom l have
before written-the Cornelia of Mississippi
said she could not read them. She said
{ William, / cannot read any more; the
measure of my humiliation Is full. Our
fathers planted government that Mr.
Webster compared to the solar system. each
State operating, as each star, in its own or
bit and every citizen was a sovereign. He
could exercise the franchises of freedom
under the aegis of the State government,
aud was amenable to the local trib mails for
his conduct He was guaranteed his rights
by the CONSTITUTIONS Whieh OF red him a
remedy in the local courts. and the proud
and the humble felt that there was no i'm
punitv tor crime. and no fear of oppression.
That is all Changed. Ignorance and vice
are enthroned, aud the wicked bear rule.
We have lost our heritage. The stealing
and villainies which your documents dis
cover are the legitimate Offspring of "A sub
version of our theory and system of gov
ernment. / have heard of New Depart
ures." Every step in our political history,
since 1860, has been departure. Every
new departure from the doctrines of Madi-
son and Jefferson has been calamity. Let
the cam paign document be a poster printed
in scarlet, Return To the principles of l79S-
80: accept in good faith the emancipation
of the negro. and have courage to meet the
responsibilities imposed by the consumma-
ton of a work so fraught with the issues OF
life and death to the future of Mississippi.
There must be some cause for such evils
as the following:
A Governor aud every State officer leave
the Capitol and go abroad to ipflame ignO-
rant persons TO deeds OF bloodshed and i'm
minent hostility to a different race.
Double the number of officers that are
required in the State for the administration
of its laws, at salaries unheard of in times
gone by.
Citizens seized and carried hundreds of
miles to be tried for imaginary assaults and
batteries, said to have been made by politi-
cal spectres.
Murder committed by large armed bands
of excited persons, headed by strangers.
who are feeding upon our substance and
olfieeSSof the law spirited away to L. ;.
lourtS for executing capias issued at the
instance of a State judge.
Murderers. instead of icing confined in
Jail, armed with guns and escorted through
the vicinity where they had shed blood, to
arrest good men because they sorrowed
over their degradation.
a State government abhorred by every
white man in the State. not an ofiice-hOldc
or an oficc-seeker, and by every white
woman.
These evils are the results of departures
from the teachings of our fathers. There
must be a return. Maj. Barksdale, God
bless the man the dearest friend of free
dom and of Mississippi-may by his won
derlul ability in exposing these enormities,
obtain some temporary relief. but cure
lies far behind. There must be a return.
and no more departures. 20 William they
say, progress! J"
/ ventured to say that Mai. Barksd
had no doubt, would rejoice that retuln
to the maxims of Jefferson and Calhoun
could be realized in his day; but his pres
ent struggle was tor life for Mississippi.
NOW. The old lady resumed. Il believe
it, and my son Jesse tells me that at Enter
prise, on eve of tine election. he met Alcorn
and seemed to tower even above himself i'm
grandeur of his love of liberty and of this
Southland. Alcorn, called the Hector OF
his party in debate, found that he was con-
tending with no Patroclus, wearing the
shield of Achilles, but with Achilles him
self''
| left the old lady talking, and went on
giving out my documents.
The election is over. You will have
Steele in the Senate. He is a strong and a
rising man. We send you DIR. Smith TO the
lower House. from Lauderdale. fully up TO
the Jeffersonian standard. His colleague,
Kelly, is one of our best men. We send
you from Chickasaw. Mcintosh. the worthy
son of a noble sire, true as steel. He is the
law partner OF Col. A. y. Harper, who for
merly lived down here. | heard Col. IIar-
per make one of the finest speeches during
the late canvass / ever heard. His style i
unique. classical and full. His periods ele-
CANT and harmonious. and his utterance ia
happy accord with the great minds OF the
earlier days of the government.
Mr.. Jones says that now the smoke of bat
tie is lifted from the field. he can discover
that great victory was won in the East
To no other man do the people of the state
owe more than to Hon. Sylvanus Evans of
Clarke. He threw himself into the canvass
with a determination to conquer, carrying
his great talents with him, into the most Sc
cluded corner of his county.
So many OF our good men came to the res
cue, that / hate to call names. | proposed
to Mr.. Jones to call a love feast, but he says
| talk foolishDess.
Before the election, had begun to think
we were lost that we are so inferior to our
toned 10 subjugation and wrong. that we
would never retrieve our lost position
among men. The old teacher over here.
who has gone to the pillow rather than serve
Pease in his fell purposes, has been for near
ly year, quoting the ex preston of Horace.
in reference to the impurities of people,
who had lost a Republican form of govern
mem and sunk into despotism. The Roman
poet said:
"Damnosa quid non imminieit dies
1EJas parentum, pej0r avis, tulit,
Cor nequioTes, moX datures
PrOgenlenl yitiosiorem.'
If the Pilot and Leader have any trouble
translating the above, let them refer the
matter to Pease or Alcorn, or any other
member of the State Government. "learned
above his fellows" The result will be the
same, no matter which functi0nary tries il
/ repeat. gentlemen. that had almost de
SPARED of the Republic of Mississippi. but
since the election feel assured of n future
full of redemption. Let the Young men and
the maidens. the fathers aud mothers of our
State, clasp their hands in a pious pledge to
work out the consummation of liberty as
sured, in political millennium
The CLARION has done n noble work.
feel like 1 wished to thank all three OF you
in person; my old friend Hines. and every
printer in the office whence came the fig
ures thar staggered the pl1nderers in the
presence of the people. Can't you send me
up some whatever is good. with
which to drink your health, when Christ
mas comes?
WILLIAM.