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

The People OF DeSoto Aroused.
ENTHUSIASTIC MASS MEETING.
fArRIorIc REsoLUrIoNs.

A large and enthusiastic mass meeting
was held in fernando on the Bird inst The
Memphis Appeal has the following account
Court being In session, after some prelim-
/ mary work in the way OF fmpaneihng
grand jury and getting into way OF work
ing. it was adjourned until next day, 10 Or
| der to give the citizens chance 10 gather
their meeting together and proceed with
their business. The courtroom trGs nut o.
people many Of them cok0Ted. Out on the
streets the crotod seds dense also. Great inter
est 1ods HldRlIested in schGt tcas going on. Al
| IL o'clock.rhe meeting was called TO order
| by Major Chalmers. who moved to appoint
John ). Jones chairman OF the meeting.
Colonel Lebauye and Mr.. Oglesby were
| mAsle Secretaries.
The first business was the appointment OF
l. COMMITTEE OF NINE on RESOLUTIONS.
The following gentlemen were appointed
on the committee by the chair:
Samuel Powell, 2. 5. Myers, W. p. Eason,
| w. X. Love. James NJ. Greer, w. r. Baker
Daniel Buford, Thomas ii. Wall and c. L.
McClendon-
While the committee was out Hon. j.
w. G. Watson and others addressed the
meeting.
After the conclusion of Mr. Watson's
speech, MIR. Powell, from the Committee on
Resolutions, came into the hall and report
ed the following
RESOLUTIONS:
The plundered taxpayers of DeSoto
county, in mass meeting assembled, reeog-
MID the fact that for the first time in many
years they are to have an election in which
all men will be allowed to participate, and
which the votes are neither to be dictated
nor counted by a military satrap- Fully
approaching the importance of this cleo
ton, and resolved, ff-possible, to rescue
their county and State from the hands of the
plunderers who are now eating out the sub
stance of the people, they deem this pro-
per time to organize for the contest, and to
declare the principles upon which they go
into the canvass; therefore,
Resolved, l. That, sinking all minor diff
ferences and all petty jealousies about
names, we hereby declare ourselves to be
the opponents Of RGdicdItsBs, and under this
banner will fight against the Radical party
in every shape and form.
2. That we denOunce the leaders of the
Radical party of Mississippi as public plum
derers, who, by their own history. have prov
en- themselves unworthy tie support of any
respectable man. We denOunce them for
the arbitrary tyranny by which, in viola
ton of the Constitution and under the
name of Repubicanism, they have with
held from the people the election of their
district county and beat officers, for two
long years. We dehOunce them for retus-
ing US an election for members of the For
ty-second Congress, and for sending to that
Congress men to represent us who were not
chosen by the people. We denounce them
for the shameless bribery by which the
members of the present Legislature were
bought and sold, like merchandise in mar
ket, and the most infamous measures of
legislation could be enacted into laws, pro-
Vided only money enough was paid out to
accomplish it. We denounce them for the
reckless profigacy by which the peoples
money has been squandered, upon every
conceivable scheme of private speculation
or public plumber. We denouhce them as a
party led and controlled by small band of
unprincipled carpet-OaggerS, who have no
interest in Mississippi save TO rob it, and
whom the great Republican editor, Horace
Greeley has truthfully described as beg
carly adventures, destitute of education or
Character Lastly, we denOunce them for
the cruel and oppressive taxation which
they have imposed upon our already poYer-
ty-stricken people, and which threatens, if
left unchecked, to work confiscation of the
property of the State.
3. That for the correction of these abuses
and for the purpose of restoring an honest
pure and economical State government, we
will organize for the coming campaign and
we earnestly ask the aid of all good men of
all parties and of both races, irrespective of
party names of past political associations.
4. That we favor the holding of County
Convention for the purpose of nominating
candidates for the State Legislature, and
for all county offices, and to that convention
we hereby invite the attendance of all men
opposed TO high taxes and Radical ruke.
5. That the President of this meeting APP
point fifteen men who shall constitute, until
the assem- blage of the County Convention,
an executive committee, with power to call
said convention when deemed advisable by
them they shall also specify the time of
holding beat meetings in the different mag
istrate beats, for the purpose of sending
delegates to the County Convention. and
shall prescribe the number Of delegates
from each. They shall take steps to insure
a full registration of voters, and the organ
ization of clubs in every precinct, and they
shall perform generally all the duties of an
executive committee until the assemblage
of the County Convention.
Before these were adopted Mr.. Reyner got
leave TO add the following amendment,
which was accepted, and the whole adopt
ed:
Resolved, That we arraign the Radical
party for having SO long misled and deceiv ed
the colored people by their falsified promi-
ses; for having imposed such heavy burdens
on the labor of the colored men by their
enormously high taxes; for having used the
colored men as mere instruments for carry
ing out their corrupt and selfish schemes of
plumber. That we, the opponents of Radi-
calsm, are, in fact the true friends of the
colored people, because we are in favor of
telling them the truth; because we are in
| favor of securing to them all their rights
under the law; because we are in favor of
| securing to them the rewards of their honest
labor. and are opposed 70 the present Radi-
cal high taxes by which the labor of the col
Ored men is subjected to heavy burdens, TO
fill the pockets of carpet bag officials. And
we do hereby appeal to the honest laboring
cOlored people of the county to repudiate
| their Radical enemies, to listen no longer to
their false and deceptive promises, and to
unite with US in Kidding our county and
State of the present Radical dynasty, and in
electing to the Legislature and filling the
public offices with good and true men, who
will maintain and defend the rights, privi-
leges, and liberties of all classes, sections,
and colors alike.
Colonel j. w. Clapp made telling speech
which we have not room to print in this
issue. The following is the Executive
Committee:
III. III. Chalmers, Robert Temple,
DR.. 5. L. Wynne, G. d. Stands.
John S. Jones, John L. Brown.
w. III. Anderson, John p. McCracken.
w. r. Dye. j.. d. Nichols,
G. l.. Blythe, james jenkins,
j. w. Chamberlain, DIR. Mcneil,
Nick Nail.
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