The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-27
GIVE MN A FAR CHANCE.

Gratis reporter desired 10 lay that. gentle
mans statement before the public, and
thus
GIVE HIM A FAIR CHANCE.
He was received by toe Governor in a
cordial manner, and held quite q lengthy
conversation with him. After few pre-
liminary remarks the following converse
tion took place:
Reporter-Among other things which
desired to ask you about, Governor, is
THE XII KLUx OF MISSISSIPPI.
Is there such an organization
Governor Aleorn-I have no doubt that
there is such thing as Ku-kluxism IN the
Southern States, but there is none in the
State of Mississippi, unless the bands of
desperadoes along the Alabama border can
be called Ku-klux. In that section of the
State there are men who are ready and
WILLING TO COMMIT ANY KIND OF CRIME
It might be expected that after long and
bloody war that there would be Iawless and
reckless men, men who have lost every thing,
and others. who never had anything to do
with the war except to keep out of it, ready
to commit acts of violence for the sake of
plumber. They made plumber their business
when the war was going on aud they wish
to follow it up. These are
THE MEN THEY CALL KU KLUx,
and their organization is one that Is exer-
cised on the good people of that country,
intelligence know very well that the men
who own land and have farms to work, AS "A
matter of course, desire to encourage labor
and to protect ito enforce law and order.
ku kluxism is calculated to destroy this
purpose. All the property holders are con-
sentative men, men who desire peace, law
and order. l am very sure that none of
the substantial men of Mississippi desire
any such thing az ku-kluxism, and have
nothing to do with il.
THE SCHOOL SYSTEM
there is an exceedingly stringent one. We
have a man at the head of that department
named III. X. Pease, man of extreme
Radical views, and man, too, who looks To
the main chance. He is charged by one of
his associates, the Attorney General OF his
State with being concerned IN q book con-
tract in the North. Pease nov induces the
Board of School Directors in one of the
counties to go to the very limit that Is
allowed by the law for the purpose of build
ing school-houses and hiring school teach
ers. They pay there as high as
$50 TO 500 PER MONTH FOR TEACHERS
to teach common schOols-to teach little
negroes and white children their a Z Us.
They 90 to such extravaganza as TO fit them
up with walnut chairs, and his own office j.
fitted up in elaborate style. The mere fur
niture OF his office and private room cost
the State of Mississippi nearly twelve
hundred dollars. This man Pease is
NOT TAX-PAYER.
lie has no interest in the State of Missis-
sipPi. The people are burdened with taxa
tOn. and when they see man like this, who
is constantly helping to increase their
| burdens by unnecessary expenditures, they
are glad to see him get out. They have
lately let out contracts for building brick
school-houses. They let out a contract
the other day to build school-house for
$4,000. The Board of School Directors go
about and spend thousands of dollars for
per diem and mileage, and the School fund,
under their management, is being squan-
dered, and the people are being oppressed
with taxation. They are naturally sore,
but upon the whole
HAVE BEEN VERY PATIENT.
| give them credit for having been rerV
patient and trust that they will be patient,
and that they viii bear with their hardships
until remedy can be provided. l am sure
that the Republican party does not indorse
what they are doing. l have not found
prominent Republican, and | have talked
with "a great many. who indorses their
course. They all agree that it is an outrage
that ought to be abated
In Monroe county, the place
WHERE HUGGINs WAS WHIPPED,
affairs were carried on in this way. II was
given out in the North that he was whipped |
because he was a United States Internal |
Revenue Collector. He was an Assistant |
United States Internal Revenue Collector, |
but that not tie cause of his whipping |
He was County superintendent OF Public |
Instruction, under this man Pease. They |
had there $4,000 to build u brick building /
for the purposes of public school. Hug
gins goes there and lives. He, being the |
Chairman of the Board of School Directors, |
induces them to levy tax of $47 900 more. /
He then turns around and gives $4,000 for a |
school in Aberdeen for negroes, and lets |
out contract for the erection of a frame |
school house.
THE WHOLE THING rs ILLUSTRATED
by old Sykes. Sykes is good old man, al |
ways in fa1 or OF law and order, and opposed |
to all violence. The difference was between |
three mills and five mills tax. They want /
ed Higgins TO reduce the tax because, they |
argued, they were unable to pay it. Hug
gins, however, was memorable. He contin-
ued the tax at the highest limit of the law
five mills. When Sykes heard that Hug
gins had been whipped he was very sorry.
II am so weary" said the old man. $50 tired
of this violence. ! am sorry that il has oc-
CURED. because now it will be heralded at
the North, and it will be said that we are
opposed to Northern men. But" said he,
s.three mills enough. The difference
between three mills and five mills is what
has got the whipping.
The people of that section of the whole
State, am sure, are determined to
RESTORE LAW AND ORDER.
| have had every assurance of assistance
from them. and don't think that there is a
man in the State that a civil officer cannot
arrest with proper warrant where crime
has been discovered. We cannot always
discover the perpetrators of crime. You
cannot do it here in New York.
They saw that l have appointed judges
thar are Democrats. There is not one hold
ing Office in the State that is not in full &C
cord with my government. The only judge.
if there is any serving, who was complained
of is a man who was appointed
on ACCOUNT OF HIS REPUBLICANIsM.
They must be men who are inyincibie and
answering in enforcing the law. Ii had
been confined simply to the Republican
party / could not have got men who were
nc for Judges. A judge must be learned in
knowledge of the law gives him courage.
If he has only limited knowledge of the
law he win always be timid IN the presence
of a powerful bar, such as we have in Mis-
sissippi, and a weak or timid Judge, how
ever much of 4 Republican he may be, ID
held in contempt, for the reason that he
knows not the duties of his office So you
see We must have Judges learned in the law.
If the law is to be enforced IL must be by
these means. have appointed Sheriffs that
have the necessary qualifications, and are
men of courage sufficient for the admins
tration of the Office. If one of these
cowARDLY oFFIcERs
Is turned out of Office he writes letters to
Washington and says he has been turned
out because he was good Republican. Sup
mort him in office, and the Governor is all
rioht-turn him out and he Is all wrong.
/ have appointed three negroes. of late, 10
where Mr.. Ames appointed one, and in no
instance have the people made complaint.
n the district in which my own plantation
Is situated there Is
NOT WHITE MAN IN OFFICE
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