The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-24
How the New Radical ssLeader-
Kicked Up n RamPus I'm the
Memagerfe and set ahe
Beasts 20 Roaring.
A STRANGE TRANSPORTATION.

STRANGE TRANSFORMATIONS.
The introduction by the editor of the
Leader CIV. NJ. Compton, of resolutions
into the Black Convention de-
nouncing the fundamental measures OF
the Radical party as Unconstitutional,
unjust, and oppressive to the people OF
Mississippi -declaring that "a majority
of he members Of the Convention the
negroes and carpet-baggers) we're either
not citizens of the State or had been cleo
ted by illegal votes"-and above all aver
ring that they were mot entitled to
compensation" naturally created an up
roar in the Loyal Menagerie aforesaid.
One Holland, of whom we know moth
ing except his lame and tribe, offered the
following resolution:
Resolved, That it is the sense of this
Convention that the minority Of the Com
mittee wv. NJ. Compton,
WITHDRAW FROM THIS BODY
which they consider illegal, without COM
pensation and pay their own expenses
while here and going to and coming from
the place.
Dismissing the offending Compton
without compensation This in carpet
bag estimation was the severest penalty
that could attach to the crime of the
member who had laid his impious hands
on the Amounted and had done the proph-
cts of loyalty harm.
Next we have roar from the Lion
of his tribe-Highgate Morgan, the most
honest and the most thorough-going in
the maintenance of the peculiar tenets of
his party, of all its leaders. He dashed
himself into bowling rage, and in his
violence gave vent to the following
resolutions expressive of the feelings of
those he represented concerning the
author of the report:
Whereas, The report of the minority of
the said committee, by Mr.. Compton, duly
elected and qualified member from Marshall
county, is obnoxious to all law, aud is in
tended we believe,
AS DIRECT INSULT TO ALL LOYAL PEOPLE,
and is an open defiance of the law of the
disturb the public peace and tranquility
Query could he have been ku klux-
Eds thereby obstructing reconstruction,
therefore, be it
Resolved, That the said minority report
be rejected; that the said
COMPTON MERITS THE CENsURE OF THIS
CONVENTION,
and that he be granted leave of absence
for fourteen days.
1t is by no means to be inferred that
the HeatheR Chinee Of the Mongrels
could be silent under the extraordinary
provocation of a proposition to deprive
Loyalty of its compensation and
therefore the annexed additional pro-
ceedings are recorded in the case of the
offending Compton
Mr.. Musgrore offered the following resolu-
ton:
Resolved, That it is the sense of this Con-
ventiOn that the delegate from Marshall, in
the minority report which he has submitted
has violated the spirit and
OBLIGATION OF THE REGISTRY OATH
which he claims to have taken.
This was a serious charge Chat of
having violated his oath, against the
member who had presumed to say that
the foundation principles of the Radical
party were unconstitutional, unjust and
oppressive" and that the Loyal members,
not being citizens, were not entitled to
their reward And yet the sentence,
severe as it was, was loudly acclaimed by
all the Menagerie and passed with a
sweeping vote. Among the yeas we find
the following
Anderson, Acorn, Ballard Barry,
Caldwell, CASTILLO, Clarke, Dowd, Gibbs,
Jacobs, Morgan, Musgrove, Newsom,
Sites, Stewart, Stringer, &C., &c. All
shining lights in the Mongrel party.
Now, the said w. NJ Compton, against
whom this fearful judgment was pro-
nounced by Anderson, Alcorn, Musgrove,
Stringer, &c, in becoming their Lead
er"-their pillar of cloud by day and
pillar of fire by nights the strangest
TRANSPORTATION we have ever known. No
wonder the devil is to pay in the Mongrel
camp.