The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-02-16

EAST MISSISSIPPI.
TT 1917

Feb. 4, 1S71.5
EDITORS CLARION: We have heard over
here that the Prussians bavt captured Paris,
and thought / would write you a letter
and tell you about it. You can now inform
your readers. who have been holding their
cotton until the close of the war, that their
time to sell has arrived. / fear many OF
them will not realize the heavy advance on
the staple for which they have been hoping.
Money IS very hard to get in the East
and the people are almost desperate. No
people ever were placed in such a terrible
situation. The raising of cotton proved,
last year, losing business, and though no
money is TO be had, except from few who
have kept all their means in trade. the tax
collectors are busy pressing the people for
part of their subsistence, to maintain a
State Government organized to crush them.
They prefer to have martial law and mill
tary bettel' to the smothering Legislature
held at Jackson.
| One of my neighEors, who went to the
Grand Lodge last month, gives grand des-
cription of the State House, with splendid
ly adorned Halls for the exhibition of ignor-
ance, malignity and wrong. This neighbor
of mine has never been odt from home
much, and he took notes of some matters
which he is continually reciting to the coun-
try people. He gives very original des-
cripton of the Secretary of State, Hon.
James Lynch, a coIored man, whom he re-
ports to be preacher of the Gospel. He
had an introduction to Lynch and heard
him converse on matters of State My
neighbor shed tears, when he told how he
foIe L
the Capitol, where Burt and William Barks-
dale once lay in state! He says that Gods
movements are mysterious, but beneath the
the terrible scourge now laid upon this peo-
pie, He has in store the amplest retribu-
ton. So mote it be. What say the people /?
My friend went into the Legislature and
saw collection of negroes and strangers
voting to themselves the income of peo
pie, for whom they entertain the bitterest
hate, and of whose deep suffering and poi
gnant humiliation, they only hear to de-
ride. This Deighbor of mine declares that
heretofore he was for Cancellation and mix |
ing the thing up with, ''do the best YOU can
with the present situation. for fear of max
ing things worse" but now he is for scourg-
ing the thieves who sell doves in our politi- |
cal temple, and for driving them from the |
high places they defIe.
Last Saturday night came near witness
sing a small tragedy. My neighbor afore-
said was present at a tea-party, and began
TO tell of what he saw in Jackson, mention |
ing what have recited above, together with |
some observations about Humphreys, Whar-
ton and Hooker being considered rebels" |
and DISTINGUISHED by the strangers in our |
State House, when a beautiful young lady |
rose up, and taking hold of her pretty throat |
with both hands, her eyes all suffused with /
tears, said, "Oh! is this Governor Alcorn of |
whom you speak, Col. Alcoru, OF Coahoma |
?" A veteran teacher, whom Pease's |
schools have thrown out of business, and !
who is now laboring with his hands for
support, rather than serve this administra-
ton, in an excited manner, said, 80 pdssi
grGciorG, da6u Deus his QuoQue fnem.' felt
solemn enough to raise tune, but not be-
ing gifted in song, restrained myself. The
words of the teacher, too, seemed to be in
an unknown tongue. l hope you will get
Pease to turn them into En- glish.
l write you this little circumstance to
give you an idea of the feeling of our peo-
pie, especially of our women. Mr.. Editor,
God bless these women OF OurS-true to all
that is pure and holy and right. How they
scorn treason! How they love devotion
How l love them!
The planters are clearing up their fields
for another crop, but am sorry to say are
preparing to follow up the cotton mania.
and neglect the good advice you gave them
last Spring. Be sure to warn them again,
The great difficulty about Agricultural
controlling the people, is that
they are usually sprinkled with men who
are perfectly impossible and inpracticable.
More good can be done by the Press. THE
CLARION. as \ leading journal of the State,
can do more than half-a-dozen conventions,
with their inevitables, giving out oracles.
know one or two counties with Agricul-
Bural Societies presided over by men that
never did succeed at farming or anything
else. Mr.. Jones, over the river, says that he
was in the late convention at Jackson, and
saw the same old cases figuring and con-
shutting set-out that will destroy all con-
idence in the action of the body.
Since l wrote you last, Prof. S. S. Gran
berry, of the Orphans Home, has died. He
vas a good man. In no county could
here be a man found, SO loved by his fellow
men. WILLIAM.