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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-06
FROM AHERDEEN.
Timely Word-.
From the Examiner

From the Examiner
Mississippi Is nauseatcd with proposition.
and threats Of military rulC and upfI.a
heeds them nor fears them. That DO Ih..
people would have peace and order prevail
throughout the Commonwealth. thpg m...
cease 20 rely upon the buyuupt- of MT..
or Federal trOOps-ceasc tu thfDHtruu. HII
charges from "a mounted cousuhuHr.."
and. ignoring their party and pockets. IO...
islate for the good of the people.
Mississippians are not tO hc r.ehfrr.I.
Into compliance with udtOus and Oppressive
laws; and thaugh many Of uk, Boo JHp dt..n.
TO preserve peace aud order, have pUuU....
cd obedience until Ia an election. WDIrIp
an opportunity % hurl our opprc-sof- from
tile high places, we feel Tint owing tH fHr
reckless course Of the Legislature our Bon.
nuence for good grows daily weaker. auI
that the spurs of these fnuatic- siuk deeper
into the hanks Of the ftcods thlt puuu.
the roads at midnight than thc hU.
OF their kuklu1 riders.
In all kindness, we say 90 "thc pon0r
that be- that the dav for succr- -iu. uaH
legislation Is over For many mont. y0n
have devoted your satanic cncrWirs tU tUH
spOilatien Of an already Impoverished U"..
pie. The men who pay the taxes have I.-
titioned you time and again for rpIitt HH.
you sneerinRly ignore their pruycrs ]. {.
your purpose 60 force the people into uTU.
lnsurrectionY II not give 90 Che press boon.
our peahtAAilg AiNIi"NiA I'NNif N'INN i''
jority-the moral support thal cuu ulnu" n.
derived from generous, respectable lDE.....
ton.
The Radical press Is loud Go &c. appeal a
our people % preserve the honor ui IHU
State, by peaceful obedience 20 thc luW. ....
dshonOr us. L. Il likely that tho nir imr
of Mississippi Is dearcr 90 these new rUm.u
than to those who followed her Dag through
two bloody warsY Honor b. pI0@.uu.
thing 10 Mizsisrippian. aud hlmo aIl tUt
your rapaeity has LEFT him, hut "a. W.i
might tile highwayman appeal 90 bI- E|U-
times honor as guarantee against rr.I 'ln".
rs for these men 10 thus wccdlc him ut0 t..
payment of enormous tribute.
Nou may legislato social equality Iu I..
tells, railroad ears aud steamer, hut fHu U.H.
pie read your mandates Boo 90 spirit ul U.u-
semptuOus defiance that pronounce N.
claw" nudity; but WHOM as lu your n"
school law you place their purse. Hl IIU
disposal Of any fauatcal stranger IHH. Nh.
sanity Pease may send after them. yUu h|u.
die a flame that can only bee sUbducI hN i.m.
perate legislative untidotes aud uuFDr Ig
" mounted constabulary" or buynuoH,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-06

A bill is pending in the Legislature,
with this imposing ltle, which is the very
essence of concentrated villiany. 1t
whereases that the said company have
.'matured plans for the construction of
steamboats, alike of iron and of wood,
whereby the former dangers and disas-
tiers to life and property attending the
navigation of the waters of the Missis-
''sippi river and its tributaries, have been
ssgreatIy, if not entirely avoided, and the
navigation of the rivers themselves will
''be greatly improved" that sit is
considered to be the duty of the Legis-
.'latures of the States which viii receive
''the benefits of such improved nayiga-
''tion, TO afford such protection and en-
'couragement as Legislative bodies may
lawfully do in furtherance of the COM
"mon interest of the body polite. In
consideration whereof the concoctors of
this wonderful "plan" modestly provide
that they shall have the privilege of
selecting and purchasing two hundred
and fifty thousand acres of State lands
with the bonds of the said company at
the rate of twenty-five cents per acre pay
able in twenty years-the bonds to be
secured 'by all the property belonging
to the company For all the purposes
of valuable consideration to the State it
might as well have been stated, ''to be
secured by the choicest possessions of the
Man in the Moon"
The scheme is so monstrously and inn
pudently absurd and knavish as to reveal
its true character without comment. In
the first place if it really accomplished
all that its benefciaries assert for
| it, there would be no ground
on which to support their preposterous
for bonus of several hundred thousand
dollars worth of land from Mississippi
which is but one of the dozen and more
States Z" interested in the navigatian of
!" the Mississippi river, and its tributa-
ries. !" If it possesses the merits attributed
to it, common sense will teach what all
experience proves, that it will succeed in
virtue of its merits over all competition
without extraneous aid. The very fact
that its authors rely upon emoluments
and privileges not possessed by others
engaged in the same business, is evidence
that it is a mere scheme gotten up by
sharpers at the public expense for their
own benefit.
To engineer this special rascality, the
lobby vultures having it in charge are
doing any amount of drinking, carous-
ing, riding around, and hob-nobbing
generally with the lower grade of negro
members of the Legislature; but we
have not lost faith in that body SO far as
to believe it capable of granting their APP
plication. In the event we are mistaken,
the reliance viii then be on the exercies
of the Veto.
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A Blast from the Presidents Or.
gan ON Mississippi Affairs.

The following article is copied from
the Washington Chronicle of the 31st.
1t is a declaration that Gov. Alcorn has
forfeited his seat in the u. S. Senate by
not claiming and occupying it at the COM
mencement of his term; and intimates
strongly that he will not be permitted to
do so. This programme the majority
have the power to carry out, but they
cannot compel the Legislature to elect
any one else:
From the Washington Chronicle.
1t is understood that the Legislature of
Mississippi viii be notified at an early day
that there is vacancy in her representation
in the United States Senate.
Governor Alcorn, it will be remembered.
was elected to fill this position, but, not
having accepted it by the 4th of March, the
of the term, and having
since discharged the duties of Governor, it
is considered equivalent to resigning what
ever claims he may have had.
The lamentable condition of affairs in
Mississippi is mainly attributable, it is now
believed, 20 the course Of the Governor. 1t
Is with reluctance that his friends have ar
rived at this conclusion, but they have at
last been forced to look at the matter in that
light.
A very prominent officer of the Govern
ment, while speaking of Mississippi affairs,
the present week, remarked that .sAlcorn Ia
making the same mistake as Andrew John
ION did; he is trying to get the the Demo-
sraticic party to come to him, while he Is
going to that party all the time" We fear
here is too much truth in this statement Of
he case.
In case Governor Alcorn should be per
nitted to take a seat In the Senate, he viii
,e succeeded by Lieut.. Gov Powers. who is |
~ = good officer and a true Re
,ublican.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-06

On the 18th March, Gov. Alcorn sent
a telegram to Washington that the State
presented, with the exception of some
f'minor" disturbances in a few localities,
AN unbroken evidence of civil obedi-
ence and order" He declared that the
dispatches assuming the reverse, which
had been sent by Lieut.. Gov. Powers,
and Speaker Warren, according to re-
port which they have not denied were
" misrepresentation" denounced them
as " derogating' from the power of his
administration, and claimed that he was
fully able, without outside assistance, to
enforce the laws and to preserve the
peace One week thereafter the Chroni-
Gle, the organ of the Administration,
contained this announcement:
The friends of law and order viii be graf
lined to learn that the President, upon hear
ing the statement OF Colonel Higgins the
assistant United States assessor, who was
severely punished for carving into effect
sissippi, Immediately ordered United States
troops to that point 10 preserve the peace.
The only clause of the Constitution
which affords pretext for preserving
the peace" in any State by Federal au-
thority, is that which declares that the
United States sAall {: protect each State
against invasion, and on application of
the Legislature, or the Executive, when
the Legislature cannot be convened)
against domestic violence" Now, the
Legislature is in session, and has not
applied for Federal troops; and the Gov
ernor has actually declared that they are
not wanted, and has protested in the
strongest language against their being
sent Nevertheless, in violation of the
CONSTITUTIONAL disregard of the Legis-
lature, mongrel as it is-in utter con-
tempt of the Governor, troops have been
ordered, and that ON the bare state
ment of an interested party who has
his revenge to crafty on the community
whose sense of decency he is reported to
have outraged. The conservative press
and people of the State will all resent this
usurpation of the Republican authori-
ties at Washington, no less as an imputa-
ton on them than as violation of their
liberties. But is no word of remon-
STRANGE to 60 forth from the Legislature |
Is no indignant protest to be entered by |
by the Governor?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-06
Disinte%ratiOn of the Radical
Party.

Mr.. Grants late Secretary of the In
terror, Gov. Cox, Judge Matthews and
other prominent Republicans of Ohio,
have held meeting, organized a new
Republican party in consideration of the
corruptions and proscriptive creed of the
old one, and issued an address setting
forth their principles.
The significance of this movement is
the proof it affords of the rapid decay
and disintegration of the Radical party,
and of the identity of the platform of its
authors With the platform of the Nation
al Democratic and Conservative party.
Their first plank is a declaration for
general amnesty in contradistinction to
the proscrptive practices of the Grant
Administration. The second favors a
low tariff strictly for revenue, in opposi-
ton to monopolies for the benefit of the
favored few. The third denounces the
Radical plan of using Federal bayonets,
and official patronage to control elections
and corrupt the elective franchise. The
fourth declares for a sound currency.
This platform is enthusiastically Demo-
cratic, as far as it goes. And while it
creates an impossible gulf between its
authors and the Radical party as repre-
sented by the powers that be" it mar
rows to small point the space between
them and the National Democratic and
Conservative party. Patriotism dictates
that all the elements of opposition to ex-
treme Radicalism should be welded into
one organization composed of men who
are willing for the sake of rescuing the
government from the Vandals and of
restoring peace and prosperity to the
country, to waive differences of opinion
about minor and settled questions and to
unite upon essential and practical meas
ures about which there can be no con-
troyersy..
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-06
Another Righteous Veto.

The other day, in enumerating some of
the schemes pending in the Legislature
to rob the treasury for individual benefit,
where scarcely a pretence of considera-
ton existed, we mentioned the bill to APP
propriate large sum to the Legislative
Committee ON Public Buildings. The
injustice of the claim is apparent when it
is taken into account that for the same
services pretended to have been rendered
by the Committee of planning and super
intending the work, they employed an
experienced architect at liberal wages.
As usual in the case of such iniquities,
the scheme went through the Legislature
like a streak of Lightning, easily over
coming the resistance offered by the Con-
servatives. We have now the pleasure
to say that it has been vetoed by the Gov
ernor.
Our remark in reference to the gener-
al character of the measure might proba-
bly, have been qualified by an exception
in favor of Hon. Jos. Bennett, one of
the committee who performed the duties
of Secretary, and is entitled to reasonable
compensation. But unfortunately his
claim was in rascally company and has
suffered the fate of poor dog Tray.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-06
Important EE"iirond suIr.
From Ia MrrLIlnn M---u--

FROM the MfIihIhN M'I'Hf..
Drane occupied the Justice -oat ydln
day, to try the great case OF Che -Hta w.
NJ. q o. X. II. Co., Chancellor Christ
ian feeling himself disqualified by mOu
est being a stockholdor This ca.a BOZ.
wolves about $3.50. 900, including interest
on 5000, 600 loaned 10 the road Iu aI
out Of the Chickasaw school fund Du
ing the war, the Road paid the debt n
Confederate money, with which aIl parties
in interest were satisfied at che Time; NW
now, an effort il made 10 have chat rF
ment held for naught and the dolt pI
again in the legal tenders of this dau
The State is represented by thc llm
w. O. Crazy, the defence by the Hm
Wiley p. Harris, assisted by Jude
Evans and Hamm. Upon n suggestion
Of a similar case pending 10 tho Snip
RENE Court, involving the 900 me gu.
tons Of law, the Court continued tho g-a
on the Chancellor own motion, 90 ha,.
the light ofthat decision.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-06
The Governor Of Alabama Gaiia
ON dlIe President.

Governor Lindsey Of Alabama called 0l
the president to-day and bad Hu uur.r"
relative 70 the condition of ahlirs Iu U0
South. Governor Lindsey assured Up IrU-
ident that everything was peaceful aH.
prosperous In Alabama, and Chat NJ there
should be any disturbance Doe believed flH
the State authorities would be able m DIV. .
down. They would at least try. add 20 tHt
failed then appeal would be mude f9 HH
general government in the manner p.N
scribed by the constitution Tor H--I.faN''.
The President expressed his qualification q.
the statement and hoped 10 hear .m.Ilr f.-
ports from every part Of the South INn
United States district Judge at mobile c.H-
firms the quiet condition Of Alabama.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-06

u "a safer for me b abstain than t0 dfua.
IL should indulge On drink, am afraid J
should not stop at the line which many .lA
temperance, but should become slave IA
the habit, and with others or stronger uHl'
and hrmer purposes 90 down b. adruukafa (.
grave. If indulge, ] ann not safe. III 7
abstain, my children will not be cursed So j.
drunken father. We talk OF the dIFI.
OF human nature, and Of relying upon oN
self-respect for security; bat there e i'
degradatiOn 70 low that "A man VIII MOI s.Ha
into, and no crime 80 hellish that he NA
not commit when be O. drunk. There .
nothing 80 base, 80 impure, eO mean
dishonest, 80 corrupt that man VIII poo. IN
VIXEN under the law Of slu-of lppen.
Safety n 70 be found Ia not yielding OUT
selves 20 that law.
But II Il could be proved coucluslyeJ
my own mind that / could drink aud neA.
be injured. yet with my views on thc .A,
ject lt would be my duty 30 abstain
could not be certain but others, seeing
drink, might be Influenced 90 drink al.
and being unable % stop, pass on ln the M
or the drunkard. Ny example WOuln.
that oac0, be evil; but ask ana mY glov
era keeperf 1os, L am responding ~ lt
influence, and lest it shall be evil hIn Z,
der high moral and religious obliaallo-
deny myself that which may not injuie l
but viii injure him. IN l neither tA.t' 10y,
touch, NOR handle, nor couutenauesi .,,e
my example viii not lead Others 20 D'l'
drunkarda.-GOvernor buckinhams
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-06

Quick upon the heels of the election OF
Col. Graham to the Legislature by vote
of four to one over his scallawag oppo-
nent in Winston county, reports of Ku-
Klux 'soutragesa were put in circulation.
To contradict them Judge Orr authorized
the Columbus Index to say that ''Winston
I" is the most orderly, law-abiding county
Gin his district-the session of the court
twas brief because there was no business
'.before it not a prisoner in jail, and only
two indictments were found by the grand
]" jury"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-06

FORGOTTEN OATHs.-The Radical
members of the Legislature must have
forgotten their oaths to support the Con-
stitution when they voted for the Penal
Transportation Bill. In that instrument
we find the following in the Bill of
Rights Italics are ours.
"SEcTIoN Z. In all criminal prosecu-
''tions the accused shall have a right to
''be heard by himself, or counsel, or
'both, to demand the nature and cause
''of the accusation, to be confronted by
"the witnesses against him, to have COM
''pulsory process for obtaining witnesses in
CHS favor, and IN all prosecutions By in
''dictment or information, speedy and
''p,sblic trial by an imp Grtial jury of the
''county ,ohere the offence sUas committed /;
sand he shall not be compelled to give
"evidence against himself"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-06

A Washington telegram to Republi-
can paper in the West, speaking of the
special Committee to whom was referred
the message of the President asking au-
thority to re-establish military rule in the
South, says of the Democratic members:
The Democratic members of the Commit
tee are unequivocally pledged to resist all
bills which look towards comforting upon
the President power to use the military in
the Southern States without a demand first
being made by the Governors thereof and
several Republicans will support them in
this position.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-06

The Yazoo Democrat says that ''Thir-
ty-seven Thousand Four Hundred and
Thirty-ive Dollars and Fifty Cents have
been levied on the taxpayers of Yazoo to
support the public schools, which is 81 IL
cents on the hundred dollars of assessed
property. Morgan, (who married the
negro wife, with no taxes to pay worth
mentioning, with his usual carpet-bag inn
portance and impudence, put the school
tax at $50, AT, but the School Board,
aided by the other Supervisors, reduced
it to the figures first named"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-06

1t has been suggested as possible that
Congress would leave the management OF
Southern outrages to the President, with
the military. II should be borne in mind,
however, that be fore he can take action
there must be assistance asked for by the
Governors of the respective States. Some
protection might be afforded TO Union men
in this way, in States where the Governors
are not in league with the outlaws, but how
will Union men fare in Alabama. Kentucky
and elsewhere, where the Kuklux control
| all the State officers?
The G0reT1lor OF Mississippi at the eleventh
hoaT has declared thai he is capable OF sap
pressing otrtrdges IN his State. Why has he not
done ahtS beJ0reP Outrdges hare been o1tite
common there during the last mine naonths
Washington Chronicle.
This is the comment of the Admins
tration organ on the Governors telegram
that reports of disorder in this State are
exagerated-that the application for Fed
eral troops is reflection on his Admin
istration-and that with ssminor" except
ions in certain localities the State pre-
SCENTS unquestionable evidence of acivil
order and obedience" This declaration.
so far from being an eleventh hour"
statement, was made promptly on the
heels of reports which had been sent to
" ashington by prominent Radicals, for
the first time since the Inauguration of the
new government, that troops are needed
to enforce the laws and to preserve the
peace.
1t is absolutely untrue that ''outrages
have been quite common" in this State
'sduring the past nine months" That
criminal acts have been committed is not
to be denied, but they are not more fire.
quent here than in any other State, North
or South, of equal population. And the
that have gained most mo-
toriety were due TO the outrages of which
the people have been the victims at the
hands of thieving and incapable officials,
md to the Vaccinations Of carpet-bag
adventures, who have thrived by incit-
ng the negroes to commit violence on
he whites, to provoke retaliation and
hus to supply them with capital for the
use Of Northern Radical partizans.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-06
African LegIsImtors trying on
Social nsummIIfg.

Two semi-c0lored male descendant y.
halfHam and halEJnphet. said to be oH-
cial dignitaries from jackson, "tried ou
the "social equality" dodge NJ the Fore
Hotel, on Thursday. and applied for "a
WHITE DINNER. Uncle johnny -.m.
mons administered a "gente rcbukc. t0
the WORTHLESS, and they departed allF
and wiser men. Forest Register
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-06

The Chicago Times has said, in discus
sing the reconstruction measures Of Con-
gress, that no infamy had been proposed
too monstrous for the acceptance of the
majority, but this was before Buffers Ku
Klux bill was oyerridden. The re-
doubtable Ben exhausted his ingenuity on
that work, and produced what was 50
hideous and criminal that majority
of Republicans turned from it with loath-
ING.
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made last year. Tie also told me fb.t,
other deputies were acting uuder .ir,,,.-. l''
ders. 1 saw Captain Henry 49,. ".
Roll and he told me tlat hc ua. ,...'. p.
the aggregate value OF the crup. IA .'. .'t
and corn into the personal rrlfrrf,- .-
respectfully call your aftDntirr o.. .r.
matter for IL Mr.. Chiffon 8. rfgtf ...
immediate modification Of tle Il.v,..'. TT.
IL demanded. To tax nae land. r,rf.
farming implements Of planters NH
20 tax The entire product 90 the pl.tf.r...
AS has happened in many casa. III. .
season, The entire product has mol r.|| 10.
expenses reproduction, would De- ma. .fl.
and feel sure the Legislature never 4.
tended. II there j. amy ambiguity Il. .I
law ~ thls respect 70 should be- imm.I..
removed by additional legislation.
10 save "A new assessment and rF.t...
lltigationr would respectfully suver.f H..
proper ana appropriate steps be at ,-.
taken, 10 prevent the a SCISSOR from r....
INK Ia assessing the agricultural Ir.I...
OF last year a. personal property. ANY
carried out la one column. Wltnauf ..
thing % distinguish how much ro.f.i. IA
corn are included iu The aggregate af...'...
q new assessment would bc itII.r.l..t.
unless IL be held that the ngricuturaI ,..-
ducts OF last season are proper subject
taxation. Very respectfully y1ur ...
servant. NM. Il. Num.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-06

No measure which has yet been intro
duced in the Legislature, has aroused the
public Indignation to so high a pitch as
that which has been provoked by the bill
for the Indictment and transportation for
trial of persons to districts remote from
their homes, or from places where the Of
fences are alleged to have been commit
ted. There Is but one voice On the sub
ject among intelligent and respectable
citizens, and it is of earnest and vehe-
ment remonstrance against its passage.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-06

THE CoNNECTIcUT ELECTIONS took
place yesterday. The returns are meagre
and indefinite, but it looks as if the raw
head and bloody bones hullabaloo raised
by the Radical schemers for partizan ends,
have not been without effect.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-06

THE Provision MARKET. down
ward tendency of this market is crafty
ing to our people who have to purchase
their supplies. A late St. Louis Demo
crat says that the market develops in
creasing weakness, and adds:
The fact is that there is too much stock,
too great a want of confidence in the pre-
sent values, and too little animation on the
part of buyers to encourage even the most
sanguine of holders.
The declining tendency in prices is at
tributed to the abundant supply and the
falling of the demand below the expecta-
tions of holders and spectators