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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-30
Ames Speaks.

1t will be seen that Ames, "surrep-
titious" Senator from Mississippi, occupy
ing a position which he obtained in
derogation of the right of free choice
by the people of the State and by corrupt
continuance for his own election-has
spoken piece, Cor read from manuscript
prepared for him by Beast Butler.
Necessarily it is a fierce, malicious and
vindictive TRADE against the white people
of the State, Astounding in false asser-
tons and violent conclusions. We infer
that he did not-with all his proclivity to
Misrepresentation that the negro
voters have Seventy thousand majority"
in the State Che would have overshot the
mark if he had said seven thousand)
nevertheless his assumption is IA
tai to his theory that troops
are needed in the State to protect
population whose voters are claimed to
he in the majority and who are represen-
ted by State government committed to
policy of peculiar guardianship of all
their rights of person and property.
He joins issue with Gov. Alcorn on
the statement of the latter that with
"minor" exceptions ''civil obedience and
order" prevail in the State; charges him
with misrepresentation, and arraigns him
before the Senate and country for having
failed properly to discharge the duties of
his officel That the bogus Senator has
uttered falsely and that the Governor has
done but a simple act Of justice to the
people of the State they all well know.
And while he progresses with the prom
ised work of correcting the abuses of
which they have cause to complain, by
the removal of corrupt and incapable
officials, and the appointment of good
ones; and by the interposition of the
veto to prevent the squandering of the
public funds, and such wanton invasion
of personal rights as are contemplated by
the infamous Penal Transportation Bill
let the people be mindful to keep the
peace, to frown down disorder, holding
themselves ready, however, for such
emergencies as were created In Meridian
when Judge was shot down by Radical
incendiaries in the very act of perform
ing the almost sacred duties of his Office.
Let them renew their resolve to bear,
and still to forbear, and afford still fur
ther evidence of civil obedience and or
der througho all their borders.
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MERIDIAN.
Close of the Investigation,

The investigation of the recent riot was
closed yesterday. The testimony covers
about one hundred and forty pages of legal
cap paper. The decision of Judge Leach
man who has presided as a committing mag
istrate, is as follows: That q. w. Brantley,
Hugh w. Wilson and Robert L. Coleman,
Sr, be held to answer before the Grand
Jury at the next Term of the circuit court
on the Sd Monday in April, 1871, to answer
the State of Mississippi, of a charge of un-
lawful assembly or any other charge the
Grand Jury may prefer against them, in a
bond of $500, each with good and sufficient
security that j. +. Sanford and Isaac Adams
be bonded in the sum of $500, each to an
swer a charge of assault with intent to kill,
or any other charge the Grand Jury NAV
prefer against them, and that A. G. Horn be
likewise held in the sum of 500, to answer
q charge of assault or any other charge the
Grand Jury may see fit to prefer against
him.-GaZette.
An this is all of it! Let it be remem-
bered that Judge Leachman, before whom
the trial was had, is a Republican APP
pointee of Republican administration /;
that the Prosecuting Attorney was select
ed by Republican Governor and con-
irmed by Republican Senate, and that
he was assisted by counsel employed by
the said Governor. The investigation was
full and complete.
1t demonstrated that the conduct of
the misguided negroes who precipitated
the difficulty, and whose hearts were in
spired by mean white adventures, to-
ward the white population was insulting,
aggressive and unbearable. That they
shot down the Judge Ia Republican, who
was trying them for riotous acts: and
that their own lives were lost at the hands
of the Sheriff's posse (the Sheriff a Re-
publican) in the attempt to vindicate the
majesty of the law and to preserve the
peace.
We cannot better conclude this article
than by copying the following comments
of the Okolona. News, a Republican
newspaper
That Meridian has been infested by a
gang of yag4bond negroes for a Ioag time
is apparent to all. and with the teachings,
inculcated by few white candidates for the
penitentiary, 10 the main secret of the terrible
scenes enacted IN that city. Those who were
instrumental in bringing about the riot and
murder have, no doubt, receired their just
merits, and IL should be a earning to all negroes
throughout the State.
So mote it be
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Holden was convicted Of the infamous
crimes of sending lawless bands into
counties where there was no instruction
to arrest peaceable citizens-of assaiIing,
imprisoning and Furnishing them without
warrant or trial, and denying them the
right of Habeas Corpus and Of
appropriating the public funds for unlaw-
full purposes. On some of the counts in the
Indictment - several Radical Senators
voted for conviction. Under the COnstitu
ton of North Carolina, the President Of
the Senate, Republican, elected wher
the military we're in possession of the
State. is his successor
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A lady who signs herself "a MARTYR 20
Late Hours" offers the following sensible
suggestion 10 young mems
Dear gentlemen between thD ages Ui t.F..
teen and forty five. listen to d frN v0rI.H
grntuitous remarks. When sou wtkr ...
cial call Of an evening ON young HdT 80
away 40 reasonable hour. Say SOU D0u.H
o'clock, an hour ana a bali Is certainly H
long as the most fascinating OF HUu DOB H.
versatiOu can, or rather ought, fu dr.Ifr U
use his charms, Two hours. Indeed. can H
very pleasantly spout with music. rIUs. H
other games, 20 lend variety hur hIat HH
by no means sta longer Make rH.HH
calls, and come Ofteher. a girI-fnH Do
sensible true-hCartrd RirI-wiIl rIJuy thf
ter, and really value your uaglHrH".
more. just conceive the agony of gI
VINO, we'll knowing the feelings of % niir
aud mother on the subject h,lrs 'hr '..h
strike ten, and yet must sit uu thr Oh"
her chair, IN mortal terror. Ir.f papa .h"..
put his on repeated threat INTO rNrrHI.l-
that Of coming down and inviting Doe EH
tleman 20 breakfast. Al, wr gIrs uU.H.
stand IL All by experience, tud knnH aHH
Is 10 dread the progno-tir oi di-p.r.1f De-
such cases "A sigh of relief gruruIN a.nH
panies the closing Of the door hrurI Z.
gallant and one don't get over fur lle.IngH
trouble till safe la the arms az NmlH.
Even then, sometimes the dream ar"''..
ed with some phantom of gu angry PONG
aud distressed (f0r al plrtic-l mother W
all because young man Will maAe I'.f.
call than he ought 20. .
Now, young gentlemen friends lN F
you what We girls will du. For hoar
a half we will be- most irrc-l-uD.F c.aM
aud fascinating; then beware. myunl .a.
responses viii be- All you need expect J."
IT, when the limits shall have been pl
startling query shall Boz heard "lH. .
time 20 close upY you must eun..lrf
righteous punishment. aud taking }nli 4.
meekly departs saddcr, aud ii F
hoped a wiser man. DO not get angry
the next time you come, be careful Pr h"I
within bounds. We want tu fI-r t.
these pleasant morning., and Improve
"shining hOurs;n but when forced 'D " ny
at such Unreasonable hours at night N
hausted nature will speak. and Ar Va n'.'.
consequence, with the utmost -prrd lU '.'
ing, we can barely get down to bn1hIA'. \.
time 10 escape reprlmani from pApA
don't believe IN beaux-as though Dr. nv.
was yOung-and a mild rcpruNnf N
from mamma, who understand I.Il'
ter poor daughters feelings, hut ,tul
disapprove outwardly, 90 keep up aH.
ances. And now. young men, ih.hk a.
these things, and dun't-iOr ply
throw down your paper with p,IA" ."
remember the safe side OF ten.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-30

A warm debate took place In the Sem
ate on Friday and Saturday on the House
Resolutions instructing the Governor to
apply to the Federal authorities 10 send
troops into the State. The discussion
was peculiarly animated on Saturday
Able speeches were delivered against the
scheme by Messrs. Lyles, Bennett and
Duncan. Senator Watts vainly endeav-
ored to obtain the floor TO protest in the
name of his constituents against the
threatened outrage, but was prevented by
a parliamentary trick. The speakers re-
ferred to, all acquitted themselves well
and CALAMITY Duncan's Damascus blade
was in good order and cut right and left
into the Mongrel ranks. Bennett de-
nounced the project as an infamous
scheme to re-establish military rule In the
State in defiance of the rights of thepeO-
pie; and in reply to the rebuke OF the
Loyal League fraternity of carpetbag-
gers and Africans, that his course would
carry him outside of the pale of the Re
publican party, he reiterated his deter
mination to pursue it resolutely, carry
him where it would. He recited the
wrongs which the people have suffered
traced the occasional acts of violence
which have been provoked, and yet are
hypocritcally complained of by the car
pet-baggers, to their source, and repelled
with scorn the attempt to drive him from
the path of duty into a policy of race
agitation and military oppression of the
whites to subserve partizan purposes.
GIeed. a negro "Senator" from Lowndes,
was the champion of the Radicals, assist
ed by Morgan. His (Gleefs) harangue
was wild, rambling, disjointed affair, Of
course, but it was full of the virus OF
hate towards the whites, armed bodies Of
whom he asserted, were engaged in NAL
treating the blacks and their carpet-bag
friends who are filling the offices. Ig
norant of the Constitutional functions Of
State Government, and of the Federal
Government, he assumed that it was the
duty of the latter to garrison the State
with Federal troops to execute the laws,
If this recourse fails them, he said there
was a point beyond which forbearanct
would cease to be virtue, and that the
blacks would then be constrained to takt
their protection into their own hands. The
harangue was of most provoking anC
incendiary character, and we have report
ed the fact so that the people among
whom he lives may know what sort of
character they have to deal with, and t.
guard against his Vaccinations. That h'
misrepresents the feeling of a majority o
the people of his race who are not draw
ing eight dollars day, and perquisites
we are assured, but he has the capacity al
well as the will to make mischief.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-30

The Chicago Times observes with truth
that the Ku Klux are most numerous
where the greatest efforts have been made
IN exterminate them. Governor Holden
and his troops in North Carolina were busy
in imprisoning and killing Ku Klux for
years, and they increased under his adj
ministration. Where military and car
pet-bagger rule in the South have been
marked by the greatest contempt for law
and right, and the greatest cruelty toward
the people, the Ku Klux have increased
and multiplied.
From this it would appear that the Ku
Kux are the offspring of what is mean
est, and worst, and most criminal in milf
tary, and carpet-bagger rule. Were Tel
a resident of North Carolina, he would be
a Ku Klux. Tell, as a patriot, was the
offspring of Gesler's tyranny, whether
Tell was a myth or man. Intolerable
public evils very frequently create lofty
virtues to combat them.
1t is singular that the Radical rulers
have not found out that the true way
to get rid of Ku Klux organizations is tc
eradicate the crying abuses that have
brought them into existence. No class
of our population have so deep ON inter
est in preserving order as the whites
themselves.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-30

A brief synopsis of the debate in the
Senate on the bill for the transportation
of persons for trial to any portion of the
State beyond the limits of the county, or
even judicial district, in which the of
fences charged are suspected to have
been committed, is published elsewhere.
And also the text of the infamous
scheme.
Tie reader will readily discover how
the bill may be perverted to the most
atrocious purposes if employed by a cor
rupt and vindictive Executive, with a
large sum of money at his disposal for
its execution, abetted by a servile, parti-
san Judiciary.
We trust that Gov. Alcorn will not
permit a measure so liable to be perver-
ted to the uses of despotism in the hands
of venal and vindictive men, to be left as
legacy to the people of the State when
he shall have vacated the Executive
chair. He must be aware that no such
extraordinary measure is needed for the
preservation of the peace so long as he
remains in the Office and will exercise its
functions for their protection. And he
also knows the extent to which it is liable
to be welded by its authors for the pur-
poses of revenge when he shall have va
Gated the office.
The measure is the offspring of the
bigoted partisanism of its authors, and
foreshadows the use they intend to make
of it when they shall have obtained con-
troll of the State Administration.
Ne win now enter our prediction that
if it should become law its atrocious
features win consign it to the degradation
of dead letter on the statute book which
it will befoul ;..or its attempted enforce
ment will be the prolific source of acts
ofyiolence a thousand fold worse than
even the imaginary crimes for which it
has been prescribed as a remedy by its
originators.
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Arrest of the Assessor and Board
OfSupervfsOrs of Warren
County.

On the 9th of February last COL VIM.
III. McCardle, of the Herald, made oath
before r. Barnett, city Judge of Vicks-
burg, that E. w. Folkes, Assessor of
Warren county, had been guilty of mis-
demeanor and malfeasance in Office by
knowingly and willfully violating the
law of the State entitled can act to pro-
e'hibit improper allowances by Boards of
''Police, approved January 18th, 1862, !"
inasmuch as he did apply for and obtain
from the Board of Supervisors of the
county of Warren an allowance ofs4, O87,-
IA from the county funds in addition to
his salary. The case came up last Sat
urday before Judge Barnett in the city
of Vicksburg, and the accused was bound
over to appear at the next term of the
Circuit Court in the sum of $1,000
Folkes, it is reported, has been removed
from Office.
At the same time Col McCardle made
affidavit that j. II. Leitch, Albert
johnson, w. McGhee, Henry Hunt and
]. S. Alexander, members of the Board
of Police of Warren county had been
guilty of the same crime in making the
allowance above stated. On. Saturday
last four of the parties appeared in court,
and waving and examination, were
placed under . bond Of 81, 900. The
negro, AIbert johnson, who misrepre
SCENTS Warren county in the Legislature,
pleaded his exemption from arrest and
refused to make his appearance. It
would be well for the Governor.tO take
his case in hand while he = EARNING
thieves out of Office
If the puhlic-spirited men throughout
the State would initiate the example of
Col. McCardle, much Of the plundering
of the tax-payers by political adventures
would be stopped. Teach them that
civil law Is now the order of the day,
and not the bayonet power by which
Ames thrust them into Office, and they
viii be forced to dezist altogether or turn
their high-handed roberries into petty
laEcenies, 1893. .Aszsissf ssszok- sssaas
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From the Cincinnati Enquire.
North Carolina ItecOnsfrucieo'

An Incident or two. which Occlrrti ~
Gently ia North Carolina, illusuh'.
justice Ii administered under lttdi'A I'-
structiOn in the South. -
A cOlored fellow-citizCn went INTO
and finding the merchant ns Do 'uF i.
too busily engaged with q cust0mrr
tend 20 MS wants. proceeded 10 hll A't
cts with sundry valuable article l}A-
the counter. IL "a. deXtcriou-ly a9p.
the vigilant eye Of the owner -a"
transpired. A the gentleman was pa
out OF the door with his booty tue mf. '
arrested him, made him unload, aHa '.
handed him over a. the tender urI.
tie law. The thief was Indicted taa
raiRned before Court aud jury oi hIs VIZ.
The facts were proven AZ above -la''H.
learDed Judge charged the Jury as i'.'
s.Gentlemen OF jury: Dis prI-hH +.
are tryiu' IL charged with the crime ~
In Stealth Is the takin' huI et,t
away OF de goods of another lit me" D
only take 'em. bat must tote 'cm oA. IA
prisoner took the goods, but before ~ ~
out Of the store de owner made him i'A
dar. II de stOrckeeper wanted PAP mah.
prisner a thief hc should wall now N
prisner had len the store aud toir4 .+ III
goods. lOu must lind the pr's1e
guilty lad
The jury, concurring in the law n IA
down by the Court, Instantly hrquit.''
accused.
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PoIificaI PrOscrfpfiOn Still the
Order of the Day--Hts Lesson.
In view of recent indications since the
meeting of the new Congress, the Wash
ington Patriot informs the country that
no scheme of general amnesty will at any
early period be permitted by the Repub-
lican majority. The bill of MIR. Beck
(Democrat) though modified by the Po-
land amendment failed opass the House.
The Patriot says: CATER six years OF
peace, the policy of prescription is as vigor-
ously pursued by Radicalism as when its
hostile batteries were first directed against
Cancellation. There is large class OF
men who do not desire harmony, because
they live by the of agitation.
"This expression of the House almost
preeludes the hope of disabilities being
removed in any prominent case, or where
plausible objection can be conveniently
urged. Hence it isIpur duty to say, with
candor, that there is no reasonable pros
pect for Democrats laboring under the
exclusion of the fourteenth amendment,
and who have been elected to this Con-
gress, of being relieved in time to be
useful, should they be relieved at all.
Certain. Republicans, with sinister pur-
poses, encourage different idea, but
they desire to diminish our representa-
ton, and to keep all such cases indefinite
ly suspended for partisan advantage. No
one can be deceived by this arti6ce, with
out a voluntary surrender of all discrimi-
nation. The Radicals in both branches
of Congress have resolved to keep every
Democrat out against whose record the
slightest preteXt can be found, and
against whose right the merest bubble OF
technicalitv can be invented"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-30
In the debate on the Resolution to ,eni

In the debate on the Resolution to send
a Commute TO examine the condition OF
the prisoners ON the Richardson pIanta-
tons, Sites, cOlored, of Washington.
said HE knew that Mr.. Richardson took
''good care of the prisoners and that rs
che did not know how soon he might be
"sent to the Penitentiary himself he
wanted the prisoners kept in good
''hands.r He had not received one cent
''from Mr.. Richardson to advocate ~
claim" Foley, cOlored, of Wilkinson
said, "He wanted the cOnvicts brought
within the walls of the Peniteutiarv I H.
''ca'isc he wight soon Be sent to the ,Ps,,i,e,,-
'aaTy himseI, and he did not mani 70 ,sork
~ q red, besides he did mot aknO.U hosu
''sson m many Of hisfriends here would Be IN
. j. same fs. and be didn't want to see
then N the field either. y 81, ~ - & :.
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newspaper

So mote it be !

The following card published by q
brother of the late Mayor of Meridian,
who was the chief agent of the strife that
recently prevailed there, speaks for itself.
The writer, Theodore Sturges, unlike the
ex-Mayor, is no political adventurer.
He was citizen before the war, and has
established ties and sympathies with the
people among whom his destinies have
been cast 1t may be imagined how in
vincible is his sense of justice to the
illuminated and outraged people of Meri-
dian, when it overcomes his natural re-
pugnance to exposing the falsehood of
misguided brother. We trust the
Northern newspapers which have apprO-
priated with avidity the fabrications of
one of the Sturges, viii send along with
it the complete antidOte furnished by the
other:
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-30

John Quincy Adams, q fhir-minded
Northern man, treated this question fair
" when he said in effect that the acts OF
violence attributed to the mysterious or
ganization of Ku .Klux was the natural
result of the tyrannous and criminal rule
established over the white people of the
South by the Radical party. The people
have been oppressed by heir rulers as a
people having no rights that the usurpers
were bound to respect; and combinations
have been formed for protection against
despotism and legalized robbery.
The Ku Klux organizations have grown
out of the refusal of the law-making
power to permit the people to exercise the
right of filling the offices created for their
uses and which are elective by them under
the constitution.
They have grown out of the financial
extortions which have been practised upon
them, and of taxation which has been
piled mountain-high, without representa-.
ton.
They have grown out of the employ
ment of corrupt and unprincipled men
in office; and the failure to remove and
bring them to punishment.
They have grown out of the notorious
and persistent efforts of these official In
cumbents to stir up strife between the
races, to poison the minds of the negroes,
and to infame them with prejudice to-
wards the whites in order that they may
become efficient instruments of revenge.
They have grown out of the employment
of taxes collected from the people osten
sively for school purposes, to the enrich
ment of swarms of mercenaries.
They have grown out of the misappli-
cation of these funds in the erection Of
costly buildings, the purchase of expen-
sive furniture, and Of unnecessary books
for the benefit ofspeculators and jobbers
They have grown out of the practise
of the Republican rulers to hunt dowr
and prosecute thewhite population of the
South in the interest of their party, a
shown by their course on the question o
removing political disabilities imposed il
spirit of bigoted partisanism and o
fanatical hatred.
If the Radical rulers want to disbapC
the Ku Klux, or other combinations fo
protection against legalized outrages, lie
them begin at the beginning, and remOv'
the causes to which these organization
owe their existence. And above all, lie
then see to it that the Loyal League con
spiracies against the peace of communitie
and the rights and liberties of the whit
people, are broken up.
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John T. Lacey, Mayor of Aberdeen, was
carried off last night. No trace of him can
be found, and it is feared he has been fouly
dealt with.-Telegram 20 the Washington
Chronicle.
Will the Administration organ ever
correct this report, and inform its readers
that the Ku Klux in question were the
Grand Jury of Monroe county from
whose indictments for malfeasance in Office
the said Lacey fed that this is the
only "foul dealing" to which he has been
subjected, and that he has since turned
up as large as life and twice as natural