The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-10-19

Who can longer dispute what We, In
common with other Southern Journals,
have published and proved of the utter
depravity, corruption and venality of the
Radicals who control the governments of
the reconstructed States? MIR. Greedy,
the author of the anti-slavery movement
and founder of the Republican party,
has been joined in his call upon the
s'thieves" who have obtained control of
the Southern States, Ito get out, by the
Washington Chronicle, edited by Gov.
Holden, the personal organist of Gen.
Grant.
So monstrous and notorious are the
crimes of the harpies who have been
foisted by fraud and violence into posi-
ton in the Southern States, that even so
INSCRIPTIONS a partisan journal as the
Chronicle cries out against them, and
warns the Republican party that if it
does not cleanse the Augean stable and
purge itself of such vile leadership as the
wretches now in authority, that it will be
inevitably wrecked, and will deserve to
be wrecked in all the Southern Ssates-a
fate which has already overtaken it in
majority of them.
In the issue of the Chronicle of the
9Th, this metropolitan organ of Grant
publishes conspicuously a communication
from Southern Republican, in which
the writer states, that he has witnessed
''the rascality" of the Radicals in author
ity in the plundered States, and brands
them as ''scoundrels" and "thieves" upon
whom it will be doing God and the coun-
try service to make war. Here is what
the writer says:
Special correspondence of the Chronicle.
COLUMBIA, 5. c.. Oct. 2, 1871.
If the Republican party is not rcorganized
and power placed in the hands of better
men, shall consider it my duty to make war
upon it at all hazards. These scoundrels who
now hold the reins think that they hare sto
Ten enough money from the public TO buy the
nominations for office, and likewise all the opp0-
sitiOn Of disSdtisfied Republicans. i will teach
them LnaL there Is at lcdSI one man WHO.
though a native-born Republican. cannot be
bought to the support of a Ring utterly des-
titute of every element of Republicanism
save the name. | feel like leaving the State
myself to escape the fury of the coming
storm, but can hardly forego the pleasure Of
pelting these there's in the next canvass. An
old deacon who refused to accommodate
himself to the changes and innovations in
the Church without constantly annoying his
brethren. and whose removal to heaven was
prayed for by one of the brethren, said, Il
won't 90 :" anG, like the old deacon, don't
feel like going TO any better locality until
this is made either better or worse. In the
first place, feel responsible, to a certain
extent, for having helped to place these fell
lows where they are, and cannot quietly sit
down and Gcitness their rGscdLtty lctttOH Opp0s-
ing it. | must either make war on them or
shirk the fight which they have provoked.
The correspondent proceeds to denounce
the Mongrel Lit. Governor of South
Carolina, as an ASA species of the
brute creation which, by the way, is
largely represented in all the Radical
menageries.
To give point to this revelation in
which the author frankly confesses his
share of the responsibility of putting
these ''thieves" and scoundrels" in office,
Gov. Holden editorially endorses it as
follows:
From the Washington Chronicle.
A correspondent from South Carolina is
just angry enough to express himself en-
phatically, and still clearly and Wisely. That
a substantial and decided reorganization of
the party is needed in the several States of
the South is unquestionable. Bet,ceen fraud
and imbeciluy, or rather By both, the manage
ment is ruiRous.
In South Carolina, such a man as Lieut..
Governor Ransier is totally unfit to be
chairman of a ward committee, much less of
the State committee. He is weak, vacilla-
ting, ignorant, conceited, and obstinate.
He is on both sides ofevery question. He is
forever assuring everybody that he exactly
agrees with them, and explaining to every
body how it was that within very short
time he had said, in public speech, what
seems to each to be in direct and irreconcil-
able hostility. He is perpetual apology.
And so of dozens of others, having title |
brains, no education, and less than no character
These men must be ousted and better men |
put in their places.
Here is a distinct declaration by the |
organ of the Federal Administration that |
the leaders of the Radical party in the
Southern States-the material out of
which they have made Governors, Leg
ators, Judges, &c.-have "little brains,
10 education and less character" and
hat the "fraud and imbecility of their
is ruinous." If ruinous
o them, no harm would be done. For
Features of the description given by the
and its endorsed correspondent,
re ibeIs upon humanity who are past
aving. But they are running" the
party, we infer the Chronicle
means. This is the only consolatary
eature in the whole business. The
ruin" of the Republican party is the
aviation of the country.
The Chronicle appeals to the clans to
ut better class of men in the lead.
tut the misfortune with its remedy is,
nat better class is not to be found.
he Radical party has demonstrated to
ne downtrodden and impoverished peo-
lie of the South that it is party of hate
nd of plumber, and it can obtain no !
scruits except desperate adventures
no devoid .sof brains and character" :
nd out of employment, are willing to !
,cept service at the hands of an infa- {