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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-07-06
Eligibility TO OGice-.-A Word 10
Candidates.

We have noticed with regret that in
some counties persons have announced
themselves as candidates for Office who,
if elected, cannot qualify for the reason
that they held Office before the war, and
engaged in the so-called rebellion, or gave
aid and comfort to those who were so en-
gagged. The 14th amendment provides /:
"No person shall hold
office, civil or military Office, under the
United States, or ander any State, who hav-
ing previously taken an oath
as member of any State Legislature or as
an executive or Judicial officer of any State
to support the Constitution of the U. 5. shall
have engaged in instruction or rebellion
against the same, or given aid and comfort
to the enemies thereof"
Now, all persons who held Office under
the State government before the war, ne
cessarily took an oath to support the con-
stitution of the United States, and are
therefore excluded from holding office
unless they are not in the category
of those who participated directly or in
directly in the war of Southern indie
pendence, or have had their disabilities
removed. Here is the oath of Office they
were required to take as prescribed in
the constitution and code of 1857.
Sec. l. Members Of the Legislature, and
all officers, executive and judicial, before
they enter upon the duties of their respec-
tive offices, shall take the following oath, or
affirmation. to-wit; / solemnly swear (or
affirm, as the case may be) that will sup
port the Constitution of the United States,
and the Constitution of the State of Missis-
sippi, so long as continue citizens there
of; and that will faithfully discharge, to
the best of my ability, the duties of the Of
flee of -, according to law. Sc help me
God"
We will add that it will be trif1ing
with grave matter for persons, who held
any State Office, however high or petty,
to persist being candidates now unless
they are willing to testify that they did
not in any way abet the South in the
war, or have since had their disabilities
removed 1t is folly for them to rely
upon the removal of the prohibition af-
ter the election The dominant party
know no such thing as magnanimity to
political foes; and persons who may be
elected resting under disabilities, may be
assured that they will not be permitted to
serve except on condition of selling out
to the carpet-baggers.
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COURAGE FARMERS !-Notwithstand.

ing the discouraging prospects of the
yield of the cotton crop, the price is still
upward. The latest dispatches report
an advance in Liverpool and we may
look for corresponding movement in
our home markets. This upward move
ment is not SO much due to speculative
schemes as to the ascertained inevitable
falling off of production and the opera
ton of the law of supply and demand.
Let our farmers take courage. Their
wisdom in increasing their corn crop so
as to secure supply of that necessity in
spite of rain, or drouth, and in the
diminishing of their acreage in cotton,
will be amply indicated. On the whole,
their prospect for good years business,
is better now than it was at the beginning
of the season. Let their watchword be
Economy and'Industry.
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SOUTHERN EsTIMATEs FOR Tux COMING
SEASON.

NKw ORLEANS, July 1.-The Cotton tx
change Committee on Statistics and lnior-
nation have made a report on the growing
cotton and grain crops with dates from the
18th 10 the 18th OF June. The folloWlnK Il
a summary:
Mississippi. = The cotton reduction OF
acreage Is 20 % 20 per cent, with an aver
age 81 one-half to three-quarters Of the
yield Of last year per acre. The corn acre
age has increased % 10 40 per cent. The
latest reports Indicate short yield per acre
LOuisiana.-The cotton reduction h 10 20
~ per cent. The crop Is three weeks back
ward and considerably injured, especially ~
the lowlands, by rain and lice. There -
nearly sufficient corn for home consump-
ton planted.
Alabama Cotton. - The reduction IN
acreage Is 10 to 20 per cent. The crop Is
three weeks backward. The average pro-
duction per acre will be less than last year.
This is accompanied by statistics from
other States for which we have not room.
With the best opportunities for obtaining
information as to the acreage of the cot
ton crop in Mississippi, and its prospects
we have no hesitation in saying that the
foregoing estimate of reduction and prob
able decrease of production, is not at all
exaggerated.
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Orthodox Republication.

In the same column in which it pub
fishes the denunciation by the editor of
the new Radical organ, of the infamous
proceedings at Holly Springs and Oxford
carrying out the Ku Klux laws of Con-
gress, as an Outrage" the Pilot states
that the said proceedings of the Washing
ton authorities are among the things
needful in mississippi; and in other
''Southern States. We have always,
Isays the carpet baggers' organ, be-
''lieved such action necessary; have
ALWAYS advocated it." And the Pilot
vehemently protests that the treatment of
our citizens is mo outrage" either on
them or the Estate authorities"
And so it seems the organs are not to
be in accord. But unquestionably the
Pilot breaches orthodox Republicanism as
delivered to the faithful by the head of
the Republican party and as remorseless-
ly executed on the unofending heads of
the Southern people.
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We learn that number of colored persons
have, within the past few days. applied al
the office of the Jackson Railroad for apart
ments in the sleeping cars, running Ia
connection with the trains Of that company.
and that they met with a decided refusal
These cars do not belong to the company,
but to private individuals, who pay GER
tain stipulated sum of money for the right
of putting them on the road. Being pri-
vate property, the owners can let them to
such persons as they may choose to select,
and this attempt of negroes to force them
selves into the cars appears to be a concer-
ted effort to produce disturbance and
bring the matter to legal test. We feel
that the public generally will support and
applaud the course taken by the owner in
this matter.-N. o. Bulletin.
If the demand for sleeping cars for the
colored people is sufficient to justify the
proprietors in providing apartments for
their use, doubtless they will do so, on
the principle that the demand generally
produces the supply. Under existing
circumstances there was but one course
to be pursued by the proprietors, and it
was the one taken.
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Clerk of Circuit Cour, Oktibt
Hon. A. Ill. StePhvens ON the Sifua-
ufOm.

Hon. A. III. Stephens in the course OF
an article in the Atlanta Sun (the paper
edited by himself) correcting certain
misrepresentation of his interviewer OF
the N. Y. Tribune-says:
In reference to the ''new departure" by
| the late Democratic Convention of Pennsyl-
vania, from the old creed of the party, Mr..
| Stephens did not say that he did not wish
his views ito be made public" but he did
not wish them to be made public i'm the way
proposed; and that when he should be dis
posed to give them to the public, if ever, he
wished them to be given i'm his own words,
and in such way as he might choose.
In reference to another war, and the diff
ference between Mr.. Stephens and General
TOOmbs as to the possibility" of another
war "between the North and South" Mr..
Smalley entirely omits to state that Mr..
| Stephens was exceedingly emphatic in his
opposition to any such resort, without re-
gard to its possibility. "Under our system
of government" said he, 'tthe only sure
| hope for the preservation of public liberty
and the rectificatiOn of wrongs ofany sort,
| "a we'll as setting aside usurpations by
| Congress, was in the peaceful and more
| effective appeal to the instrumentalities of
| the constitution-the allot-box-the legis-
lative, judicial, and executive departments
of the government. Liberty is seldom
achived by wars or physical force; it is the
natural offspring of cultivated reason and
an enlightened sense ofJustice."
In regard TO the acts of Congress known
as the reconstruction measures" upon
which were based the Fourteenth and Fiji
teenth Amendments, all of which he consid-
cred gross usurpations by majority faction
in Congress, he expressed himselfin most
decided language that there should be no
resistance-nO physical force. The proper
course, in his opinion, to be pursued by the
friends of liberty in all the States towards
these measures, was the same as that advised
by Mr.. Jefferson to be pursued by the same
class toward the Infamous ''alien and sedi-
ton acts in l79S-99. While holding them
to be fragrant usurpations, and denouncing
them as ''nulities and not laws" de jaere, yet
having the form of laws they were to be
Obeyed so long as they were held to be so
by those in authority, clothed with power
TO execute them. The rightful remedy for
these outrages upon constitutional rights
was not in accepting them as accomplished
facts" not to be assaulted nor questioned, nor
is granting dissolution to the perpetrators
of them, but by exhibiting their enormous
wrongs, to arouse the masses of the people
every where, and to rally them to the polls,
that they might there give their public con-
demnatiOn, both upon them and their au-
thOrS.
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The Legi.lation orIseS

A correspondent writes that Radical
spokesman has become wonderfully con-
cerned about the legislation of 1865 in
reference to freedmen and other matters
He is evidently afraid that attention will
not be diverted from his own record as
one of the Mongrel Wreckers in the
Legislature of 1S70-'71. Now, for the
information of this Wrecker, we will
remind him that in delving into the re-
cords of those times-he will find that
the following and others were members
of the Legislature of 1865, and were res
ponsible for whatever good or evil it NAV
have done:
Gov. AcOrn-"who sways the destinies
OF Mississippi -Morphis, member Of
Congress Deason. Supt. State Hospital
at Watcher; Bridges, now Sheriff Of
Choctaw; Gowan, Of Simpson, another
ofce-holder; McRae, of Kemper. late
District Attorneys Judge simralI, and
many others who might be mentioned.
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Progress Of the War upon NIissis
sfPpfams.

From fifty to seventy-fve citizens O
the State are now under arrest and OF
trial before a United States Court a
Oxford. They were seized by fedora
soldiery without warrant, and are tried
before tribunal foreign to the constitu
ton and laws of the State to which they
are amenable.~ and in contempt Of the
government thereof. They have beer
indicted by packed juries, composed
of negroes who are ignorant of the obi
cation of an oath, and carpet-bag Wreck
ers, who are concerned in plunderine
and depressing the citizens of the State.
The victims of this persecution are
guarded by U. S. soldiers, and treated a:
prisoners of war. The jury before whom
they are tried is composed of the same
material as the jury which indicted them,
and has been packed to convict. Among
the number are several who belonged to
the Forty Thieves Gang known as Mon.
grel members of the Legislature. In the
trial several of the prisoners have proved
an abb, but constituted as this jury is,
the testimony in their favor<will avail
nothing. The prosecutors are having
proof manufactured to order for the pur-
pose of conviction. In this diabolical
prosecution the Secret Service Money
collected from the people of the State
and placed at the disposal of Gov. Al
corn, together with funds from the treas
ury of the United States, are being free
ly used. To what extent the ruthless
war will be carried and how many
will be victimized we have no means of
estimating. Men have been dragged
from their homes without knowledge of
the cause Of their arrest, at the sugges-
ton of malicious and procured perurers,
and no one, however peaceable his con-
duct, or free from offending the Mon
grel gang by word or action, much less
violating the law, can consider himself
free from molestation and from convic-
ton by testimony manufactured for the
purpose by the tools whose oaths are at
the service of the Radical rulers. The
following is from the last Louisville
(Winston Co. Bulletin
We learn the U. s. soldiers made a raid In
the upper portion Of the county on last Sa-
turday night aanB arrested several of our
citizens, fcharges unknown as yet. They
took of eight men from Noxubee and this
winston county, 1t Is said by some that
they are charged OF being Ku K1nx. Now il
such men as Jack Tripleff. Peter McMaekin.
A. B. Parker, VIM. Barnhill- J-Barnhill and
B. Triplett (colored) are KuKlux, we are
not half ms afraid OF Ku-Klux as we have
been heretofore, from what we know of
these men, they are as peaceable, worthy
and reliable citizens as any In this county.
1T there are any charges against those men
we must say that it Is the first charges of
any offense against the laws that was ever
brought against some il not all OF them
WehOpe those men may have a fair and i'm
partial hearing which we know viii insure
an early and speedy return to their friends.
Charlie Doss and Van Hinton, are the
names Of those arrested in Noxubee.
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POLITICAL PERSONAL PARSONICAL.-We
learn that Parson Rushing will be q candi-
date for reelection from the counties of
Alfalfa and Leake, on the Radical ticket
Central Star.
Rushing is of the worst class of scala
wags. He voted for the whole brood of
Radical enormities, Penal Transporta-
ton, Picked Cavalry, Apportionment
bills, and all. ''Truly loyal during the
war, he naturally herds with the ''ras-
cally adventures" who are ruling and
plundering the people among whom he
has no eongenial habitation. He knows
his shame and is therefore worse than
Esau, who bartered away his birthright,
but was unconscious of the blessing he
had thrown away. He glories in his
apostacy, and is therefore worse than
Judas who displayed his remorse by hang
ing himself.
If the people of Attalasand LeakeY re-
presenting majority of the intelligence
and worth of the District, and now hav-
ing the opportunity to vote, permit him
to be returned to the Senate, they will
display an abandonment of principle and
self-respect which will amaze us.
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List Of Commissioner of the p ,
ded Admdes. for the southern
drIcr OF Mississippi, uppolniH q
the Circuit tGourt 81 said Do
trict.
Adams County. Josiah Winch. O.
sephus Hewitt, Fred. iarOns. d
Amite.-George A. Webb.
Claiborne. NJ Mmry L.NEa
Edward IL. stiles.
Clarke.--Wm. smith, Tho. N.l
Ira j. Carter, G. A. StDyaII Jane
Ter, Robt. II. Scales.
Copiah "A. T.. Barry. 20 %. Sag
! b. DeasOn. s. n. Harvey l. MII'
/ PeytOn, Christian LctWiugtr hH
Haley, ID. w. McRae.
Covington.-John Mcllaucy. J.H ID
Nair, Allen johnson.
Davis.--P n. Napier.
Greene.-John Mclnnis.
Hancock .-Benl. Sores J.. ID. 1881 i
Brown, j. r. n. Claiborne.
HARRISON J.. Davis, y. ll. on f.
Hinds.-Geo. ID. Harper Geo. a
James Mckee, q. T.. a.. tHsa. joe. q
art, n. W. Cabaniss, j. A.. Dunn. 81
Peyton, Saml Livingston, Simon
VIM. r. Fitzgerald, John AlcH4H." 4
HOlmes.--Dr. - King W.. I.a
III. III. fultz, W. J.. William. Na d.
SOP, James Hayes, VIM b. WIIIaH
Issaquena. W. n. Bernard
Feltus, Jas. J.. Chapman.
Jackson-W Grinln, g.. A.l.
Alley, Henry kirkwO0d.
Jasper.-Caieb Lindsey, Jamr ~
J. y. Mccormick, Duncan "A. I.H E
Adams.
Jefierson-James Johnston. % 81 ,
Claude Pintard, james m. ENIH h.t
en-, Asa IA. Watkins, Sterling can
Cameron.
Kemper.-John McRoa %. J.G
w. Hull, j. h. Dunlap, W. 1884, th.
Kellis
Leake.-John A. Hanson.
Lawrence.-k. A. webb. In q
nor.
Marion.-Rudolph Wnlougb.g
Lane.
MadisOn.-Wm. Mcbride. ThaH
elford, &. g.. Shackcli0rd. Cha. -Ha
w. y. Cunningham, Rice M. Wine.
williams, T. g. Upper.
NeahOba.-R. M. Ross, D. ID. hr
Newton. J.. Dansby, Jo..ahI .I
John Green.
Perry.-Asa Carter.
Pike.--W. +. Cain, oscar y.
John T. Lamkln, Sampson J.. lam.
Rankin.--A. q. Mayer y. vs.. h.A
Tho. }. Catchings, Shields J.. lla.t
Smith.-Laughlin McLaurIu
Simpson .-Thos. r.. Gowau,J. Nt
II. A. Durr, A.. y. Mizo.
=seott.-M Graham, TIP. Mlf.p'
Lack.
Warren &C. Gordon Adam, IW
Allen Mcdonnell, A. BurWoL p.
Henry X. Martin, J.. NJ. L0rWen.-.s
Wayne.-Angus Mcdonald. Coils.
W >. DaYis.
WashingtOn.-Alex. Yeryer W
VIM. III. Bolton, j. III. Nelson, Joas
wilkinson Nv. l.. Brandon 2. f..
q. III. Slmrall, w. j. Keller
Yazoo.-S. Galingor n. %, ~.
b. Mayes.
Lauderdale.-JOcl u. Wake
Brooke, u. j. Gibbons. John ~.
Il. Allen, John IA. Miller NJ. J.. hf-
Attest;
Gro. r.. swtEs
Clerks Office L. s. Circuit Court
1871.
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The Goodman Star learns from good
authority that Senator VI arneT, the flu
gleman-in-chief of the Radical party Of
Madison county, has come out openly in
favor of increasing the already oppres-
siye taxes His argument is, that the
higher the taxes are, the more worthless
che lands win become, rs the owners
thereof, who are already ssborne to the
earth by the superincumbent weight Of
heavy oppressive taxafion, win become
dishsarsensd, and TO escape the contin-
ned annoyance Of tire tax collector, win
dispose of their real estate for song to
the needy, shirtless adventures from the
North.
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a AFme Account 81 H.
bnnce in she uuft.g hs
Court Room nt as
From the Holy spr0bg
On Thursday evening. WIKI
there was no bushes b.Hr.
Col Lamar rose aud safaI,
that there was a man iu U.
whom he desired to have No..
Ing at the time % tho ma.
the net ofleaying thc haas
asked the court, III hc shaurH
state the grounds on which h.
the arrest, and Judge mn tr
proceed.
just at this time, ihaur..
had been demanded. val. r.
in front Of Col. Lama. ANIL -
him, chat che was al M.
was told by the court 10 liz
did 80. Col. Lamar then my.
state that he was standing nm
conversation with a eontemar
party whOse arrest was domsr.
up with two or three ufbrr
took 70 be grand jurors from
and this man now under auas
in a quarrel with a drunken
drew his pistol, and was IB
shooting him. when Doe wa. p-.
a soldier who was STANDING
from doing 50. The party wI
whose name was stated l0 h. Fl
rose up at this time iu frdufa
mar, and within q few fcot0f
Col. Lamar told him to nE.
remarking at the time. than I.
want such a creature near him
lar did not 10 down, and u.
told him If he did not do a
make him sit down. Whistler
10 confront him, when Cd. 4
10 raise a chair, and was I'm
striking him, when the Marh'
TO Col. l.. and laid his hand On
der, and told him not 10 strike h
and Col l.. Immediately lr
chair, and struck the Marsha
jaw.
At this time quite au ozoln
in the court room. Soyera .
ting in the bar, sprang Oh tm A.
and Col. l., 20 prevent further
S. District Attorney, -pmngUI
and demanded that COL L.
arrested. Col Emory tbc orr
Grand Jury, who was siitInrn
room at the time left che hm
diately, and returned in o. u
time with "A squadron of aH
guns in hand. one OF whom aI.
the bar. Col. J.. continued a
speaking, under great cXcIlen
remarked to the court chat hau
him 10 jail, and be rceardclh
as a more suitable place i0t
than most Others. Tie wn M
AT this time by Gcnl Feathers
Col. Manning, and asked 90 da
with them into am adjoining pom
he at once did. On hi- return
court room after a very short
Col. l.. made a few remarks of d..
character, and was applauiH
time by some Of the hy taaIr
crowd. The applause was 0du
stopped by the court, and Ba
reprimanded. Col. Wells again
asked that all persons hohadaH
should be arrested, but this wash
Col. l.. expressed his mu
yielding the floor, that hc bod
the Marshal by mistake 'm
man.
The court room was thon r.e
business was resumed Col H.
the court adjourned, expressed
for what had occurred. uud Boz t
terms assured the court ofhr hHH.
both personally and officially Il
TO the soldiery who were called
ton, to state that they behaved
acted with prudence aud
The Marshal, Col Pierce, did
out Of the line Of official duty u .
with great prudence.
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The circular for Commencement Day at
the University of Mississippi, was printed
by Boyle & Chapman, of this city.-Mem-
phis paper.
All the support the University receives
is from the taxpayers of the State; and
we notice that in the last catalogue it is
exultingly announced that the sum of
$50, 900 was appropriated to its use for
ten years at the late sessionsof the Legis-
lature. And yet since the installation
of the carpet-bag-scalawag regime all the
printing of the institution has been sent
to be executed in other States, although
they have not the pretext that it will not
be as well and as cheaply done among
the people who pay the tax.
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We learn that there was large and
harmonious Convention of the opposers
of carpet-bag misrule and corruption al
Brandon on Saturday and that Gen.
Robt. Lowry and DIR. Robbins were
nominated for the Legislature. All
Mississippians know Gen. Lowry. He
is one of them and has bright page in
her history of which they are proud.
Eloquent in the forum-wise in council
gentle in peace-brave in war-his
nomination is sign that our people in
tend calling their wisest and best men to
their Legislature. The condition of the
State demands it. His colleague is a
young gentleman identified in all his in
terests and sympathies with Mississippi.
He was born in Scott county-educated
in the State-and when a boy carried
her banner on the fields where the storm
of battle ragged fercest. He is a repre-
sentative of that vast army of young men
who have just come upon the stage of
action and must soon bear the response
bilities of our State government.
Well done, Rankin Gen. Lowry
may represent her in the Legislature !;
but in the canvass, if occasion offers, we
shall claim the right of the people out
side, to assign him to a wider field of
labor.
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A Card from O. &. French. the
Radical Leader i'm the House,
in which me Explains OF
His Testimony I'm
WashEm gdOn.
A LETTER FROM HON. o. c. FRENCH
ANSWER TO THE CLARION.
EDTroR NEW SOUTH:

ANSWER TO THE CLARION.
EDITOR NEW SOUTH:
I see In the Clarion of the 9th inst, a no
tice Of the fact of my going 10 Washington
10 'stestify before the Outrage Commit in
which notice the editor says tive know not
what this MEANS" / regret that the editor
of the Clarion. for whose intelligence have
always entertained the highest regard.
should manifest such Ignorance, and there
fore write I'd inform him through your
columns why went to w ashingtOn. went
In response TO subpoena received from
joint committee of the two Houses of Con-
gress, the same as other citizens are doing
from all parts of the South. The purpose
for which / was called, was to inform the
Committee as TO what knew relative to
the condition of my State, and particularly
Of that portion of ft which IhaVe the honor
TO represent Ina the Legislature, and will saw
for the information Of the Clarion man that
ly In accordance with facts. 1 should have
been perfectly willing for the editor of the
Clarion, or any other citizen Of the State.
20 have heard every word OF my testimony
the effect Of which would be TO encourage
the very large majority of the citizens 10
continue IN their efforts to restore and main
tain perfect peace and order within the
State, and TO discourage and bring 10 Justice
the comparatively few who are creating
disturbances and committing unwarrantable
depredations, -fslal. ..
o.c.FKExcH.
Ut viii be seen that Mr.. French has
testified contrary to the falsehoOds which
Beast Butler, Ames and Carpet Dagger
Speaker Warren have prOpagated, that
a large majority of the people of the
State are peaceable and w-abiding)