The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-07-06

MoNGRKL cARNIvAL-MILITART RULE hAA
PAxT-rHE DEGRADATION OF THE
UNIvERsTTY-How ART THE
MIGHTY FALLEN.



EDrroRs CLARION The iron heel of des-
potism is on our necks here. The SrAho
Jury has been in session four weeks ana no
certainty of their being discharged Tor
some time yet. Next week the Circuit
Court Ia TO sit-another Grand Jury will be
upon us. The L. S. Army is being quartered
upon u.s. CThey are the best part of the
CLAM
The clansmen are gathered here, carpet
baggery is rampant and scallawagery Is
bowling the knee TO Baal!
The whole excitement is brought about
by the prosecutions of the minions of power
who it would appear were brought here for
the purpose With the exception OF the lit
tie fracas in the Court House last week, OF
which you were fully and fairly advised,
nothing has occurred that would justify the
extraordinary gathering of the clansmen OF
Mongrelism here at this time.
The prisoners who have been brought here
from Monroe and other counties, and kept
under guard for near two weeks. are intelli-
gent and respectable gentlemen. Their
wives, daughters and sisters have had to
come here to testify against band of ne
groes, having in most cases proven an alibi
for their friends.
1t is pity competent reporter could not
have been here to note every word and ac-
ton in court.
The Eminent Man." and Tarbell, Warner,
ct id OBane genus are here too. One man
among them is supposed to be brought here
as leaven to the lumpi What becomes of
the leaven9 Sad thought! AlcOrn pushed
the Chancellor aside at the winding up
exercises on Thursday, and took his place
on the programme, and delivered the Bac-
chalaureatel
1t was richl The Governor is ex-officio
President of the Board of Trustees-but he
spoke as IL he were the Boardl GU will
do this and that. 81" will have this done
aud that done. 1t was big "I'' all the time.
He said some good things-what "Emi-
nent Man" is there who could not say some
good things in harangue of between an
hour and hour and half in length?
He told the Faculty to look out, sup and
dust" was his classic language as near as 1t
could be understood from distance, that
the colored professors OF "Alcorn" Universe
ty would outstrip or excel them He gave
them to understand that If they did not
come up to his standard, he would have
their heads cut off. That was the idea. No
ku Klux in that of counsel
would like to give you the points in his
speech if l had time. The course of THE
CLARION in condemning the scheme OF radi-
CALLING the University and subsidizing it to
the base uses of the carpet-bag-scalawag
regime was diapproyed by many good men
who now sanction it, and say you were
right. was here, he said he
came to look for himself and was now con-
WINGED that you were right. 1t gets black
er and blacker; and the baleful influence of
the birds of prey-Tarbell and Warner, Al
corn and Chandler, who have established
their authority over this once honored in
stitution, is more and more apparent
Many who swallowed the dose last year be-
cause are denouncing the vile
nest now. The rostrum presented a poor
show this year. Thoe. Lyon, one of AL
corn's ChaDcellors, delivered the prize
medals. 1t was the saddest and dreariest
exhibition ever witnessed on those boards.
The attempt to build up Radical influence
by means of the Institution and to take adj
vantage of the known affection of our peo-
people for it to command the tribe of Tar
bell, Warner & Co. to political and social
consideration-lost the University one-half
its scholars last year. Under their guidance,
its course downward will be accelerated
The bats and owls have usurped the places
of the eagle; and the high-spirited Missis-
sippians who reluctant to abandon their
Alma Mater, and remained, have rested I'M
easy ever since; and all the rest will feel
that while these birds Of evil omen are
there, it is no place for them.
MIssIssIPPIAN.