The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-11-02

Conservatives of Marshall county wi
be able to Illustrate this diabolical al
rangement, and we believe they will.
conservative Democrats, close YOU
battalons en- masse, and more at darn O
day on the 7h Of Nopen5er. GUrDl
CENTER
Ahe Leader Changes It's Tactic
ON the TarbeII Question.
In what we presume the Leader would
call Its reply to our last article upon tn,
conduct OF y Jonathan Tarbell since he hal
been JudgeOf the Supreme Court of Mis-
sisslppi, it changes its tactics entirely. 1
has naught to.say about the editorial which
appeared in the Pilot. Naught to say o.
the dastardly attack which was made up
on Judge Simrall in that editorial Il
does not inform us if it approve or dis.
approve of that editorial, or whether
or not it considers it proper for Su.
preme Judges to write putt5 of them
selves for partizan journals
The Leader has not one word to saw in
defense, or in disapproval of the noto-
rious and calumnious Brandon letter
which Judge Tarbell wrote, but of which
he was Gin no sense the author" 1t has
nothing to say of the vile ISLANDERS which
were perpetrated upon the people of Mis-
sissiPpi in general, and Scott county in
particular, in Judge TarbelPs letter to
the Congressional Reconstruction Com
mittee.
Nor are we informed whether or not
the Leader thinks ''any man might well
"be proud of" the civil record of Judge
Tarbell, but instead, it turns up the
white OF its eyes and draws down the
corners of its mouth, and in the most
sanctimonious tones begins the ''truly
loyal" and hypocritical cant about "the
wicked, criminal, and bloody rebel
lion"
Until now, we had thought that the
Leader was the organ of the ''repentant
rebels" those who had asked and receiv-
ed mercy (and office at the hands ofthe
great Suzerai," we did not know Chat
it could sing the truly loyal" song of
the carpet-bagger. We find it can to
perfection.
1t need not have made such a terrible
splutter about our having said that we
consider the vandalisms which were per-
petrated during the war by the Northern
hordes who marched with fire and sword
from one end of the Southland to the
other, and who left naught but charred
ruins, and famine, and pestilence to
mark their pathway, as reproaeh upon
those who were active in it, and which
will ever be remembered against them to
the remotest generations by the Southern
people, The readers of THE CRARIoN
well know its sentiments on this subject.
THE CLARION does not, and never will,
''set itself up as the exponent of the
''Ioyal people of Mississippi" in the
Leaders Interpretation of the word
'loyal," but The CLARION does and will
speak the feelings of the great mass of
Mississippians who were true to their
mother State during the war, and have
not faltered in their devotion to her when
premims have been offered to those who
would join with the oppressors of the peo-
pie of the South And if THE CLARION
can gain for itself the title of exponent of
the gallant men that stood by Mississippi
in the days which tried mems souls; and
of the noble women who could and did
kneel in the ashes, all that was left of
their once beautiful homes after the
'.truly loyal had marched by, and offer
ed up a prayer to the Great God for the
desolated and oppressed South; and of
those who stand ready at all times and
under all circumstances to combat Radi-
calism at the ballot box; if THE CLARION
can gain for itself, we repeat, the title OF
of these noble people, we will
ask no prouder one; though the truly
loyal" cant about "unrepentant rebels
and ''disloyalty" forever.