The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-05-11

The ssyVrecBx,' and the Wrecl<ers.
In the expiring moments of the So
called Legislature to which the bona hide
citizens of the State have looked forward
with unalloyed satisfaction, the Eminent
Man." who with his gang of Mongrels
were obtruded into the public offices by
fraud and violence and in contempt OF
representative government-becomes
more frantic and absurd in his efforts to
blow his horn with loud noise. There
is nothing in the history of any other
Eminent" functionary approximating
the number of the messages which he
sends to the Legislature-nor the variety
and quality of the topics he discusses
nor the popularity of the style in which
he serves them up. Some of these null
titudinous illusions, picked up at random,
will be found in our issue to-day. Others
are in store for future reference--if need
be.
In the message urging the appropriation
of the moderate sum of ten thousand
dollars to employ counsel to assist the
Attorney General in prosecuting suits
against the railroad companies for the
recovery of the Chickasaw School Fund,
the Plumber Ring is admonished to be
mindful ''to gather up the wreck left by
the Democracy" Addressed to clan of
professional ''wreckers," the suggestion
was not needed. 1t is the vocation of
the Mongrels to prey upon the remnant
left to the people of Mississippi by the
fortunes of the war. They came on pur-
pose and have taken to it as naturally
as the dog to his vomit. They came in
shoals at the close of the war, and have
worked in season and out of season in
their vocation. No stone has been left
unturned-no hidden recess has been
left unexplored by these industrious sol
diers of fortune. Their name is legion,
and it has become by-word and a re-
proach-a kissing and scorn-a worse
than stencil in the nostrils of the people.
The association of the term with g the
Democracy" by the Eminent Man, +"
in connection with the measure of loan
ing the Chickasaw School Fund to the
Railroad Companies, is peculiarly NAL
appropos. The fund could not have
been better employed than in extending
facilities for building those magnificent
works of improvement which have con-
tributed so immensely to the wealth and
prosperity of the State, and if the COM
panies never return the fund the State
will have been reimbursed ten times over
for the outlay, in the vast benefits which
she has realized. The credit of this
measure cannot be appropriated exclu-
sively by 4" the Democracy" An "Em-
inent Man." who has been in the Legis-
lature off and on for thirty years, ought
to have known that it was carried through
by neither of the old parties exclusively,
and was supported alike by both. And
he ought to have known that four-tfths
of the Legislature of 1868 which passed
the law he rebrobates so vehemently, au-
thorizing the payment of the loan in
money of the Confederate States were
members of the former Wing party, and
that the author of the scheme was that
and large-minded man,
Hon. Abram Murdoch, who never was
but a Wing while that party
lived, and who, if he has taken the name
of Democrat at all in later times, has
assumed it as the symbol of antagonism
to the wreckers," who, worse than
the frogs and locusts and lice of Egypt,
are preying on the substance of the peo-
pie