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


fin a Poor Plea
1t seems from the reports that reach
US from Leake county that Warren, the
sleek carpet-bagger who claimed to rep
resent the yeomanry of that county In
the Legislature, does not wish TO give up
the doWny seat, and damask curtains, on
and among which he luxuriated as pre-
siding officer at the late session He has
made several speeches, and in order to
attract attention from the crimes of his
crew of "Wreckers in gathering up" the
spoils, is singing the same old tune about
the Legislature of 80 and sc, which was
chanted by his sort to the disgust of the
freedmen even, in 1868 and '69.
As an apology for the depredations
committed on the treasury by the Mon
grel Legislature of 10 and II, he pleads
that the expenditures of those years are
not larger than they were in 1866 and
7-before the Wreekers came into
power.
Warren certainly knows that this is
not true. He is presumed not to be ig
nOrant of the facts and figures contained
in the Reports laid upon his desk by
Auditor Musgrove. Mark how plain
tale will put him down. In Musgrove's
report of March 9Th, 1870, it is stated
that the expenditures from October,
1865, to May, 1856, was 1896, 285 81.
From May, 1866, to April, 1867, $685.
627 83. From May, 1867, to April,
1868, s576, 1874.
Now take the expenditures under the
carpet-bag regime to which Warren be-
longs and which he says do not exceed
those of the years above quoted. By
Musgrove's report of Jan'y End, 1871,
the expenditures for 1870 are set down
at one million sirty-oAe thousand taOo hun
dred and forty-'aine dolIars-and for 1871
they are estimated at one million three
hundred and nineteen thousand sir hundred
and sirtee,s dollars.
This it will be remembered is exclusive
of the disbursements on account of COM
mon schools, amounting to more than a
million of dollars and raised by the poll
and privilege taxes.
1t will be borne in mind that the ex-
penditures of the years Immediately
succeeding the war were necessarily
higher than in ordinary times in conse-
quence of the disorganized condition of
the country, when the currency was I'M
settled and cost of living greater than
now Nevertheless the comparison is
anything bat favorable to carpet-baggery.
If it be extended to the decade of so and
go Immediately preceding the war, the
showing will present the Mcngrel regime
in a still more discreditable light.
Though they are now estimated at up
wards of thirtee,. hundred thousand dollars,
which is far below the real mark, they
did not then exceed on an average $780,
OOO-alI told The facts and figures in
proof will be furnished in due season.
A RecaIcitran1 ''Republican''-Hc
DemOunceS as an s'Outrage''
the Policy of hfs Party
and its Chief.
Col. T. B. Manlove, who is announced
to be the editor of the new Radical pa
paper, publishes card in the Pilot, in
response to our general inquiry, to say
that he for one, regarded the arrest by
federal authority of citizens, and their
removal to distant counties, for trial,
Gas grave outrage upon the rights of
"the people, and further, that the
Republican party can not and will not
"be held responsible for the acts of one
individual who is probably actuated by
purely personal motives" The denun-
citation of the Outrage" is all right
Other:parties, then, are guilty of tout
RACES" besides the Ku Klux. But who
is the zone man" that is made the scape-
goat of the iniquity and for whom the
party cannot be held Gre
sponsible ?" Why, he is none other than
Grant himself, the recognized chief-the |
head of the Republican
party" The law under which he acted |
in this Outrage" was passed as party
measure by the Republican Congress on
his recommendation. If the party which
passes the law, and the party who exc
cute it, are not responsible" who are, in
the name of common sense! Is Hug
gins the zone man" alluded to? Why,
is nothing but tool of Con-
yress and of Grant. Or are they tools of
who is an appointee and &C
credited agent of the Administration p
In either event the responsibility is all the
same unless Congress and Grant are not
o be considered responsible" for any
hing, on the ground that "the King can
10 no wrong"