The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-09-21
Il ss3GomrmfuI Faca'' Weeping and
RATmsfm~ 10 ne COmfOrGed.


Refusing 20 be Comforted:
And now comes the Bully Boy follow
ing In the wake of the Eminent Man who
could not be persuaded to save the people
from the Penitentiary subsidy by which
their pockets are to be depleted to the
tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars
who signed the mansion" squander of
$44. 0O0-who could not find it in his
heart to reject the $50, 900 Secret Service
contribution into the expenditure of
which no questions are to be asked under
penalty of being called a ''fooP OF an
''ass"-who approved the McComb Grab
by which the Treasury is to be robbed
and dollars of railway stock equally as if
its doors we're priced open with burglars
tools and its contents abstracted-who
signed the four thousand dollars per mile
Railroad Subsidy which is another burgla-
rous operation on the pockets of the
people, without dollars worth of stock
to be transferred to them as an equiva-
lent-who appended his signature to the
Printing Enormity under cover of which
one hundred and eighty-six thousand
dollars and God knows how much more,
have been taken from the Treasury in
thirteen months and which comprises
seventy odd thousand more than was ex-
pended for printing under Citizens Rule
during twelve years before the war
Following also in the wake of the
" Mercantile Operator, " Pease, who
stands charged by Mr.. Attorney General
Morris, his colleague on the Board of
School DirectOrs-with sundry book,
slate and furniture speculations at the
cost of the taxpayers of the State and
especially of the parents and guardians
of the poor white and black children
Now comes this "Mournful Fact" who
Joins to the title of 1t. Governor and
Governor in prospective the honOrs of
Chairman of Republican Central State
Committee" in the wake of
his illustrious examplars, to exercise his
lachrymal organs over, and to babble like
a parrot about, the management of the
Chickasaw School and other funds by the
generations which have passed. Is he
grieved that no more remains in the
Treasury for the "Wreckers" to ''gather
up" Alexander wept when he had
conquered the world that his occupation
was gone. And so these birds of evil
omen chatter and make strange noise and
whet their beaks when they learn that
in times past there were certain Trust
Funds in the Treasury which were loaned
to private individuals and to Railr DAD
Companies for the development of the
resources of the State, and were put out
of their reach before the day of carpet
bag stealing commenced.
These out-at-elbow fellows ought to be
taught that if these funds were misap-
propriated, the blame did not attach to
any particular party existing at that day
Let them ask Peter B. Starke, Sheriff of
Bolivar county, and Charles Shackel-
ford, Circuit Court Judge, and A. NJ.
West, all of whom were in the Legisla-
ture when large portion of these Funds
were Ioaned-if the measures were pass
ed as party schemes? Aye, let them APP
peal to the Eminent Man" himself. who |
can say of them, call of which | saw
land part of which / was"-if they |
were not supported and opposed by Dem
Dcrats and Wings promiscuously, without
the least reference to party. But sup
pose they were not. With the excep-
ion of the Eminent Man" himself,
none of the prominent actors in the
scenes of those days, are in politics now
md neither of the parties who were en-
,aged in the legislation complained of
nave survived the ruin and wreck of
var. Are the Wings and Democrats of
ormer days who have been drawn to-
,ether by common sense of danger from
Jarpet-bag despotism and corruption
enforced by tens of thousands of
'oung men who have come on the stage
f action since the war closed, and who
omprise the bone and sinew of the anti
Radical party-to be held accountable
or the acts, whether evil or good-of /
Thich these adventures pretend to be In
rief? What superlative nonsense!
Now let us say, once for all, to these ]
Mournful Facts" who are on trial for
heir misdeeds, that the old dodge of {
Stop Thief, by which they are striving (
} escape capture and conviction, will {
OF avail them. They are indicted and J
i'll be brought to trial in spite of all $
,eir cunning. As Mr.. Greeley would !
ly: "Get out, Thieves
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