The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-07-13

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EDIToRs CLARION A late issue Of The
CLARIoN contains notice that the freed
men are organizing in Madison county, and
hundreds of them signing an agreement to
support home men, white and black, for
Office, and to give the back of the hand to
political adventurers, Of migratory instincts
Of all colors.
This is clearly happy omen, ard Aadi-
son, having a large eolored majority, would
de well TO encourage the movement Il Is
better she should have an entire colored
to be disgraced by Warner, Stone & Co.
The ranks of the BARRIERS and draymen in
any county in the State could furnish equal
ly as statesmanlike and much more honest
and decent corps oflegislators.
The signs of the times show that the end
of the carpet-bag reign draweth nigh. They
viii be superseded by men infinitely their
superiors, home negroes, if not By home
white men. The great pity is that the YER
min will have gorged themselves with the
life blood of the State before the cleansing
curry-comb will be applied to the body
polite.
earnestly hope the people, in the next elee-
tions, will consider that the paramount OBJ
feet TO attain at the ballot-box is TO effect
the overthrow of those who hope to perpet-
uate their own power by incendiary efforts
to array the freedmen in antagonism with
their late owners. The interest of the whites
and blacks being Identical, all should teach
the freedmen to look over the wall Of hate
which bad men have built up between them
and the whites, into the broad field of labor
hfah hsaf
them beyond it.
+ No honorable means should be left untried
to wrest the government of Mississippi
from the hands of the spoilers. The ship of
State has fallen into the hands of few pi-
rates among her crew, who havana love for
her nor interest in her, and who are enrich
ing themselves from her stronghold, re-
gardless of her course, while the waves and
the storm are driving her on the rocks of
destruction. Overheard with the Wreck
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| see that the Eminent Man, is trying
like good Christian, to feed the hungry
and clothe the naked. With watchful eye
he guages the pockets of office holders and
removes them when he thinks they have
accumulated a reasonable amount of "hon-
est earnings" in order to make place for the
needy. This looks equitable, to say the least
of it, but then all experienced Railroad
men will tell you that it is bad policy to
change conductors often.
w neLuel the anu
tions of the Eminent man" result in any
good to the public or not, they will at least
accomplish the object of keeping him prom
inently and conspicuously before the public
eye. This result will dou btleSs be nearly as
crafty ing to the Governor as il will GER
tainly be to his worst enemies.
Did it ever occur to you what wonder
full success Gov. Alcorn has achieved P
Think of it. He succeeded Ames as Gov
ernor. He succeeded in being the first Coy
ernor under the new order of things-when
old fashioned things had been done away
with and all things had been made new, and
bran new at that-and when all our states
men had been DISTINGUISHED. He succeeded
in shaking off the weight of political re-
spectability-which lessened his speed in
the race for office, and succeeded in sur
rounding himself with new friends of the
pharasite breed in place of his honest and
true friends, and then succeeded in disgust
ing his parasites. He succeeded in being
the author of the letters to Flournoy and
the New York Tribune, and also of the
picked Cavalry" measure. His browning
success is that he has it in his power to en-
Joy the magnificent honor of succeeding
the illustrious Revels and becoming the
worthy colleague of Gen. Adelbert Ames
in the United States Senate. What a col
lection of encircling glories crowns his
patrician head! How complacently ought
he not to bask himself in governmental eff
fulgence at Washington, the head quarters
of that ''mercitul SuZerain" to whose con-
quering power he bowed himself so early
and SO we'll
MIssIssIPPIAN