The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-07-27

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July IL, ISL
EDITORS CLARION: have "laid by" m
crop and embrace the very first opportunit
of writing to you Fresh from my ow
crop, that subject comes up first, and / re
greet to say that on the line of the Mobil
and Ohio Railroad the corn crop is one-hal
the value per acre that it was last year.
There Is much greater area in cultivation
and after a careful estimate, find that Their
win be, in the region designated, 30 pc
cent. less corn housed this year than wa
gathered last year. / have subjected tn
cotton crop to careful figuring and sub
mitted my calculation 10 Mr.. Jones. Ate
his revision, find the result 40 per cent
less than the yield last season. You ma.
tell your readers that these results can o
relied on. / always refer to Mr.. Jones witt
as much confidence as Sary Camp does Z
Mrs. Harris. Mr.. Jones says / am right.
We are looking for the Federal troops her
now that the u. S. Court is in session a
Jackson. In the district above this, mum
bers have been carried from their homes by
the Z. S. troops, charged with assault anC
battery upon the person of ladies'
One old man, who has not been to hi
county site in three years, and was never
charged with any crime before, is indicted
for murder, and incarcerated in Jail at Ok
ford. He has no idea of how the charge
originated.
In NoXubee county, large crowd O
Loyal Leaguers went to mans house some
days ago to kill him. He made his escape
whereupon the mob abused his wife and
Federal court takes no notice of that matter
but the sheriff has eighteen of our best col
ored citizens in jail. 1t is thought that onr
''eminent'' Governor will protest against
any interference by the u. s. court in this
case. Much confidence is felt that these col
ored citizens will be tried by a jury of thelI
peers, in the county where the crime was
charged to have been committed.
One of my neighbors went to Oxford to
commencement and gives me gloomy ac-
count of things there. He says there has
been great departure" from the good old
times and doings written of by your cor
respondent, LOGAN. He says he found him
self involuntarily repeating, soto voce,
who is there now to mourn for Logan?'
My friend is graduate of the University,
and says he felt like going up to that good
man and patriot, DIR. Waddel, laying his
face upon the Doctors shoulder and taking
a good old fashioned cry. He says that the
abolition of tuition fees is another step to
''subsidize" our people, and break down all
private schools in the State. 1t were better
for this generation and for the one to come,
that the University were sunk to the bot
tom of the Gulf of Mexico, than that it
should be used as a means of drawing our
people into hostility to the reputation and
history ofour fathers. l will not be under
stood as making any attack upon DIR. Wad-
del, DIR. Garland, DR.. Burney, DIR. Little or
Prot Quinche, Prof Sears, or Prof. Wheat.
that they were unfettered, that they might
hold up to the young men of the State, how
beautiful it is to mingle with their educa-
tiOnal exercises, excursions into the history
of our past, and to perpetuate the glory,
honor, and achievements of Southern minds
and hands and hearts! The Saxons, when
conquered by William, held themselves
aloof from the innovations and schools of
their conqueror; and although the Norman
French became the language of court, yet
the good old Saxons clustered together in
their submission, until foreign manners and
idioms were banished from England, and
now the English language is the language
of Law upon all the continents and Islands
of the world. Is the Southern man less
proud of his country and its brief past than
were our Saxon ancestors? Simrall, Comp
ton, Christian. yea, and Alcorn, are names
over which we weep. In the case of Chan
der, Hancock, Bennett, ct i'll on1le genus we
can use very small onion. I get that idea
from Greeley.)
We are going to try to get control OF our
State government next fall. We are not
going to make any attack on negro suffrage,
negro testimony, or upon any right secured
by the revolution; bat we simply desire to
rescue the State from the plunderers now
in charge of its affairs, and in the future to
conduct the government in such a manner
that labor may be sure of its reward, and
that every man may strive with good cheer
to improve his condition and accumu late
with confidence.
In my rambles up and down. a few DAYS
ago, l met with a man named Harper-A.
l.
one of our coming men," He says every
thing will work out right after a while. He
regards the present state of things, if I'M
derstOod him, as a kind of political fermen-
uation. The bad truck !" is now on top.
We will get rid of this top before long. 1
could hardly interview him. The Col
onel thinks that there is life and virtue in
the whole country North and South though
not on top. The Colonel talks like a man
who reads THE CLARION. He lives at Oko-
Iona, where many fair women and brave
men are staying. I could write whole
page about the good people there. would
have " interviewed" some of them, but hav-
ing tried Col. Harper first, l despaired in
that line.
Where is Gen. Stafford? The people here
say that IL all the carpet-baggers were like
Stafford, they would not care how many
came among US. The General. when here,
stopped to conquer" and did conquer. In
the moment of victory, he was magna1i-
nous and just and the Eminent Man "
can find no place for Stafford.
Mr.. Editor, there is something in the Book
about the Hebrew Children and their con-
stancy and integrity. They have difficult
names, bur every child knows them. Those
names are immortal. These three Hebrews
would not bow down to the image which
the king had set up. BRowNLow, HOLDEN,
These names are also immortal.
Young men of Mississippi, bow not down
to the image which the King hath set up!
WILLIAM.