The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-05-04

and Republicans work together as CoNsRR-
NATIVES till honesty, justice and capacity
rule in the councils of the State. X.
April 24th, 1871.
COMMENTS.
We will premise by stating that the
editor of the Canton Citizen in which the
appeal appeared, is Mr.. j. F. Bosworth,
one of the Old Wing Guard of The State.
This fact which was mentioned ought to
have precluded the suspicion Of his pre-
disposed Partially for the tern Demo
crat." 1t ought also to have been especi-
ally noted that we who care mGe for the
substance of thing, than its name, es-
pecially remarked that the appeal of the
Citizen was intended to incl1de call
persons of whatever past political asso-
"ciation who are opposed to continual
''tion of the grinding taxation and cor.
''rupt practices of the Mongrel Isurpers."
The antecedents of our Canttn cotem-
porary should have shielded lim from
the suspicion of such folly asa call for
the revival of the Democratic organiza-
ton to which ''X" refers as existing in
this State more than ten years ago, before
party lines were washed away by the sea
of blood that has rolled over them in the
intervening time. He sees party mill
tant, powerful, determined and with vic
tory cleaning on its banners-with prin-
ciples directly in accord with those of
which he is the advocate-and having for
its purpose the restoration of the Consti-
tuition with its guarantees of personal
and political freedom and especially the
deliverance of his own coJmtrymen of
the South from political vassalage-and
instinctively accepts its name ashis shibbo-
leth without pausing to fight ever battles
whose issues have been swept away in the
whirlwind of events and are numbered
with the things that lived in the days of
Noah.
The opposition to Radicalism in this
State is composed of tens of thousands of
young men who have come upon the stage
of action within the past decade ; and
who have scarcely traditional remem-
brance of former political divisions; much
less do they partake of, or care for, the
prejudices and passions which belonged
to them, and which our correspondent
| seems to think, shoulder in the bosoms
of the "veterans who lag superhous on
the stage" and have nursed their animos-
tiles to keep them warm throughout the
long years of common suffering through
which they have together passed since
the Wing and Democratic organizations
of yore were superseded by the paramount
issues of later times.
To our respected correspondent we
have to say that to the management of
THE CLARION representing both the old
parties, with considerable dash of pro-
gressive Young America thrown in, the
mere name by which the elements which
he felicitously proposes shall be combined
Unto one harmonious, active allcon-
"quering body" should be known, is a
matter of indifference. The united op
posers of Radical misrule fresh from their
constituents, in their Congressional adj
dress have styled their party Democrat
ic and Conservative, which embraces
precisely the term suggested by our
correspondent.
Our advice to the people of the several
counties of this State is to have no divis-
ion about so trifing matter as a name
in the coming election for members of
the Legislature. Let the old flags which
represented the Issues of the contests of
the former times to which ''X" refers,
slumber peacefully in the grave in which
those issues were entombed in 1861.
In the pressing demands of the living
questions there is nothing to invite Old
Mortalitys to the task of lettering among
the tombstones of dead and buried issues
to re-write the Vepitaphs that are fading
away. Let us be up and doing the work
which our hands now find to do, agreeing
to disagree about non-essentials, but
united by one heart and one resolute
purpose of working together. "until
honesty, justice and capacity rule in
''the councils of the State"
We cannot better conclude than by
copying the closing appeal of the "Dem-
ocratic and Conservative" Address:
1t is to protect and perpetuate the rights
which every freeman cherishes; TO revive
in all hearts the feelings of friendship, at
lection, and harmony, which are the best
guarantees of law and order, and to throw
around the humblest citizen. wherever he
may be, the protecting Hgis Of those safe
guards of personal liberty which the fun
damental laws of the land assure. that we
invoke the aid OF all good men in the work
of peace and reconciliation. We invite their
generous cooperation, irrespective of all
former differences OF opinion, so that the
harsh voice of discord may be silenced
that new and dangerous sectional agita-
ton may be checked; that the burdens Of
taxation, direct or indirect, may be reduced
to the lowest point consistent with good
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