The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-06-06

EAsf MIssIssIPpI, May 81, 1874.

ttlAL you may uuUeTsIauU. VIII llfuSIT1bc.
Do you know old Jim Lock? know you
do. Try to put your face into such con-
dition as to resemble his. Now, try to work
any sum, or sustain any train of reasoning
in your mind. while your face is in that
! condition. You see it is impossible. While
you held your face in that position your
mind corresponded, and you were mentally
Jim Lock. lou observe on that hill side
growth peculiar to elevated land, and IN
the bottom a growth peculiar TO low land.
| Look, however, at the growth on the race
at my mill. The race is cut on the side of
the hill, and there is the swamp growth.
The growth is affected by changed circum-
stances. All through nature there is a subtle
bond, binding every part into one harmoni-
Gus whole. You will remember, that told
you that above you in the air, vibrations of
this ETHEREAL band are discoursing music
like fairy harp strings to the ear of science.
Mind is an element in the grand harmony
of nature. Morals too are an important
element. The truth of the scriptures is
settled by perfect knowledge of the glOri-
Gus arrangement of natural laws. You
cannot affect one element without producing
diseord. At this time our political and
social affairs are enough to upset the opera
tons of nature as a harmonious system.
Earring and discord are seen and heard
every day. My dear William, every time
our court meets, the whole organization of
nature is shocked. Your sense of propriety
is entirely outraged. Nature and reason
revolt. 1t is so with every one. All nature
is out of harmonious operation, and in esti-
/ . o this not M
be left out of the calculation. The social
equality agitation will diminish the pros
perity of the country ten per cent. The
Legislature that L saw in Jackson will d.
minish it twenty per cent. There is more
land in cotton than there was last year, but
so greatly are matters reversed and order
destroyed, that the country cannot prosper,
and my first estimate, that you intimated to
THE CLARION is correct. Ii is not necessary
to give you any tabular statement. Results
are what you desire. l predict results from
existing and operating causes. The grow
ing crop of cotton will average, not less
than 1711s cents per pound in Mobile, and it
may 90 TO twenty-five cents, for the supply
will not meet the demand"
thought that detected much fallacy in
Mr.. Jones' favorite theory, and at once as
sailed it. | said: "Mr. Jones, am much
surprised to see you forget your past con-
Versations on this subject. Heretofore you
always kept the failure of the fruit crop
prominently before me. This year fruit is
abundant. Nature seems to be reasoning
in spite of your Jim Lock theory" Mr..
Jones, not at all disturbed, replied: "Wil-
liam, L have told you before that you are of
an enquiring turn of mind. but that you do
| not look into causes nor classify consequent
ces properly. The fruit crop Las failed
| three times since the surrender. You never
knew it to fail three times in your life be-
fore. You have seen no first rate fruit
since the war. Your trees are full now,
but the fruit Is poor. You have seen smiles
since the war. Have you seen happiness
If no fruit at all were to come, nature would
be dead. She is not dead, but Is disturbed.
Your mind was not destroyed, when you
were initiating Jim Lock, but it was dis
turbed. | say to you William, the grand
music i'm the air, if it could be heard, would
be discordant. They sympathize with the
great soul of nature, which is grieved al
the outrageous enormities of the present
times. Cotton cannot be produced with
any certainty, no enterprise or interest car
be trusted. Nature, like a sick man i:
struggling against the impressions man il
infiicting upon her. She may produce some
one product abundantly. The genera
, weld in the South must be bad. 1t Is five
weeks since it rained. Irish potatoes AMI
oats are gone. Cotton is not up, and corr
is not up. Here, on the 10th OF May, L an
| l. "a
things formerly? Are the times and sea
. sons as of old? What makes the difference
In the absence of some other theory, in
sist upon mine, and think it accounts for al
our failures"
Feeling certain that Mr.. Jones had LEI
himself open, made up an assault that
felt sure would disconcert him. l said:
.Mr. Jones, you say that the proper orde
of things is disturbed, and that in the SOut
e the general yield must be small. Isl tn
South that has reversed the order OF things
Does this punishment fall legitimately upo
: the South? Mr.. Jones replied
civilian, facts are facts. Powers Is you
Governor, and Tarbell and Leachman ar
Judges in the South. The Legislature {
Mississippi makes laws for Mississippi
. Take your State and county Off oers an
place them in Ohio, and Ohio will languisl
V If it will afford you any consolation, ca
: assure you, from the history of the pas
: that the authors of sin do net escape pur
ishment. Where are the cities of the plain
Ask the Dead Sea. Where are Babylo
and Nineyah? To make make matters plair
err. will state to you that Philip and Alex
: ander. and Nero and Caesar, and Napoleo
: and Charles and Cromwell all revelled
n power and wrong while the people mourne'
r but each and all were overtaken. Napoleo
v III made record in Mexico when he va
!, in power. He is now an exile. Ii affort
!. me no satisfaction to know that an Had
woes will sooner or later fall upon viii
now seems the most favored section of tn
country. They are coming, and will con
% at the proper time. Lincoln, Stanton an
'i Seward were three OF the prime movers
this great work. He that has ears to hear
e him hear.
ALREADY retributive justice has overtaks
! nearly every Southern man that has el
d gagged in the degradation of his countr
Ie Look az Brownlow and Holden.
h God moves in a mysterious way,
: His wonders to perform
q twill not pursue this line OF though
= il ia too deep for you. l am otdi you
it Young. An important crisis Is upon q
pc country. will not now 60 into Poinl
y y further than TO say that the remedy for o
~ present ills lies In the united action OF o.
people. They should all work together.
cannot say more. The remedy is In {
hands Of the young men. Let them So
ed cautiously and firmly in the path OF On
nt and principle"
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