The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-09-12

are taught hostility. Indeed. they arss
taught nothing else. It Il tire Interested
policy ofthese garrisons to keep them n1a-
Informed and hostile 10 that condition
they are Just the Instruments they want.
IT the f0reign-born citizens of the United
States had been nnwisely Taught TO sepa-
rate Themselves into hostile leagues against
the people with whom they are living, TO
band together and to vote in body on the
ground of race and origin. who does not see
that the ballot would under these conditions.
be curse to them and to US. Mr.. Sehurz
never uttered wiser thought than that
contained In his simple declaration: =
hope will meyer see Germanerarty in the
United States.n 1t Is the interming1ing of
men, and the free Interchange of opinions.
that gives health 10 the ballot. Impartial
suffrage has had no fair trial here. It has
been made to present its worst possible as
pect- It exhibits itself before the world
linked with sample of government, adj
United to be the very worst that ever ruled
peoples by-word amongst the nations.
and with an all-pervading degradation of
official and political life.
WHY KEEP UP THESE EMBELLISHMENTS AND
WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF THEY ARE
ALLOWED TO PERISH.
Why are these Southern establishments
kept upr How can snch plants fourisfLin
an American atmosphere and on American
soil ? The answer is that thev have become
necessary to party, and that party aspires
to the permanent control of the national
government 1t has now become appareHt
that these garrisons exercise positive sway
over the legislation of the nation, and il
may be, contri ute largely to decide the
fate OF national administrations. Who does
not see that the domineering ana ihsOlent
spirit which would pull down the strongest
and stateliest pillars of the old republican
edifice. Greeley. Sumner, Trumbnll and
Schurz, the very authors and finishers of
the faith, feels itself qualified and strength
ened for the deed. by the backing of these
garris0ps. They are the outworks of par
~ OF that singular moral constitution that
lt can do without these great Republican
tights. and yet can't do without military
President! What will follow from leaving
these establishments to rot down as they
must from their own inherent vices? Not
change of Constitution. not a reversal of
reconstruction; far from it, there would not
be a Jostle or lurch of the vessel of State.
There could be mere change of local adj
ministration to something which represents
fully the new public mind IN the States
There is a natural law of politics and suf-
frage which would peacefully solve the
problem.
Ambition is the same now that it has ever
been, and the highest ambition and the
lowest must alike appeal to the suffrages of
the colored men, and every scheme of leg
islation, whetherit shall emanate from pat
and just as ambition has its riyairies, and as
schemes of legislatiOns have their friends
and 0ppoSers would the mass of voters be
divided. Now and then the worst influence
will temporarily prevail, but in the main
Intelligence and virtue will control the
result. Two years ago, number of Re
publicans in this State. who came here to
live as other people live here, saw and felt
that the artificial and unnatural condition
of things which existed here ought to cease
They proposed. and the proposal was
cheerfully accepted by leading Southern
men, that TO avoid all jealousies we would
come together on the basis of impartial
suffrage and the support of General Grants
administration. believing that being I'M
trammeled and having such weight and
popularity with the nation, he was the
i. strument by which complete reconcilia-
ton between the two sections of the Union
would be brought about, aud a better state
of feeling here between the two races.
which would lead to confidence and good
will and result in system of home gov
eanment that would faithfully represent the
new public mind of the State. Without the
cOuntenance of General Grant this project
could not succeed 1t did not get that
countenance we all know, and what we also
know IL, that it was followed by proscrip-
ton under General Ames, his military
commander and Governor, more sweeping
and relentless thanWas ever felt before. 1t
had no limit, not even the scarcity of the
material he wanted was any obstacle. I'M
portation was resorted to.
CAUSES WHICH LED TO THE LIBERAL MOVE
MENT, AND WHAT WE EXPECT PROM
IT; AND WHAT WE KNOW OF
HORACE GREELEY.
The state of things which / have attempt
ed to depict, together with the alarming In
dications of a general corruption in all
branches of the public service, the general
lowering of the moral tone in all official
life, the contempt of public opinion, the
barefaced sitting of public inquiry, led to
originate no movement here, and could ask
nothing more than the resolutions of that
body promised.
The sum of all rational, of all actual ex-
pectation here is not that we will ill Mr..
Greeley's Cabinet or exert any control over
his administration. 1t is the possibility of
having Republican administration not in
sensible to the evils which soreIy Cypress
u.s. An administration which will recog-
niZe the Southern States as part of the Ma
tional family, and that State government
here will be, according to the measure of
our resources, what it is in Pennsylvania
and Ohio. The Cincinnati movement was
not our movement; nay, Southern states
men were not consulted. Here we have
ceased TO be party men under burdens so
heavy that they crushed out all party spirit.
That movement Is valuable to US, lust be-
cause it holds out the hope that we will be
dealt with just as the people of other States
are dealt with, and because 1t recognizes, as
paramount duty, the complete paciflca-
ton and determination of the States
The party of General Grant assumes that
it is commissioned by the people TO execute
National vengeance upon as, and to that
end seeks to infiame the Northern people
against US anew. Il offers US no relief for
our manifold grievances,
/ readily yield TO the belief that as it is the
special need of the country, that all the peo-
pie of the United States shall be reconciled
TO the existing order of things and to each
other, that it is also the general desire of
the country. and thattEis object can be ac-
complished only on the plan of the Cincin-
natl resolutions and by the combination
which is represented BIZ Horace Greeley.
He represents the most liberal republican
ideas of the time. He is an able and thor
oughly honest man. of broad patriotism,
and well versed in public affairs. He has
built up character in the face of the world
too high for detraetion. Why should / at
tempt TO develope it. No man in civil life
is so we'll known TO the millions that inhab-
it this widely extended country, and espe-
ciaIly known to them as the earnest friend
of every measure which looks to their hap
piness. That he will administer the govern
ment honestly and wisely, 1 fully believe.
oFFICE-HoLDERs DREAD GREELEY-cURIoUs
ILLUSTRATION.
The office men say he will not make a
good President. and they assume to be the
Judges. They have their own reasons for
it doubtless. The salaried men in the main