The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-10-05
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holders who have been foisted into office
by the bayonet, IN this State, has been
to swear away the lives, liberty and prop
e-ty of her citizens. This system so un7
usual ia partisan warfare and Of perse-
eution for political opinion, has been
reduced TO a science by these Wreckers.
In 1853 against The protests Of many of
the better class Of Republicans who finally
suecumbed TO the Influence of majority
of their party leaders, but who have
since renowned the Grant organization
and declared for the Liberal movement
they endeav5red by a system of swear
ing TO induce Congress to force upon the
people the Constitution which they had
framed and which would have perma-
nentIy deprived Of the ballot one-half or
more Of the white voters Of the State.
Prominent in this work, were r. w.
Flournoy who is the Grant candidate for
Congress IN the 1st District, and w. II.
/ Gibbs Grant Elector for the State al
Large. The clan held a meeting in
Jackson on the 18th December, 1868
and passed the following (among other,
resolutions which they afterwards backed
up with terrible oaths before Committed
Of Congress
| Resolved 1T, That we the Loyal people
OF the State Of Mississippi, in Convention
lassembleJl, do solemnly declare that saiC
! BLACK -and-Tan) Constitution t1ds ddOptet
by a na4joritg n The legal votes cast at thai
election.
Fooled in this attempt, however, they
did succeed under the Ames regime il
which the sword of oppression was WELD
ed by the hand Of corruption, and
which the prescribed people of the State
cannot recall except with a shudder-in
obtaining unlimited control. Of her gov
eminent As they had attained their
ends it would have been reasonably sup.
posed that their prosecutions would then
have ceased. The instinct of common
humanity would have prompted them to
recoil from further injury to people
over whom, booted and spurred they were
riding rough-shod and on whose substance
they We're revelling through the agency
of the plundering and grinding system OF
taxation which they had devised and
were rigidlY enforcing for their own en-
richment. But they were deaf alike to
the demands of Justice and the appeals OF
humanity. 1t is the nature of some peo-
pie to hate those whom they have wronged
and possibly it may have occurred tc
these people that the surest method OF
keeping themselves in power would be tC
furnish the Radical majority in Congress,
with pretext for hostile and oppressive
/ legislation. But whatever may have
been their motives, they certainly wen
into the work with vigor which showed
that their zeal in keeping up the fires
of Radical persecution and furnishing
material for Northern fanatical consump
tion-had not abated.
We have before us two large volume.
of printed matter containing what was
called Testimony in relation to Missis
sippi," by the Congressional Outrage
Committee in the summer and fall of last
year. This proceeding was designed as
preliminary step to the re-enactment Of
the barbarous legislation by which marital
law had been cruelty enforced in divers
Southern communities and citizens there
Of obnoxious to the reigning powers on
account of their political opinions, had
been sent to Northern penitentiaries tc
languish and suffer and die, away from
home and friends. We shall have fire.
quent occasion to draw on these volumes
to show to the people of this State the
game that has been played by these con.
spirators. Prominent among them are
Il. c. Powers and j. S. Morris, occu-
pants of the offices of Governor and At.
torney General. Both are recipients OF
large salaries and extensive perqusites at
the cost of the taxpayers for whose vim
dictive prescription their statements were
intended to operate.