The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-05-23

Northern Democratic Journals, words q
the purport of the following which are
selected from the Albany c.. Y. Argus :
In. measuring the availability Of these
candidates, Greeley and Brown, the Democ-
racv will have tolook beyond the C0BveH-
ton and above it, They will not accept
Greeley and Brown as the nominee of
Cincinnati. But If the people take up these
men, ii the South recognize IN them the
champions of amnesty and the delivery OF
the people from bondage; If the West shall
regard them as men representing the fife
and energy of new era then it will De no
task for the Democracy to accept them.
That alone is the question OF the day ana
we turn from these intriguers and bargain
ers at Cincinnati, and look To the States of
the South and West, TO the people every
where for the indications that these men are
their choice. The voice of the people, yet
undeclared, is to be our instruction.
The whole question is an open one. The
Democrats stand uncommitted, untratn-
melled and free to act as the interests OF
the cause demand. We can welcome the
indications of political upheaval, and the
disruption of the Republican,. and BID the
movement go on. When we meet In a
tional Convention we will listen TO what
the South asks, and what the West advises,
and learn to what course the people every
where incline.
Before the Baltimore Convention meets
the voice of the South will be quite fully
heard through her primary Conventions
and the press. Tennessee has set the
example of expressing her views and
doubtless it will be followed by others.
The West, the natural ally Of the South,
will probably also be heard. Meantime
it is desired that the North and East
will declare their preferences and plans.
If our Northern friends object to an
alliance with the Liberals on the only
terms that seem to be possible, do they
propose anything better The South
finds EN- bodied in the Cincinnati Platform
what she most needs. This Platform
pledges the Administration which may
come into power upon it, the overthrow
of centralism-th right of the people to
have local governments for the manage
ment of their domestic affairs-the sub
stitution of civil law for irresponsible
military despotism- economical govern
ment and low taxes. These are her chief
necessities. And on this platform Gin
cinnati has presented candidates who
endorse them fully and who in their re-
nunciation of the Grant Administration
and rejection of the trammels of party,
have given evidence of their courage in
the maintenance of the faith that is in
them.
Now, do the North and East propose
to do anything better than this Do
they propose a better Platform and
sounder and more available candidates,
on these essential issues? If not,
is the alliance of the Liberals to be dis
carded and their nominees to be rejected
merely to give place to chronic partisan
leaders who are unwilling to forego their
personal aspirations? If this is to be
the Programmed we are to have Gin
cinnati without its candidates and its Re-
publican supporters-are they who advo-
cate such n programme sure they can
succeed in the election We must con-
fess that there has been nothing to in
spire this hope (much less belief in the
State elections that have taken place
in the North within the past twelve
months. Connecticut and New Hamp-
shire, where the Straight-outs fought it
on their own line this spring, did not tell
a tale of that sort.
1t may be confidently predicted that
the votes of ten of the thirteen late
slave States will be cast for the anti
Administration ticket in the electoral
college; but if they are to be invited to
a dog-in-the-manger entertainment mere
ly to tickle the vanity of a particular
class of men who, though calling them
selves Democrats, will really occupy the
ground of the Liberals, they will have
occasion to feel that their labors have
been to little purpose.
The condition of the South is critical
and lamentable. At this moment thous-
ands of her most virtuOus and law-abid
ing citizens are under indictments, pro-
cured by corruption, on account of their
political opinions, and are the selected
victims of Radical vengeance. They
are logged by Federal Substituted
down by Federal soldiers carried off
from their homes for trial-insulted in
their persons-bereft of their liberties and
denied the right of Habeas Corpus-and
in many cases after conviction by packed
juries, they have been transported to
Northern penitentiaries for ignominious
punishment. And those who are not
thus treated, have the sword hung by
thread perpetually over their heads, and
are doomed to witness the devouring of
their little remnant of property and the
fruits of their toll by the army of blood
suckers who have obtained control over
their local governments by Federal die
tation. 1t is reasonable that q people
who are in such wilderness of oppres-
sion and outrage as this would prefer to
take the shortest cut to their deliverance.
We again ask, if the cooperation ten
dered to the opposers of the Grant Des-
potism by the Liberal Republicans who
have rebelled against it, is to be rejected,
on what grounds do the directors base
their action, and what do they propose to
substitute for it?
We do not see that there Is the reno
test chance of disagreement between
the Vicksburg Herald and The CLARION