The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-11-14
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PresHdenaaaH Election
The Presidential election has been at
tended with good results to the Southern
States, although the candidate preferred
by a majority of them was not successful.
1st. 1t has given them in future con-
tests the moral power of unity in the
electoral college and the national coun-
els All the former slave-holding States
with the exception of five, have firmly
taken their position on the advanced
ground of Liberalism. In these five
Arkansas is numbered, and her vote
was secured for Radicalism, by the des-
perate expedient of DISTINGUISHING TWEEN
ty thousand intelligent tax-paying citi-
zens. Before another election these
wroDged citizens viii be in possession of
their rights, and the way of Tennessee
and Missouri indicate the course she
will thereafter take. South Carolina
alone of all the Southern States is des-
paired of, and she alas, like Tyrus o
old, may be likened to ''the top of a
''rock and "a place for the fisherman to
spread his net upon" Compared to
what her prescribed people have suffered
and what they are destined to suffer un-
der Mongrel rule, a decree of Danish
ment, at the close of the war, would
have been an act of mercy. With this
solitary exception. the rapid strides Of
the Southern States out of the sloughs Of
Radicalism to which they were condemn
ed by the central despotism, give certain
promise of their entire reclamation at an
early day. In the next Presidential
race, parties viii determine their policy
and select their candidates with view to
the fact that not less than 1913 votes in
| the South will be cast solid in favor of
the cause which is pledged to maintain
their equal rights in the Union. These
1913 votes will come within 81 of the
number necessary to a choice. If in the
meantime their conduct be so shaped as
to disarm malice of its power to charge
them with a purpose to unsettle he
questions which were decided by the war,
and to deprive their foes of pretext for
invoking sectional prejudices against
them-their victory will be assured. 1t
is scarcely probable that in the conflict
| ing interests Of the Northern States, the
game of playing on the passions of the
war, can be repeated so successfully as
again to carry them unitedly against the
candidate preferred by the South. The
desperation with which it was played in
the late election, and the millions of
money with which it had to be reinforced,
are conclusive on this point, unless she
foredooms herself to destruction by her
own folly and madness.
2. Another important point gained by
the Southern States is their triumphant
self-indication from the charge that they
were seeking, either in form or in spirit,
to restore the institution of slavery, or
any of its attributes, or to restore the pc
culiar doctrines Of government which
have been displaced from the Constitu-
ton by the Amendments that have been
adopted and enforced since the war
Let malice and falsehood do the worst,
the fact that the prescribed people of
these States have attested the fidelity of
their pledges to maintain the Union as 1t
Is with the Amendments to the supreme
law, by supporting a man of the pro
nounced views of Horace Greeley, on
the Cincinnati platform = will plead
trumpet-tongued against the revival of
sectional issues to their prejudice in flu
ture contests. Their course when the
events of the late campain are calmly re-
viewed, will be regarded not as an i'm
possible attempt to reverse the establish
ed results of the war, but as a protest
against the sectionalism of the Grant Ad-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS its policy of deliv-
ering them over to the tender mercy of
the gangs of thieves whom it has import
ed to plumber and Cypress them-against
being treated as degraded inhabitants of
conquered provinces, after they had been
declared co-equal members of common
proclamation in IA
vor of the patriotic and liberal princi-
pies embodieg i'll the Cincinnati Platform.
With these ends achieved-her unity ac-
her motives of action
vindicated-the way is clear for victories
in the future over the abuses of which |
they have complained and which it is the |
mission of the Liberal party to reform.
Virginia and Tennessee.
Nothing in the late election so much |