The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-06-13
The Radical Platform.

The platform of principles laid down
by the Officeholders who assembled at
Philadelphia to register the decree of
their master, is published elsewhere
Whatever in this platform savors of
justice and federation in the policy of the
government towards the South, Is due to
the pressure brought to bear upon its
authors by the Republicans who have
repudiated the Administration. They
are reluctant concessions to the indigna-
ton which the rule Of hate and proscrip-
ton has at last awakened in the public
mind even outside of the prosecuted
communities, and they are therefore to be
held as empty professions signifying
nothing. They are faith without works
which according to the Apostle, is dead.
1t is brazen hypocrisy for men who have
practiced prescription to preach liberality.
But although speaking under duress, the
Radical leaders have not concealed the
clOven-foot which has made their party
thing Of hideous import. The twelfth
resolution is a committal in favor of the
so-called Ku Klux legislation by which
civil authority has been subverted in
South Carolina, Mississippi and other
Carpet-Bag plundered States and their
citizens logged by federal spies, seized
by federal troops, imprisoned and de-
prived Of the right Of judicial inquiry
into the course of their detention. This
asserted right of overthrowing the time
honored and essential safeguard of per
sonal freedom, is the vital issue of the
election. 1t is fairly presented under
guarded phraseology in the Radical
platform and in this respect, it is in
striking contrast to the resolutions of the
Cincinnati Convention.
1t is also noteworthy that the endorse
ment Of the recent act removing political
disabilities from a portion of the pro-
scribed classes, is not accompanied by a
declaration in favor of Universal Amnes-
ty and thus in another essential par
ticular, this Officeholders' contrivance
presents a contrast to the Cincinnati
platform which demands the immediate
and absolute removal Of all political dis
abilities imposed in an evil hour by
partisan selfshness and sectional hate. |
The Neancst ScrIawag of Them
All.
J. L. Orr, Of South Carolina, put in |
his appearance in the Convention of
and Office holders crew at Phil
adelphia, and has proved himself the
and most abject wretch and OBJ
sequious lickspittle Of the whole tribe of
who have joined the oppressors
Of their own people, Brownlow not ex- |
copied. The latter was a consistent |
Union man from the beginning to the end |
Of the war, and always proclaimed that
was a crime, and that those who |
took part in it deserved punishment.
Orr took the other side, and his loud |
pretensions Of devotion to the Southern |
cause secured for him seat in the Con- |
federate States Senate from South Caro-
lima. At the close of the war he Joined |
the party Of prescription; sold out his
principles; betrayed his friends and re-
ceived office. In the Philadelphia Con
vention he was called upon for speech,
and is reported to have pledged that the
negroes and office-holders, who represent
-wo-thirds of the voting population of
South Carolina, would give her electoral
vote to Grant. He was immensely in
lignant at what he termed the ISLANDERS"
hat had been heaped upon the wise and
good President, whom he compared to
Washington and jackson, and said he
,loried in his Administration. He re-
DICED in the Ku Klux legislation, and
claimed that "the laws had been firmly
and fairly executed" When the wrongs
# which the prescribed classes in Orr's
'wn State have been the victims-the
Inversion of civil authority and the es-
of martial law for their more
ffectual punishment-the suffering, des-
lation and death that have ensued- [
Fhen these things are thought of in con-
lection with the speech, the mind is be- {
'ildered in attempting to fathom the {
byss Of degradation into which its author
as descended. OF all the Spaniels who
ave bent the crooked hinges of the knee
hat thrift may follow fawning, Orr has
rawled UNNECESSARILY the lowest.
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