The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-02-15
,rrrUIs EROn WILLIAM.

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,ETTER FROM WILLIAM.
East MISSISSIPPI, February 3, 1872.
rofroRs CLARION: The weather is very
n and Ji-agreeabe. There is now snow
j.. north side of my stable that has lain
-. far one week Since the year 1865, the
N in,.-e over here has been very unsatisfac-
80 About two years ago 1 went to see
-. Iores. on bitter cold Sunday, and he
n v.Aat then wrote to you. l saw him
.s.sr}ey again on the same business. lie
H.. he haas books on the subject of weather,
III t,. on all other subjects, and that he
4 IL reached only one conclusion upon the
l,arify of or last six winters, and that
.,,oIp.iop Is arrived at by a general esti-
motto Of all cau-es When he had said so
r.9.1 A. have written. he read from large
s,,L GOOD deal; but | could not UNDER
stand much OF the language, and proposed
ak him some questions, but he laid down
rs. hook tool, of his gloves, and began:
~WiIliam, you are Of an inquiring turn of
mind: but you are no5 as thorough in your
Investigations of causes as | would be
olassad 10 have you. There is an insepera-
Nj connection between cause and effect
letwcen mind aud matter-between mind
nd heart No effect is observed, but it
mas be traced to Il legitimate cause. You
complain Of Tie capIieiOus climate; and TO
razzle me. you state that since 1865 there
have been only three good seasons for fruit,
that your old fashioned plum trees have
maured fruit only three times, whereas
thew never failed before. There is, my
yopng friend. spiritual immaterial world
around you, with powers of unmeasured
intensity. harp strings, strung in air all
eonnectel to the material world, which
are moved and attuued by human actions.
In your early days, society here was harmo-
noasly organized, government easily adj
mini,tertd and justice magnitied. An I'M
heard melody was in the air round about
g Your plum trees blussomed and fruit
came and ripeued and blushed and fell. Our
fields and woods and houses all seemed to
have more cheerful aspect. The faces of
orr people seemed always to carry smile
concealed. True, there were bad men, but
they were exceptions. Then intelligence
and virtue We're selected to preside in the
assembly, and honor was the ideal of the
gentleman. Then jefferson DAVIS and a. G.
Brown were in the L. >. Senate from Mis-
sissippi. W. /. Sharkey was Supreme
Judge, or CoteSworth Pinckney Smith had
succeeded. Icrger, Harris, Handy, Hamm,
and others. dispensed justice to the people.
The voices OF Prentiss and Quitman and
Onion and Smedes and Drane and Gordon,
we're heard in the Legislature. Then Sam1
J. Gholson was Judge of the United States
Court
Now. ignorance and vice are enthroned,
and the bcastly presides in the presence of
the beautiful; Justice has fled to british
beasts, and gloom thick, heavy and SEEM
ingly immovable, rests on house and field,
and forest. In the L. 5. Senate there stand
speak for Mississippi, Ames, very unlike
BroWn, and AlcOrn, very unlike Davis.
sharkey aud Smith are not on the Supreme
bench. Nei2er and Harris aud Handy, and
Eamm 90 now to weep in the temple of
justice. In the Legislature. instead of our
best intelligence, we find two-thirds are ne
gtoes and strangers. In the L. 5. Court
EeTniSs Gholson. and find a poor, unhappy
man. LED about by little. strange, oriental
looking character, to crush out all the spirit
ma people, rich only in glorious memories.
Nefnd Tom Seaman pressed TO recite to a
Us Court what he promised not to tell.
Instead Of terrifying young men in keep
ing their faith, this unhappy old man is
using prisons and iron cages to cause per-
jury to grow. In the air above you, around
you, instead of melody, are OminOus sounds.
Your fruit trees bloom to be denuded by
lrosts. Your plum trees mature no fruit.
The climate is but the effect fprimal causes
modified by secondary causes, all inter-
mlGgliag. Every thing that we see and
hear and feel, is wrong. God is truth, and
harmony. and wisdom and love. When our
people put things to rights you will have
our old winters. Your fruit trees will bios
som and leave as of old. Men cannot re-
Verse the great laws, written and unwritten,
mat enter into the beauty of Divine Juris-
prudence. | went home wondering at the
great phenomena around us, and especi-
ally at the idea of unseen and hidden
powers and harp-Strings in the air.
know very little of these; but believe
mr. Jones is right. If we can ever get pos
session Of our aElSe government, how de-
Hshtiul viii be the prospect for rich and
poor IN this afflicted landl Mr.. Jones seems
anxious about young men. He desires to
Aeep before them the fate of Holden and
bfo"nlow and Alcorn. Compton awaits
lhe inevitable hour. No man, he says, has
deserted his own, but has already been Wis
"eu by Heaven. or is marked for wrath
ar Jones says he would rather be door
Aeeper in the house of his God, than to dwell
~ the tents of wiekedness."
l am going over the creek next Sunday to
singing school. and carry Mrs. Cornelia a
'opy OF the Governors message. She says
sle has read in the Pilot that Mr.. Warren
made great sacrifice in becoming Clerk Of
.ae House of Representativ but she don'i
oelieye it. She says the Pilot man don'l
Oeiieye it. Her son Jesse, tells me that the
V'u lady is very much at loss to account
''or now Mississippi will ever reciprocatt
'he closing expression of the Governor:
message, Our beloved Mississippi" Can
oar people ever say, our beloved Governor
io"ers2 Jesse files the inquiry. Time
'affles US along. The answer awaits ouI
eshihg. | shall write again next week.
WILLIAM.