The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-12-05

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The fndicsfions can hardly be deeep-
| live as.to the Intention ofthe President to
abstain from interference in the local
Inanagement Of the Southern States.
No doubt his inclinations are that way.
The only fear is that he will be overruled
by the bad councillors by whom he has
unfortunately for his own fame and the
public good, surrounded himself.
If he should he baked in his present
inclination to deal impartially with the
reconstructed States, it viii not be the
first time, as the people of Mississippi,
will remember. They have not forgot
ten that when by false oaths, the Carpet
Bag adventures and scalawags attempt
ed to influence the Government to force
the rejected DISTINGUISHING constitution
on the State in 1868, the President
refused to become party to the scheme,
and recommended a new election with
the privilege accorded to the people of
voting down the proseriptive features of
the instrument they had before rejected.
He furthermore pledged himself not to
commit the management of the affairs of
the State and the conduct of the elections
pending reconstruction, to the hands of
Military satrap who had an axe of his
own to grind. And yet in Justification
of the promise, he appointed Ames to
rule over the State, and sustained him
not only in the most arbitrary and afro
cious acts of cruelty and despotism, but
in his VIGOROUSLY corrupt schemes in
cond icting the election TO secure a place
for himself in the T. S. Senate while
yet holding a commission in the Army.
With this well remembered example of
regeneration on the part of Gen. Grant
in a matter of vital import to our people,
they will not place implicit reliance upon
the present favorable indications in the
same quarter Nevertheless these indi-
cations exist, and they justify at least a
hope of fairer treatment in future. The
evidence accumulates that he has refused
to furnish troops to the INSCRIPTIONS
spoilsmen who are scheming to defeat
the popular will in Louisiana and it is no.
less true, we presume that he has left I'M
aided the Revolutionists who are striving
to supercede the legal Legislature in Ala
bana In reference to the Alabama pro-
ceeding the Washington Chronicle Of the
9th, has an article containing a signiti-
cant declaration, as follows:
1--WE think it is pretty safe to conclude
THAT the President aCU not interfere IN
"the matter, nor ,eU he sanction any i'm
proper interference on the part of Federal
''agents. If knowledge of that fact is
calculated to relieve the fears of the
mobile Register, then may it rest in
peace. And in reference to the trouble
(Which the adventures have gotten up
in Florida over the election there, the
Chronicle says: at is an inexcusable
''o:trage to interfere with the action of
''the officers recognized by the laws of
''the State, and Federal officials ,ciH do aoeu
''to be odnoonisIted that they themselves are
''amenabte to the ta1o, if they transgress
''their power, and, under any pretense,
''usurp functions not devOlved upon them.
eve are sure that the President, the
Attorney General, and the Congress of
''the United States aoW refuse to become a
''party to any action designed to defeat the
'tairiy expressed ,ciH of the people at the
''ballot-bor"
These expressions from sources near
the President, coupled with his conduct
thus far, are omens of more impartial
of the Government in its
dealings with the reconstructed States
or at least the hitherto prescribed classes
thereof. All they ask, is hands off and
equal justice to all Let the will of the
people as fairly expressed at the ballot
box prevail. In return, they can give
the promise of strict obedience to the
laws and rigid performance of all their
as citizens. As to national
politics, they have no programme for the
future, and will be guided by circum-
stances as they arise. They have no
power to shape national legislation if
hey would; and they desire above all |
things, to be let alone in the management
If their local affairs which certainly need
III the attention they are able to bestow.