The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-08-01
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CoIOred and Home Radicals
Omt or Al TIae CongressfomaA

FRYE Of the six CongressisSal Districts
IL this State were apportioned without
reference to population or geographical
eopnection as to give the blacks large
numerical supremacy over the whites.
But it must not be inferred that this was
done by the carpet-bag schemers to give
the blacks an opportunity of electing
representatives Of their own race nor to
give the scaIlawags a showing, for that
matter either.
Their object was to secure the places
for themselves by means of negro votes.
As for Morphis, they literally gerry
wandered him out We will venture to
predict that though the blacks viii fur
nish nine hundred and ninety-nine votes,
in the five Radicalized Districts they
will not be allowed more than one Rep
resentative if that! Barry, of Yaller
Poney fame, has already borne off the
palm over Whitfield (scallawag) and
Ambrose Henderson (black) in the Bird
District In this the 9th District, the
colored aspirants are hardly in the race
The soallawags are not even thought
worthy of mention; and the colored
aspirants will be distanced by their car
pet-bag competitors. 1t is thought that
Morgan, the Miscegenationist, who. is
considered a cross between the races,
will win the day in the 4th District. In
the Sixth, Lynch, colored, of Natchez,
is making move on Perez, &c. b. but
it is believed the latter has the inside
track. How it is in the benighted River
District we are not prepared to say but
it is understood that Foxy Howe e. b. }
will appropriate the nomination.
Whether the colored element and what
is left of Scallawagery in the Republican
ranks will consent to the mental service
assigned them by the Mournful Facts,
remains to be seen. 1t is charged in
Radical circles that Barry obtained his
nomination by dishonest means to which
the Columbus Press (Rad.) is under
stood to have especial reference in the
following extract. We shall await with
some concern its proAnised development
and will enjoy the fun which the clash
ing of 'Ethe Williams and plunderers'
who are leading the Grant party, will
afford:
The same spirit, with the use of like cor
rupt means, has manifested itself in party
Conventions in this portion of Mississippi.
1t has been fostered and manipulated by the
same class of men who are familiar with
legislative intrigues, and full of corruption.
The evidence of this statement is abundant,
and will be presented at the proper time.
We wish it distinctly understood, that all
such men and measures shall be visited with
our most earnest condemnation. Such
things must be put down. No party can
live under the burden. No man who has
any self-respect, or honor or conscience,
can defend such men or measures, even
within party organization. The remedy is
to be applied inside of the organization, in
the family bounds, so to speak, and not
outside of it. The honest men of the party,
who are acting from principle, who feel
that the highest interests OF all sections and
all men will be promoted by the success of
Republican principles. do not intend to
submit. and will not submit, to such prac-
tees. The very large mass of the Republic
can party is made up of hSnest men, acting
from common motive, az we have just in
dictated. These will rise as one man, and
will lash all corrupt villains and plumber
ers out of the party as with whip of sccr-
pions and all honest men will say, Amen
Am Argument Against Gran tfsm
The carpet-bag governments in the
South, which are agencies for the collec-
ton and squandering Of taxes, are the
creatures of the Grant Administration.
They were created by it, and are kept
in authority by its bayonets, its fraudu-
lent apportionments and its villainous
election laws. The Mournful Facts are
the benitciaries of this injustice, and |
consequently they are unit for Grant
in the Presidential election
AS an example of the manner in which
these establishments have collected and |
made way with the money of the people
without returning an equivalent we will
cite the testimony of Judge Orr on the
condition of South Carolina. He is an
and Grant man, and is the
author of the speech we recently quoted
his adherence to the Admins
ration.
In reply to an interviewer, he made
he following revelation showing the des-
rate condition to which the affairs of
hat State have been brought:
The Institution for the Deaf and Dumb
nd the Blind at Spartanburg has just been
lOsed, and the inmates sent home because
hey can get no money from the treasury.
he penitentiary and the lunatic asylum
ave to resort to all sorts of shifts to feed ,
heir inmates. The public schools are shut !
p, and the teachers discharged unpaid. 1t
threatened that the quarantine along our
cast will have to be abandoned for want of ]
1nds. / have not received a cent of paw
Dr. nine months, and the most of the State
Ulcers, whose pay is due quarterly, are In
he same condition. Meanwhile the State .
ebt has been increased at least twelve l
lillion dollars, and between four and five f
billion dollars have been collected in taxes
uring the past tour years. That is to say, Q
ne Columbia thieves have had an income y
uring four years of at least sixteen million
dollar in the treasury. And what have =
ley got to show for it? Not single pub
c Improvement. Not one mile of railroad a
+ canal, not one dollars worth oflegitimate q
expenditure on the state douse-n0Ch1ng at
4 except few acres of swamp lands and d
ind hills, bought by the land commission
at from two to ten times its value, and
hich are now going begging for purchase v
eight years time, and six per cent. inter-
It.
III. w. Barry, who has represented a O
District in Congress for the n
ast three years, and has recently q
zen re-nominated for the place by the {.
.ongrels, has never paid dollar of {.
xas In I.nu.ndes onnntr uhera he claims =.