The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-05-23

Patriot are both acting in bad faith to
the sentiment of the country, which de-
mands the overthrow of the Grant Ad-
ministration and the return of the Gov
eminent to the limits fixed by the Con-
stitution. Especially do they outrage
the carpet-bagged, plundered and op-
pressed Southern communities by sacri-
fcing the means of their deliverance to
sordid partisan bigotry. Before the Gin
cinatti Convention met, they took stock
largely in the Liberal movement. They
held out extravsgant promises of Demo
caratic support on condition its authors
would move forward bravely and give it
form and direction by adopting plat
form in accordance with the intentions
they had announced, and placing eandi-
dates in the field who would commit
themselves unqaalfetily 10 il.
1t was remarked that the zeal of these
journals was not tempered with discre-
ton. The World presumed to dictate
nominee for the Convention, Adams, of
Ma ssachussetts, and was bold enough to
pledge that his nomination would be en-
dorsed by the Democracy without the
Formally of a Convention. The Patriot
was scarcely less demonstrative in its
championship of Judge Davis. 1t filled
its columns with newspaper extracts de-
| signed to manufacture sentiment in favor
of his nomination. While they were
thus arrogating the authority to shape
the course of the Convention, they new
ertheless were loud in protesting that the
action of the revolving Republicans must
be free from the imputation of outside
Democratic manipulation.
The honest masses of the country who
know anything about those journals,
were even then tempted by their indis-
Greet zeal and inconsistent utterances, to
doubt their good faith, and to apprehend
| that their motives were sinister. The
result has justified these fears. They
! have both changed their course. So far
from encouraging the Independent Re
publican movement, they are railing
against its leaders. The Patriot OF the
9th actually goes to the extreme of Will
fying Senators Schurz and Trumbull,
who, next to Greeley and Brown, have
beep its life and soul. So far from advo-
eating cordial acceptance of the oppor-
tunity which the movement affords of
uniting all the elements of opposition to
the usurpations of the Grant dynasty,
and the re-establishment of the land
marks of the Constitution, they are adj
vising policy of discord and disorgani-
ton. If they are not helping the bitter
end Radicals to keep Grant in power,
it is because their teachings fall
upon listless, if not Disguised ears.
The World cannot give reason
which the intelligence of the De
mocracy will not reject, why Adams would
be more acceptable than Greeley. Nor
can the Patriot tell how its own favOrite
would have presented stronger claims to
their support than the Liberal nominee.
They have both gone back to the ''ante-
cedents" of the Liberal candidates and
have found nothing to commend them to
Democratic favor If we understand
the pending canvass it is not to be made
on antecedents. The plundered
Southern people who want the opportu-
nitv of Kidding themselves of military
rule, plumber rings, and confscation dc
not look on it in that light. If 'ante-
cedents' and lifelong opposition to what
thew once cherished, and old grudges,
are to be the party slogan, 1t IS not
probable our Southern people would be
pratiied even if summoned to support
straightout Democratic nomination. In
that event, it is likely they would. be ex
pected to vote for some "Great Wal
Governor" as in 1868; or Military
e Hero who clutched the Union by 1T
7 drowning locks as it was about to g
: down under the waves of the Rebellion.
e To all this the Southern opposers o
t Radicalism have made up their MINDS
: and thew see neither wisdom nor justice
: nor generosity in the Representatives,
: displayed all at once by the World AM
/. the Patriot on the subject of Lifelong
: records" when it is evident that thoe
e journals will not find occasion to com
: nlain of such 'tantecedents' as would D.
e most disagreeable to the people OF tn
r South whose support will be relied upol
d in case a straightout ticket isnomlnated
a We desire to enter protest agalns
e the adoption of any such standard @
II fitness ilpthe spending election. But
IT noth;np else will answer, the demand
: not unreasonable that in the nomination
1t of candidates the sentiment OF tn
t 100 votes in the Electoral College
that are confidently relied upon from tn
Sonth for the Democratic nominee, sha
be respected.
l. Rut away. with these trivial consider
lie t;ors IN a contest involving the very IN
le IF the Constitutional guarantees OF ire
n dom to the citizen and of self-governmei
rs 70 the States True enough our hear
:, grow warm towards Horace Greeley
lie Tecalling the generous words he has sp
ne ION for the downtrodden and disfranenise
I'd South in the hour of her tribulation an
O. N remembering that he was too magma
ry ;mous to strike fallen foe-true enoue
lie yea End in the record of Gratz Brown b