The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-10-05


a-s-aas-@A Startling
ETp0se.
The despotism of Congress the direct
interference Of President Grant in local
elections, and in the domestic affairs of
the States, particularly in Louisiana,
Arkansas and Texas; the persistent at
tempt to substitute bayonet rule, in place
of the accustomed civil order, as mani
tested throughout the South, and in the
city of New York, and at Chicago du-
ring the great fire; the desperate at
tempt of the Radical majority in Con-
gress to perpetuate the act for suspend
ing the writ of habeas corpus, in order
to aecustom the people to military rule,
and to perpetuate Radical power; the re
peated attempts of the party, with the
sanction of the President, to destroy the
rightful powers of the States, and to de
prive the People of their inherent right
of local self-government; and various
other acts and schemes of Radicalism,
tending rapidly to consolidation, and to
an Imperial Despotism, have aroused a
feeling of apprehension and alarm,
among the people all over the country.
Soon after the election of President
Grant, some shoddy aristoerats advanced
large sums of money and established the
''Imperialist, newspaper in New 1ork to
advocate the transformation of this Free
Republic into an Empire, with an En-
peror and his august nobility to lord over,
and rule and plumber the American peo-
pie. If the newspapers say truly, there
is now an "IBaperiat Hotel, not far from
the White House, in Washington City /;
and, as we read the account of the
"GRAND RECEPTIONS" and lordly en-
tertainments, of Radical Secretaries and
Congressman, involving princely expen-
ditures of money drawn from an over
taxed and pludered people, we begin to
realize how the lords of the party have
already began practising for their grand
positions as dukes and counts of 1.-THE
Empire"
"Miss Nellie" the daughter of the
President has been sent abroad to visit
the courts of Europe, and she has figured
among the aristocrats of the old world,
as PRINCESS Nellie y
'"The General of the Armies" was sent
abroad, in public vessel, as a sort Of
tutor to Prince Frederick" the hopeful
son of Grant; and, perhaps, to polish
himself, for future duty in the coming
empire.
As shown by Senator Sumner, Gen.
Grant, has already begun to act as Impe-
perial Lord of the land Without au-
thority of law, and against law, Of his
own mere will, he sent war vessels OF the
United States on a hostile expedition
against the coIored people of Dominica,
and attempted to secure that country,
through treaty, not signed as treaties
of the United States are signed, but
signed in the name of General L. ;.
Grant" and he SO acted, not through an
appointed minister, as the United States
is accustomed to act, but through one
Babcock, his own military aid-de-camp
To break the free spirit of the people,
and to accustom them to subsection, and
imperial rule, he has, through aid of
servile Congress, sought power to sus-
pend the writ of habeas corpus, the peo-
Piles great writ of liberty, all over the
country, and to subject the free voters,
at elections, to the power of his military
police For long months, he has sub
jected the people of the South to that
lawless military power, and under pre-
tence of ''peace" and order, has, by his
military bands, invaded the homes of the
people, at midnight, AMI dragged them
away, on frivolous charges, and confined
them in distant prisons. The Grant
leaders, at Philadelphia, by the twelfth
section of their platform, deliberately
approved all the usurpations Of the Pres
ident and his Congress. They went fur
ther, and avowed their purpose to abol-
ISL the laws, and to create ga life tenure
of office"