The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-10-24
The Radical Policy Of Hate and
Vengeance.

to see peace and reconciliation fully estab-
lished between the two sections on the
basis of equal rights and oblivion Of past
animosities, we would be gratihed if the
facts would warrant the opinion that the
result in Pennsylvania and Ohio on Tues
day last was not due to hatred and malice
towards the prescribed race of the South
in the bosoms of the controlling MAORI
ties.
To this cause, the result is attributable
more than to the enormous frauds which
were undoubtedly perpetrated by the
Administration and the lust of power
and plumber which inspired its cohorts.
On their part, the contest was waged by
arguments addressed to the passions and
prejudices 0f the multitude. These APP
peals were abetted by the most exaggera-,
ted stories of Southern "outrages" and
calumnies of Southern infdelity to
pledges which were made at Appomatox,
and which have been inviolably kept.
The Convention which nominated Grant
was war Convention and the slogans
of the battlefield which were sounded
there, have been kept up without inter
mission The Grant orators protested
against healing the bleeding wounds, or
clasping hands. The Grant newspapers
teemed with the most inhammatory APP
peals. And the Grant periodicals were
ornamented with caricatures of Southern
manners and habits based upon false
hoods furnished to order by the carpet
bag importations and their scallawag allies
who are living on the tax money extorted
from an impoverished and suffering peO-
pie. The reproduction of the so-called
stir up the passions of the war, and with
this same motive, all the "hOrrors" of
Andersonville and Libby were newly
painted and held up to the gaze of the
multitude.
For example, we have before us a copy
of Harper's Weekly of September %.
1t is the most popular of the Grant pic
torials. Its circulation is immense Its
cuts are gotten up to illustrate the stories
of Southern crimes" with which its
pages abound Here is an extract from
one of them. 1t is from the story pub
lished by carpet-bag emissary in Geor-
gia by the name of Charles Stearns.
From Harper's Weekly, Sept. Is.
Mr.. Stcarns, from whose interesting work
on The Black Man of the South and the
Rebels recently published, these details
are taken, went TO Georgia in 1866 and pur-
chased a plantation near Augusta. He was
an enthusiast. and hoped by mildness and
forbearance to disarm the malice of the
Southern whites, to teach by example and
precept the colored laborer. He opened a
school for his workmen, and succeeded in
winning their attention and regard. With
many faults, the results of generations of
oppression, the colored population seem at
least to have been grateful and loyal. Mr..
Stearns became leading Republican poll
tician, and was elected ordinary Ofhis cOun-
tV by the colored vote; but when he at
tcIn pied to take possession of his office was
set uponsby Democratic mob was in dan
ger of his lite, and was forced to resign
''They then seized me-" he relates of his eX
pulsiOn from office, dragged me to the top
of the stairs, an hurried my departure
from the halls of justice by pushing and
kicking me until | had reached the bottom
of the long flight of stars. some of them
crying out. Let's put him into the creek"
His narrative of his dangers aud sutfeTings
as a Southern planter throws no doubtful
light upon
THE DEGRADED CONDITION OF THE GREAT
BODY OF THE PEOPLE.
Such cruel and desperate men, plunged in
utter ignorance, such
UNCLEANLY AND INTOLERABLE WOMEN
as seem to abound in the interior districts
of Georgia, can hardly be imagined without
actual observation. OF Il certain Mrs. Low
ing, "a poor white" we are told, cher pres
ence at the breakfast-table was enough to
considerably lessen the cost of feeding ones
family, so uncouth and uDcleanly was she
in appearance" Ofthe politeness of South
ern men, Mr. Stearns seems to have receiv-
ed no agreeable impression. He was con-
stantly assalled by
GROSS LANGUAGE, VILE EPITHETs, AND THE
CoARSEST ABUSE;
their humanity was shown in attacking his
house when he lay ill with fever, in terri
fying his family. and shooting revOlVerS
under his windows. That there are many
intelligent and cultivated people aG the
South is not to be doubted, but they can
scarcely DelOnS 10 the party .
Though man of peace, unoffendng and
blameless, he was compelled To sleep with
his rifle under his pillow; saw the Union
men around him treated with horrible Sc
verify; heard OF
MURDERS AND oUTRAGEs EVERYWHERE.
Facts like those related by Mr.. Stearns.
and which he supports by the affidavits of
numerous witnesses. white as well as color
ed, sometimes by the touching narratives of
the sufferers themselves. and often by Off
cial documents, must arouse natural in
dignation in every part OF the nation. and
serve to throw terrible light upon the de-
| signs of those Southern politicians who are
attempting to delude the public mind with
professions of peace and of reconciliation.
| They have already established despOtism
! in Georgia, and probably in many other
| sections OF the South. founded upon blood
shed, and covered with gross deception. In
| that State alone their murdered utctins are
numbered by thousands.