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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-08-15
Not Very Important.

The innocent mention by THE CLARION
of the Meridian Mercury as the first pa
per in the State which led the way in the
movement for the support of a Liberal
Republican ticket against Grant, seems
to have been taken unkindly by the Ray
mond Gazette. 1t thinks that we have
especial reason for Withholding the credit
of the initiative from other parties for
whom it claims the honor. Positively,
we had no motive whatever, except to
pay, parenthetically, a passing tribute to
the forecaste of one of our ablest and tru-
est editorial brethren. If the Canton
conference, of which the editor of the
Gazette could truly say that he was a
large part, conceived the idea, or declar-
ed the policy of adopting the Cincinnati
Baltimore programme, we were not aware
of it. Nor will we enter on the discus
sion of the matter now. IF the advocacy
of the acceptance of the reconstruction
acts, negro suffrage included, and the
making the best of the circumstances in
which the South was placed when those
acts were passed more than FIVE years
ago-was the foundation of the present
Liberal movement, then there are other
parties who might enter the lists to COM
pete for the honor which we have accord
ed to the Mercury, and which is claimed
by the Gazette for the Seven Wise Men
at Canton, Whose names modesty
would forbid us to mention. But this is
trifing, compared to the paramount ques-
tion-where do you stand now? And
are you striking blows, thick and fast,
against Grantism and for Greeley and
reform
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-08-15
The Head of the Grant Electoral
Ticket I'm Mississippi IRepu-
diates the Concern.

In another column, will be found the
letter of M. G. Brady, Esq, of Pamela,
to the Chairman of the Republican
Executive Committee declining to serve
as elector on the Grant ticket. Mr..
Brady is District Attorney under the
existing Republican State Administers
ton. His standing with his party is at
tended by his appointment as Presiden-
tial elector for the State at large. This
letter places him in company with Hons.
Joseph Bennett, j. L. Morphis, Rob't j.
Alcorn, w. HI. Vasser, and other prom
inent Republicans of this State in the
pending Presidential election. He is
one of the few rising young men Of the
State who attached themselves to the
party of the Administration when it was
lavish of its promises of amnesty and
reconciliation. Its failure to redeem
these pledges leaves no ground on which
men of either section who desire the
peace and repose of the country can
stand. Not only does its platform not
meet the requirements of the times, but
in every other form it speaks the Ian
guage of prescription and strife. The
tone of the Philadelphia Platform was
entirely warlike. Its organs give forth
the slogans of the battlefield and
member of the Cabinet went to North
CarolIna nandino tho Ia+o oIc,+;o,, -
proclaim the protest of the Administra-
tion against the doctrine of Mr. Greeley
that it was time the two sections had
clasped hands across the bloody chasm.
We have published the letter of Mr..
Brady with much pleasure, and will ex-
pect to have the privilege of publishing
many other declarations of a similar
purport before the canvass is over.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-08-15

Under the law of the State, .registra-
ton is now progressing in the several
counties preparatory to the November
election Two days win Be given to
each precinct, and the Boards viii then
adjourn to the Court House where errors
VIII be corrected and parties wha have
not registered viii have. tlas4o opportunity
of doing so. Voters who have aot ehangafi
their residences, and who have the Reg
istrati9n papers granted them IN 1871,
are not required to re-register; but all
qualified voters who have changed their
residence out of the Supervisors district
in which they registered in 1871 and all
parties who have become qualified vo-
tiers by age or removed into the county,
can now obtain registration papers.
The present system of registration is a
cumbersome and bunglingt machinery.
In truth, the whole system is wrong,
because. It interposes unnecessary and
expensive obstacles between the voter
aud the exercise Of his privilege; but our
people will have TO take thelaw as they
find it IN the trust that it will be made
better after t%ne There are a great
many persons in this State who have not
voted since the.war. The opportunity is
now afforded and the call upon them as
patriots is imperative.
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z s3en 4MIa Reanssnas.n1 q NNk@r1I o.
Friendly bun Enrme~a esennsel-
A few days ago. in Savannah. Gsar-
IA, dilEeulsY occurred about the priv
ileges d the street ear betweaR whites
and blacks. which resdItea IN solCoel-slsesi,
the killing Of several negroes who were
engaged in the riot, AMI of 81 inHpsent
woman lwhitel and TWO children who
were sitting quietly On their. eyn door
sill s. aas4~sss2
The whole city was in comrnotion for
time, and there WAS imminent peril that
the entire population would become in
volved.
But it is not upon the results of the
difficulty, nor the consequences which
might have resulted to the community in
which it occurred that we propose now TO
speak. We wish to improve the occa-
sion to urge our people to discountenanee
any disturbance between the races, no
matter how aggravated the offense, nor
great the provocation. 1t is not neces-
sary for US to say that We apPreeiate the
difficulty of curling resentnaents which
preneditated insolenee and acts Of vio-
lence provoke, which are sometimes conn
mitted by ignorant and excitahle persons
at the instigation of eold-bleoded, sche-
ming white men, but still, it IS better to
bear all, than to give Gen. Grant and
his minions pretext for employing Uni
ted States troops, under the plea of ne
cessity to preserve order. The Admin
istration, including its sixty thousand
office-holders, do not intend to give up
the privilege which they now enjoy, Of
appropriating, to their own uses, hun
dred of millions of the peoples money,
until they have exhausted every resource
of violence and fraud. We have I'M
doubted assurance that, rendered desper-
ate by the result in North Carolina, and
the detection in their ranks in the North
ern States, the Administration will inl a
short time turn its attention to the South
ern States which they design to carry by
the use of the military forces of the gov
eminent if possible. Our object now is
to afford them no pretext for resorting to
this desperate expedient so that if it
be tried, it will react upon them else
where. We beg our contemporaries of
the press to aid US to impress this sug-
gestion on the minds of our people.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-08-15
Ahe Advantages which East Mis-
sissfPPI Holds Ou1 40
ImmiGramts.
From Colemnn's Rnral NJ

EIOm OOieman's Rural world.
Passing over the Mobile and Ohio rail-
road few days ago.. which runs more
than hundred miles through the east
ern portion of Mississippi, we were at
once interested and surprised to see the
great area of fine prairie land, that is
uncultvated, which is capable of raising
wheat, corn, oats, cotton, clover, grasses
and all the root crops in large quantity.
These lands are mostly gently undulatinr.
nowhere approaching to hill. and ne
soil is black and rich to the deptb of
foot and half. These lands were once
mostly In cultivation and produced great
quantities OF cotton, but the doing away
with slave labor and the consequent dis
Iruptlon OF large planting, turned this
land INTO state of wilderness, in which
IL mas renaInedup to the present time.
We need emigration to Missouri. but
we have not the soil and climate 10 suit
all; and there is no place we would
sooner recommend to those seekin, ho,nas
in mild climate, than the country az
East Mississippi, along or near the M
bile and Ohio railroad, which al once
offers them a cheap and efficient trans-
portatlon for the products they grow and
manufacture. fR giit }. a4l.a7'i 80
This land can be had at a nominal
price, and the advantages oaered nv 80
NloDiie ana Ohio railroad of reduced fare
TO those who 60 there 20 purchase land.
Is consideration but few roads extend |
70 tnose seeking homes. If you want a |
nome where ice scarcely ever forms
where It is healthy and beneficial to |
those with weak Lungs where all crops /
ana fruits grow and produce gpIendidly 4
year BY years 60 70 East Mississippi.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-08-15
THE TRIAL.
A SerIn,rA- .l,,cstion.

The question is rondcted silently, and
oftentimes asked openly, how the carpet
bag adventures who came into the State
as poor as jobs turkeys, have managed
to acquire property valuable beyond all
proportion to the amount of the salaries
they have drawn They have no BUSH
ness except the offices they are filling by
the grace of Ames' bayonets; and yet
they are filling their Golfers with amazing
rapidity, while the producing classes Of
the community are crushed down ty in
tolerable taxation. Where does the mo
ney come from?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-08-15

North CAROLINA Grantites have
given up the North Carolina Legislature
and majority of the Congressman, but
they claim to have elected Caldwell bv
something like 1000 majority. This
result has been accomplished by frauds
which viii be thoroughly inquired into
by the Legislature. That body Is auth
orlzed by law to revise the returns and
until it decides, the matter will remain
in doubt.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-08-15
DISTRICTS

First Distriot-L. q. G. Lamar, of Lafay
ette, fl. NJ. Street, Of Prentiss A. 4. Roane,
OF Calhoun.
Second District. Il. Morgan, of DeSoto,
E c. WaItliaIi. Of Grenada, hinloch FalcO-
ner, OF Marshall.
Third Distriet--Kenben 0. Reynolds, of
Monroe, X. W. Williamson, OF Montgomery,
Robert Mcintosh. OF Chickasaw.
Fourth Di5triet--S. s. Caih0on, of Madi-
son, Garnctt Andrews. of Iazoo, j. j.
shannon, Of Lauderdale,
Fifth Distriet-W. II. AcCardle, Of War
rem, Harris Barks,lale, Of Hints, oylyanus
Evans, Of Clarke.
sixth District--Beni king, ST., of Copiah,
Hiram Cassidy, Sr, OF franklin, +. *.
Mayors, of Harrison.
Appointed by direction OF the Convention.
j. w. G. WATSON, President
JACKSON, Miss, june 26, 1872.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-08-15
Our distinpuisbed felIow-c;tizod O.,

Our distinguished fellow-citizeh, Gen.
L. j. Wharton, while at West Point on
Tuesday last, on professional business,
responded to a pressing invitation to
address the people ON the issues of the
day. We learn from West Point that he
had large audience Tuesday night, and
sowed good seed which will grow up in
the cause of Greeley and Brown.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-08-15
Congress---5th District.

Mr.. Frantz, of the Brandon Republic
can, with the characteristic modesty of
the profession, declines to become can
didate for the Congressional nomination
in the 9TH district, and dominates Col.
w. b. Shelby, in whose praise as an ora
tor and true man Of the people, he says
MOI a word more than his merits justify,
The Enterprise Star recommends Judge
Evans and the Vicksburg Herald Colonel
Hooker. They are all good men.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-08-15

The Association met pursuant to adjourn
ment. Capt j. II. Woods in the Chair.
Capt j. =. Walker was duly elected
Marshal of the Association.
On motion of Col. W-tH. Whitaker a
committee of three from each Company.
was appointed by the President, TO ascer-
tain how much money can be raised, for
the purpose of erecting monument TO the
memory of the dead of the 18th Regiment,
to report at the next annual meeting. The
following names constitute the committee
w. b. Johnson, K. f. Nal brough. l..
Leibenfield. of Company A.; 5. IL Powe,
i. >. West w. 5. Davis, of Company Il. j.
5. Sinclair, j. j. Gordon. j. l.. Robinson. OF
Company G; Thomas Keith, M, Watkins, j..
K. Weaver, OF Company D.; j. A. Cameron,
I. ;. Pigford, j A. Puck, of Company +. /;
J., ID. Belk, H.. ID. Mckinley, g. b. Sim
mons. ofCompany F G.. l.. Donald, a. Y.
McLendon, ID. Barlow. o: Company G.. :;
w. III. Davis, w, III. Hill, II. &. Topp, Of
Company II c. H. b. Campbell, w. NJ.
Meek, j. X. Jennings, of Company L.; W D..
f. Brown, G. T. Shedd, and w. p. Evans OF
Company X.
A committees consisting Of NJ Ii. Whita-
ker, w. q. Grace and j. L. Walker. to con-
fer with owners of land where the Confed-
crate dead are buried in this city, and learn
what it can be bought for.
Granville Henderson. w. L. Evans, and
). r Smith, were appointed committee to
procure life size pictures of all the field
officers who fell in battle
After the adoption OF various resolutions
of thanks, &c, the Association adjourned
till the 9TH day of August, 1873.
ADDITIONAL NAMES GIVEN IN AFTER THE
Roll CALL.
Company K-R. Y. Jackson. ID. II. Mag
gard, q. w. Broach w. ii. jenkins, and
Jas. Patton, colored.
Company D-J. R.Weavcr, i. ID. McKin-
lev.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-08-15
THR PoLrrrcAL WoRLD is all in con

THR PoLTTIcAL WORLD is all ia com
motion. Greeley and Grant are both on
a grand hand-shaking tour. Ex-Presi-
dent johnson is on the stump for Greeley.
Schurz is stirring the political waters.
He was at Chicago st hast accounts,
Summer is writing letters and delivering
serenade speeches In Washington.
Judge Black of Pennsylvania, supposed
to be an impracticable straightout, has
declared for Greeley. The lafestreports
from North Carolina have somewhat re-
vived the dropping spirits Of the Office
holders and theY are making an effort 70
rally again. Meantime the stampede
from Grant % Greeley il goine On. !.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-08-15

William Bell, of Pamela county, has
been tried in the Circuit (State) Court
orviolating the State law against Ku-klux
organizations, and found mot guilty, :"
after very able and vigorous prosecution
by Mr.. Brady, District Attorney. The
Pamela Star says, that the great impor-
tanee Of this case is in the fact that the
grand jury of the Federal Court at Ok
ford, have found an Indictment against
Mr.. Bell for the same offense under the
Ku-klux act of Congress, and Mr.. Bell
will have to appear for trial this week at
Oxford upon this Indictment
The question will be raised that man
cannot be twice tried for the same offence.
It thinks that Judge Hill of the Federal
Court, in obedience 10 this well settled
principle OF law and justice, ought to
dismiss the proceedings in that court.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-08-15
Don't the Central RonphTcsr kro,y

Don't the Central Republican know
that Greeley has twice emphatically de.
MED, through the N. Y. Tribune, the
language which it keeps standing as hav-
ing been employed by him; and that he
has stated that its real author is the edi-
tor of leading Grant journal IN the city
of New York?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-08-15
The Great DeIuge,

Hon. j. F. Farnsworth, leading Re
publican member of Congress from Hi
nois, has declared for Greeley. He says
The election of Mr.. Greeley will hiring
peace. good order and fraternal good-feel-
ing in the South, and so is the consumation
most devoutly to be wished.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-08-15

Old Ku Klux indictments, procured
by perjury, were held in terrorism over
the heads of Democrats in North Carroll
ma, to induce them to vote the Radical
ticket in the late election.
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Meeting of the Democratic and
Conservative Committees.

The meeting of this committee on tho
9TH was largely attended, and every por-
ton of the State was represented. Three
of the absentees were represented by
proxies, who acted, however, under in
structions to which they strictly con
formed. r4sf
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-08-15
The Way The Peoples Money Goes

The New York Tribune publishes a
few Of the defalcations of Government
officers under Grants administration,
and the very incomplete list foots up as
follows. Internal revenue, 81 1898, $50 :;
pensions, s278. 900 postoffice, s242, 600;
Treasury, s9o,5O0; State Department,
$500; Department of Justice, s121 900;
customs, s147, 900; navy, $476, 8S3 /;
war, $40, 4o6. Total, s3,194,2 47.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-08-15

1t is conceded by all that the Demo
Gratis and Liberals have carried five out
of eight Congressional districts in North
Carolina and secured the Legislature by
large majority--thus securing the ejec-
ton of Pool, MISUNDERSTANDING, from the
U. S. Senate.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-08-15
Liberal Republican State Executive
Committee.

RoB'r J. ALcoRN, of Kinds, Chairman.
JOHN O'CoNNER, of Monroe, Secretary.
BOARD or CONTROL.
Rob't j. Acorn. OF Kinds.
Johu O'Conuer, of Monroe.
w. H. Xasser,
Joe Bennett, of Rankin.
G. Gordon Adam, of Warren.
VII. Vasser. of Monroe.
Joe Bennett, of Rankin.
j. l.. Morphis of POntotoc.
Il. ii. Saunders, of Alfalfa.
K. II. Montgomery, of Holmes.
j. J.. Wo1ford, OF Alcorn.
w. Il. Nesbit, Of DeSoto,
J II. Cooke,
6. Gordon Adam. of Warren.
S. 5. Fairfield, OF Grenada.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-08-15

The New York Tribune says No.
body ever pretended that Universal
Suffrage at the South would be either a
safe or desirable experiment unaccom-
panied by Universal Education. How
much the earpet-haggers have done for
common schools in North Carolina may
be reckoned from the fact that from
1868 to 1870 the State raised for common
school purposes not less $534, 600, and
the men who had seized the government
expended not more than SIS, 600. Ash
ley, Superintendent Of Public nstruction,
may know what has become OF. the 1896, 4
600 unaceOunted for.a
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-08-15

LoCQUET-LEEOY FENHIE toLiI..
ATE INsrHUrE.-F0r more tasH t#a"
years this institution Of learning Ha. .f.
well and fvorably known 90 tao Ie.H
the Southwest, Tic Principal i- q ..
distinguished in tho teaching r0t
A residence Of five years abroad, ae'0.'.
% the education Of her own daughters
enables her 70 conduct her school u a....-
dance with all she late Improvement n'"
adopted In European Schools of the -lne
character. The Institute g. located @. w..
$50 Camp street, New Orleans. A rIeHa
writing W from New Orleans, says .aN
madame Locquet-Leroy 81 an excellent
and hnent FRENCH scholar and is wen aI-
preciated by The citizens of thts city ana
state. Young ladies who would be thorough
n French ana Music, as wei as m ali t.e
branches thar constitute Grst-class so.iA
ana finished education, will have every
possible facility az this Institute. See ode
vertiaemcnt fCr date 81 opening of Next
SESSION and other particulars,
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SARDIs, MISSISSIPPI
July 18th, 1872. (
To Hon. II. Warner, Chairman Republican
Ececutt0e Committee Of Mississippi.

To Hon. II. Warner, Chairman RepubZtcan
EcecattUe Committee Of Mississippi:
I hereby decline to accept, or, if my ST.
fence has been considered an acceptance,
hereby resign, the Electorship of Missis-
sippi.
In explanation of this action deem it
sufficient to state that upon careful exami-
nation of the Philadelphia platform L have
been disappointed. The Republican motto
OF Mississippi since 1869 has been "Univer-
sal Amnesty, Univeral Suffrage" / have
faithfully endorsed that motto from its
inauguration, and now cannot become salts
lied to cast the vote of the State in support
OF platform that does not fully and une-
quivocally advocate the same. The colored
people of America are free, ] ask that every
white citizen also shall enjoy freedom, only
this and nothing more
Whilst the 18th section of the Philadel-
PIMA platfor "heartily approves the action
OF congress in extending Amnesty to those
lately in rebellion it only bows TO lhe die
ton of an uncomfortable law, without as
sertlng any principles or future policy for
the Republican party of the nation This
meagre doctrine does not correspond with
the professions of Mississippi Republicans.
nor can they with decency subscribe 10 it
whilst listening TO the voice of their own
platforms of 1869 and 1871, and no doubt
Mr.. Grant viii carry this State. But, as for
myself prefer, il needs be, political OBJ
security TO the PRONUNCIATION OF principles
that cannot cOnscientiously endorse
am, with much respect,
MARK {. BRADY.
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The Reign of Terrorism and the
i1itt CarPef-IBa%.

31it CarPef.IBa%.
The New York Tribune, the newspaper
nearest the confidence of Mr.. Greeley,
speaks words of encouragement to the
oppressed and carpet bag ridden commu-
mites Speaking of the certain results
OF the Presidential election, il says /;
THE reign Of terrorism and the carpet
bag is over. The horizon Is broaden
ling, and people do see that we cannot
"atiord to violate the principles of jus
'ttiee by keeping any class of men under
"a ban. It's time that political amnes-
t'ty we're complete and sectional legisla-
''tion brought to an end There is no
Longer any reason why laws nominally
''of general application should be level
"ed at the Southern States alone. Held
EAST by painful bonds, the South has
"been plundered of her resources until a
thrill of Indignation has run through
''the North at the woful sight. It is
enough National Legislation must
embrace in It's benefcent scope all cit
''izens and all classes Of citizens. The
day of revenges is past the era Of real
peace has come. To which, We need
only add, God speed the day of deliver
ance!