The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-04-11
From the n. Y. Times
DESPERADOES.
Authorities DeGied and their Lives
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Neces-
sary 40 I'm force Ihe
Laws.

Gen. Emory has sent to the War Depart
ment letter from Lieut.. and Aid-de-Caml
Ming, dated New Orleans. March 6, 1871
saying that great E0aoLesSaess EXISTS htrou0tOu
me entire State Of Mississippi, but it canno
all be aScribed to ku klux ORGANIZATIONS
! The trial of several prominent members O.
the gang, and the arrest of large party
from the vicinity of Corinth, and their con.
nnement in in the post guard house al
Holly Springs, has done much toward their
general dISbandment, nevertheless there is
| a bitter and revengeful spirit in every Dor
| ton of the State against the Federal Gov
eminent, and there can be no doubt of the
| Iact that, when unsupported by regular
troops, the authorities are defed and their Iiues
| threatened By the deSperddOes lchOna then are
constantly called upon to arrest Messrs.
Fierce and Shaughnessy, United States Mar
ShalS for the Northern and Southern Dis
triets of Mississippi respectively, and Wiley
"eiIs' the District Attorney, are given as
authority for these statements. Gen. Emo
ry, in a letter dated March s. saws: Last
month went to Jackson to see Gov. Pow
ers, tcito had sent me vdTiOuS communication
ASKING for troops. an perfectly satisfied from
tadt cislt has acquisitions are yell founded and
utere Is necessity for more cdUdLrg in that State
and always acting on the principle in the
use OF troops In civil affairs, that prevention
Is DETER than Intervention. | respectfully
request that may be furnished one more
company OF cavalry to be posted in Missis-
Il
sent company of infantry to Neshoba
county and withdrawn one of the two COM
panies OF cavalry in the Northern District
OF Mississippi, to post in the Southern Dis
trlct, where 1t Is needed and strongly re-
quest ed by the L United States Marshall To
avoid all legal com pIications about the use of
troops IN making arrests and preserving
order, 1 have arranged with the Governor
OF Mississippi and the United States Mar
shall of that di trict between whom and
the Governor there is the best understand
lng(, that all acquisitions shall be made by
the United states civil officers.
From the foregoing it appears that the
same r. G. Powers, acting Governor,
who testified to the Legislature in Janu-
airy, that the Estate of the government
is peace, and who transmitted to that
body an official communication that such
was the orderly and peacSsble" condition
of the people that arms Sefe not needed
was in February in communication
with Gen. Emory, asking for troops in |
of the (alleged) great law
lessness' pervading the State. Says
Emory: 81 went to jackson to see Gov.
Powers, who had sent me various COM
'munlcations asking for troops / am
perfectly satisfied from that visit, that
has requisitioa iods soeH- founded, and that
there is necessity for more cavalry" &c.
According to this showing, while the
Icting Governor was making one
representation TO the Legislature he was
making a wholly different one to the
ederal authorities. If he spoke the
ruth to the one, he must have spoken
aisely to the other. But the facts con-
net him of a more discreditable offense
han double dealing. They convict him /
I conspring against the peace and the1 !
YES and liberties of the intelligent and
atriOtic masses who are arrayed in oppo-
ton to Radical misrule in the State !
hich is cursed by his administrator.
Ve cannot hope By any protest Of the
ress or the people, to stay this premedi- n
ted stroke Of vengeance and deep-Iaid Z
lot 70 carry the State by military inter- i
anton for the Radicals in the pending t,