The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-02-22
From the Vicksburg Herald, Feb. -.
The PRINTING: Business Again.

The jackson CLARION Of Tuesday devote
n large portion of its space to the Herald
but rs we do not propose TO make so many
single paragraphs in reply, we shah lumI
the lot
THE CLARION complains that we have
copied all the "disparaging filings" IN refer
ence to the public printing business, espe-
cialy one from the North Mississippian a
| Radical paper at Holly Springs. and that
we have been 'careful to exclude from our
! columns whatever replies il has made to
| ''these filings" reference to the files Of
| the Herald will show that we haze made CO.
pious extracts from these replies, as well
| from those made by The CLARION itself as
one from the Brandon Republican. We
hare copied largely from the press of the
/ State in regard to the printing business CO.
alition, and we have 50 copied in order 10
show the DRIFT of public sentiment ia refer
ence to a transaction that the Herald had
| pronounced utterly indefensibie. Our COM
| ments upon it public act Of public men.
were perfectly legitimate, aud entirely free
| from y rsonal reflections. While we
! thought, and still think it deplorable
blundCr. we have not impugned the mo-
tiVes of any one. We nave looked at IL
purely a matter of public interest. and in
that light we have discussed it. We have
exhibited neither ''spite" nor malice" nor
passion. We leave that to the parties who
com plain of the exhibition of these things
in others. If they have NOT already come
to that conclusion. we feel well assured that
the Democratic members of the Legislature
and the conductors of THE CLARION will. at
no distant day. be convinced that they made
Batstdkei The "malice" to which The
CLARION refers. has no existence save i'm its
own fevered Imagination. 1t il quite pos
sible to perform duty public Journal
ist without ''malice,' though THE CLARION
seems to think otherwise. The threat to
araw upon the files of the Vicksburg Re-
publican docs not alarm US. 1t THE CLAIR
ION thinks proper to go back to the ISLANDERS
of that journal in a previous canvass" it is
at perfect liberty 10 do so. We are not seek
ing to 'precipitate personal issue with some
body" or with any body. Whenever we de-
sire to precipitate anything of that sort. it
is not our habit to indulge in any kind of
decentralization. We make it so plain that
he who runs may read. If the Herald has
any occasion to ''gratify its spite against
the Democratic members" OF the Legisla-
ture, we are not aware of it. We have not
personal acquaintance with more than
one-fourth of the Democratic members; we
have asked no faVors from any one of Them
no favors have been refused us, and there
fore, we have nothing to OmpIain Of
The few to whom personally
known have been polite and courteous in
their intercourse with US. and their courtesy
has been reciprocated, but we have never
supposed that because the Democratic mem
bers of the Legislature are polite 10 pub /
lie Journalist. that his mouth Is to be her
metically closed in regard TO such of their /
public acts as do not meet his appreciation |
We have not so learned our duty TO that !
great constituency, the public. The editor 1
of the Herald forms and utteTs his own |
opinions, and this without reference. and in /
utter indifference to, the views entertained 1
by the Democratic members of the Legisla- /
ture, or those held by THE CLARION. When /
the views of those officials concur with our +
own deliberate convictions, the concurrence I
is gratifying. but it occasions US no distress
when we find those respectable
gentlemen differing from us. We are too
old 10 be dictated 10 even by persons so ex-
alted as the Democratic members of the
or the conductors of The CLA-
RON, any any attempt in that direction will
prove a signal failure. Neither I0rdly airs.
nor official station. nor the announcement I
Of the purpose of "drawing upon the files
Of the Vicksburg Republican" for calu8-
MES used and exploded in "a previous can
rass." will drive Us from our position. We
cannot be coaxed TO administer undeserved
nor bullied into withhold
ng merited censare.
With the following extract from THE
CLARION, which refers directly 10 this Jour
lal, and brief comment thereon, we dis
Miss the subject. That paper says:
but If we are not misin formed By author
ty which we think will not be called in
question. two of these most virtuOus and
most vociferous clamorers preferred what
vas very hatural) TO have a finger in the
BUSINESS themselves - we allude to the
Herald and the Mississippi Cen
raj. ut least there tceye propositions submit
ed to Democratic members looking that tcagi
he public will draw its own conclusion ,
fhether the disappointment of these pa
ers, resulting from the failure of plans of ,
his sort, has any connection with their
resent clam0r."
If The CLARION means to say that there
were propositions submitted to Demo-
cratic members looking that way" by q
Ither the editor or the proprietor OF the i
Ierald, 1t Is greatly mistaken. If it means
, intimate that such propositions were !
submitted by any one authorized to =
peak for the Herald, or by any one with :
le knowledge, or with the appreciation of 4
ther its editor or proprietor. il Is again :
istaken, and the suggestion is purely and 4
ltirely gratuitous. We leave Central 4
r0wn 90 speak for himself. and respect =
lily call for the authority upon which the
ID made in regard 90 the Herald. =
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