The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-08-22
he Fifth EsI>trfcf--yEcEAee and
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From the Meridian Mercury.
eaa. c. Mckee, who beat Shaughnessey
Lynch By his mastery man9uvering
NE "1lemeut." by the gerrymandering
.bs last Legislature, Is now our of our
.ret. Yet having been once our Repre-
i gfive in Congress, We feel an interest in
When he beat Shaughnesscy in that
ao-able convention. which has been Civ
ohist0rv By the truthful scribe of the
ron. we felt great satisfaction, not mt
Kca'ssucce-s. but at the Marshal'S defeat
e WAYS that are dark and the tricks that
vain" OF the Marshal were fresh upon
and the impression Of disgust they made
M bot bad time TO wear away, as had the
ets Of some of the plausible Georges
pet BAG deyiltries. We had lately seen
4 our own eyes how, in shameless out
Il pof deceucy and of justice, he had used
DISCRETIONARY powers with which he was
u,ted in sending his miserable creatures
m he had made the instruments of his
rBgs. TO search Out the debaSed, the char
e.,ess. the OutcaSts of society. the pari-
without respect for themselves or soci-
government, laws, or reverence for God
anything holy, with which to pack the
ls 90 compass the conviction of them it
yht suit the prosecutors and their hackers
ugolve iH their villainous meshes. We
seen how he has thus brought dire
Die upon the community in which we
Bat a few days, or weeks ago, we
re srcu some schores OF the best and most
Jabie men of the county permit a tech
81 alsebood u he entered upon the dock
the United States District Court for
southern District of Mississippi, tO-wit,
they We're guilty of a crime they new
committed; any why? I ecause they
2Hw, 90 a moral certainty, that the Mar
a..0f the District had brought Jury there
gsricL and that it would be a mere mock
r q waste of time, effort, money. to offer
make defense. We are but human, and
wen forgive us, if we have been meanly
etul enough to rejoice in his disc0mfit-
Dr. But this was at the hands of his
ld', and does not fill the measure of re-
&c. which ia the providence of God will
oyert.6e this man who has so wronged
nd sinned against God. But, we recall
,ae things which the innocent George has
NJ, which, to remember, makes the
ous sensibiIity of our resentment Jingle
E o. And we will tell our friends down
Tue Fifth OF one of them. We have rea-
@ TO believe that privately he has cudeav-
TO iutlame the negro population of Me-
H against the white, and to teach them
Was an outrage on the part of GER,
white men, when they the negroes or
tn ones al them, had shot down dead a
gro. And whether the whites who did
eve Unsuitable or not in administering
Immediate, prompt and terrible a retalia-
H without discrimination he has included
s faple population of Meridian in his de-
latlou>, privately, we believe, and pub
we know. On i certain occasion,
'ha he had negro audience before him
.e Court house, with respectable num-
70 OF the respectable white citizens as
Ators. with the impUdence OF Sin itself
VI tle boldness Of Satan, he denounced the
OK the white people of the city, and
.f4teneu them that they should pdy for that
y dag. Ia that dastardly speech made
conquered people with the tyrant's heel
Ha their uecks and hayOnet ~ their
ats, unable to resent or resist the exc
'o of his nurderouS menace. we discov-
le leading traits of character of this as
,.-Al for reelection TO Congressional hon
'-lHe peryCrsion and debaSement of the
N.atIS of true white man, his lofty chiV-
II ms keen perception of justice, his
N 'dions magnanimity, and the unIathom-
depths ct lis policy that would open
r ahd dig deeper the bloody chasm that
haS made. # Mckee's interest is advan-
Il 10 proportion TO the hell he can make.
-il AL chat is our own grudge, ana we
1o' ask the voters of the Fifth to espouse
quarrel. As public journalist we dis
s' Mckee Is public man, and discharge
G4Jy 10 the voters OF the Fifth in let
tatm know what we know about Geo.
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