The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-04-04
Che Kuausftiou.

kse Euqusiti0n.
The Pilot has a dreadful story of what
the Radical Inquisition is doing with the
ku Klux at Oxford. OF course all
these marvellous reports are to be credit
ed. As in the days of Titus Oates when
it was downright heresy not to believe
every word that was spoken about the
Popish Plot, so it is treason to the best
government not to accept as gospel truth
allthe "outrages' which are manuf;lc-
tured in its interest by despicable crea-
lures who ply the gainful occupation of
spies and informers and procurers of
perjury.
BETTER from Hon. a. q. Brown.
The letter published elsewhere from a
statesman so well known, sagacious, and
withal so true to the people of his State,
under all circumstances, as Hon. A. G..
Brown, will not fail to be received with
the consideration to which its eminent
source entities it. 1t was private letter
written to friend of long standing, and
has been given TO the public at the re-
quest Of a number of leading citizens.
We have not published it for our own
comment, but for public consideration.
The readers of THE CLARION need
not be told that the views presented by
Governor Brown as to the course proper
to be pursued by the intelligent and
patriotic people of the State under exist
ing circumstances, accord in the main
with those which have been advanced in
this journal. We think that true wis
dom and sound patriotism dictate the
union of all the reform and conservative
elements under a common standard,
North and South, in the approaching
Presidential election. How this result Is
to be attained Is not for the Opposers of
Radical despotism in the reconstructed
States to say The victory for constitu-
tional freedom and the right of local self
government which underlies the federal
system, will have to be won in the North
ern States if won at all, and to our
friends in that section let the arrange
ment of the campaign be committed. An
attempt on the part of the South to die
tate, much less to lead, will infict ire
parable injury upon the cause in which
her hopes are bound up.
In reference to the Democratic party
and its real or imaginary state of dissolu-
ton, as the case may be, we have this to
say, that the chief agency of organizing
the anti-Radical forces under that name
did not belong to former leading mem
bers of the party We well remember
that neither Governor Brown nor the
writer Of this paragraph, were members
Of the Convention of 1868 which took
the name, and that there were few if any
prominent Democrats of former days par
Elephants in that body but as the
national organization was entered into
voluntarily by the opposition to Radical
domination in this State, we do not pro-
pose to advocate nor to hasten its disco
luton. We have faith in the ultimate
success of its great principles of strict
construction of the powers Of the federal
government the preservation of the
rights of communities and of citizens
the subol dination of the military power
to civil rule-and of the just and equal
administration of the laws-under what
ever name these principles may be advo
Gated and wherever the friends of this
cause, who have adhered to it through
thick and thin in other parts of the
Union, may decide to go to secure sue
cess in the pending canvass-there we
propose to go. Therefore, We repeat, let
us watch and wait