The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-03-01
The Radical Key-mote--The War
upon the South 10 be cOmtfmued
-.UmfversaI Amnesty RePm-
dated by aBae Grant Adj
min fSfranfOm.


Senator Morton of Indiana is the ae-
credited organ of the Administration in
the Senate. He declares its principles
and foreshadows its policy upon all ques-
tons. His utterances are to be regarded
therefore as entirely authoritative and
conclusive as to its purposes. In his
recent debate with Messrs. Trumbull
and Schurz, in the Senate, he declared
the policy of the Administration upon two
points in which the South necessarily
/ feels the deepest interest. One was that
| if the Extreme Radicals remain in power
they will continue their hostile and pro-
1 scriptive measures towards the South. -
The idea was that Gen. Grant as the
head of the Radical wing of the Repub-
lican party is opposed to Universal Am
nesty.
The following extracts from the speech
of Senator Morton on the 23rd Of Feb,
as published in the Globe, are conclusive
on these points. As a pretext for this
cruel policy of hostility and aggression,
it is assumed that there sis a Rebel
'1ion in the South-an armed organiza-
"tion-an army"-disciplined and equip
ped and organized to make war upon the
Government and Of helpless and unof-
Tending citizens. Here is the false and
slanderous accusation, ON which the
white people of the South are to be
bounded as ravenous wild beasts of the
forests for the coming four years should
the wing Of the Radical party which is
marshalled by Grant, Morton q Co.,
succeed in prolonging their lease of
power:
THE ALLEGED ARMED REBELLION.
Mr.. President, there is an organization
in the South to-day that is itself rebellion,
an armed organization. and the very exist
ence of that organization is an offense, and
that organization has committed thousands
of crimes. l heard man say the other day,
and j believe the statement Is true, that
more men have been killed and more have
been wounded, tortured and punished in
the South in the Last four years by the hu
! kluX organization than were killed and
wounded during the whole war between
this country and Great Britain that began
i'm 1872. There is rebellion IN the South,
there is an armed organization, there is an
| drnlg, and will state here what was sug-
! gested TO me little while ago by a mem
Der, that the members of that society in
great part are armed with better arms than
| werS~wold by our Government and which Il
| is said Went to the French Government;
| armed with the best kind OF arms, in CON-
| plete organizations, Differed and equipped !;
! and i'm seven or eight States of this Union
! there is no protection for life, liberty and
! property, If we shall adopt the platform
| read by the Senator and declare neutrality
| between this Government and the hu kluX
organization.
And here is the declaration defining
the policy of the same party on the
subject of Amnesty:
GRANT OPPOSED TO AMNESTY.
! want to say a word now upon the sub
| ject of amnesty. The Senator says that he
| is in favor of amnesty, and he says the
| President is in favor of universal amnesty.
| He has no authority for saying that the Presi-
dent Of the United States is iR faUOr or untUer-
| sat amnesty. He has not said so i'll his mes
sage. | do not believe he is in favor of it.
am not in favor of giving to JEFF Davis
and the authors of the rebellion the right
| to hold office, the right to take seats upon
! this floor. But the other day we had an
| amnesty bill, one that granted amnesty to
Il
| Congress and took part IN the rebellion; those
| a0l0 trent out Of our army and acent into the
| rebel army; and those trho lcere in the State
conUeRtionS that passed ordinances Of Seces-
sion"
Therefore the discrimination between
Southern citizens in their treatment by
the Government which exacts the allie
glance of all alike is to be kept up
Grant is opposed to Amnesty" says his
mouth-piece He is for continuing the
bBn of outlawry against certain classes,
come what mayl To show how unjust
ly the rule here laid down, will work,
even on the principle that punishment
for political causes should be inflicted,
it ought to be remembered that nearly,
if not quite one-half of the persons on
the Radical programme, were originally
Union men or old Line Wings. One
half of the members of the Mississippi
Convention of 1861, who voted for and
signed the ordinance Of Secession were
men of that school, and never believed
in the doctrine of peaceable secession
But they are not Radicals-they do not
approve the war that has been kept up
against the South six years after the sur
render of her armies-they do not ap-
prove the overthrow of civil government
and the suppression of the writ of Ha-
beas Corpus in time of peace-they alb |
hor the plan of turning over the South |
ern communities to be oppressed by the
military and to be plundered by band |
of rapacious adventures. They do not
shout hosannas to the Administration |
which perpetrates these crimes against
liberty. And this in the eyes of its par
tisans, means EARNED rebellion" and |
furnishes the occasion for prescribing
them as outlaws who are not fit to be |
protected in their rights nor to enjoy
privileges which are conferred upon other
classes
The declaration of Mr.. Morton and
other administration Senators that in
of the existence of ''Rebel-
''lion-an armed organization in the
''South" -(which is worse than phan-
tom in the brains of these partisans; it
is deliberate SANDER fabricated to SUBJ