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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-10-17
FACTS FROM THE RECORD.

The great city of New York, with
her teeming population and her oceans
of wealth was dashed into tempest of
fury, when thirty millions of dollars were
discovered to have been appropriated to
their own uses by faithless officials. 1t
caused revolution that not only swept
the malefactors from their places-but ar
raigned them as guilty culprits and can
didates for the Penitentiary before the
tribunals of justice.
But what was that compared to the
robbery of the impoverished people of
the Southern States, whose homes had
been devastated whose credit had been
destroyed by the war and whose only
hope of recuperation was in their own
muscle aud will to work? A debt aggre-
eating THRIFT HUNDRED AND TWENTY
FIVE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS has been i'm
posed on these people, in addition to the
burden of raising present means to carry
on the local administrations which have
been administered in the most profigate
manner.
But this is not all. These plundered
people are required to pay their share of
the internal revenue, and here is the way
the money goes, as shown by official re-
ports
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Put this on Record.

Notwithstanding Mckee was on ''the
war-path, according to the Pilot, in East
Mississippi last week, the same paper an
nounces on his authority that there is "a
"marked change in the feelings of the
"white people of Eastern Mississippi,
toward Republicans, and as a rule he
twas very kindly treated by them" 1t
is to be expected, then, should Mckee
be elected to Congress (of which we trust
there is but little probability his first
business will be to correct the slanderous
imputations which the carpet-bag tribe
and their scalawag allies have been busily
propagating in regard to the treatment
of Northern men by ''the white people of
the South" 1t will be remembered that
j. S. Morris in his so-called testimony
before the Outrage Committee in reply to
question in reference to ''the treatment
of Northern men who have gone South"
swore that they were not welcomed nor
created very cordially"-that they are
hOoICU VIII SohIClAPI, VI UOfSo ef0utcU.
Now, Mckee says, after his experience
of trip through the heart of the white
and Democratic region, in company with
another carpet-bagger, that he was kind
ly treated"-treated with civility and
hospitality, and that the people who are
known to be inveterately opposed to him
in politics did not bear in remembrance
against him that he voted to impose upon
them the proscriptive Constitution in
1868 and supported the legislation in
virtue of which for political opinion
they are seized by federal soldiery, and
carried from their homes to distant points
like guilty felons to be tried before juries
packed and perjured to convict.
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HON. n. q. q. LAMAR.
A Splendid Tribute from North Carolina
Paper.
From the Wilmington Journal.

from the wilmington journal.
The announcement that this gentleman is
candidate for Congress i'm the Northern
District of Mississippi. brings back times of
the good old days when the country re-
joiced in peace, plenty and prosperity.
When the war began, Mr.. Lamar at once
entered the army, and served as Lieutenant
Colonel of his regiment until ill-health rem
dered further service in the field impossible.
But EX-President Davis knew Lamar too
well to permit even ill-health to deprive the
Confederacy of the benefit of his services,
and he accordingly sent him TO Europe
upon secret mission Of the gravest char
acter. Upon his return home his health
having been somewhat re-established, Col
OreI Lamar was once more attached To the
Army of Northern Virginia.
A single incident will show the generous
soul of the man. On the morning OF the
evacuation of Petersburg. q time when few
men were unselfish enough to think Of 9TH
ers, he came with his purse to a brother
officer and forced him to share it.
When the surrender had taken place, we
soaght Colonel Lamar TO say farewell. An
officer present spoke Of leaving the country,
and asked what he proposed TO do. Well do
we remember the words of his noble reply,
as with trembling voice and tears unre-
strained, for 1T was day on which strong
men wept without shame. he said Il shall
stay with my people and share their fate
feel it to be my duty to devote my life to
the alienation, as far as in my power lies,
of the sutferings this days disaster will en-
tail upon them"
From that day to this we have not seen
Colonel Lamar, nor do we know what his
course has been, but we feel assured that
the man whose thoughts ia that hour of
agony rested not upon himself. but found
shape and expression in determination 70
devote himself to the service of the people
who had reposed confidence in him has
been true TO his noble resolution.
man Of bigger heart or bigger brain it
mas never been our fortune to meet. We
pity the Radical, scalawag or carpet-bag-
ger who stands up before him,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-10-17
FOR THE PROTECTION OF
EMPLOYERS.

Section 10. Be it further enacted, That
there shall be, also, first lien on all agri-
cultural products raised in this State, in
favor of every employer, as against every
laborer employed by him, in the produc-
ton thereof, for all provisions, clothing,
and necessary plantation supplies, advanced
or furnished, and for all money furnished
for the purchase of the same, for and in
behalf of such laborer, while so employed,
to be enforced and collected in the same
manner, and with the same penalties in all
respects, as Is provided in this Act, tor the
enforcement and collection of wages due to
labOrers; and the same or like proceedings
so far as they are applicable, shall be had
for the enforcement thereof.
Sec. IL. Be it further enacted, That if any
person shall knowingly sell, or remove any
agricultural product subject to any lien,
under the provisions of this Act, without
having first fully paid up and satisfied such
lien, such person shall be deemed guilcy of
a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof.
shall be fined not less than the value of the
property so sold or removed, and impris-
oned in the county Jail not less than one nor
more than three months.
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Rate In mississippi.
Gross abuse Of POaeer By the Acting
Governor.

The Brandon Republican and Forest
Register have related the particulars of
high-handed proceeding on the part of
acting Gov. Powers, convicting him not
only ofdouble-dealing butof gross usurpa-
ton of power 1t is stated that he gave to
one Luther Smith authority to arrest
citizen of Scott county on a charge of
shooting another person. Meantime, the
grand jury of the county met and on in
vestigation of the case, it failed to find
true bill against Bailey. Subsequent
to this decision of the grand jury and
when Bailey had been virtually acquitted
of the crime alleged against him. he was
met ON the highway by Smith and killed
Smith claiming to act under the man
date which had been issued to him by the
acting Governor. The grand jury, at
the September term, found true bill, as
they were bound to do, against Smith
for the killing of Bailey. The acting
Governor was thus party to the crime.
The murder of an innocent man was
committed under the shadow of his
usurped authority.
But bad as it was, his conduct in this par
ticular was not the worst part oft. Onthe
18th of June last, euen before the Grand
Jury had Investigated the case of Smith,
Poeoers pardo,sed him, thus usurping the
prerogative of the Judiciary, before it
had acted upon the case of the murderer
prostituting the pardoning power and
violating the Constitution which forbids
either of the three departments to exer-
else the functions which belong to the
others. His dupicity consisted in the
fact that in a correspondence with the
counsel for the prosecution of Smith, he
studiously concealed the fact that he had
pardoned him andas stated by the Repub-
lican doubtless On authority that Powers
will not deny) encouraged the belief that
he had not parooned him and aO0,tLd not
aoitItom giriag bdh sides hearing-the
accused all the while carrying the Exec
utive deliveranee from the clutches of
the law in his pocket!
We submit that nothing but the annals
of carpet-bag msrule can furnish paral-
lei to this outrageous proceeding, which
connects the Executive with the murder
of citizen-tbe abuse of the pardoning
power-the usurpation of powers belong
ing to difereltdepartment-and crown
ing the whole with treacherous dealing
with the counsel who was employed to
prosecute after the finding of the Grand
Jury.
When the supreme law of the land is
thus wantonly trampled under foot-and
public justice outraged, by persons who
are administering the State government,
who can wonder at the disgust and alb
horrence in which these authorities are
held by all intelligent and right-thinking
persons and who can withhold admiration
for the forbearance and patience with
which these abuses are borne?
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Bring out your Big Gun fol. Indiana
THE GRANTEES ROUTED:
HENDRICKS ELECTED GOV
ERNOR.

These head lines tell the story for In
diana with her fifteen electoral votes.
The result secures the State for Greeley
in November.
The victory has come opportunely. To
the III electoral votes from the late slave
holding States (not counting South Car
DINA, Arkansas and Mississippi and the
So from New York; from New Jersey
Sc from CALIFORNIA; from Nevada,
which has Democratic Governor and
Legislature, and 6 from Connecticut,
which voted Liberal on the 7th-Indiana
will add her Is votes for Greeley and
Reform in Novemb er-making in all, a
certainty of 191 votes, which will secure
the overthrow of the Administration.
One hundred and eighty-four votes are
necessary to a choice. New York heads
the Liberal column in the Middle States
Connecticut in New England-Indiana
in the West, and Georgia in the South.
But MISSISSIPPI ought not to be counted
out of this column of regenerated and
disenthralled Commonwealth. Men of
Mississippi remember that the overthrow
of Grantism means your deliverance
from carpet-bag bondage without scarce
ly another blow. Now is your time to
strike
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-10-17

The Vicksburg Herald says that Judge
Jeffords, Greeley and Brown Elector for
the State at Large, passed through the
city yesterday, en- route for his home in
Issaquena, having completed his canvass
of the State. Judge Jeffords has
tbeen doing noble service in a noble
"cause. He is hopeful of the result in
''this State, and thinks if every friend
'of the Liberal cause entitled to a vote
will register and cast his ballot, that
Mississippi will cast her electoral vote
''for Greeley and Brown"
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The Robbery of the People by the
Grant Administration.
EXTRACT FROM LATE SPEECH BY THE HON.
d. W. VOORHEES,.

But the spirit of reform has been a awaken
ed in the minds of the people by still other
| Migrant abuses. With "A terrible and crush
ing debt impending over the country. the
IaborlnR taxpayers, who have it all to paw
have right TO expect the most rigid econ
omy in the expenditures OF the government
Instead of this just expectation, however
being met by those in power. we are still
undergoing an annual expenditure of about
Iour hundred millions. Deducting the
amount paid as interest on the public debt
and for pensions, we find that about two
hundred and fifty millions wear are now
being spent by this government to carry on
the same official affairs which never cost
over eighty-hve millions before the war.
There is no reason why the army and navy
why any department of the government:
why our Indian aud frontier service: why
our land or postal systems why our execu-
i've and legislative systems; why our for
elgn and diplomatic service: why any or
all these branches of the public service
should be more expensive now than twelve
years ago upon peace basis; and vet they
are costing an ogertaXed people more than
three dollars now for every one they r,aid
then. This is a naked robbery for which
there Is no excuse or palliation Ii will NOT
DO TO answer that there are more Deonle now
to govern than there were in 1860. An in
crease OF population does not increase the
expenses of government. Why should n
cost any more 70 minister government of
forty millions than it does OF thirty millions
OF people! The people themselves are NOT
source of expense, costing so much per
head to be paid out of the United States
Treasury. On the contrary, they furnish
all the revenues, aud it is the use which Is
made OF their hard earnings by their public
servants which indicates the economy or
the the prodigality of government Judg-
ed by this rule, the present administration
becomes the most odious ever known in
American history, and utterly unworthy
the support OF single taxpayer between
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-10-17
HORACE GREELEY SINCE THE
ELECTION.
HIS SPEECH AT BALTIMORE.
HE STILL PLEADS FOR PEACE AND RECON
COLLATION..

BALTIMoRE, Oct. l0.-HOn. Horace Gree
lev delivered an address before the Mary
land Agricultural and Mechanical Society
to-day. at the Fair Grounds, treating spe-
cially on the Improvement OF worn our
lands. About 10000 persons were present.
Tonight there was a grand torchllghl
procession by the Democratic clubs OF all
the wards, which was received by Mt Gree
lev. Previous to the procession MI. cree
lev addressed an immense crowd congrega-
ted i'm front OF the Carrollton Hotel, as fol-
lows!
CITIZENS OF MARYLAND-ln common
cause | greet YOU as cO-wOrkers in the cause
of our whole country-every part Of it, the
cause OF every race and every class In that
country. | plead for national reconcilla-
tion: plead tor the restoration OF the COM
mon rights to every titizen now deprived
of them; | plead for that unity of feeling
without which the unity of territory ana
unity of government are of small account
Let us one people--one American peo-
pie forgetting our differences, deploring
our past calamties, and resolve that we
shall evermore be united and harmonious
people. For that cause of national unity
and property | stand and testify. l be-
seech you let nothing discourage you TO
press on to that triumph which Will GER
tainly be accorded us, If not in the near tu-
ture. at later day. Our cause is just. Let
us never doubt, then, that "A generous peo-
pie will accord it, and time shall write our
memories green in that we never despaired
OF our country, never deserted her and new
er wished TO make one citizen the enemy of
the other at a time when there was too
much bitterness, but pleaded for peace and
reconciliation. blessed are the peace ma
kers." Let us endeavor to deserve and en-
joy that blessing. | cannot reach you with
my voice and therefore will close. LGreat
cheering.
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I'm ~" IT-|
Judge AlcOrn aud Chanfello- ~an M.
delivered addresses 80 a meeting had ....
Court-house, on Thursday. Buhl.i.,..
most effective speeches. Judge Y..,..
an able and forcible manner. p.e...,.-
case OF Liberalism ms entered du tL.r
Gerry docket against Budic8li.m.
Judge Aleorn S speech was burt. ma. .r.
ry sentence lac uttered wa. mUof ,.-,. 'r
cry point was made clear and simon, \,
don't know that we ever saw tne -
well presented in "a few remarks. p,-.
larly among the colOred men prc..r. d.
the deepest attention and interest ag,r..
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-10-17

William HI. Seward, of New York,
died at ripe old age, ON the 10th inst.
He was the originator of the agitation
which he called the ''Irrepressible Con-
fict," and lived long enough to witness
the horrors Of the civil war which it pro-
duced. But he failed TO reach the Pres
idencf which was the crowning motive Of
his action, and died with the bitter
thought that he had been neglected and
cast aside as a useless and no longer
prcft bile thing by the party whose foun-
dntior he had laid. Sic transit, DC,
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Last Moments Of WIN. u.s..

Mr.. Stewards intellectual fcg,a.
clear and vigorous 10 the last. $40 .'
disturbed by paroXissms of fever. J1r,..
the eiusion from ms lung, to-d.r
thinking II would relieve Dis breath. N.
was, at his own request. pl4e.5
lounge and bolstered up ana mag' d
his adjoining bedroom into his studs d. .z
in the midst OF his books ana ft.-,-.
other papers,and surrounded bv hi. r pr
and few friends, and an his d.r..
peudents, he breathed his last. F,r,..
hour of his life, as the power. 4f
were giving away. his condition
easy, and he spent the tune in aa...
leave takings OF his relatives ANA g...',
and finally sank quietly % ms L...r5...
going To sleep.
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Prior Lien Law.

For the information of all concerned
we have published in tAis number the
Prior Lien Law now in force in this
State. 1t viii be seen that it secures to
the laborer first lien on the crop of his
employer for the recovery of his wages;
and to the employer first lien on the
crop of the laborer for all plantation sup
plies, clothing, &C., &C., and money adj
vanced for the purchase of the same, in
making the crop. The law is an excel
lent measure of protection to both classes.
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rue GEORGIA ELECTION.
A Card-An Er-Federal COlonefs Retl'-
tatiOn Of Radical Charges.


Editors of the Savannah AuVeTtseI
GrNrLEMEN Sin your mornings issue OF
this date appears a dispatch puTpor,tlhg 70
have been sens hy one NJ. n. Hale the spe-
cial agent or detective of the Treasury De-
pErtment of the United States for this sec
tion.in reference to our late electlon,lh WniCn
he saws "The Greeley party had tull conerol
Of the polls and that colored men were pre-
vented from. voting Now, sirs, L desire
to state that / was present at the polls most
of the day (the 2d.Of October, election day)'
and from my own observation pronounce
this dispatch TO be wiiliul ana mailc'ous
falsehood, That the Greeleyites or Demo
Gratis took possession of the polls Il mise
that there was any interference or attempt
made to prevent eolored men from Yolng'
/ pronounce also false. But the truth OF the
matter is Just this: Certain custom itou7e
EMPLOYEES, and parties from the country
and city, cheated the cOlored men OUT OF
their votes They received their dollar, The
amount of the poll tax required bY law,
giving them a receipt for the same WIN
the understanding that 1t was all rlght;
Now these men came TO the polls WITH the
receipts and offered them TO the managers
in lien of the tax collectors certificates, re-
nuired by law. OF course those bogus re-
eeipts were rejected. As for the polls being
surrounded by the police, ana me roads
leading TO the city picketed, ana voters
coming from the country being driven back,
il is as false and black hearted lie as the
man who wrote the dHpa-eh
If this dispatch has been cohcoeteu TOT
political purposes. as l presume IL ms -; anu
sent North, | desire 10 say TO my old friends
and companions in arms that so far as "a
vannahInay, even Georgia Is concerned
there is no State in the Union, or no city m
the world, where an honest man VIII De
better treated than here.
Rnt what could you expect from such
men? Their associates in politics are who
Penitentiary birds. perjurers and thieves
all of which l can prove If called upon
And if my colored friends have been ue-
faated they can thank their leaders, for TO
follow i'm the wake of such men is sure de-
feat. In conclusion, desire To state that
/ am no aspirant for office, nor am dis
appointed office seeker but desire to place
the people with whom l nave csst my lo''
in a nroner position before the world.
II. j. MACDONALD,
Late Col. u. 5. Vet. Vol. Infantry.
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THE HoUsELEss SENATOR. The
Vieksburg News says, "Gen. Ames can
always find welcome place of repose
Sin the hearts of the Republicans of Mis-
''sissippi, and especially the Republicans
"of Warren county" If somebody will
only furnish him a lunch house now, he
will be very nicely provided for, with his
wash-house in Natchez, and his lodging
house Gin the hearts" of the Warren
county Republicans.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-10-17

Thanksgiving reclamation By the President.


WASHINGTON, Oct. IL. 1872.
The President has issued the following
proclamation:
Whereas, The revolution of another year
has again brought the time when it is usual
to look back upon the past and publicly to
thank the Almighty for his mercies and his
blessings, and whereas, If any one people
has more occasion than another for such
thankfulness. it is the citizens of the United
States, whose government is their creature.
subject to their behests, who have reserved
to themselves ample civil and religious
freedom and equality before the law, who.
during the last twelve months have eBioved
exemption from any grieyous or genera!
calamity, and to whom prosperity in agri-
culture, manufactures and commerce, has
vouchsafed. Now, therefore, by these con-
sidefations recommend that on Thursday
the 18th day of November next, the people
meet in their respective places of worship
and there make their acknowledgements to
God for his kindness and bounty.
In witness whereof, / have hefeunto set
my hand and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed. Done at the Citv OF
Washington this the eleventh day of Octo-
Der, in the year of our Lord, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-two, and of the
Independence of the United States the
ninety-seventh. BY the President:
U. s. GRANT.
HAMnToN FISH, Secretary Of State.
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Gen. ChnIIncr-' Cnnva...


7 TVITI IH' THTI T0HT|T- N-T--
Gen. j. r. Chalmers, Greeley aul Bow.
elector for this District, cauyI,-pI Hrgrr.
ty of Marshall last week. 40 aU hIs IN
pointments he won golden opinions. \.
people were charmed with Dol, EFFORT. d.
crucided the carpet Dagger, amid drlf (.
the managers OF Grant some very Har.
blows. lie plead for kindness and IIb.n..
10 be extended 10 the ovcr-rcachoI bn
population. showing that they were mtH
priatiOns OF the carpct-Nagg.rs .
their Venality. His speech h.re frH
night, drew IA very large audience, Who'll.
tened to his discourse with much ath.
tion,-whO testified that it was one of .H
most convincing efforts of the campaign
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Our city people were shocked yesterday
ut the sudden death OF this e-rima10 g.a-
tleman. He was seized suddenly .ga o0
Monday evening, the 7th, aad a.ai A
O'Clock, A. NJ, yesterday. 9th.
He was born I'm Huntsville, Ala. 900 90.
29th of March, 1929, being As years
months and 10 days Of age. TIE moved F"
Greene county, Alabama, when child A..
was there reared and educated lIen'f.i
TO Mississippi Ia 1855, was for p -uc.
of years, Probate Judge OF this. IauIaaAH
county, where he has been universally \"
spected for his many excellent quHlHe p.
head and heart. In 1861 Doe repre-
with ability and fidelity, the people ot i4..
of the State.
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Fanny Fern on s.isrctt, ven"

Fanny Fern says that when she FEE
"a pretty man with an apple head ana d
raspberry moustache with Six har y r
paint on his cheek, and a luIe Joth o
goatee on his chin, with pretty A...
blink studs on his shirt bosom ana d
little neck-tie that looks a If .. were
rumpled, she always feels o desire ~
nip him with a pair Of sugar.Jngt oIo.
him gently into a pot Of cream and s.I..-
pink rose-leaves over the little remains
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The conduct of the acting Governor
in the Scott county murder case, in which
he pardoned man even before his crime
had been inquired into by the Grand
Jury, will show his conception of the
duties of the Chief Magistrate of the
State. 1t also illustrates the material out
of which Governors are manufactured
for the Southern States in this evil day
of carpet-baggery.