The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-01-23
LETTER FROM WILLIAM.
EAST M1ss1ssrPPr, January 10, 1873.

EDITORS CLARION:
TIE weather over here is very cold and
has been uniformly so for one month. On
Christmas day and the two days following
we had sleeJ on the ground. sufficient To
afford an opportunity for skating. Some oil
us skated. when we did not intend To DO So
Mr., Jones fell down and hurt his head; ana
since his fall he has been INDUCING in the
discussion OF his iavorite theory, that nature
is sympathizing with the political condition
of the country. | am not sufficiently ac-
quainted with the sciences taught IN the
large books which Mr.. Jones reads, to say
whether or not the presence of carpet bag
gers and their grieYous sins are suflelent TO
work change in the climate l almost
cried Oh the 27th of December, while listen
ing to Mr.. Jones repeat the wrongs ana
humilations through which we have been
called 10 pass. The old man hurt himself
in attempting TO carry some WOOD from
the wood pile to his room. This circum-
stance reminded him painfully OF his pow
erty. He says Spain proposes compensation
10 the people of Porto Rico in the bill lately
introduced into the Cortes, looking TO the
England abolished slavery in Jamaica
comp .nsation was allowed the Shareholders.
He says that Northern men sold all the
slaves they had before they passed abolition
laws. He says that Yankees have AWAY
kept up the slave trlde, and are now engaged
largely in the traffic. He says that North
err men are now slave-owners in Cuba, and
have become so since the war TO such an
unblushing extent, that the President felt
bound 70 refer TO the fact in his message
He SAYS that slavery was abolished by a
simple Presidential proclamation, which
found no warrant in the Constitution. He
say, that by that proclamation We lost all
our wealth. He says that not content with
impoverishing us in the manner described
the liberated Africans are made our rulers
by elevating TO Office those adventures,
who have come to prey upon our wrecked
fortunes. He says that seven hundred
Southern men are now wasting their lives
i'm Northern prisons ut hard labor because
some such scoundrel as Swan desired "a
have them immnred. lie says that the
negroes are daily inilamcd To commit acts
OF violence upon a people, who dare not do
any thing in retaliation. He says that cleo
tions have become iarces aud frauds, because
the creatures who conduct them, disregard
the binding effect of an oath. He says that
plunderiug and stealing are the objects OF
all Radical legislation. He says that some
of our people have gone to these men and
the negroes for the purposes of gain. lie
says that the national government hates us
and that lie wishes 10 live long enough "a
hear Col. Lamar, who will be our only rep
resentative in the next Congress, deliver
one ofhiS matchless orations, burning with
the fervor of his outraged Southern blood,
into the ears OF our prosecutors. He says
il the wrongs and Inconsistencies mentioned
above will not reach the great magnetic
heart ofnature and chill her 10 her Southern
borders, nothing will accomplish such a
result. He says that Notwithstanding all
these things, our people will yet be great,
il they will cling together. Old men and
young men, matrons and madens, must
labor for the redemption OF the State. He
says that as long rs Southern Statesmen
had "A controlling influence in the general
government the people were happy, the
taxes were low and plunderiDg was SO rare
as to startle by reason of its occurrence.
He SAYS that we are now taxed TO oppression,
and, that officials, elected by negroes, who
did not know what was written on their
tickets. grow rich, while we grow poorer.
He said much more but concluded thus
"N lillian, there are great constitutional
questions To be settled in this country. We
must re- adopt the doctrines of our fathers,
To remedy great national evils; but the
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overthrow Radical rule in this State.
That must be done or the State beeds to
death. 1t can be done only, when our peo-
pie as one man, fired by a knowledge of
their proud lineage and by a love of liberty,
resolve to be ruled by fools and thieves no
more"
At the last meeting of our singing school,
resolution was passed appointing me a
committee of one TO invite Mr.. Tarbell to
deliver II conversational lecture" to our
society about northern matters. 1t is pro-
posed that he indulge in some reflections
upon his own raising and early religious
Impressions. No objection will be made il
he proceed to show how he made his living
before the war, where he studied law, and
how long lie practiced that profession,
where he began and where he quit If he
desire to do so, he may state his opinion of
carpet-baggers in general, and how he re-
CARDS the ten lost tribes Of Israel. He may
indulge in some conjectures about how he
is regarded by every intelligent man, wo-
man and child in the State of Mississippi
Any other topics that tend to Illustrate the
christian charity of the North, such as the
burning of Columbia and Charleston, and
the public reioicings thereat lie is, also,
requested to repeat his views OF the negroes
of Scott county, 50 that we may hav : in jux-
opposition, those views and his CONVERSE
tional lecture" delivered at his Northern
home last summer.
Mrs, Cornelia has some interrOgatories 10
PROFOUND rather Oh Chis order:
lst. DO you believe in the existence Of a
God, and do you regard as binding the NOR
al principles embodied in the Ten Command
ments?
81. DO you believe that God is lust. and
that He will measure out retributive ms
tice?
81. Do you think there was no special |
Providence in the desolate end OF the life OF |
Scott, or the tragic end of Lin |
coin, or the remorseful end OF Seward, or .
the bloody suicide of Stanton, or the lonely /
exit of James Gordon BENEFIT, or the pain !
ful and gloomy termination of the life of /
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