The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-26
EseyerIy's Apo-tacy---What of I:

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The papers are mentioning that Beverly
Matthews, ESQ.,, of Columbus, has Joined
the Radical party. Well, what of it 4
Mr.. Matthews is a private citizen, and
this is free country so far as a mans
| right to his political associations are con-
| cerned. Certainly Mr.. Matthews has
neither said nor done enough heretofore,
in opposition to Radical misrule in this
State, to make his present detection
an occasion of special concern. The
Aberdeen Examiner mentions his name
in connection with the Radical nOmina-
ton for Attorney General; but surely
he is not prepared to take step which
would so palpabIy justify the belief that
in joining the Radical party he was infu-
enced by considerations of selfish ambi-
ton. Would it not be more decent for
him to tarry while in Jericho, and wait
for anappointLlent on the Supreme Bench,
which will have to be made by the next
Gubernatorial incumbent-Gov.P Powers,
for example, to ,Ohom it Is stated Beverly
has made has confession?
The West Point Citizen alleges that
the reason assigned by Beverly for
changing sides, is the National Demo
cratic organizations support of Mr..
Greeley in the last Presidential election.
Now, whatever else may be said of him,
he is man of brains and logic, and
could not have perpetrated such an alb
surdity as that. 1t does not follow that
he should endorse the misdeeds of the
oppressors of his own section and unite
himself to the band of adventures who
are plundering and outraging the people
of his own State, because the party at
large supported an Objectionable candi-
date for the Presidency. What has the
action of the National Democracy last
year to do with the matter of perpetu-
ating Radical misrule in Mississippi?
For another reason we are prone to
discredit the staten ent of the Citizen.
Mr.. Bev. Matthews committed himself to
the Baltimore decision before it was rem
dered. Before that assemblage met, and
after It's endorsement of the Cincinnati
had become foregone conclu-
sion, he took the trouble to address
communication to the writer, urging the
selection of Mr.. DoolittIe, an avowed
champion of the Greedy movement, for
the Presidency of the Convention. Doc
little had never given in his adhesion for
mally to the Democratic party; and in
his address to the Convention betrayed
his Republican sympathies by styling it |
the Democratic Republicans party" And |
ret he, above all others, was Mr.. Bev. |
Matthews choice for presiding officer of
the Convention. There was no abhor-
renee of Liberal Republicans m in that,
vas there?
So much for Mr.. Beverly Matthews
md the Greeley movement His oppo-
sition certainly did not crop out while it
was in progress. On the contrary, he
gave the strongest evidence of approba-
ion of tan appreciation which would
nave doubtless become more manifest if
he prevailing Northern prejudice against
he oppressed Southern section had not
ave rendered it failure.
.sss - -
The CHoLERA.--From every point of
he compass. we receive accounts of the
of this dreadful scourge. It
las made It's appearance in New York,
Washington City, Philadelphia, &c.
Memphis, Cincinnati and Nashville are
courged with it, particularly the, last
Iamed city, in which as many as fifty
line deaths have ono,,rrad in a sinolo dorr !