The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-01-02

The figures of the Presidential cleo
ton in the State showing the possibility
of overthrowing Carpet-bag misrule, are
encouraging to its opposers. No one will
pretend that Gen. Grant was not vast
deal stronger with the Radical MASSES
than any other candidate of their party
Whether the State Is redeemed from
carpet baggery, or not, viii depend Who'll
" on the determination of the liberal and
conservative masses. 1t is simply ques-
ton of delivering the strongest blow they
are able, against the monster. 1t they
can make up their minds TO do 50, they
will level it low in the dust.
Not only are these figures suggestive
OF victory, but we have the example
both of friends and foes for our guide
and encouragement. Three years ago
Missouri was plunged into the deepest
slough of Radicalism. At the late cleo
ton she stood up against the Grant tor
nado and gave 10000 majority fok the
liberal ticket on the popular vote, and in
the Legislature the confirmed opposition
to Grantism received the majority Of
sixty-five on joint ballot. A few years
ago, Tennessee gave sixty-thousand ma
iority for Brownlow; and the prospect
for relief from the curses which his cleo
ton brought upon the State seemed
hopelessly dark but behold what a
| great deliverance has been wrought-a
deliverance so secure that even the folly
and stupidity which nominated Cheatham
at the late election and brought division
and confusion into the connsels of the
Conservatives, could not undo. Georgia
was lost, but now is found. And the
same may be written of Texas. And
| behold what was done by the Conserva-
| tive voters in our immediate sister State,
Louisiana. The fruits of the victory
| may be lost, but this does not do away
with the lesson of the example by which
it was won.
On the other hand, turn to the exam
pie of our enemies and learn something
from them. When they were badly
beaten in Virginia, and the State seemed
irretrieably lost, they gathered courage
from disaster, and astonished everybody
| by carrying the State at the late cleo
ton. Two years ago, the Conservatives
swept North Carolina like a whirlwind.
| They were triumphant in the popular
vote, and so largely victorious in the
Legislature that they were enabled to
mpeach Holden and remove him from
the office he had disgraced But our
foes did not retire to their tents and fold
their hands in sullen despair. They
struggled on with an energy worthy of a
better cause, and in November gave the
vote of the State to their nominee for the
Presidency by decided majority. In
Alabama the same party has taught us
similar lesson. They experienced a
Bull Run defeat two years ago, but at
this moment they are masters of the
situation.
Are these lessons worth nothing to
Mississippians? Are they to despair of
the Commonwealth and abandon her to
fate +? Undeniably a powerful effort will
be required to reclaim her from the
clutches of the Vandals, but she can be
rescued if her true sons viii make the
endeavor. To show that there is moth
ing in the figures of the Presidential cleo
ton to discourage them, unless they take
counsel of the results of their own apa-
thy, we ask attention to the facts stated
in the following article on the election
from the jackson Pilot, the official organ
of the Radical party:
THE trouble with Mississippi was, in the
late election, that in Lincoln county over
700 voters registered who did not vote;
there was great falling off in Franklin-in
1871, Sessions, Democrat, was elected to the
Legislature by 1913 majority CASSIDY re
ceved a majority in 1872 of so; there was
a similar falling off in piah-Martin car
ried it in 1870 against Pierce by 1000 ma
jority, in 1872 Cassedy's minority was 9S
in Pike county. with registered majority
of whites of 23l, John r. Lynch, (c0lored) |
beat Judge Cassidy by majority of 40; in |
Jasper county, where the whites are in the |
majority, Col Shelby is heaten by Gen. !
Mckee by a majority of Il, and still the |
opposition papers complain that it was cor
ruption which defeated the Democracy
me truth is, that The Democracy defeated it
SELF. It's members did not cote. Aud here |
the whole matter comes to head-Radi- |
calism. so called, had this much 10 do with |
it and nothing more. Rep9tbZicdus aoted -