The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-01-30

A Voice from sIae State University.
We would not do justice TO the public,
/ if we permitted the recent address of q
Professor in the State University, to a
Radical meeting, to go unnoticed. Ac
cordingly, we have copied into another
column the most Of it, as published with
strong commentator, in the Pilot
/ The address was spoken at meeting
of Mongrels TO bring out candidate for
+ the Legislature against DR.. Archer who
had been nominatedby the Conservatives.
The people vino remember the com
ments Of THE CLARION two or three
years ago, when for political reasons,
the Vandal hand Of Radicalism was laid
Oh the University, and it, Trustees, Old
and honored citizens, @1tnder whose gui-
dance it had prospered, were removed for
their political opinions, viii not be aston
ished at the voice which this day comes
from that Institution.
With this emanation to speak for itself
there Is no occasion for comment With
its dangerous teachings so plain to the
intelligence of the public mind there is
10 use to describe it, any more than there
would be use in dwelling upon the terrors
Of The SMALLPOX, the cholera, or any
other loathesome and hideous disease that
oftimes make its appearance as a
scourge TO communities. 1t is only ne
cessary to speak Of its existence and to
warn the public to keep beyond the
bounds Of the pestilence
The address IS n plea for centralism
and for the destruction Of local Selfgoy-
eminent, in the Southern States. 1t is a
monstrosity. 1t is an argument go to
term it, against the Constitution of the
United States itself which guarantees ''to
every State a republican form Of govern
ment," and which expressly provides
that the powers not delegated to the United
States by the Constitution, nor prohibited
by it to the States, shall be exercised bv
the States respectively, or the people.
The speech is proposition to abolish this
feature Of the Constitutions thus to
change the whole framework Of the
government; and worse still, it is an
appeal for one sort OF rule for the North
ern States and another for the Southern,
notwithstanding the essential condition
of the Union is thet all its members shall
stand on a footing Of perfect equality.
The speech is a proposition virtually
to do away with the local governments of
the Southern States and place them at the
mercy of alien and unfriendlv communi- /
ties who would necessarily be ignorant Of
our wants and governed in their actions /
by the worst passions, malice and preiu- +
dice. In other words, it assumes that /
and Maine. Oregon and I
Kansas, know more about the affairs Of T
than the people Of Mississippi /
themselves, and should be invested with I
their management. Thus, if Mississippi |
should happen in the exercise Of her
right of selfgovernment to choose a set
IF officers not contormably to the will Of
hose otherCommunities. the latter should
exercise the power, speaking through the
Central Head, to annul their decision and
With the bayonet to hold other rulers,
lot of the peoples choice, in authority
'ver them. Can the mind conceive
more atrocious despotism than this Pro
essOr teaches He has out-Heroded Her
ID In proclaiming himself Radical. he .
las enunciated doctrines from which the
ecognized leaders ofthe Republican party ,
F0uld recoil, and at which even the IA
atical, run-mad Wendell himself would ;
tand aghast
The reason on which this baleful theo- t
! is founded, IS the severest l objection. +,
; author could have conceived aaauaS. ii
lie Radical party and is fiat contradic- q
on of its professions. 1t is the boast of
leaders that they have destroyed the :
d social and civil system in the South y
II better one; that the two races would
It together tremendously and that Joint n
)vernment would be a paragon of wis Il
)m and justice; but here is this Profess Il
r offering to Mississippi the yoke of n
massachusetts, and other alien communi- d
rs as cure for the disorders which he o.
Us must necessarily flow from the estab- II
hment of the new order of things. 1t IL
not our business to discuss the question Il
the existence or non-existence of the 81
sease. We are simply directing atten- ia
N to the horrible method by which he to
opposes to ward off its evils. So
If the parents and guardians of Mis- re
sip! want the rising generation to be lie
toctrlnated with heresies like these. 8:
is address will advertise where they he
n be accommodated The press of the of
ate, we trust, will not fail TO give it an
Oper attention. W,
The SeaNhOre Representatives.
1t seems that the wrongs which the
ashore people have endured in having =.
'ust upon them Representatives, not of r
.ir choice have not ended. Mr.. A. NJ =.
.yden was chosen by a clearly ascer-
ned majority to represent Hancock and