The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-04-17

tAbooed. and forced either tn leave the
country, go into politics. or StaTve. Instead
of doing as States in all other sections of
the cOuntry-welcome any and all who
come with means and ability to help de-
vtIop the resources of the cOuntry-thP
MiSsi>sipDaUs would cCngregate in bar
rooms and corner groceries and talk about
the ID Yankees coming down into
.'our country" ~ il AN american citizen
had not the right TO 20 from one State TO
another with his money and means. and
enjoy al tine legal rights of citizenship.
They seem now to have discovered chat
heir policy was political social. and q m
ulereiai riiia. al:! they rry Come down
aud help u." We hear from MI parts al
the South like expressions. We are assured
that the people Hnw mean what they say.
We sincerely hope II j. lruc, and We SIN
cerely hope that it i not too late for theni
to draw [" their state NorIa'rn men Of ed
| ucaton ami capitol.
COMMENTS.
The foregoing is from Rev Ex-Sena-
tor Harlan's paper, a hand-organ Of the
Administration. When it is borne in
mind that the Ex-senator is the same
Harlan in whose election DR.. Durant in
vested SO 600 in order to control his
Congressional services il the interests OF
a Railroad corporation, no very consid-
cradle degree Oh scrupulousness will be
expected Of him IN his treatment Of
topics in the Chronicle.
1st 1t is purely an invention that
mississippi is appealing for Northern
immigration" She is offering 4 welcome
to men from every region-N orth, East or
West--who will come with intention 10
make an honest living in whatever call
ing they may choose, with or without
capital. This she has done from the
beginning. Ii IS one thing 10 invite
settlers of this character, and quite am
other to repeI professional place hunters
and spoilsmen who come to stir up strife
gather up the wreck Of devastated
estates and appropriate it TO their own
uses-levy and squander taxes, rob in
dustry OF its earnings, and call down upon
their heads by falsehoods the vengeance
of the Federal Government, and thus to
keep them in poverty and Indebtedness.
ID. cit Is not true that Immediately
latter the war, a large number of North
FERN men Went into Mississippi taking
"capital and enterprise with the avowed
Intention OF becoming bona fide ;" and
therefore it cannot be true they were
subjected to the barbarous treatment
mentioned. There were the smallest
number answering the description, who
came to the s-tate--doubtless of the
(say) three thousand, who came hither
from the North not exceeding fifty came
with capital" or enterprise" or to fol-
low any other pursuit except that Of
political Wreckers. In evidence of the
fact, look over the whole Carpet Bag
clan who are directing public affairs in
this State and how many farmers, mer-
chants, mechanics, lawyers, doctors, or
bankers can he found among them The
truth is, (always excepting Il few exam
plies which can be counted on your fingers
ends,) they are professional Officeholders
and Spoismen, and nothing else.
Bird. 1t is notorious that tempted by
the idea Immediately after the war"
that immense fortunes could be made in
planting, here and there few Northern
men invested in that pursuit But they
were left free and without molestation to
follow it with all the labor they could
control. The result was that they inva-
riably failed. They were deluded about
negro labor. They were mistaken about
the profits of planting. They awakened
from their dream of large profits to find
their capital all hopelessly lost and were
glad enough to abandon their enterprise
minus the sums they had invested. They
were victimized by their own miscalcula- |
tons as they will all tell you, and not by
at the hands of the people |
they had settled amongst.
3rd The case of the sweet singer in
Israel cited by the Chronicle, is doubt
less pure invention. 1t is hardly prob |
able that the ''choir" would have dis
pensed with his presence so unceremoni-
ously after inviting him to become a
member of it. There is something
untold.
4th. Inasmuch as many professional
gentlemen, unless professional Office
seekers be classed in the lot, have never
sought the State, it is impossible that
many" could have been professionally"
,abooed. The few who came with hon.
orable intentions, have been treated re-
,pectfully and kindly.
9Th The Chronicle need not console
tself with the idea that the Southern
people have felt any rem 1rse of conscience
or the reception they have given the
ldventurers who have .docked to her
o prosecute their predatory operations.
Having realized the fruits of the wicked
of which this class have
,een agents in administering, they can
lot but regard them as enemies to their
,eace and prosperity, and instead of cry
ng ''come down and help US" they new I
n think of them without mental repeti-
ion of the saying of Horace Greeley,
get out thieves" IF Northern men of ,
education and capital" should ever come
.nong them (not 20 employ themselves
n the disreputable schemes of strife and |,
poliation butt 20 engage in legitimate !
ut they viii not come until dooms-day {
they wait to Be urged by humanity ,
PPeals. d