The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-07-17
From the Kinds County Gazette.
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1t was in 1855 il our memory is not at
fault, that ex-Gov. A. G.. Brown, prudent
and tar-seeing man. attempted to check the
tide that was carrying TO the carpet bag2ers
and their loyal leagues every colored voter
in Mississippi, making Radicals of them all.
and arraYlug them in stubborn hostility
against our resident white population. For
this effort in behalf of true Mississippi
this honest effort in behalf of our women
AMI children, and the future peace and quiet.
if not the existence OF the State--Gov.
Brown was most furiously and violently
assaulted by the people and the press, from
TishomingO to w Wilkinson, and from jackson
county TO Tunica. Neither people nor press
would stop TO examine his theory-nor
pause to give him hearing. Blinded by
prejudice and passion as they were in 1860,
with almost one voice A. q. Brown was
ruled out OF the ranks of true Southern
men"
In 1870, when Alcorn and his savage allies
had swept the State by tremendous ma
ority and our thoughtful people stood
frightened and trem bling, fearing terrible
consequences and calamitous results, the
the editor of the Kinds County Gazette. in
view of an old acquaintance and friendship,
opened a cores pondence with Alcorn, aud
endeaVoTe1 TO do something for the white
people of the State, something that might
save them from some of the many terrible
evils that had been predicted as sure TO come
in the event of the triumph of the Alcorn
party. For that feeble and unpretending
etlort-prom pied by motives as pure and as
disinterested as the motives which prompt
ed the matchless RobJ. Z. Lee, when he Sc
cured the very best terms possible at APP
pamattoX-the Editor of the Gazette was
pursued, and yilihed. and tradGced, as he
never had been before, and as he expects
never to be again
The distinguished and PEERLESS Beauregard
having at heart the peace and prosperity of
his own Louisiana, takes a long stride in
advance, and at a great sacrifice OF pride
and opinion, makes an honest effort to ac-
mot in Mississippi,) and to the end that
beautiful Louisiana may be wrested from
the hands of corrupt and ignorant men,
thieves and robbers, and restored to the
guardianship of the honest people OF the
soil. Instantly, without a moment of
thought or reflection, and without presum-
ing to allow that man the rights that would
be granted under the law TO a hOrse-thief,
a howl is raised against him, and, we sup
pose he too is to be consigned to ever!ast-
ing infamy.
we do not now say that Governor Brown
was right in lS6S-we do not now say that
the editor OF the Kinds County Gazette was
right in 1S70-we do not now say that
Beauregard is right in 1s73-but we do say,
that that man, whoever he may be, who
proposes any means of escape from our
Dresent deplOrable situation, which by any
possibility can succeed against L. .. courts,
u. s. bayonets, and the dominant party of
the cou airy. may expect TO be nlfsrepresen-
ted. and vilified, and traduced, and pursued
with the venom of adders, though his mo-
tiyes be as fair rs the driven snow, and he
be personally as pure as an angel of light.
ave will take the liberty to correct the
chronology of our contemporary. We pre-
sumo he refers tn the wear 1867 when the