The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-23

which win you Choo.es

are the bulk of the Conservative voters
of Mississippi supporting this original
and unchanged Republican in preference
to another member of that party, and
why is it their duty to do so, as it is the
duty of every true friend of the peace
and prosperity of the State? We will
answer:
Alcorn is a bona fde citizen, having
large interests in the State, and must ne
cessarily share her fate in the future as
| In the past, for veal or for woe.
! Ames is a mere adventurer, who has
no interest in common with her people,
and whose only motive in asking office at
their hands is to rule and plumber them.
His property is not here. His citizenship
is not here His affections are not here.
Alcorn, whatever may be said of his
decided Republican antecedents and diff
ferences with Democrats on party doc
trines, has vindicated the good name of
the State when assailed, and sought to
turn away the wrath Of the Federal
Government when it was attempted to be
brought down upon her by Ames and
other Malignants.
Alcorn has indicated her. Ames has
abused and slandered her. For ex-
ample, Ames wrote this letter to col
ored citizen while pretending to repre-
sent Mississippi in the Senate. 1t was
charged that .Alcorn was aiding and
abetting Conservatives in their deeds of
violence and blood:
WASHINGTON, March 80, 1871.
DEAR SIR: send you a copy of my
| speech. You will see that / take issue
with the Governor. | talk as did when
held his place. II seems TO me that were l
in his place now. with the power he says he
has, would give the pro lection l did then.
and not have my friends killed by tens and
hundreds. as they are being killed now.
think he is guilty of great sin in acting as
he does. can lave no sympathy with Il
man who gains power or favor, as he does,
with the Democracy at the price of blood,
and that the blood O his frin1's.
Yours trn A. AMEs.
Alcorn, from his seat in the Senate,
branded this assault on him and on the
Conservatives of the State, as falsehood.
And, among other things, he said:
| Iconfess could not have supposed on
any evidence less conclusive than his own
handwriting that he (Ames) could have
perpetrated so abominable an act of incen-
diarism!
Besides, while in the office of Cover
nor, Alcorn responded to similar SLAM
der of bloodthirstiness and disorder on
the part of the people, originating with
the Ames crew, by memorable dispatch
to Washington, in WHICH he declared
that " Mississippi presented an unbroken
example of order and obedience to
CLAW"
In the Senate Ames advocated the
suspension of the writ of Habeas Corpus
in the Southern States Alcorn opposing
it, said:
Standing here a representative of Missis-
sippi in every sense of the word, am L not
justified under this recital of the actual
| facts in declaring against the impOlicy, the
| improperly, and wrong of placing the lib
| critics ot my people under the point of the
pen of the President of the nited States !:
The limit to the extension of the Writ is
| about to expire. l entreat you not to eX-
| tend it beyond that limit. L wish Missis-
sippi to be in accord with the nation. /
| wish her to become friend and supporter
of the Government of the United States !;
and she will prove so if you but give her
| the opportunity of untrammeled freedom.
But she cannot come crawling on her StOm-
ach, with the Writ of Habeas Corpus sus-
| pended. with the power in the hands of the
| President to put her people in prison. And
mark my words, she will not come forward
in that attitude TO cast her vote for those
| who thus treat her.
There has been no application for the
| suspension of Habeas Corpus in Mississippi.
There is no reason for it. The State has
passed through the period of her greatest
violence. She has reached the borders of
repose and protest, therefore, against the
wantonness OF the proposed extension of
the suspension of this most sacred right OF
the people.
The proof shows that there is no necessity
| for the suspension of habeas corpus. Then
why, / repeat, do you wish 10 menace the
! people with the suspension OF that writ of
right when the proof shows, and your own
witness shows, aud when the Senator him
| self shows. that there Is no necessity for 1t
Such legislation as that before US is OPP
| posed to the cause of peace. Military gov
eminent among people trained in freedom
creates a condition of things which may al
ways be cited in It's Justification. Intro
duce the law of the sword in the midst of
/ peace in any State of the North, and my
| life on it, you would very soon find reason
| for its continuance. Its irritation acts upon
the passions of the people. The resistance.
! Sullen or active. incident to its introduction
| reacts back upon the Government, and thus
might unwise legislation of the character
before us pass into open conflict that could
not be suppressed until the Government
should have been startled by the discovery
that it had broken what it could not bend,
that source of the vitality of the nation
the spirit of the people.
While Alcorn was thus pleading for
the liberties of the people of his State,
Ames, pretended representative, but in
reality an alien and an enemy, was con-
decorating with their prosecutors, SLAM
dering and belittling them, and doing all
in his power to augment their troubles
Alcorns every interest and instinct
would prompt him to oppose the payment
of the thirty millions of Repudiated |
Bonds. Ames' interest as self-seeker
and instinct as an enemy would prompt
him to place the burden on the shoulders
of the people through corrupt judiciary
OF his own creation.
Alcorn is abetted by ticket of Re
publicans, it is true, but men whose
hands are not stained with brides.
Ames' principal associates on his ticket
have been proven to be bribe-takers, and
of one of them Gibbs he said g l know
that man to be corrupt
Alcorn is pledged to policy of econo-
my and low taxes. Ames' policy in keep
ing with the Carpet-bag programme ev-