The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-01-16

iug stood in exalted places OF public trust
only TO draw upon unoffrntiing comstitu-
+ entS who had honored them a dcsolatin2
ami disastrous waT--BLUE Mass MORRIS
LErTxR on THE REMOVAL OF Col. LAMARs
DISABILITIES.
( The vileness Of an utterance like the
foregoing does not consist in the fact that
its author was himself member Of what
he calls the secession party" That
well known and established fact when
compared with his oath before the Con-
gressional Committee that he had been
- Wing and Union man would con-
Wet him personally Of hideous crime in
/ the ewes of God and man--but this
would be a matter OF small moment in
| its public aspects. Its baseness consists
in the false history which it is calculated
to make up-and to its slanderous impu-
tation upon the people of the South. 1t is
intended to fix upon them the responsible
ity Of the war. and the origination of the
causes which produced it. The people
are told that they were blind and foolish
dupes Of designing leaders whom they
had placed in high positions, and the
proclamation is made to Northern men
and sent down to coming generations that
/ the cause Of the South in which there
was displayed such unexampled heroism
and seIfsacrifce, was the unrighteous
cause of ambitious men. If this accu-
sation be not base calumny, all the
ordinances and declarations of the South
ern State Conventions which were solemn
| " attended by men irrespective of party,
were falsehoods; and the inscriptions on
| the graves of the slain, ought to be
erased in order that their epitaphs may
be rewritten by the wretches who are
earning their bread by fawning on the
oppressors of a powerless and unresist-
ing people.
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens was call
/ ed :" Union man" before the war. Since
| the war, he has written a history in
which the controversy between the two
sections, from the beginning Of the sir
repressible conflict to its bloody termin-
alton, is reviewed. 1t fixes the RESPONSE
bility of the original aggression and per-
sistent agitation precisely where it be-
longs. On history like his, the South
may confidently repose the vindication of
her cause from the calumnies of unprin-
cipled and malicious renegades.
The occasion suggests the reproduction
of the following article which appeared
in the New York Journal of Commerce,
a well-known leading newspaper, on the
! 9Th of November, 1860, when the sec
/ tionaI controversy was at its height and
the country was standing on the precipice
of the terrible conflict into which it was
soon afterwards plunged:
| From the \. Y. Journal of Commerce, No
Vember Sth, 1860.
THE Black Repu blicans are great stick
| lers for what they call the Union, Jut it is
not the Union OF the Constitution to which
each and all of the United States are parties
! by their own voluntary act. but a spurious
Union constructed by a portion of the
States in violation of their solemn coven-
ants without the consent of the others and
I in spite of their most earnest rem onstrances.
/ TO this spurious Union, it's trainers, the Black
/ Republicans, propose to subject The reia0nStra-
| ting Subsequently, if they can, tOrcibly
/ If then must. THIS Is THE sum AND SUB
| STANCE OF THE CONTEST WHICH NOW DIS
TRACTS THE NATION. The South loues the
! Union Of 1877 as defined by the Constitution,
1 and interpreted by its constitutional inter
! prefer. the Supreme Court of the United
States. but they abhor the Constitution
which the Black Republicans have submit
ted for the true one, and would rather die
than have it forced upon them contrary to
their wills. They are ready to JuIfI to the let
ter each and euery one ofthe obligations assam
Ell for them by their fathers in the genuine
instrument, and only ask Hat their brethren
| at the North aeW do the same. For a long time
the So,,t. bore these rioIdtj0Hs Of good faith on
the part Of the North with only gentle remon-
strances, hoping and believing that the So
Der second thought of their erriag brethren
would bring them right again. But they
have found by sad experience that the eriL
Increases 1oith the progress Of time that the
success of one eRcrOdchDseRt makes lcdy for an
other; and that there is apparently no limit
to the demands Of their dggreSSOrs, but the an
initiation of every privilege and immunity |
cured t. the South by the Constitution |
and for this they yielded immense benefits to |
the North"
The foregoing declarations were put
upon record contemporaneously with the |
occurrences to which they referred. Nor |
did they emanate from Southern man /
nor even from secessiOnist-they were |
the voluntary testimony of a leading
Northern journal which did not belong
and has never claimed to belong to the
Democratic party. Sometime or other,
as a matter of imperishable history, we
may have occasion to reproduce the resO-
buttons which were offered in the ATissis-
sissippi Legislature, in 1860, by Gen. A.
NJ. West, and which were passed unaui-
mously as the deliberate opinion of all
parties in the State in reference to the
sectional controversy.
immigration.
II is stated by the President of the
North German Emigration Society, that
immense numbers of Germans will leave
for America in the spring. The commits
sions sent out by this Society to buy large
tracts of Ian IN the Vest, has sailed for
New York, 1t will be borne in mind that
the Radical rulers of this State have
done nothing whatever to put into opera
g. l. Il !