The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-08-07
The New state Movements.

In North Mississippi the proposition to
form new State out Of the Northern tier
of Mississippi counties-West Tennessee
and Southwestern Kentucky seems
to have found a body Of ardent and san
guine supporters. The movement is not
warmly seconded In West Tennessee ;;
and in the portion of Kentucky proposed
to be detached it has awakened no ap-
parent concern. The interest felt in
each of these sections is evidently mea-
sured by the extent of the causes which
have given birth to the proposition.
These causes are purely political. The
evil sought to be remedied In North Mis-
sissippi, is the misrule of alienism, cor
ruption and ignorance. Her people
would naturally seek relief in almost any
reasonable expedient. They have seen
the steady growth of the negro popula-
ton in the State which, when the census
of 1870 was taken, exceeded the white
population sixty-one thousand souls, by
immigration from the older States to the
prairies and Mississippi bottoms
have almost given up as hopeless the re-
demption of the State from the carpet
baggers and their thoroughly disciplined
African trainbands.
In West Tennessee, geographical,
more than political, reasons have excited
whatever interest is felt in the matter
and the same cause has produced what
little favor exists for it, if any at all, in
Northwestern Kentucky.
But Tennessee and Kentucky both have
large white majorities and are blessed
with local governments founded on the
consent of their own people and admins
tered by agents of their own choice.
The scheme is purely visionary and
chimerical. To our North Mississippi
friends, who are the only parties that
have invested any real feeling in the
matter, we are compelled to say that
they are reaching out after phantom.
The relief which they are seeking is Il
sick mans dream of refreshing shades
and cooling waters to slake his consuming
thirst. There is no probability that the
authorities of any of :ii- States proposed
to be dismembered will consent to the
scheme. And there is no probability
that it would meet the favor of Congress.
1t is not the policy of the stronger sec
tons to permit the weaker to increase its
strength in the United States Senate by
of the States thereof. The
case of the formation of West Virginia is
no precedent at all. The new State OF
West Virginia was torn from the parent
State and an Independent government
set up for it, during the war and is
therefore creature of civil CONFUSION. |
A more practicable and far better
scheme than the one we have been dis
cussing is that which has been mentioned
in late New Orleans Herald 1t is
designed principally as a desperate rem
edy for the case of Louisiana, and con-
leH plates uoLHlAS I0eo IiIdA VIC Lotdl All
Inhalation of that State as a political |
community and its partition between her
two neighbors, Mississippi and Texas.
On this subject, the Herald says: "
1t is believed that such a partition will
alone save the State from an Articulation
as com plete as that which has desolated the
once beautiful and rich islands of the West
Indies. By combining that portion of Lou
Isiana east of the Mississippi, to-wit: the
island of Orleans and the Florida parishes,
with Mississippi, the negro majority OF that
State could be overcome, whilst Louisiana
proper or that portion of the State lying
west of the Mississippi, Joined to Texas,
would secure a like advantage for the white
race. s
1t Is natural that extreme misery and
peril of our people should incline them to
such desperate resorts. When il is so seri I
)usly advocated and eounseled 20 remit this
State to the barbarism of Hayti and the
qualor OF Jamaica and st. Thomas--all |
sentiments of State pride, all heroic associ-
atoms and attachments to our original SOW
.reignty will be promptly surrendered, to
ward off the dire calamity.