The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-09
TIE ANrEs CREW
THE WAY THEY SAIL THEIR "BOAT."
THE FLAG THEY FLY.
I" Fill the hill and yOD are n Made
Han-.-I Can Make IL Pay for
All COncerned.''

The following documents viii give the
people of Mississippi an insight into the
system of legislation which will be in
augurated should the Ames Ring succeed
in getting control of their State govern
ment. Credit Mobilier transactions viii
be the rule Of the day, and the robbery
and utter ruin of the State.
Need we tell who James E. Richard
son is? He is one of the vulture tribe
of adventures who focked into the State
to feed on the vitals of her impoverished
people-a lobbyist and corruptionist,
who piled his calling unscrupulously and
was as notorious in that way as he was
depraved. He came into the State to
hang around the lobby of the Legislature
of 1870, with very bad reputation. He
was originally from God only knows
where He had lived disreputably in
Memphis, but was more recent impor-
tation from Little Rock, Arkansas, where
he pursued the same avocation of lobby
ist and corruptionist, after the State had
fallen into the hands of the Clayton tribe.
He came to Mississippi as the partner
and agent Of a Credit Mobilier gang.
The other partners contributed money
and against their subscriptions he placed
his services in putting through the
schemes which the combination was
formed to carry into operation. He
came endorsed to high officials in the
State as a man who had access to the
leading Northern journals, and whose in
huence as a first-class black-mailer was to
be dreaded. The object of this combi-
notion was to put through the Legislature
a general system of Railroad corporations
and monopolies, and TO divide out the
stock and proceeds among themselves.
All this was to be perpetrated under
cover of an Ubiquitous measure known as
the General Railroad Bill. 1t will be
remembered that the first serious breach
that occurred between Gov. Alcorn and
what was technically described as the
carpet-bag gang resulted from his oppo-
sition to, and slaughter of, that measure.
Nothing but the firm stand Of the Con-
servative members prevented the passage
of the bill over his veto. For downright
villiany the scheme has never had a
parallel, except the Congressional Credit
Mobilier infamy and in the operations of
a similar kind in Arkansas, South Caro-
lima, Georgia, and the other States where
| carpet-baggery held high carnival. AS
Richardson, the head of the gang, ex-
pressed it, the object of the whole thing
was make it pay all around, and as a
true disci pie of Cakes Ames, he practiced
on the plan of placing the stock "where
it would do most good"
THE CAPTAIN.
A LETTER FROM CAPT. RICHARDSON TO A
FRIEND, INFORMING HIM THAT THE Pr
RATICAL VESSEL is FULLY MANNED.
s'YoU WILL BE IN THE SAME BOAT WITH
FRENCH, LANDoN AND MYSELF"
"A CAREFUL. HELMsMAN WILL NOT ENDAN-
GER THE VESSELS CARGO"
LITTLE Rock, Sept. IL, 1870.
FRIEND -: | have not written for the
reason that knowing that the Governor
would not be for time in Jackson, ] knew
| there WAS little use in writing. AS l eX-
! pect he will be i'm Jackson about the LIST, L
| Shall make point TO be there myself from
| the Ist 10 until the 10th, or somewhere about
! that time.
! | want you to keep a good watch over the
/ field and keep me advised If anything turns
up. | am advised by French that the Gov
/ ernor is understood to have said that he
would have signed the bill as he agreed,
jackson. French is confident he will sign
! it on his return. Should he return before
my arrival and sign the bill | rely on you
TO see the documents FILED IN proper style inahe-
| di0tety.
| Pray write me and let me know when he
| will he back as far as known Be watchful
/ and discreet, and NIL the bill ecith me to suit,
1 and Dty lc0rd for ii you are sooner or later, a
| made man. You tciH be In the same boat 10Th
| French, Ldndon and myself, and knoto can
| make IL pay for all concerned. Unless the pa
! pers filled also as made up so that all
| concerned are provided for as agreed upon,
! there will be chance for future opera
lions, and all is therefore worthless. | am
/ therefore relying on you. Do not fail to
| let me know how matters stand. Should
| the bill be signed you can telegraph me,
care Pacific House, and | will come at once.
Yours. as ever,
JAMES Z. RICHARDSON.
Box l4l, Little Rock.
THE FIRST MATE.