The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-06-11


sites of the producing and laboring class
es, were carried out, the ticket would SWEEP
the country and checkmate what some re
gard as the impending Casarism i'm
piled in the third term scheme of Gran
(Which by the way has no terrors for us
provided it secures a fair deal to th'
South
But since contemporaries like the Bran
don Republican for whose manliness ano
sincerity we have respect, have treated
the matterin a serious light, we will recur
to it seriously ourselves.
! With due Difference to our friend we
think he is setting his coulter too deep
when he alleges as the only objection to
a candidate for the Presidency his militia
ry record on the Union side.
! 1st In 1868 the Southern Democrats
supported Seymour whose chief recon-
mendation in the North was that he was
| the great War Governor who equipped
and sent to Grant and Sherman more men
for the conquering ofthe South than any
dozen Northern Executives.
/ 2nd. In the same election, the South
ern Democrats supported f. L. BLAIR
for the Presidency who was corps
| commander under Grant and Sherman,
when they marched to jackson after the
fall of Vicksburg; and was a participant
in all the vandalism" alleged to have
been committed.
3D. After throwing up our caps and
huzzaing for Blair, who was VIGOROUSLY
one of the fiercest and most remorseless
Of all the Union generals, with what sort
of consistency can we take the position
assumed above by our neighbor Of the
Republican in regard to Sherman
What sort of commentary would we be
making on our own action six years ago.
4th. In the last Presidential election,
the Southern Democrats still following
the leadership of the Northern Democ-
racy supported two civilians who were
above all others responsible for the Is
sues which eliminated in the war that
eventuated in the conquest of the South.
While Greeley was agitating in the North,
Gratz Brown was pioneering Free Soil
ism in the slave state of Missouri. They,
more than others, were active IN furnish
ing the material which generated the
steam that set the monster engine IN
motion and carried it with the fury OF
demon over the vainly struggling, man
gled and PROSTATE South. While they
were preparing the fuel and heating the
boiler, Grant was tanning leather at
Galena and Sherman was teaching school
in Louisiana And yet in 1872 we voted
for the original agitators, Greeley and
Brown, to take charge of the administra-
ton of the federal government,
9Th. But we (the Southern Democrats)
did more than this, in 1872. We sup
ported these same men Greeley and
Brown on a platform which expressed
i" undying gratitude to the soldiers and
&" sailors of the Union who perpetrated
all this Is vandalism of which YOU are
complaining. Now we (the writer of
this thought it was one thing to support
Seymour and Blair, or Greeley and
Brown, on the condition of ignoring the
past and of just and fair dealing to our
section aud to all classes of our people,
and quite another to approve that plank
in the platform which contradicted our
own faith and profession and reflected
on the soldier and sailors" of the Con-
federacy. Not approving it, we protested |
against it in committee, and in open con-
vention we asked the privilege of record |
ing our vote against it, disconnected from |
other parts of the platform. Our appeal
was refused, and finally we voted against
the whole thing because it was there. /
Nevertheless the platform was adopted |
With wild huzza and a clapping of
hands, and we all supported Greeley and
Brown who stood square on the platform
the gratitude plank,
9th. After all this, Is it not rather
ate in the day to swear that we would see
,ur own people in Pluto's dominions be-
ore we will support candidate however
lnobjectionable otherwise, because he
ought hard and successfully on the Union
ide?
7th. 1t must be remembered that what
5 known as the Democratic element in
he South stands as one to ten in the
aggregate of the whole country, and
whenever you resolve that that shall be
-our hand, you may consider them down
Lmong the dead men forevermore, and
write Ichabod on their graves.
8th. As to Gen Sherman, we are not
or him, nor are we against him We
expect to advise our people to be as harm
ess as doves and as wise as serpents in
he next Presidential election, and to
axe stock only in what they think will /
onduce to their own welfare But if he /
hould be taken up as the man who
ought hardest for the Union in war, and /
-ould strive to cement it in peace by t
olicy of justice and Cancellation to the re-
States, with one of her noblest 9
nd most devoted soDs as his chief coun- /
sllor and abettor in so glorious work,
e would not go back, after our support of
eymour Il Blair and Greeley 81 Brown
N that PLATFORM to croak over his rec O
d In the Union army. i