The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-03-26
rhe breeze from the old Domination.

B0urbonlsm Is intensely scandalIZed.
There Is great chatter among the dry
bones over the veto BIZ Gov Kemper Of
Virginia, Of a bill which passed the Leg
islature creating a new charter for the
city Of Petersburg Il Sc happens that
The city has a majority Of colored voters,
and these voters are under bad influence
in Petersburg, as they are in many other
places where native white citizens ahand-
oued them to the leadership of . unscru-
pulous adventures They elected vile
men to office; plunged the city in debt;
stole The public money Homiscuously
and repeated the OH game Of carpetbag
misrule which has been played over and
f over again wherever opportunity has Of
fered. How 70 get rid Of the incubus,
was the question Bouroonism said, the
+ darkey- are joined 10 their idols, let them
alone; and they betbought themselves Of
"a trick the Republicans served the
Democrats in New York some years ago.
! They would have "a new charter for the
government OF the city Of Petersburg, by
a commission appointed by the Cover
/ nor, or some other outside Conservative
authority, passed through the Legisla-
ture. Under this charter the city would
be ruled by proxy The lawful voters
/ Of the corporation should have no more
hand in the business than the people have
ia Mississippi under the carpetbag regime
Of elecling their Judges or their County
/ Superintendent.
The charter was passed Petersburg
was Illuminated, and the bells rang out
the joyful news. Suddenly the scene
changed, Gov kemper brought his
Executive authority into action and put
a quietu- to the scheme In a message,
redolent Of sound doctrine, he informed
/ the Legislature that 50 the provisions of
the bill would -ubvert the principles Of
'' popular government in their application
90 to the municipality OF Petersburg, Its
90 enforcement would withdraw from the
q sufragans of that city the power to
50 control its government and lodge it in
% the hands OF appointees to be created
d" by legislative act He told them that
what they proposed 70 do was to overturn
the 'scorner stone of republican liberty
80 the principle that government derives
g its great powers from the consent Of
50 the governed.
This is good old Virginia doctrine but
it did not suit the Hunkers The Leg
islature, composed Of majority Of Con-
servatives, to their credit be it said, sus-
tanned the veto. Two-thirds Of their
newspapers and two-thirds of the unrea-
soning mob who have clamored at every
thing like common sense and moderation
since the war, are crying out; He has
betrayed US; che has sold out" CHATS
the word), '1et Us cruelty him" Here is
the way they rave:
THE act was the act of Governor James
/ l.. kemper, who Is responsible for it sole
/ ly, and who, by committing it, has set
/ himself in opposition to a Conservative
/ measure, and to that extent abandoned
/ the party by which he was elected, and
! to whose principieshe was pledged. x
/ He has elected to make new departure
which may lead 20 Grantism, Republi
canism, or what not, hut he viii not be
/ followed by the Conservative party,
which looked to him so lately as its cap
/ tain. :
The Conservatives of Petersburg will
keep their places in the Conservative
ranks, bat they will not follow after
strange gods, and they sill not bow at
/ the name OF Grant.
Again
From the frstindications Of Grantism
in the discourse and doings of Governor
Kemper, we have had grave misgivings
as to his policy :
Governor Temperatures recommend
ed a neutral attitude for the Conservatives
Of Virginia as towards both great nation
/ Al parties Then he went on his memo
rable trip to Washington, and paid his
mysterious respects to President Grant
We believe fully nineteen-twentieths of
the people 81 Virginia at heart condemned
that movement. though respect for the
Governor and his office hindered or modi-
fed the utterance Of their protest. Lastly
we have the elimination reached on yes
5erday in the veto.
Again.
This VIII prove both a surprise and a
severe blow to the white people Of Peters
burg, who were iuhilant in the expecta-
ton of an early release from the terrible
incubus OF a comupt'and ignorant NUM-
.cipal governor.
Again.
Did YOU know iNe,HPer had gone over
to the Radicals
Yes, know it. Grant bought him
when kemper Went TO Washington
What shall we do2'
Hang him in efigy
There is a perfect deluge OF such stuff;
and all because Gov. Kemper would not
consent to the highway robbery of a peo-
pie Of their right Of self-government for
not having exercised that right according
to the wishes of the popular majority in
the State.
For ourselves, we are thankful to Gov.
kemper for his act of moral courage
We are grateful to the Conservative Leg
islature Of Virgins for sustaining him in
it. While we are denagueing the injus-
uce which is constantly prscticed towards
the people of counties and districts and
in the earpetbagged States,
we can point with pride to the action of
the Conservative Governor of that good
DID Commonwea'ta. whose SHE'D amid
Ill the trials to which she has been sub