The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-12-10

When we suggested that what arc
known As The

When ne suggested that what are
i known as the
YAzoo RESOLUTIONS
offered byGen. Miles and adopted en-
! Enthusiastically by rejoicing multitudes,
/ furnished common ground on which
Democrats and all other cppcsers of Rad
icalisn in Mississippi, by whatever name
they prefer to be designated-could unite,
it was done with a sincere desire TO heal
all differences among a people protesting
common faith and intent upon the COM
mon object Of placing our State along side
of Alabama, Virginia, Louisiana, Geor-
gia and Texas in the South, and Ohio,
Indiana, New York and Connecticut in
the North. But here IS the way our con-
ciliatory proposition is secuted and the
resolutions and their author is treated by
the Okolona States, leading color line
paper and advocate of the proposed
9Th of January Convention at Vicks-
burg
The call forthe people to send delegates
| to a Convention to meet at Nlcksburg on
| the 9Th Of Januaay, to organize the Dem
ocratic party for the next fall elections
was made from the people in primary
meeting at Meridian. But since IHE
| CLARION has seen proper to throw a fire
brand by adrising the adoption of certain
Radical resolutions introduced By Gen. ".
| r. lfles-are beliere that the people aCiU do
,celL to stan at home. There cannot possibly
be any unanimity of opinion if people,
calling themselves Democrats, attempt to
organize on the Radical basis.
We will say this much, however, if any
such resolutions as those proposed by the
CLARION are passed, it will save you time
and trouble not to attend the Convention.
To complete the farce, if they adopt such
a set of resolutions, they ought to resolve
upon Josh Morris for Governor, and hunt
up Tom Sinclair (negro) for Lieut.. Gov
ernor, recommend Fred Douglas for Pres
ident, and then come up prepared to go
up Salt river.
The man JIzes who proposes the Yazoo
resolutions, looking to the endorsement
of the Il and 18th amendments by the
people Of Mississippi, and all acts passed
| under them is the same gentleman we
presume who used sometimes to run
against O. r. Singleton for Congress
| What is Col. Horn and Gen. McCardle
| going to do about the matter? We pause
| for a reply. Where is McCullum? What
more do the Radicals ask Of them When
a Mississippian can say that he is ready
to endorse the 18th and 10th amendments
and all the acts passed under these,
he is a Radical ready to be baptized IN cor
ruption.
We shall have nothing to say in defence
of the resolutions fu rther than that they
accord with the position occupied by the
victorious Democracy and their allies in
the late Northern elections Ifyou don't
fike their platform, and are not willing to
occupy it, why are you rejoicing over their
success
As to the "man Miles" we have only
few words to say. He was born in
Kentucky. Has lived in Mississippi and
Louisiana (most of the time in Mississippi
thirty five years. He was never candi-
date for Congress but was elected to the
State Senate as Wing in hard contest
with the late Judge John Battaile, one
of the purest men that ever lived. Re
moving to Louisiana, he joined the Dem
ocratic party on the Know Nothing issue
in 1855. He was elected to the Legisla-
ture of that State and soon took rank
among her foremost statesmen. He was
a member of the Louisiana secession con-
vention-Yoted for the ordinance of Sc
cessiop-enlisted in the army OF the
South, remained until the last gun was
fired, and won the rank of Brigadier
General by gallant and meritorious ser
vice. Returning after the war to Mis-
sissippi from which his planting interests
had not been removed, he resumed his
occupation successfully in that calling, and
also at the bar which he ornaments by
his learning and eloqnence. He is one of
the largest tax payers in Mississippi He
is loyal son of the State, CARRYING in his
bosom a brave heart, and in his head
cool, collected brain. 1t is fortunate for
the State that the voice of such man
can be heard now, when the counsels of
her bravest and best are most needed.