The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-11-26
Lessons. from our Adversnries.


President has summoned a meeting of
the ablest and most conspicuous members
Of the Republican party TO hold council
and to devise measures for stopping the
political revolution, and if possible, rolling
back the tide. We have little appre-
hension of the success Of the plan of these
skilled and veteran tactitions, however
well matured and desperately undertaken.
But their maneuvering should not 60 on
under the eyes of the victorious party
without teaching the latter to be vigilant
and circumspect. Over confidence would
be as fatal to Democratic prospects as in
activity.
The first essential is to hold together
the various elements of opposition to
Radicalism, whose combined efforts won
the victory. The sensibilities, and if
need be the very prejudices. of all must
be considered. Union, Cancellation, con-
cession. Everything for the cause,
should be the predominant sentiment in
every mind. For example Mr.. Tilden,
Governor elect of New York comedies
to the Liberal Republicans large share
of the honor of the victory which was
won in that State Mr.. Payne of Ohio,
says that without their aid, success in
that State would have been simply i'm
possible. Similar declarations based
upon known facts, have been made all
over the North.where victory has perch
ed upon the standard of the allied forces.
Gen Banks who was elected from a Mas
sachusetts District does not profess to be
anything else but Liberal Republican,
and boasts his support while in Con-
gress of all the Reconstruction measures
as logical and necessary results Of the
war. Any attempt, therefore, to disturb
these measures with view to removing
them from the statute book would be
resented by him and the hundreds of
thousands of patriotic Republicans who
have co-operated with him in the reform
movement as revolutionary, and as an
act of bad faith.
1t is evident that the Radical leaders
derive their chief hope for reaction on
the renewal of the agitation of questions
which would revive the war feeling.
They hope that the South tempted by
success, and i'll the exuberance of feeling,
will play into their hands by committing
foolish and ilI-timed acts In proof, and
AZ a lesson we will cite, what our ADVERSE
ries are saying:
From the Buffalo IN. W Advertiser j
A better spirit will soon prevail.
Leaving out of the calculation the great
probability that the Democrats aciU make
the rery aUorst possible use of their Uictory
and thus unwittingly labor for the com
ing Republican restoration, We hold it to
be all but certain that the glorious old
party will carry the day in 1876, as the
result of its publication under this ordeal
of fire, and just as surely as the Centen-
NAL of American Independence must
come
From the Albany Journal
We have the most unbounded faith
in Democratic folly, and faulty and
stupidity.
The questions ,chich the country had hoped
,oere settled aoW come back again II. fresh
agitation, and aCe shall be plunged into ne,o
career of action and reaction.
Foremost among these questions are
those of reconstruction, the whole Southern
problem, the debt and the currency.
The turbulence and upheaval of the
South will not await the actual assump-
ton of power by the Democrats. TIE
mere fact OF Democratic success will
quicken the worst elemants into pestilent
activity, just as the first sunshine of
spring warns the genuine copperheads
into new life and venom. These vicious
forces cannot be controlled. Thus the
fruits of reconstruction arc imperiied and
the issues of the war, instead Of being
closed as we had hoped forever, enter
upon a new chapter. And that coming
history cannot fail to be a tempestuous
epoch with dangers Of the gravest char
acter.
From the Providence (R. II Journall
We entertain no reasonable doubt that
the ascendency of the Democratic party
In the National Government tCouId be
substantially q reconstruction on the priRci-
pies that iUere put doaon By the aUar that
the African race would be RENTED to a
condition little different IN practice from
that of slavery, and their right of suffrage
would be only 50 many votes to their |
former masters and their present oppres-
sors that an immediate demand would
be made, and with a force that could not
he 1-aSicta1 fpr tho rofupdinrr Of tba at
ton tax. not of course TO the men who
really paid it, but to the planters
and merchants who advanced it and
added it to the price of the cotton that
this would be followed by demand, with
equal force, for commissary and quarter
master stores supplied by the rebel States
during the war.
And because we believe all this, and
because If seems SO plain to US that no
one can fail to see it, we do not think
that the people Of this country will peril
all the results of the war by giving the
Government into the hands of the men
who attempted to overthrow it, and who
have relaxed nothing of their hostility |
to it, nothing of their earnest hope and
endeavor to destroy it. We believe that
the Republican party, gathering wisdom
from this disaster, will unite In an effort |
that cannot fail to repair it; that aroused
by the great danger of the country, they
will act as the loyal States did after the
battle of Bull Run, and with the same
spirit push on through present disaster to
final triumph.
THIRTY-FIRsT SENATORIAL DISTRICT.