The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-11-19
TIE CLAR1oN make haste to promise

The CLARION makes haste to promise
that the CONSTITUTIONAL amendments are
secure and will never be touched. May
be not; but how do these Democratic
champions of reconstruction know what
will be done ?-Southern States.
THE CLARION does not profess to
know, but it has formed its opinion that
no attempt will be made by the Dem
ocratic party to repeal the constitutional
amendments for the reason,
1st. That the party has pledged itself
in National Convention not to disturb
the amendments, and we believe it will be
as good as its word.
2nd. We have carefully examined all
the platforms of the various Democratic,
Independent and Conservative State
Conventions which have been held the
present year, and we have noticed that
not one of them has remotely limited at,
much less openly expressed pressed a
purpose to interfere with the amend
ments.
3rd We have noticed that in no pri-
mary meeting, State Convention or other
assemblage in any part of the Union,
North or South, in which the party of
opposition to Radicalism has declared its
policy, has anything but acquiescence in
the amendments been Indicated.
4th. We do not know Of prominent
Democratic or Conservative newspaper
(unless the Southern States in all the
land, North or South, which advocates
the reopening of the questions which have
been pronounced settled by the amend
ments.
9th. Among the Congressman elected on
the anti-Radical ticket by whatever name
called, we do not know of a single one
who has declared before the people, his
intention to introduce a bill for the repeal
| of the amendments.
9th. In all the addresses which have
been delivered by Messrs. Tilden, Thur
man, Hendricks and other representative
men of the victorious party since the
election, explanatory of the causes of
the victory and foreshadowing the results
which will flow from it, not one Of them
has construed it to mean the. disturbance
of the amendments, but precisely the re-
verse.
Now, if the States is cognizant of a
declaration by any Democratic, Conser-
vative, Independent or other anti-Radical
meeting or convention, or by any accred-
tied candidate, agent, mouth-piece or
organ of the party, in any of the States
where elections have been held, in conflict
with the statements here made, we ask it
to give name and date
Furthermore, we would ask the editor
of the States, if he himself is really in
favor of employing the present success
over Radicalism to renew the agitation
on the subject of the amendments With
US they are not debatable, and are con-
sidered as irrevocably settled az the ad-
mission of uisiana, the annexation Of
Texas or any other matters that belong
to the past, but we are little curious to
learn the position of the States and to
ascertain if that paper intends SOLITARY
and alone to put the ball in motion"
Apropos of this subject, we will quote
the following paragraph from the ST.
Louis Republican, the ablest Democratic
newspaper in the West, under the
heading What viii they do with |
50 it ~
What will the people do with this vic
tory which they have gained in the name |
of the Democracy? What will the Dem
have won this victory by the |
aid Of Republican votes-do with it Will |
they accept it as pledge of the future,
and resolutely to use it patriot
the South strike hands with their broth
ers of the North in new bond Of good
faith and fellowship, and recreate the
Democratic party into what it once was
Or will the Democrats of the South,
flushed with victory, insanely initiate the
idiotic rawlings of few unrecOnstructed
and dash down the new
born hope of the country by the buncombe
Oalderdash of the traditional last ditch
The deliverance is so sudden, the hope is
80 grand of better day for our young
republic that in common with all reflect
ng Americans, we look past this moment
If our wonderful battle and into the
womb of the next two years, and ask the
Democracy and their allies-What they
will do with the victory which they have
Won
We pass the question to our friends of
he States.