The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-10-22
the "OUrRAGE" BUSINESS.

Democratic party in the North on account
of the encouragement it gave the South
ern States to secede; the discredit its
National Convention of 1864 brought
upon it by declaring the war for the
Union "a failure;" the opposition which
it steadily presented to reconstruction on
the Congressional plan after the war until
it became fxture-are the heavy bur-
dens which it has had to carry in that
portion of the Union-to say nothing of
its loss of prestige by fifteen years of sue
cessive defeats. And yet the elections
the present year indicate that the people
of a majority of that section are almost,
if not quite, prepared to exchange for it
the rule Ct the present dominant party
at the next Presidential election.
Che COURAGE business" as we have
seen, is the sole reliance of the Northern
Republican newspapers and leaders in
arresting this, to them, alarming reaction.
There was a world of meaning in the
exhortation of the Chairman of the
Radical Executive Committee Of Indiana
to the Radical editors of that State to 90
it strong on Southern 'outrages." The
Convention at Chattanooga was held with
no other purpose but to manufacture
capital Of that sort for the Northern mar
ket; and with this view it appointed an
Outrage Committee" to get up a book
of horrors for circulation by the million,
all over the North. 1t is the card by
which the desperate gamesters who are
engaged in the play, expect to retrieve
their waning fortunes.
The signs are that if the minds of the
people of the North are put to rest on the
questions settled by the war and embraced
IN the Constitutional Amendments, the
defeat of the Radical party at the next
election is inevitable. In this way relief
will come to the oppressed Southern
States. Withdraw from the Southern
oppressors the support of the National
and their rule will cease as
as the ripe pear falls to the
ground. But this effect will not be pro-
duced by the agency of White Leagues
and Color Line Clubs with their proscrip-
tive principles and tendency to strife be-
tween the races, and their adaptiveness
for the production of the very material
wanted and prayed for by the outrage"
On this point we do not ask those who
have differed with US to take oar advice,
1ut TO heed others who are in more IA
Vorable position than ours for forming a
correct opinion. For example, an cleo
ion will take place in New York in a few
lays The n. Y. Herald which all con-
,ede to be journal of marvellous saga
,ity, and sensitivness to the influences
which operate on the public mind, in
the causes that may decide the
esult in favor of the Republicans, says
Another event IKE that aehich recently oc-
3nred at Ne,0 Orleans loould rain the hopes ,
+ Mr.. Ttlaen's friends Even success ,
ion OF those small outrages in the South
gainst the peace and rights of the negro {
eRrageS ,ohich the Republican party seems to
cultiUate tcith full comprehension ,
{ the results then hare the minds of the s
enerolHy Of the Northern people-,c0uld arrest
bSoluteiy the increment Of reron against the :
1rroption and misrule OF the republican party I
n latch, in e7,rb fororoIIa ,,-oo4.oe
rs State as aoel as through the ,choze North ,
seems hard, but it is true, never heless, @
nat the choice Of Governor in this Empire \
tate will depend less upon whom the peo- !
lie may deliberately prefer in calm COM a
arison of the two candidates than upon r
neither some negro in an obscure corner of t
labama or Mississippi or Texas in a week I
ON now shall vaguely threaten to shoot d
'me one or TO burn ahaystack, and shall in
onse quence get his dusky throat cut. with
he dusky Threats of his friends and rela-
onS who have come to his assistance. That Il
one Of the great pivots 1cbtch nsajorities 8
'rn just As one blast on the bugle- I
Urn of the Highland bush whaeker was l.
orth thousand men, so one negro iugu-
r in Georgia at this critical period is equal
-ates with population as large as ours
ever thatjugular only, and it shall go hard
Attorney General Williams will not get 4
1t the troops. and if ingeniously framed C
legraphic dispatches do not make it APP fl
sar that the firing on Fort Sumter 1cds child's
az TO IL. Doubtless the Democrats can h
I'm prehend how plainly the relations a
the South TO the government have been r
rned over to the Attorney General, by u
e President, and they should be able to d
receive that the one object for that unpre- O
dented course was that the lawyer should. d
tie language of the streets, "put up a a
b." for the Southern people and entrap a
EN- into acts that might destroy in the North
e chances Or the only party from ,ohona the l
'athern people can expect any reasonable o
mpathy or fair treatment. Fl
The same idea is set forth in the fol- Il
wing extract from the St. Louis Re G
an able Democratic paper, which :,
? have copied for the sake of the lesson, a
It'll disclaimer of its violent language: c.
If the White Leaguers were to disband o
d the idiots who conduct the Democratic a
per= of the South were to act dccently p
r twelve months and not be eternally IL
wiling from the brush about the dear lost u
use," such men as Powell Clayton and y
.tterSOn would be bankrupt in political a.
pital and powerless to work evil. But so II
ne as braDless men are suffered TO flaunt IL
eIr red flags of hatred m the faces of the p
rpet-bag crew, jus. so Tong toiH the intelti- ~
zee and responsibility Of the South be kept u
der heel. The conduct of the carpet-bag-
RS has thoroughly Disguised some of the %
st influential and respectable Repuhli- 70
n papers OF the North, and hence they
Il IN start the ReDublic in New York tn u