The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-11-26
THE KEY NOTE.
The Yazoo Resolutions.

Received toe late for our last number,
the resolutions offered to the Yazoo meet
ingby Gen. w. Z. Miles, and adopted, are
printed in this paper They have not
lost their SAVIOR by delay. Like good
wine they will improve with age. They
have struck the keynote Of the canvass
in our State next year Ia brief, they
express the whole meaning Of the recent
victories; why We have cause to rejoice
over them, and what we have to accom-
pIish for the deliverance Of Mississippi.
" hen the opposition to Radicalism re-
organize in this State, they cannot do
better than to adopt these resolutions as
they stand. With such declaration Of
principle and purpose and an acceptable
ticket, who can doubt the complete and
glorious redemption Of the State?
Gen. w. r. Miles first entertained the
vast multitude in one Of his happy efforts.
We regret that the great din prevent US
from giving a full report of his speech,
but will say that it was timely and appro-
PIRATE. The Gen. closed his address by
Offering the following resolutions which
were unanimously adopted:
/ The people Of Iazoo county IN mass
| meeting assembled, congratulate them
selves and their fellow citizens through
| out she entire country, on the moral at
titude assumed by large majority ofthe
voters in the various States In which
/ i L,,-o roooy,tIv- baoT1 hold
2 The people aforesaid further say the
recent elections show conclusively that
the sober second thought Of liberty-lov-
ing population is always right.
3. They further say that we, of Missis-
sippi, have been oppressed by unwise leg
islation, by unjust administration, by
corrupt officials, by ring combinations,
by wicked and oppressive taxation, and
by all the odious and repulsive extortions
of the worst and most absolute govern
ment
4. They aver that they pay now about
nine dollars to where they paid one dollar
IN taxes before the late war; and yet there
exists large debt due by the States, and
which is constantly accommodating.
s. They aver that their substance i:
| being wasted by set of political cOrmo
rants, who are eating out the life of the
people.
g. Wishing to participate in the bene
! fits of good government, honestly sus
tanned and fairly administered. we avoW
cordial acceptance XIII, XIV and XIV
amendments of the federal constitution.
We declare our allegiance and adhesion tc
the constitution and all acts of Congress
in pursuance thereof:
We declare our purpose to be the pre-
servation of our rights and the mainte
nance Of the rights of all others.
We affirm that we have borne Cypress
ion and submitted to injustice that would
have driven other people to desperation
and that we have only submitted in the
hope that a just Providence, in the end,
would inspire a majority of the American
| people with sense of the oppression heap
| ed upon rs. And now that the good day
has come in the quiet awaking of public
sentiment all over the country, and in
every section of it; we proclaim our pur-
pose to labor for the same good result in
/ Mississippi; and to that end ask cur fellow
citizens in every county to unite and or
ganize on the following or similar platform
Of principles, to-wit:
PLATFORM.
I. Exact and equal justice to all before
the law.
II. No special legislation in behalf OF
any man or set of men, or class Of people.
III. Precise and perfect equality of all
political and legal rights.
". A reduction of taxes to what will
be simply necessary to a wise and eco
nomical administration of the State gov
/ eminent.
| Y. A reduction of the number of use
less officials, who are fattening on the
public treasury.
VI. Honest, faithful and capable men
for all offices, federal, State, county and
municipal.