The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-07-07
THE lPErDIrss CANVASS.

We have copied an article into this
number, from the Holly Springs South,
on,the subject of the Platform. Harmony,
Jealous effort and thorough cooperation
among those who are honestly intent upon
delivering the State from Radical mis-
rule, are so essential to success that we
are not prepared to believe that there
will be any serious dissension in reference
to platform at the approaching State
Convention Of Democrats and Conserva-
tives. The spirit of Cancellation and
compromise will mingle with, and become
an essential ingredient of, the determine
ton of the party to win the victory at the
approaching election. The Democratic
party has always been an aggregation of
independent, but sensible, thinkers, who
have never permitted minor differences
and non-essentials to come between them
and success.
Looked at fairly, there is not so wide a
difference between the advocates and the
opposers of a color line platform as, at
first blush, would appear. They are GER
tainly agreed in the fundamental Demo-
cratic principle that all men are equal
before the law, in all the privileges guar
anteed by the Constitution. They are
certainly agreed that ignorance and cor
ruption should give place to intelligence
and integrity in the agents selected by
the people. They agree that there should
be bold, square fight on every inch of
the ground against Radicalism. Where,
then, is the difference 1t is not in pri,s-
ciple, nor the object to be achieved.
After all, then, it is mere question of the
plan and details of the right, which would
be entirely out of place in the platform
of the party. Nations, when they 60 to
war, make a declaration of the causes of
their action but we are not apprized of
any example in which the enemy and the
world at large were advertised of the
mode in which hostiIities are to be con-
Quoted
This much in reference to the platform
about whose essentials we all agree. In
reference TO the plan of campaign, we
would leave the champions of Reform to
oppose color line against color line when
ever the arrogance of our opponents and
the necessities of the great and righteous
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are pledged, may require. 1t is detail
of the campaign which can be safely re-
mitted to the people of the several coun-
ties, without dictation from the State
Convention. If the Democrats and Con-
servatives of Carroll (for example) do
not think there is occasion for making
the fight on that line land certainly the
election Of Judge Southworth, a staunch
Conservative, by a unanimous vote at
the special election, gives ground for so
thinking,) they ought not to be required
to make it. If, ON the other hand, the
white people of Lauderdale and Clark,
or any other county, think that duty de-
mands that they should take up the def
ance flung at their feet by the negro
leaders and their allies, and battle with
them on their own chosen ground, let
them do it, and may God speed them.
We shall be prepared to show from the
journals that the negro lead
ers, presuming upon brute numbers, have
operated the color line ruthlessly to the
prejudice of the whites, and tor plumber
ng and expressing the great taxpaying
interests of the State.
In a word, let US agree in declaration
If the abstract and fundamental princi-
oles of our political faith, keep ourselves
aligned with the national party of which |
We are members. confide our banner, en-
olazoned with our creed, to worthy, COM
oetent and brave hands, and remit the
plan of campaign to the people and their
chosen leaders, that they may determine
Tor themselves, according to the circum-
stances and the exigencies, the best
node of rescuing the State from the con-
.rol of those who are expressing and |
it.