The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-18
The Radical Slogan for the Com
ing Presidential Canvas.

The following II is SAID VIII cOhstitule
the rallying cry of the Radical leaders in
the coming Presidential canvass
The outcry about coming war and a
new rebellion is repeated, and in this
connection list is given of the measures
which it is charged the incoming Demo
cratic congress will prepare the way for
These are recited as follows
First. Pensions for their confederate
soldier constituents.
Second. Payments of debts of the late
Southern confederate government owned
and held by their constituents.
Third. Payment for slaves set free by
the proclamation of President Lincoln
claimed by their constituents.
Fourth Payment for seizures and de
struction of property by the United
States troops in suppressing the rebel
lion.
Fifth Reputation Of the national
debt, in which their constituents have
and can have no possible pride or interest.
Sixth. Reorganization of all the South
ern States on such constitutional basis as
consists of legal Acknowledgement, now
attempted by force, of the blacks.
These are questions which the Radical
managers will pretend are involved in
the Presidential election, and the charges
are to be rung loud and long upon them
to produce a political reaction in the
Northern States. The St. Louis Repub-
lican states correctly that they embrace
points upon which the public sentiment of
the North is most tender, and which may
therefore, be most confidently trusted TO
rouse the old feelings of sectional ami
mostly. Once convince the Northern
people that any one of the counts in this
indictment is likely to be verified in case
the Democratic party is Entrusted with
the reins Of government, and oar Demo
cratic friends may bid long and last fare
,eeH to their hopes of political success. But
the Northern people are not fools, and
no amount of mere organ music can befog
their judgment.
a syllable of truth in the charges. With
the people of the South, the questions of
the war are dead. 1t is their interest
above all others, that they should re-
main so. This feeling they should mani
fest IN every way possible-through the
press, their meetings, their organized
assemblies, in public and in private,
through their representatives, on all
proper occasions, and everywhere.
Let it be remembered that a word
however lightly spoken, is seized and
magnifed, and appropriated as political
capital by the partisans of the Admins
tration. The most difficult labor the
Southern Conservatives have had to per-
form before the Congressional Commit
tees that we're sent South to gather up
political capital, was to explain away the
silly utterances and idle threats of rash
newspaper men. These Incorporate ex
pressions have been caught up and
put upon record for use in the Northern
campaign as examples of Southern senti-
ment.
Recurring to the above recitation of
the schemes charged against the Demo
cratic party, we have no hesitation in
saying that we disclaim the truth of every
count in the Indictment; and we are pre-
pared now to add to the list of discarded
projects,
THE PROPOSED BEFUNDING OF THE COT
TON TAX.
The claims on account of the tax have
gone out of the hands of the original
owners, and the agitation of the question
would do infinitely more damage to the
country at large, and especially to the
cause of the oppressed Southern com
than could be reasonably ex-
pected from their payment Let the
refunding of the cotton tax, therefore,
be numbered now and forever among the
impracticabilities and impossibilities.