The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-01-28


overwhelming vote Of the House repeal
ing the law establishing the State Board
Of Equalization.
IT is pleasant news that Chandler, one
of the most vindictive OF all the enemies
Of the South, has been defeated for L.
s. Senator from Michigan.
In will be seen that large number of
Republicans in Congress again voted with
the Conservatives and refused to come to
time on the Civil Rights bill.
DORIS the Legislature intend to cur
tail the cost of assessing property the
present year? The Auditors report on
this subject might be studied with profit.
A REPUBLICAN Legislature would not
adopt Gov. Alcorn's picked cavalry"
Why should Republican Legislature
sanction the State Police plaza much
more detestable organization-of the pres
ent Governor?
STANDING armies in time of peace,
quartered upon the people, are always
odious to free people and repugnant tore
publican government. They are the in
struments of despotism, and the agents of
tyrants. This is the meaning of Ames'
proposed State Police.
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L. 4
Sumner (colored) for Superintendent of
Public instruction for Holmes county,
against the protest Of large number Of
the lest citizens Of the county that he is
disqualified, and otherwise totally I'M
suited for the office.
WE learn that Col. Musgrove is active
ly engaged in his immigration enterprise
in the West On Friday, he delivered
an address before the State Grange of
Illinois, and on the evening of the same
day, he addressed the Legislature Of that
State He has been very much en-
couraged in his efforts
The color line, as indicated by the
votes of the negroes in the Legislature,
has assumed new phase. 1t means an
nual sessions Of the Legislature, and
double the former rates of compen sation
with all the attendant expenses, and no
reductionsof taxes. 1t is none the lovelier
to our eyes in its new garb.
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STRAws.--The Board of Aldermen of
of the city of Rochester, n. Y, passed
resolution condemning the action of the
United States military in interfering in
the organization of the Louisiana Legis-
lature. The resolution was offered by
Alderman Stone, Republican, and was
carried by vote of q to s.
THE New ORLEANS CARNIVAL ADAM
DoNED.-The New Orleans papers have
officially announced the abandonment of
the Carnival festivities for the coming
NIardi-Gras in consequence of the politi-
cal misfortunes and commercial depres-
sion Of the city. The decision accords
Will EOOu TASTE anu DTOpFieIY.
If Southern men expect Northern men
to fight the battle of freedom for them
and to effect change of Administration |
by which their deliverance will certainly
come, they must heed their counsels |
The n. Y. Tribune says that a season of |
moderation and manly forbearance of ills
they have, will be worth more than cen
turtles ofviolence; and Senator Thurman
of Ohio saws: ''Be Patient"
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New HAMPSHIRE Is the first State |
that votes this year. The Democrats |
and Liberals have come out squarely !
against the right of the Military to in
terfere with Legislative organizations,
and to substitute military trials for trials
by jury. The Republicans, while they
unqualifedly repudiate the third term
aspirations of Grant, touch the above
questions as presented in the case OF
Louisiana, with caution and vague
ness.
Gov. Taylor of Wisconsin thinks that
when the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the L. |
s. Army, by the connivanee of the Ad-
ministration, assumes to reorganize Legis-
latures with the bayonet and to outlaw
citizens and massacre them through the |
forms of military trial, 1.-The time has i
come for all Of us to bury partisan spirit
in the common object for the preservation
of our constitutional sovereignty and in
herited liberties of the American people.
The Radicals in the Legislature hav-
ing sufficiently thanked Sheridan for
organizing the Louisiana Legislature
with the bayonet, and for his anti,jurv-
trial proposition, suppose they now
enter in earnest on thereform work. 1t
has come to be fixed opinion of the
public that no good win result to the tax
payers from the consideration of meas
ures not strictly appertaining to the
business of the Legislature Every day
spent upon irrelevant matters costs them
81, 600.
THE Administration party not being
satisfied with the report of the Sub-Com-
mittee appointed to investigate Louisiana
affairs, and in order to remove the inn
preston which it viii make on the North
ern mind, has sent still other members of
the general Committee, headed by Z. r.
Hour. Of Massachusetts,. 20 innllire into