The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-11


The Democratic papers of this State
are perfectly furious with Mr.. Lamar,
member of Congress from the First Dis
trict, because, in recent letter to the
New York Herald, that gentleman con-
fessed that the "recent disturbances in
his State was of purely political nature. ,"
Some berate him for his honesty, which
is very natural in dishonest press !;
others scold him for haseness, in making
an assertion which can be SO effectively
used to the detriment of the Democratic
party, while others still are bold enough to
charge him with desire to coax Repub-
lican votes to his support, by telling
downright untruths. All of which does
not change the particular facts alluded
to as set forth by Colonel Lamar
Pilot
The foregoing is double misrepresen-
tation. 1t misrepresents Col Lamar's
letter, and misrepresents "the Demo-
cratic press of the State" We would
like for the Pilot to prove that "the Dem
ocratic press" has pursued the course
attributed to it. There are nearly fifty
Democratic newspapers in this State and
its sweeping language implies that they
have generally held Col. Lamar up to
censure. We defy the Pilot to name
half dozen Of this number in evidence
of its statement. We defy it to name
FIVE. We defy it to name four We
defy it to name three of the number.
We defy it to name two.
The Pilot, after drawing on its imagin-
alton as to s'the newspapers" brings its in
ventive resources into play touching the
tenor of the letter. Col. Lamar stated that
the reports of the lawlessness which are
circulated by INSCRIPTIONS adventures
for partisan effect, were greatly exagger-
ated, and that whatever was unpleasant
in the relations between the races had
been brought about by the acts of the
Administration, which had encouraged a
spirit of distrust and enmity among the
blacks toward the whites. Here is his
language:
By constituting itself as the negroes
sole protector in the State, it Che Ad-
ministration) drives him to trust only its
agents and partisans, often men Of the
vilest character, and rarely men who
have any material relation to the State
or to society among US. The negro is
thus isolated from the white people among
whom he lives, and the Federal power
thus makes him an alien in our society,
though invested with the highest political
prerogalives, thus forcing him into all at
titude which tends also to force the white
race into similar position towards him.
Here Is the true cause of the disturbances of
aOltichyou an the North hare greatly eraggera-
ted accounts. Irepeat they are Invariably po-
itical. Withdraw the disturbing force,
leave our population to the responsibility
Of local self-government and to the
material operation of social and indus
trial forces, and all that is now deranged
and disorderly will certainly and perma-
nently arrange itself-not, perhaps, at
first, without friction, but with, | am
confident, an immediate decrease of fric-
ton and gradually but surely lessening
amount of disorder.
Exactly in point is the following com
mendation of this letter by the Holly
Springs Independent South. 1t is a
Democratic paper, though the Pilot may
not consider it ''dte Democratic press of
the State :"
Never was the plaudit, "Well done
thou good and faithful servant" better
deserved than it is by Representative
Lamar. His speeches on the floor of
Congress have wrought immense good for
and for the whole South. The
letter from him to the n. Y. Herald,
which we publish to-day, will also do
much to set us in true light before the
Northern public
We covet for the country the entire
time and services of one who has shown |
a statesman so judicious, so able
and so influential, and hence we hope to |
see him kept in the House of Represen- |
tatives by the unanimous vote of his con-
stituents until there is favorable oppor-
tunity for putting him in the Senate.
In our opinion, too, COL Lamar could |
render most invaluable aid towards right
ng our State affairs, and it is our earnest
iesire to see him canvass the State