The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-04

turmoils, and yearn for real peace with
lis attendant prosperity and good feel
ling between all classes. There are men
tn Mississippi, even Democrats, who love
their State above all party ties, and who
would most earnestly support any ad-
ministration or party that viii economi-
cally and honestly administer the pub
lie affairs and there are men in Mlssis-
sippi-Republicans too-who love the
State and its prosperity even more than
the party to which they belong. II The
promises Of the party are not carried out,
then those lenders rho betray the trust re-
posed In them ,ciH Be forced to gire tcay to
pstrer aud better men.
The conservative Republicans, and
| this includes a very large number, are
determined to have retrenchment and
reform, and if the leaders Of the party
cannot be induced to heed the iolU but
/ constant BauTmuT of the masses, then here
in Mississippi aOU Be ,citnessed euen great
er revolution than that ,eiich recently oc-
Cured IN Massachusetts,
A MESS OF PEAs(E) was administered
ad nauseam to the Senate few days ago,
in the form of a harangue by the late SUI
perintendent OF Public Instruction, in
this State, who was thought so little of
by his own party, that it displaced him
from that Office, in order to provide for
Cardozo, and then added insult to injury
by giving him in charity the leavings of
Ames.
Pease, as in duty bound, played the
outrage card in lively style. Notwith-
standing there has been no disturbance
whatever in this State, except in single
county, Save the Tunica riot of the ne
groes because a Republican Judge had
| liberated white man on bail-and that
was promptly quelled,) Pease represented
an alarming condition of crime and disor-
der on the part of the white citizens whose
every interest prompts them to the pres
ervation of peace and obedience to
law. His speech seems to have consisted
of an artistic compilation of newspaper re-
ports of murders and of other crimes in the
South tor years past; and, of course, with
the facilities of the press for publishing
such reports and its proclivity to giving
them a sensational tinge, the compiler
has found the task an easy one. But
what would be thought of a Senator
from Northern State, who would deliver
such TRADE about the manners and NOR
ais of the people he claimed to represent?
We can take single copy of any of the
Northern Dailies, and by applying the
Pease logic, prove that the people of that
section are a nation of murderers, adul-
terers and thieves. Here, for example,
lies before us, a copy of the Cincinnati
Gazette, (Rep. with an article entitled
"Horrible Murder-A Young Married
Woman shot down in Cold Blood" Thisoc-
Cured in the very heart OF New England.
In another column we find clifton VS..
Beecher," a drama of beastliness in which
''the foremost preacher in the North" is
the principal actor. In another column
we find the hideous details of the "Mur-
der of an Old Man for his Money" In
another column we read that man named |
" Colby, was set upon by a gang of
''rowdies between Tippecanoe and Troy,
SC and beaten until he was unconscious,
g and died from the injuries" But who,
except designing and malicious falsier,
or a consummate fool, would recite these |
occurrences before such a body as the
L. S. Senate, and send them broadcast
over the country to prove that the North
ern people are in a state of outlawry, and
should be dealt with by the military pow
er of the U. S. government? And yet it
is in such disgracetul role as this, that
Pease has made his first appearance in
the U. S. Senate. For the credit of
human nature, we hope it will be his
last.