The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-12-08
The Policy side of the Question.

The notoriety of the facts on which the
impeachment of Gov. Ames Is demanded,
forbids any question of its justice; but
it is sometimes plead that it would be
better to let him go UNPUBLISHED and re-
main in possession of the Office whose
functions he has abused, than to run the
risk of making capital for the Radicals
in the Northern States by his removal,
We have been careful observer of the
Developments of Northern sentiment
and have yet to find single expression
Of dissent by the Democratic and Lib
eral Republican press from the PROPOSE
ton to impeach and remove him. On
the contrary, it is universally expected
as necessary result of the verdict which
the people have pronounced at the polls
The extreme Radical newspapers of that
section have manifested very little con-
Germ about the matter, and the conviction
is universal among them that the carpet
bag Administrations in the South had
entitled themselves to defeat by the
corrupt practices which had brought re-
proach upon the Republican party. The
refusal of the President to send troops
to interfere in our State election, in con-
formity to the urgent calls of Gov. Ames,
was universally applauded by the Repub-
lican press of the North. The Presidept
admitted the popular disapproval of
such interference when he said in reply
to the application that the people had be-
come disguised with the autumnal calls
for Federal military Intervention in the
affairs of the Southern States. The in
ference is reasonable that the entire North
has made up its mind that Ames shall
be held responsible to the people of Mis-
Sissippl-that he must reap as he has
sown-and take the consequences of his
own acts. But if the people of this
State, in administering their own govern
ment, must constitute Massachusetts,,
where Gov. Ames in fact resides, the
arbiter of her actions, her independ-
ence as a commonwealth, and equality
with the other States of the Union, are
humbug and myth. The same argu-
ment that would shield Gov. Ames from
inquiry into his ''crimes and misdemean-
ors, might equally as well have been ap-
piled to any other proceeding Of the
people to rid themselves of Radical mis-
rule.
But consider the question from the
standpoint OF expediency, and what are
its aspects?
LIST. Assuming that Gov. Ames de-
serves impeachment and removal, you
permit him to remain in Office to manu-
facture and report "outrages" for Rad
ical consumption in the approaching
election in 1876; and to put in motion
bis diabolical machinery for producing
discord between the races with its conse-
quences of riot aud bloodshed.
I'd. You leave him free to repeat
again the same INSCRIPTIONS game in the
year 1877, after having recuperated
his strength and re-established his
influence to corrupt and debauch public
morals by the INSCRIPTIONS use of the
extraordinary powers with which the
Constitution has invested him.
1t may not be SO easy to form another
''peaee compact" When a Presiden-
tial election is the prize, and not the sal
walton of a moribund carpet-bag Admin
istration from overthrow, the call of the
Executive for troops to carry the State
for the Radical candidate, may not be so
readily spurped, If the hayonet should
be brought into play in our elections next
year, and the year following, We call upon
our friends who are pleading for "magna-
nimity" towards usurper, who has tram
pied upon the rights and sensibilities of
the people of the State for the past six
years, to remember
Thou canst not say did ttj never shake thy
CORY locks at me"