The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-04
EX-PRESIDENT JOHNSON AT THE
FRONT AGAIN.

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The remarkable recuperative powers
of Ex-President Andrew johnson, have
been shown in his election tn the e. S.
Senate from Tennessee by Democratic
votes uf.r a host of talented and
young en- with splendid Con
federateJ gar records. Having allied
himself II the Union cause in a
state Overwhelmingly Southern, he joined
the Republican party and accepted
Office at its hands during the war
and at its close, signalized his intense
hostility by his persecution of Mr.. Davis,
and his historic declaration that treason
must be made odious and traitors pun
ished"-he has nevertheless been taken
into the confidence Of the same Southern
people and restored by them to the same
place in which he was when the memoir
able separation on the question of the
war, took place. Nothing could better
illustrate their federation, and their for
getfulness Of past quarrels.
But times have changed and new
issues have come up. 1t is not now
question of restoring the Union, but of
bridging the bloody chasm, arresting
the revengeful persecution of the Sonth,
and maintaining the Constitution with its
guarantees of equal rights to every State
and section. On this issue, Andrew
johnson, having joined the rejuvenated
Democracy, is on the side of the latter,
and his stalwart arm will strike many a
valiant blow for the right His intel
lectual superior will not be found in the
Senate. In all the land, there is not a
man who is so cordially detested by
Grant and his satellites.
''THE color line has busted. -Vicksburg
Times
1t may have ''busted' so far as any
movement, or supposed movement, is
concerned, having reference to the civil
and political rights of the negro; hut the
Times must have seen that it has shown
itself in a widely different and much more
malignant shape in the Legislature. In
the latter case, the negro leaders have
drawn it against the taxpayers and the
peace and prosperity of the State. An
unniixed negro vote in the House defeated
the biennial-session bill. An almost I'M
mixed negro vote has prevented the re-
duction Of Legislative expenditures. An
unmixed negro vote in the Senate was
cast for the highest figures in the school
tax, though it represents a constituency
that does not pay nineteen-twentieths of
it. That most atrOcious of all schemes
for increasing the burdens of the people,
and producing discord and bloodshed,
State Police, receives its chief support from
the same class.
This is the way the "color line" has
| developed itself here at the capitol within
the last three weeks. We have been OPP
posed to it in all its phases, because we
have seen in it the forebodings of strife
and great mischief But if it must come,
we had rather meet it in its present clear
ly defined and latest shape than any 9th
er. We know where we will stand, and
we know that there can be no difference
between the white men of the State when
the issue is thus presented. They will
be clearly right in standing together,
neutrality-suspicious. of their meaning
by any one; and the very nature of the
issue and the tremendous consequences
involved, will compel them to be terribly
in earnest. And having no reference
whatever to the political and civil privi-
leges of any class, according to the accept
ed meaning of the expression, there is no
reason why, in such contest, they should
not have the cooperation of all well-dis-
posed colored men who will see the injus-
tice of the movement and the necessity of
overcoming it in the interest of both
races.
In such a contest We cannot permit
ourselves to doubt where the Times itself
will be found. Its own platform points
the way.
HIS AAAOS
as one ''upon which all honest Republi-
cans can stand" Aye, and "honest"
men of all parties Here are some of its
features
Biennial sessions Of The Legislature, Inn
tied to sirty days, and proportiondte re-
duction IN the pay Of members.
Let the militia be Immediately disband-
ed.
So far from disarming the militia, it is
proposed by the extremists in the Legis-
lature, to organize that expensive and
diabolical military establishment, called
a State Police, or some other military
system, brstling with Calling guns and
glistening bayonets.
So far from holding "biennial sessions,
and reducing expenditures, it is proposed
to continue the present costly and bur-
densome system, with its train of curses
to the State. On these issues, the Times,
if it remain true to its own platform, will
have no difficulty in deciding where it
will stand.
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