The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-12-22

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Imagination never conjured such an array
of falsehoOds-such a piling of Pelion
upon Ossa of SANDER and downright
lying-as has been exhibited by the Me-
ridian letter of correspondent of the
Washington Republican.
For ten years, not a gun has been
fred in Mississippi against the National
authority. Not sign of resistance has
been made to the Z. S. Government.
The people have, without murmuriug,
assented to its laws, and thousands of
them, until the late election, as the sta
tistics will show, have even abstained
from exercising the privilege accorded to
them of opposing its policy by their votes
at the ballot-box. The Hessian who
throws out the bloody shirt in the Re-
publican, knows the truth to be as we
have stated it, if he knows anything.
But he has stupidity, or maliciOusly,
confounded their peaceful and successful
revolt, in a strictly legal method, against
the rule of carpetrbag alienage and plum
der which was sapping the foundations
of all their prosperity, with resistance
to national authority. All this blood
and thunder outrage described by the
correspondent, simply means that the
people, no longer able to endure carpet
bag misFule, smashed the yoke which
they had worn until their 1ecks were
CALLED, and paved the way for the reforms
which we're needed to arrest the State
in its downward career of irretrievable
bankruptcy and ruin.
1t would be waste of words to GO into
the details of all the instances fabricated
by this scribbleF for partisan uses, "Phe
| twenty-five thousands stands of arms, and
the fifty pieces of artillery" which are de-
scribed as having been employed by the
Democrats for eieationeering purposes,
are imaginary We assert, witheat the fear
of contradiction, that in the few cases
where VIOLENCE and bloodshed occurred,
the fault attached entirely to the Radical
| leaders The Clinton riot has been es-
tablished by cloud of witnesses to
have been premeditated and deliberate
ly eoncocted plot to produce a conflict
between the races in order that the sep
arate organizations of the negroes might
be kept up in Kinds county for the bene-
fit of the Radical Office holders and office
seekers. Reference is made to Warren
county. There never was a more peace
fully conducted election. The violence
that had ensued in that county was due
to Gov. Ames, by whose instrumentality
the country negroes were armed and
precipitated into the town of Vicksburg
to massacre the whites under pretense of
executing a VIGOROUSLY illegal purpose.
The spirit of his Excellency's order was
evinced in his statement to Attorney
General Harris, and others, that the
fblood of twenty-five or thirty negroes
would be good for the Republican
party" 1t would furnish material for
such ISLANDERS as the Republicans cor
respondent has perpetrated. If there
was violence in Columbus, the same
hellish motive was at the bottom of it
hatred of the whites and determination
to turn their measures of self-preserva-
ton against fire and slaughter, to parti-
san account. The town was deliberately
fred in dozen places on the eve of the
election, and some Of the fends suffered
the penalty of their crime The troubles
in Yazoo were born of the same spirit.
They were brought on by the same class
of desperate adventures for partisan ef-
feet Only one life was lost in the riot
which Morgan's inhammatory speechsin
Yazoo City produced; and if Democrats
escaped the storm of bullets that hurtled
around them, 1t was because an overruling
Providence was On their side. The
Circuit Clerk who was shot in the 4elee. !
recovered, and voted the Democratic |
ticket. The Deputy Sheriff, who was
killed some weeks afterwards, had been |
bonded by the Democrats who abhorred |
the deed as much as people could, and it |
was committed by the son of Republi-
can who had long been another of Nor
gan's deputies. The entire list of cases
cited, might be gone over with like ex-
bition of the deliberate falsehood and
of the writer. For example
it is said that 'volleys were fred into the
Executive mansion" by Democratic pro-
cessions. Our people here know how
utterly false the statement is. 1t is
stated that Major Allyn, the commander
Of the garrison, at jackson, loaned
piece of artillery, and that it was fired
On several political occasions. The fact
that this courtesy was extended by q
U. ). officer who has been prompt, and
even punctilious in the discharge of his
1uties to his government, is refutation
IF the SANDER that it was used for intimi- {
lating purposes. But the fact is studi-
'Gsly concealed that Major Allyn was
trictly impartial, and that if he loaned i
he gun to the Democrats On one or two 1
occasions, he extended precisely the same
avor to the Republicans. 1t
The real motive at the bottom of all {
his manufacture of falsehoods, is the
lain set up for military interference in t
uture elections in Mississippi for the t
and perpetnity of the rule of q
lienage, ignorance and robbery. The Q
olored people have had their eyes opened o
> the deception of which they have been
ne victims, and these schemers argue RI