The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-12-01

Gov. Ames has now the opportunity
of doing the most graceful act of his life.
1t is to confirm the rumors (Which we
hope are well founded) that he intends
to resign. Opportunity is everything
with men of tact and judgment. 1t is
the making of them. He has been
blessed with opportunities. They put it
in his power in 1869 to manipulate the
electionsin this State with the bayonet; as
military Governor to impose upon the
negro voters the belief that he was the
vicegerent of President Grant, whom
they thought themselves compelled to
obey. or suffer the penalty of enslave-
ment ; to carry the Legislature; and to
elect himself to the United States Senate,
notwithstanding he was not citizen OF
the State by his own confession before
the Committee of that body; opportunity
put it in his way to GUST poor Powers
from the gubernatorial office, after he
had shown how sadly he was out of
place in the Senate; and now the god
dess of chance smiles upon him more
benignantly than ever in giving him the
means of escape from the disgrace Of ex-
pulsion from the position to which every
day of his official existence has demon
strated his deplorable incapacity.
Wishing Governor Ames no harm,
we pray and beseech him not to throw
away fortunes favors in the present most
critical period of his life. He can save
himself the stigma which will be put
upon him as sure as he lives, if he will
voluntarily withdraw from the Office he
now holds. He will then have entitled
himself to the credit of respecting for
once the will of the people of Mississippi
whose patience he has shamefully
abused. No man outside Lunatic Asy-
lum can mistake the meaning of the pop
uIar decree. The fve-sixths anti-Radical
majority in the popular branch of the
Legislature-th more than three-fourths
anti Radical majority in the Senate
the thirty thousand popular majority ex-
pressed through the ballOt-box
that the people of Mississippi are tired
of his rule and that they have required
their servants in the Legislature, acting
as the grand inquest of the common
wealth to inquire into his "high crimes
and misdemeanors, and to expel him if
found guilty, Gas guilty he surely is)
from the Executive office, with the con-
dition affixed that he shall never more
hold any office of honor or profit under
the State of Mississippi.
This contamination must necessarily be
attended by considerable trouble and no
little expense to the people he has been
so largely the means of harrassing and
burthening-all of which he can spare
by voluntarily abandonment of the
office to which he was never entitled,
and whose powers and responsibilities
he has ruthlessly abused and perverted.
He will half condOne his ofenses, if
he will come now and make this offering
on the altar of the public good; and for
once the people of the State will realise
that he has done the commonwealth a
service. Otherwise the trial must go on.
Justice, though it travels at slow pace,
will finally overtake him The people
can little afford the expense of a trial to
rid themselves of him, but they can
much less afford to permit his crimes,
against the supreme law of the State, to
20 UNPUBLISHED and permit him to re-
main an incubus, and an obstacle to
their future peace and welfare.