The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-09-15

Adelbert Ames has again defIed the |
great seal of the State of Mississippi, by |
making it bear false witness against the !
citizens of the State. When on Thurs
day, September 7th, he deliberately tel
egraphed to the President that "domes-
g tic violence, in its most aggravated
" form, exists in certain parts of this
g State" he knew it was not true.
When he asked for troops, he knew they
were not needed, for he knew that if he
had made a call for volunteers (and
stated that they were needed) that in less
than forty-eight hours he could have had,
in Jackson, a thousand men ready and
anxious to go to any part of the State to
enforce the laws, and protect every man,
without regard to color or politics, in his
right to life, and the pursuit Of happi-
ness. When he said that ''the Sheriff
q of Kinds county reported that since
q the 4th inst, he mas keen unable to
g to maintain the peace and protect the
right" he knew that the report was
false. He was informed at the time
(and he, no doubt, saw the party leaving
here, as it passed directly in front of the
mansiOn) that on Sunday evening, the
9Th inst, party of twenty-five, lead by
Col w. H. Taylor, chief deputy Sheriff,
went to Clinton, in the interest Of peace,
and returned in safety, and reported that
all was quiet there, and in the country
between here and there. Ames knew
that Sheriff Harvey was requested to go
himself with this party. He knew when
the party returned, for some of them
went to him and told him the result of
their mission. He knew that the same
party was ready (and are yeti to aid the
Sheriff "to maintain the peace and pro-
tect the right" He knew that on the
very day of the sending of his false and
slanderous dispatches that the Sheriff had
a posse of thirty men, equally divided
as to races, marching over the town in a
body to assure every one that their pur-
pose was "to protect the right"
But this is not the kind of protection
Ames wants, nor the peace he desires.
He yearns for the peace he gave the peo-
pie of Mississippi in 1859, when he was
military ruler here. A peace that
filled the prison camps with white men,
whose crimes were that they were white,
Southern born, and Democrats that per-
mitted colored men, who had joined
Conservative Clubs, to be murdered at
night in their cabins, or beaten, ridden
on rails and driven from their homes /;
that permitted his military subordinates
to charge on horseback into Democratic
professions, with sabreS cleaning and
pistols cooked; that encouraged the petty
Majors and Captains and Lieutenants TO
tie up by the thumbs cOlored Conserva-
tives, because they dared express their
opinions that permitted his brutal SOL
diery, with dubbed muskets. to drive
Democrates from the polls, while the
Radicals took entire possession and voted
as often as they pleased.
Such peace, such protection to the
right, is what he desires. A peace and
protection that would permit him to
elect himself to the United States Senate
as he did then. But no such peace as
this is in store for Ames and he had as
well make up his mind now that the Con
gressional Halls at Washington will know
him as Senator no more forever.
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