The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-08-25
FOREWARNED-
AMEs, TmREAT.

The Pilot is the recognized official or
gan and mouth-piece of the Ames Ad- /
1t speaks by the card, and
its utterances are TO be received as en-
titled to all the consideration which at
taches to an official declaration with the
seal of the Administration. In the last
issue, it gives the public to understand
what use is to be made of the Standing
Army Gatlin Gun Bill which passed the
Legislature at its last session, and for the
execution of which $50, 900 we're appro-
priated.
Upon the utterly unwarranted assumP-
ton that illegal means will be resorted to
in Warren and elsewhere to carry the
election for the Democrats, it says:
Should legal processes fail in securing
quiet and non-infraction of law, then the
employment of legal force should come, and
come promptly. There is not respecta-
bic man, aUlite or col0red, an uis State,
poe dare aver, aoho, If called upon az season
to support the statutes and enforce their
provisions, aoiU refuse to shoulder has gun
and march at the request of the Erec1ttiue to
any point ,chere such poaeer need to be Gp-
piled If there is such man We would
like to know his name, that it might find
place beside those Of Benedict Arnold
and all traitors to their country. 1t may
as well be understood, at first as at last,
that the power rests in the State and State
officers to protect the voters of the State in
their rights, and that these powers are to
be called upon should it prove necessary.
No county can be allowed TO set up re-
bellion. No county will be permitted to
establish defiance of the State statutes.
The peace must be, and shall be, pre-
served in Mississippi-and that, too, by
the people of Mississippi, without armed
| Federal Intervention. The few bloody
ballditti that thus far have ridden ruth
lessly over Warren county must put by
their seditious arms. They can have no
use for them that is legal, and they must
lay them aside The PEOPLE OF MIS-
sIssIPPI SAY IT. They have gone on,
killing, manning, carrying dismay and
disturbance in their path, until they have
become a nuisance in the eyes Of all true
men, ana here they will have to pause in
their mad career. The popular verdict
is that they SHALL BE PUT DOWN And
put down they will be, unless they retire
to the rear, put away their arms, and
allow peaceable conduct Of civil courts,
and civil and peaceable State canvss.
The legal measures are at once to be
commenced. In the event that they fail
preparations are making to use the strong
arnl of the poluer of the State. The question
has been answered. Let turbulent per-
sons, throughout all the State, beware
how they force the last, terrible alterna-
tive of a vexed, outraged and tortured
people.
Now in answer to this defiance we will
say for the white men of Mississippi,
first, they intend to interfere with the
legal rights of no men nor set of men.
They will not be the aggressors, as
they have not been in the past. But
they intend to stand firmly by their own
rights, and will trample with scorn and
contempt this Radical military law under
their feet, and when Ames and his min
ions make their attempt to execute it for
the purposes of its creation-viz intim-
idation and violence, and to prop up a
sinking cause, they will be met at the
threshold with the same determined spirit
in which their clansmen were met and
routed at Vicksburg in December last.
Now let Commander-in-Chi General
Ames, and Maj. Gen. Warner, and Brig
Gen. Grey, try it ON whenever they
think the game will be worth the candle.