The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-12-15
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l This Is the caption which we have
chosen for the annexed extract of letter
addressed to Col. shannon, Of the Meri-
dian Homestead, because Wesafs sure We
cannot be mistaken in attributing its
authorship to that sagacious and patriotic
statesman, A. G. Brown, who without
regard to consequences personal to him.
self, invariably grasps the situation and
takes his position on all questions firmly
while others stands shivering on the brink
of a great action hesitating what course to
take. go
Gov. Brown assuming him to be the
writer says truly that if Gov sAmes is
not TO be put on trial and convicted for his
stupendons crimes against the Coustitn-
ton and his conspiracies against the peace
and dignity OF the commonwealth, he
has been foulIy slandered by the Demo
cratic and Conservative orators and
newspapers. and grossly misunderstood
by the people. But no SANDERS have
been uttered. Nothing has been set
down in malice. Simple, unadorned
truths, open as day to every man, wo-
man and child in the State, have been
uttered and there is but one course to
pursue. The people demand it, and if
we do not misunderstood the intentions
of their representatives, their wishes will
be faithfully carried out.
Meridian homestead
We cannot refrain from publishing the
following extract from a private letter
written by an old citizen of the State, who
has not for years taken an active part In
| politics, but for whose good sense, sound
Judgment and patriotism we have the
most profound respect. After expressing
his qualification. at our protest against
the Holly Springs resolution he says. In
reference to Ames:
Have they forgotten that when Ames
was first inaugurated he promised US q
fair and Just administration, and that
our people rendered him a generous sup
port and have they also forgotten how
he afterwards spurned and almost spat
upon us. How, with his tyrant heel
upon our necks, he called, within the
last three months, for Federal bayonets
to keep us subject to his will Have
they so soon forgotten his Calling guns
and armed militia, and his thousand
other outrages against the peace and Dig
| nifty of the State, that they are in such
! hot haste to call on long suffering people
| to forget the past, and on their Rep
resentatives to support this false-hearted
and malignant tyrant? Does has treachery
IN the past giUe any other acdrniaq than that
he Is not to be trusted u. the future?
If the design had been to give plausi-
bility to the charge that we carried the
late elections by falsehaod and other foul
means, no more cunningly devised scheme
could have been hit upon than this same
Holly Springs resolution. 1t is a virtual
admission that we carried the election by
fraud, and now We must coneiliate this
mighty man of Gath lest he. in his anger,
should upset the whole thing. A month
ago We were charging thought PROV
ihg=7h If the crimes in the decalogue
against Ames, and now before the tele-
graph has ceased, flashing the news of our
triumph over the wires We are. asked to
'sforget" his offences and support him.
1 am not malignant man. but with my
ideas of Ames, and have not charged
him as others have done, nothing qciu be
ji1st toaOards hins and safe for the people bat
has total expulsion from the State. He will
only need an opportunity to be as devlish
as he ever was.
When I read this Holly Springs reso-
luton felt like saying to Lamar, Banks
dale, Featherston, Watson, Hooker,
Lowry and the rest: stand up, gentlemen,
and answer, shave you been lying on
Ames? If you have go at once and
apologize, and on Bonded knees ask his
pardon. Then clothe yourselves in sack
cloth and ashes and repent before high
Heaven for such monstrous crimes against
innocence and virtue. But if you have
not, if only half that you have said is
true, then rebuke this resolution. Say
to an indignant and outraged people. we
knew whereof we spoke, and we affirm
now that victory is ours, that this con-
victed culprit is worthy of nothing atyour
hands but the seYerest punishment.
B.