The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-28

From the Philadelphia Timesl
Now il is about time that this sort OF
thing was stopped The war has been
over for more than ten years, and we
believe the Nation is safe, at least IRON
the South. It's enemies are in its own
household, and the great danger now Is
their presence therein, and their lnsiol-
business. At all events, the people have
been fed on powder and whisky long |
enough The thieves are within, and not
without, and the watchdog which Is OFT
enest appealed to can be given a little
needed rest. The fact Is, the soldiers on
both sides are less concerned about the
matter than the civilians. Every day !
we have evidences that the men who
wore the blue and they who were clad In
the shabby gray, and who crossed swords |
with each other, have forgotten the causes
of the struggle in which they engaged, |
in a generous determination. Ii was
lust little more than year ago that the
noblest eulogy, pronounced over the re
mains of Charles Sumner on the floors OF
Congress, was spoken by Col. Lamar, a
representative Southern man and an orig
inal Secessionist, who had resigned his
seat in the same Hail, fourteen years be-
fore. to buckle on sword in behalf OF
what he believed were the rights Of his
people, and certainly against the cause
| of the Union. In that same speech he
expressed the hope that the names of the
| battle fields OF the civil conflict would
| forever remain on the flags and army
records of the Republic, and declared
| that the memory of the valor displayed
on both sides in those battles-by rebel
and loyalist alike-was a common herI-
/ tage of the North and South, and so long
| as it would survive. would be a common
bond of union-not the perpetuation OF
feeling of enmitv. And who doubts
that the chivalrous Lamar spoke for nine
tenths of the men who, buoyed up by
cause they believed high and holy, for
more than four years opposed the advance
of our conquering armies And so we
tell the Bonn bastes Furiosos of Congress
the great braves, who like Logan, carry
a thousand scalps in their belts, and the
warriors of the editorial closet, to cease
their efforts to renew the strife and to
force its ugly memories upon US. As
Senator Ransom said a few days ago,
speaking to the President of the Cham
| Der. but with the whole nation for his
audience, " Is this hostility between the
sections never TO cease ?" Is the temple
of Janus never to be closed Will not
a war which cost so much precious blood,
so much dear bought treasure, suffice for
this insatiate passion? Have we not had
suffering enough Is it not time for
peace and reconciliation We believe
so, as do the vast majority of the people
of the country 1t is not dagger these
affrighted Congressman and timid jour
nalists see before them-the handle to-
ward their hands-but dagger of the
mind false creation proceeding from
their heat-oppressed brains. The imam
on horseback" is in the White House, not
the Forty-fourth Congress.
Harper's Weekly, the big gun of Radi-
calism, explains all this cutlery against
the election of Confederate soldiers, by
saying that they would make good Con
gressmen if they were Republicans.
The Racine (Wis.,) Argus, North
ern Democratic paper, in commenting
on the clamor of the Administration |
papers over the election by the Southern
people of men to whom their confidence
and sympathy are naturally extended,
pertinently says:
&c What kind of free government is
it that will nor allow States the right to
be represented by its own citizens chosen
by them? 1t is the kind of free gov
eminent radicalism has inflicted on us.
Radicalism subsists only on fanaticism,
bigotry, excitement and blood. When
the people cannot be kept excited and in
fever heat, radicalism wanes. The ex
element of the past few years has passed
away and the people are doing some
honest, candid, sober thinking. That the
masses of the republican party honestly
desire peace ard fraternal feeling between
the North and South there is not the
least doubt, but the leaders of that party
will never consent to it, and there is no
hope for the country until after it is dead
and buried.