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

The following Mississippi Republicans
are in the city for the supposed CD pur-
pose of recOnciling the Ames and oppo-
sition party factions in that State ::
United States Senator Bruce, of Bolivar
county; Secretary of State, James Hill,
of Marshall county; Dewitt Stearns,
Postmaster at Holly Springs, and DR..
w. NJ. Compton, Superintendent Of the
Insane Asylum, located near Jackson.
1t is rumored that the Mississippi Con-
sentative Republicans are endeavoring
to form a coalescence with the disaffected
Democrats, and thereby form respecta-
BILE Republican party. 1t is also rumored
that the governorship and United States
Senatorship are involved, and that AL
corn will again take part However,
these rumors are (may y untrue
Memphis Appeal.
This is all cloves labor lost" There
are no "disafected Democrats" in this
State to whom the forlorn wreckers of
the Radical party can tie to; and, even
if there was, it would not buoy up the
"disaffected" element, but sink both to-
gether deeper than plummet ever sound
ed. 1t is the fixed resolve of the par
ty which won the late victory to cling
together thatFthe people may reap the
benefits of the victory which they have
won in the cause of reform and as a
means to this end, the time-honored
usages of the party will be firmly main
tanned and all the. matters involving con-
tests between aspirants for public favor,
and differences in reference to political
questions, will be settled in Caucus and
carried through. Let it be
once for. all, that the people
have placed their cause in the hands of
patriotic men who will lift it high above
he Vaccinations of discOnsollte Radical
politicians and placemen.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-12-01
Washington County

Our contemporary, the Greenville
Times, enters protest against our award
to GazoO as the banner county. 1t claims
the distinction for Washington, on the
ground set forth III the subjoined ex-
tract. Where both conte stants deserve
so much honor, it is not for US to decide
between them:
When The CLARION " remembers, .
that the colored majority in Washington
county is 1 800, that sid county is the
centre of the blacklist belt in America.
that no county adjoining it aud nolOcality
within one hundred miles Of it pretended
to make square fight against Radicalism
that we had for opponents n ticket led by
the shreWdeSt and most utterly unScru-
pulous OF cArpet-baggers (whiie in GazoO
there was NO opposition whttcver) that
our success is as pronounced as it was in
ANY county, we electing every beat
officer even, when THE CLARION remem-
bers all this, with its usual fairness, it will
not be so emphatic in awarding the laurel
to our neighbOring county.
Besides raising every dollar that was
used in our own CANVASS, we sent a large
donation, (perhaps larger than that of
any other county, to the State fund.
Without decrying the performances or
merits of other communities, we claim,
in view of all the adverse surroundings
peculiar to Washington county, that she
is entitled to, though another is awarded,
the laurel.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-12-01

Professor Jerome Riley, of Alabama,
is in Washington in the interests of the
sor Riley is graduate of Howard Uni
versity, and after serious study of the
spirit of the two parties, has decided that
the Democrats are the true friends in the
South of the colored man. He has been
threatened with personal violence, but
appears to get along very we'll without
fear of any vigorous demonstrations that
way.-Washington Capital.
There will be rapid increase of col
ored Democrats in the South, when it
is demonstrated to their race that the
Democratic party will carry out, in good
faith, its pledges of equal rights and pro-
lection to all.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-12-01
LEAKE COUNTY.


LEAKE Co., MISS. Nov. %, 1875.
EDS. CLARION The political storm
has passed and the calm succeeded. Our
people are jubilant over their victory and
rejoice for the future All wait the as
semblage of the Legislature to see if
those who go to the Capital will perform
their duties faithfully, and fulfill the
promises made the people, of retrench-
ment and reform. They want the first
legislation to be a reduction of salaries,
sessions of the Legislature not to be con-
tinued longer than is absolutely necessa-
nv, and the constitution to be amended
so that we will have biennial sessions.
The election passed off peaceably; no
disturbance whatever, and here in Leake
We conquered by the votes of the whites
alone, for very few colored voters went
with u.s.
A few days before the election a circu-
lar was issued from some source and dis
tributed among them, in which they were
conjured as they loved freedom and
wished to transmit it to their children,
they must vote for Niles as the only hope
of its preservation; that Singleton stood
pledged to vote for, and favored the pas
sage of law by which all blacks between
the ages of twenty-one and twenty-eight
were to be bound out or apprenticed till
twenty-elght, and all young ones bound
till twenty-one, thus making their free
dom nominal This circular had the
desired effect, that of bringing them out to
the election and voting for the Radical
nominees. | have conversed with color
ed people since the election, and they say
if they could be fully assured that they
would not be forced back into bondage,
and be dealt justly with, their conduct
will be different in the future. Now let
those in power legislate SO as to convince
them that their fears have been ground
less and when the next election comes on
we will bury carpet-bagism forever in
Mississippi.
ours, etc,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-12-01

We have said that the office of Commits
sioner of Immigration, as at present or
ganized, is an obstacle to immigration.
The incumbent, Griggs, was elected in
1878, to serve for term of four years.
The law creating the Office provided that
SIC, 900, and no more, might be expended
per annum in the execution of the pre-
tended purposes of the Office. The sums
that have been expended under this act,
have been worse than thrown away
The Migrants who have been quartered
on the treasury, as immigration agents,
have discouraged, instead of encouraged,
immigrants from the North and Europe.
Persons contemplating immigration from
those regions on beholding these sable
peripatetics, would naturally exclaim
eff this is your representative class, we
would prefer some other country"
If it be true that the office is constitu-
tional and cannot be abolished by statute
and there is no other legal method of
abating the nuisance, the salary ought to
be reduced to nominal figure. If under
Radical Encouragement the State cannot
have an immigration Commissioner who
will be of service to her, her Democratic
Legislature can at least cut off the allow
ances
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-12-01
POSTSCRIPT.

Since the above was put in type We
have had reason to believe that the pri
mary object of the meeting was to devise
ways and means to get rid of a disagree.
able and troublesome witness to certain
transactions by which Bruce, the mulatto
ex-Sherif of Bolivar county, was elected
to the United States Senate There is
a certain person who is said to be fully
into the secret of the matter, apho
,OGs also in Memphis at the time, though
his name is not mentioned an the ADORE list
1t will be seen whether this man absents
himself from the State during the APP
preaching session of the Legislature, and
if so, the fact will go very far towards
showing that the negotiations were sue
cessful. More anon.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-12-01
John Mcdonald the Head Of the
WhisI<ey Revenue Robbers.

N Y. Trlbunel
Mcdonald, steamboat runner at st.
Louis prior to the war, became closely
connected with Gen. Grant while the
latter was commanding armies in the
cotton region, and has been an intimate
! friend ever since. He made some money
in cotton operations, and after the war
was on familiar terms with men who
were accused of whisky frauds in the
time Of President johnson. AS soon as
Grant had been inaugurated, Mcdonald
applied for the position of Supervisor of
| Internal Revenue, and, notwithstanding
the united and earnest opposition of Sen
ators Schurz and Drake, all the represen-
tatives from Missouri, and many Of the
most influential Republicans and business
men in st. Louis, he was appointed. He
had no part in politics, is a man ofgenial
manners, and had made neither political
nor personal enemies, and the opposition
to his appointment arose wholly from
feeling that he was not a proper man for
position so peculiarly responsible, in which
the temptations are so constant and go
strong But the President appointed
him, and has since sustained him with
singular tenacity and, apparently, with
absolute confidence. Charges Of fraud in
that district were made, sometimes
through official channels, and often in
published statements. The Tammany
frauds in this city were not more notori-
Gus, nor more generally believed to exist
prior to their formal exposure, than were
the whisky frauds in St. Louis for years.
Yet the President not only treated all accu-
satiOns with contempt, gave Mcdonald
audience at Washington while high digni-
taries waited, rode with him on Pennsyl-
vania ave-, and appeared with him on the
most public occasions in st. Louis, but
allowed him to exercise very unusual
influence, as was shown when the order
of Secretary Bristow, transferring super
visors to other districts, was promptly
revoked by the President upon Mellon
AIDS personal application. Even after
the full exposure Of the frauds last Spring,
the President evidently believed Melon
aid innocent, for he allowed him to resign,
and continued to receive him on terms of
personal friendship until after his indict-
ment.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-12-01
Suggestions Ia the CoIored Race

The following extract, from the letter
of Rev. DIR. Palmer, the well known
Presbyterian minister, to the meeting re-
Gently held in New Orleans, to take ac-
ton in regard to the proposed introduction
of colored teachers into the schools of the
city, contains food for beneficial reflection
by the colored leaders of their races 1t is
in regard to their education and develop
ment:
''Let all necessary facilities of educa-
ton be afforded to the colored people
among us, in their own schools and under
their own teachers, and let every opportuni-
ty be allowed for their advancement in
knowledge, in morals, and in religion. But
the first great lesson for them to learn is
that they can become historic race only
by the same method with every other
race which has achieved history at all,
viz, by process of development from
within themselves. If they are incapable
of this, no amount of external patronage
can exalt them to historic rank, and no
man is true friend to that people who
Obscures from their view this primary
truth. The ivy may creep upon the wall,
but it is onl y parasite. The oak of the
forest grows from its own root and Bullets
the storm"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-12-01

The Republican State Executive Com
mittee was in session in this State vester-
day. From what we could learn. the
wreckers have no idea of surrenderipp
at discretion in this State. They intend
to make vigorous struggle next year to
regain their lost power. They count largely
on the use of Z. S. troops, to be obtained
through the agency of Gov. Ames, and
think that the Washington authorities
will incline their ear to an application of
that kind for carrying the Presidential
election, much more readily than for
saving from deserved defeat wretched
carpet-bag State Administration whose
follies and crimes have brought discredit
on the Republican party. 1t is evident
that the great fight for the permanent
overthrow of Radicalism in Mississippi is
TO be made next year, and the fact adj
monishes its opposers that they must
fCrtify every stronghold they have gained
improve all the advantages derived
from the November victory-make no
mistakes, and stand united as one man,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-12-01
The Necessity of N Change i'm the
Legislative APPOraiOmmem

It is an error that change in the
Constitution is necessary to reappor-
tionment of members of the Legislature.
The Constitution Cart. 4, Sec. 33), de-
clares that the Legislature shall pro-
vide SO for the enumeration OF the
% whole number of inhabitants and OF
/" the qualified electors of the State once
IS in every ten years, and the first emu
g meration shall be ordered at the first
g meeting of the Legislature under this
g Constitution" Section "a prescribes
that g the number of Representatives
shall at the several periods of making
such enumeration be apportioned
e'among the several counties, or districts,
" according to the number of qualified
electors in each, and shall not be less
than one hundred nor more than one
g hundred and twenty" Section 30 de-
clares that the number of Senators,
g shall at the several periods Of making
such enumeration be apportioned ac-
SO cording to the number of qualified
" electors in the several districts" etc.
Art 8, Sec. l and 2, provides for a
temporary apportionment until the emu
meration and apportionment provided for
in Art. 4, Sec. 33, could be made.
The Legislature at its first session
made an apportionment as above required,
and it now stands as the law of the State,
subject to amendment or alteration within
the limits prescribed by the Constitution
precisely as any other statute. The limi-
tatlon in the matter of Representatives is
that in appOrtioning them '' there shall
''not be less than one hundred nor
more than one hundred and twenty"
and as to Senators, that they shall
Z" not be less than one-fourth nor more
than one-third of the whole number of
60 Representatives. Within these re-
strictions the Legislature has ample pow
er under the Constitution to change the
law apportioning Representatives and
Senators. If it see proper it can reduce
the whole number, or reapportion them
to the several counties and districts, more
in accord with justice and the fundamen-
tai principles of democratic government
than the present shameless gerrymander
and swindle. The existing apportion-
tionment was designed to defraud the
counties having white majorities CT their
legitimate voice in the law-making de-
partment of the State government.
The old rule of allowing to each county
at least one Representative in the Legis-
Iatnre ought to be restored, and we have
do doubt but the Democratic Represen-
ta:ives from the counties in which the
colored element prelominateS and which
in the present appor;ionment were ag-
grandized at the expense of the white
counties by the Radical schemers for
partizan purposes, will readily cooperate
with the latter in reyiving ana enforcing
this great and equitable rule. The pres
ent legislative apportiOnment is monu-
ment of the fraud, corruption and dis
honesty of the carpet-bag regime, and
we trust the Legislature will proceed to
abolish, or reform it at the earliest prac-
tical moment.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-12-01

THE following circular letter explains
itself. While we congratulate our friend
Myers on his election to the re-
sponsible Office of Sheriff of his county,
we regret that he will have to withdraw
from the press fraternity:
OFFICE OF THE HOLLY SPRINGS SOUTH
HOLLY SPRINGS Nov. 10, 1875.
DEAR SIR:-In consequence of my
election to the office of Sheriff of Mar
shall county, 1 am forced to dispose of
my interest in the Holly Springs South.
1t is needless for me to say anything in
regard to the circulation or standing of
the South, as believe it will compare
favorably with that of any of our State
exchanges.
will sell upon easy terms, and will be
greatly obliged if you will call the atten-
ton of all newspaper men to my propos-
ton. Respectfully,
HENRY G. MYERS.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-12-01
State Printer.

We are indebted to several esteemed
contemporaries for the men.ion of THE
CLARION for the State printing. We are
the more grateful, because the compli-
ments have not been extorted by person
al solicitation. Nevertheless we would
suggest that the people can't afford
two excltements at the same time.
The Senatorial election is quite enough
for the present. When the Legislature
meets the Democrats and Conservatives
can very readily dispose of the Printer
election in accordance with party usage
and he is poor patriot who will not abide
the verdict. The CLARION certainly
will
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-12-01
An OutsIder.' VIe. orthe Subtec,.

From the st. Louis Republican DemOcrat)
The jackson, CLARION, leading Con.
sentative organ in Mississippi, makes the
following eminently sensible remarks:
"Colored men Of Mississippi only want
to see and know that the Democratic-C Con-
sentative party intend to make no assail-
ment of their rights under the constitu-
ton and laws of the United States.
When they learn this. as they assuredly
will, they will naturally and properly in
corporate themselves into our party
The Mississippi Conservatives have
now an opportunity which ought to be
improved to the uttermost. The bulk Of
political power is in their own hands, and
they have only to convince the colored
element that this power is to be rightly
used, in order to secure a heavy rein
forcement from the other party. The
negroes are undoubtedly very foolish in
many respects, but they are not wholly
devoid of reason and common-sense.
They know when they are well treated.
and if the Conservatives protect them in
the enjoyment of all their constitutional
rights, the influence of the carpet.baa
faction will be destroyed forever.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-12-01
1.-The Ring of the True Metal

New Orleans Bulletin.l
The jackson CLARION in commenting
on the election in its State, says:
x 4, X x I.
This has the ring of the true metal
about it, and the gentlemen who have
been chosen to represent the people of
Mississippi will not fulfill the promises
made for them unless they act in accord
ance with advice so wisely given by THE
CLARION. 1t is a very small matter to a
people as to who they are plundered by
aliens or native-born citizens.
What is needed is reform-not the
wordy and unmeaning utterances of pol
iticians at ward meeting or in the Leg
islature, but positive, practical reform,
such as Tilden has inaugurated in New
York, and Chamberlain in South Caro-
lima. ''Deeds not words must be the
motto of Mississippi and Louisiana.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-12-01
The Press On mt.

Elsewhere we have published num-
Der of extracts from the press on the i'm.
parchment question. We regret that q
strong article in the Aberdeen Examiner
has been mislaid Others from other
journals may have escaped our observa.
ton We do not claim infallibility for
the press. We do not claim that it always
reflects public sentiment. Its conductors
are of like passions with other men, and
often reflect their individual opinions,
and not the public will. But we main
tain that in this instance the press is fol-
lowing, not manufacturing nor leading,
public opinion.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-12-01
n. o., st. L. ~ G.. h. HI. Go.
McComb City Intelligencer.l

McComb City Intelligencer.l
And now comes another stupid report
in the Chicago Times, that the n. O.,
St. l.. & G.. Railroad with all its fran
chises is to pass into the possession of the
Illinois Central. The groundlessness OF
such idle rumors is shown by the state
ment recently copied in this paper. 1t
is strange that the sensation mOngers who
circulate these stories are so much better
informed than Col McComb, the Presi-
dent of the Company, and Mr.. S. II.
Edgar, the first Vice-President, who
gives to the management of the Road, in
all its departments, his whole time and
attention. He is lynx-eyed as well as
argus-eyed, so far as the affairs of the
vast establishment over which he presides
are concerned, and it is scarcely probable
that these idle retailers of gossip can be
better informed than himself in regard to
its business.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-12-01

THE Holly Springs Reporter contra
diets the statement that Gen. Featherston
approved the resolution which passed a
meeting in that city, which has been con-
strued into an expression of confidence in
Gov. Ames. 1t states that he neither
advocated nor endorsed, but opposed it.
Our own impression is that the resolution
has been given wider significance than
its advocates themselves intended, and
that while they stand ready to cooperate
with him in measures of reform so long
as he occupies the Executive office, they
have not intended to commit themselves
against holding him to accountability for
his violations of the constitution.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-12-01

John Jones is coIored republi-
can of Chicago, and was a candidate on
the republican ticket at the late election.
But he was hot elected. The republicans
scratched Jones and he is one of the de-
feated. Jones is said to be an intelligent
man and as well fitted for the Office as
many who were elected on the republican
ticket, but he was repudiated by those
who professed to be his friends. Republi-
can professions of friendship for colored
men nowadays don't amount to much. :
Quincy Herald.
The colored people have had good
deal of such treatment at the hands of
the white Republican leaders in the
South but the foregoing shows that the
latter were only playing the game which
is prevalent elsewhere.