The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-12-01
MUSIC IN THE AIR
The Voice of the People and
the Press.
Ht Calls for Impeachment.
Vicksburg Herald.I

Vicksburg Herald.l
Our able neighbor of the capital, pre-
sents a strong case against the Governor
of Mississippi. We have all heard of
Ames' many violation of the law, and
| The CLARION, therefore, had ample ma
| teral to make Il case against him.
| While Ames was violating and setting at
naught the very plainest laws of the
State, doing things he ought not to have
done, and leaving things undone that he
| ought to have done, and disgracing the
| office he holds in attempts to further his
| am bilious projects, we warned him that
an honest Legislature could successfully
| impeach him for high crimes, and remove
him FROM office. The warning of the
press was not needed, and to-day his only
chance to escape is to fully satisfy the
Legislature that it will be safe for him
to remain even that is a bare chance.
We advise him, now, to resign at once.
Meridian Homestead
Justice to the outraged constitution
which Governor Ames swOre to support,
demand it; justice to the people who
have achieved the overthrow of the most
corrupt party that ever welded the scep-
tire of State, demands it; justice, which
demands that crime shall be pun
| ished especially crimes common in Offices
| demands it, and, above all, the whole
material and political prosperity of the
State. present and to come, demand it,
and we can not see how Legislature can
avoid it if the charges are made against
Gov. Ames by the whole Democratic and
Conservative press Of the State, and by
every speaker on the hastings, from Mr..
Lamar down to the humblest and most
unpretentious, during the late canvass.
If these charges are false, then it will be
the duty of the Legislature to so proclaim
to the world Justice to Gov. Ames justice
to truth demands it.
Holly Springs Reporter
To ask the Legislature to give to Ames
its confidence and support, after We have
been endeavoring throughout long can
vass to make the people believe he was
hardly better than thief, is asking a lit
! tie too much.
Brandon Republican,
If there WAS one sentiment more dis
tinctly announced, during the later cam
pqigfl, than any other, it was that the success
of the Democratic party meant change
and reform in the State government in all
its branches. Nothing sostimulated the
masses to labor in the cause AZ the belief
that these results would follow success.
The people of Mississippi had grown
heartily sick and Disguised with official
corruption in high, as we'll low places,
and by this unparrelled uprising they
J have pronounced the verdict that corrup-
ton and ignorance must be thrust aside
to make room for honesty and intelligence.
And now that success has at last
crowned their efforts they are entitled to
wise and just system of the laws, and
an efficient executive department to en-
/ force them.
That we have suffered long and fearful
ly, we presume, no one will doubt. And
who, We would ask, is more responsible
for this misrule and official corruption
than Adelbert Ames If, as we honestly
believe, he has been guilty of trying to
create antagonism between the races-Of
melting the Vicksburg insurrectiOn-of
having attempted to bride Judge Peyton
of manipulating the Legislature in the
interest of self and party-Of appointing
20 office with due knowledge of tho facts,
incompetent and dishonest men, let him
be inlpeached and remored from office.
Southern Sta,esl
If those charges are true he can not
hope to escape exposure. If he is
guilty the positive evidence can
be produced against him. The
sagacity of our Legislators will enable
them to enter upon this sacred duty
to a wronged and much oppressed people,
with that GOODNESS and charity which new
er deserts friends when they have been
unfortunate, nor insults enemies when !
they are weak. States as well as indiyid- |
uals are liable to INJURIES which can not !
be overlooked, it is therefore the duty as
we'll as the interests of those who assume |
the responsibility of the future govern
ment and we'll being of the common
wealth to discover, if possible, where the
natural law of the State has been violated,
and if the Chief Magistrate has not OBJ
served the protecting restraints let him
have the wholesome terror of the law
held up for his consideration so that 9th
ers who come after him may not be led
astray by his example.
Eastern August
The Legislature will not wait to see
what Gov. Ames will do in order to i'm
peach him for what he has done, but it
will certainly attend to this little matter
of impeachment as soon as i. meets.
Kinds Co. Gazette, &c. w. Harper.)
Every member of the Legislature know
the wishes of the people that elected him,
and every one will no doubt go to work,
without unnecessary words, and accede to
the public demands. Gov. Ames, nor
Lieut.. Gov. Davis, nor any other man,
can be allowed to stand in the way Of the
peoples wishes as expressed in thunder
tones on the I'd of November. They must
obey the public voice or get out of the
way.
West Point Advertiser
With a boosted Radical majority of !
80 900, he has had quartered on the peo-
Die of the State, in time of peace, de- |
,achments of Federal troops, so that he I
md his corrupt satellites could the more {
surely and securely plant their heels on |
he necks of helpless and PROSTATE I
people. BY the testimony of c.. w. l
Wells, T. S. District Attorney, he in 1
tigated the riot in Warren county, in {
which a number of deluded negroes lost ]
heir lives But why enumerate list Of a
he long catalogue of his crime? They t
re so deeply imbedded in the memories r
# the people, that they cannot be for f
-otten.
Why shonld not even-handed justice
e visited on his head, as we'll as the =
poorest and most abject vagabond in the
tate? If the object of the punishment
{ crime ha 10 deter its commission than II
eason, common sense and humanity q
,nuld soy It l. the more incnnn hnnt thnt