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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-23

latto girl is alleged to have been NAL
treated because she left her employer,
but in all our close observations in Mis-
sissippi since emancipation, we have never
heard of similar case to the one related
secondhand by Mr.. Nordhof. In search
ing for incidents, however, he might have
mentioned one which did occur not long
since not far distant from Nerona-the
clubbing Of one sister ON the wayslde by
a negro brute, and his worse treatment OF
the other. Or If he had travelled the
road between the Capitol Of the State
and New Orleans, a few hours ride would
have brought him to the scene OF another
horror in which a band of negroes inva-
ded the house of an estimable widow lady
in the hour of night, in large village.
and inflicted upon the family an unsPeak-
able calamity. He might have heard
innumerable incidents like these, and if
he had traced the effect to the cause, he
would have ascertained that the adven-
turers who have come into the State to
make their fortunes by organizing the
blacks as a race against the whites have
taught them that the latter have no rights
which the former are bound to respect,
and that freedom means license.
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The Right Men i'm the RISh lat
Places.

We pray that nobody will think O
seeking q nomination, or comforting it,
to crafty silly vanity or to pay per-
sonal compliment.
The Reform party in this life-and-death
struggle cannot afford to engage in this
sort of foolishness. Business is meant
now, and men should be selected with
reference to their qualification for the
places to be filled and their ability to
make a canvass and to champion the
interests cOnfded to their keeping.
There is no county so irretrievably lost
that it may not be rescued. There is no
congressional district, no matter how vii
lainously gerrymandered, which may not
be carried if men are nominated who will
inspire the people with the idea that they
are not intended as food for powder, but
as sure-enough candidates, who have con-
fidence in their own proves and a deter
mination to win the fight.
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THE POLLUTION OF THE IL
INV SYSTEM.
Mwrderern and Thieves Turned
Loose by Packed Juries.

The n. o. Picayune states that two
years ago a well known and popular plan
ter of the parish Of West Feliciana,
named Hale, was killed near Senator
Weber's house, in the town of Bayou
Sara, by party of negroes, under cir
cumstances of horrible brutality. Last
week the trial took place. During the
process of impanneling the jury, the ven
ire was exhausted and the Sheriff directed
to summon talesmen. This he did, and
brought in set composed exclusively OF
negroes. The jury when impanneled
consisted entirely Of negroes. The pris-
oners were fully identified and the proof
of their guilt was clear and positive. In
FIVE minutes after the case was submitted
to the Jury, they brought in a verdict Of
not guilty-though every white man and
every colored man in the county knew
positively in his own mind that Mr.. Hale
was brutally and horribly murdered by
the criminals, who were thus acquitted
by negro jury because the accused
were negroes and the murdered man wa
white man.
Lynch law, unless in extreme case
when justice is plainly cheated of he
dues, is to be condemned But this cas-,
would have been an exceptional one, anC
the people who are determined to protec
society against barbarian lawlessnesi
would have been perfectly justified il
raising in body and hanging, not only
the murderers themselves, but the jur,
who turned them loose on the community
licensed to repeat their crimes.
There must be sharp remedy for tn,
practice of packing the juries, as in tn
case of the trial of the Warren count,
embezzlers and thieves, and of the Yves
Feliciana murderers, for the purpose o
screening Williams from deserved punish
ment, or society will soon be at the merc7
of robbers and cut-throats If the lega
tribunals are powerless, the law-abidin!
people will be driven to the unpleasant o
necessity, Of testing the virtue of Judg,
Lynch's Court.
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On this page We have copied Mr..
Nordhof's cruel story the scene of
which he has located at Verona, Lee
county, instead of Shannon; and also
recital of the facts of the case as obtained
by special correspondent of the Vicks-
burg Herald 1t will be seen that the
original statement was highly exagger-
ated, as we were satisfied it had been,
when apprised that ii came through preju-
diced and partisan sources. The extreme
:" cruelty" described was not committed.
No mayor nor other peace officer wit
messed, without interference, what actu-
ally occurred and this falsehood is the
feature of the case from which Mr.. Nord-
hoff' has drawn his unfavorable impress
sions of the temper and spirit of the
whites.
When the case was brought up before
a magistrate it was dismissed at the in
stance of the prosecution. The accused
parties were put under bond by L. S.
commissioner; but Judge Hill, of the fede
raj Judiciary, whose impartialIty and per-
feet freedom from political or race bias
in the determination of questions before
him, dismissed the bail bond and the pri-
soners were discharged.
These proceedings are sufficient refu-
tatiQn Of the statements contained in the
letter of Mr. Nordhof. But having said
this much, candor compels us to say that
the compulsory proceedings of the ac-
cused towards the girl who had aban-
doned their employment, were unjustifi-
able. Their recourse ought to have been
to the law. The tenure on which her
service was claimed, viz, the apprentice
act of 1866, was part of the exploded
system of that year of ill-advised legisla-
ton. And, finally, the case as it stands
is an exceptional one, and Mr.. Nordhof
did himself injustice as a correspondent,
and greater injustice to our people, when
he cited it as evidence of practice exist
ing among them.
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Let us Have Fair Play.

1t is stated that in four counties at least,
blinds, Warren, Copiah and Lauder
dale, the law requiring that members
Of Boards of Registration shall not all be
composed of the same political party, has
been violated, and that in each of these
cases, the Registrars are all Republicans.
We know it to be the case in Kinds, but
have reason to believe that the error will
be corrected A similar revision should
be had in each of the above cases. Reg
istration is a condition precedent to the
election, and no election will be legal
which is not conducted according 70 law.
If the Republican officials who are charged
with the appointment of Registrars, do
not intend to connive at a fraudulent
election, they will not seek to evade its
positive requirements.
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The Third Term Issue.

The Washington Republican Grant
personal organ sayssthat his letter doe
not mean that he will not run for tn
Presidency another term. Thereupol
the Cincinnati Commercial Republican
says:
The attitude of President Grant, hi
Pennsylvania letter, and his explanations
through the Washington Republican
force the third term issue upon the coun
try. The Republicans of Ohio should
have been more particular in meeting it.
Other Republican organs have spoken
their minds freely, as follows:
The Rochester Chronicle:
The explanation has been made, and
it is not satisfactory The third term
issue will now be squarely made. There
will be Republicans for it, but the great
mass Of the party will be against it. The
hour for silence is passed. The hour for
action has come. Pennsylvania spoke
none too soon. Other states must speak
as soon as they have the opportunity.
The Indianapolis Journal (Morton's
organ:
Stripped of all verbiage, this remarka-
bic eleventh hour document can only be
construed as politicians bid for third
term. He would not accept nomina-
ton if it were rendered, unless it should
come under such circumstances as to
make it an imperative duty = circum-
stances that are not likely to arise" The
Journal only regrets that the Republicans
of Indiana are not on the eve of assemb-
ling in State Convention in order that
they, also, might set the seal of their
condemnation upon the third term pro-
ject.
The Philadelphia Times independent
says:
The whole country gives but one honest
Interpretation of Grants letter, and that
accepts him as a presidential candidate
for 1876, and determined to exhaust the
power of the administration to promote
his nomination and election. There may
be a few men stupid enough to think |
but, as rule, those who say
so sacrifice truth, to open soma way of |
escape for the party from the milestone |
of Grants insane ambition
And yet Grant can't make the trip.
His carpet-bag Hessians will desert him,
and the colored troops, for once, will not
fight nobly. He will go by the board.
Wendell Phillips, the bowling fanatic,
Gen. Grants letter to mean
hat he viii accept third term nomina-
ion. Wendell is in favor of giving it to
him, and says, moreover, that Sc if Grant
does not give us the use of his name,
in my opinion, the Democrats will elect
their President. Therefore, according
o Wendell, unless the Republicans of
ohio, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire,
nd the other Northern States, who are
against third term, do not |
hange front on that question, the Repub- I
cans will be defeated. We think they t
i'll be anyway the race is made. q
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-23
A Significant Admission.

Col John Forsyth, OF the Mobile Reg
lister, in the course of recent converse
ton with correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune, was candid enough to admit
that he and other extreme politicians,
who were Of his following, committed a
grievous error in holding aloof from the
negro and repelling his confidence and
friendship during the process of recon
struction. 1t will never be forgotten
how bitterly THE CLARION was assailed
for urging the whites not TO follow the
lead of the hunkers whom johnson had
put into Office because of their supposed
antipathy to the Southern cause, and
who advised them to make war upon the
Congressional plan of reconstruction.
Naturally the carpet bag adventures
seized the opportunity, which the South
ern people rejected, and manufactured
such local governments as would best ad-
vance their selfish aims.
The Tribune correspondent says:
Col. John Forsyth, of the Mobile Reg
lister, said to me, few days since 1.-The
white line was the only policy left to us.
By it we regained an honest administra-
ton; and / think it will be adhered to
until after the presidential election.
When the black line is broken, there will
probably be new parties formed, and
blacks and whites will be divided between
them" He added: g Oar people made
one mistake; Il ioaS a reiy natural one etIl-
der the circumstances, but it aeas mistake. |
They held aloof tehiie reconstruction aoas i'a
progress, and ignored the NEGRO. When I
they addressed themselves TO affairs, they
found the negro controlled by lot of
who had educated him up
to distrust and dread of us in all mat
ters political, and who, and by negro
votes, were set up to .misrule US. The
negroes always trusted us in all else, came
to us for advice and assistance when in
trouble, and gave us their money to keep
for them. But they were taught such
terror of us that under no circumstances
would they vote with u.s.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-23
The Decision An tho ShertM@AHy
Case.

Republican organs differ as to the
meaning and effect of the recent decision
of the Supreme Court on the sheriHai'S
question. The Pilot contends that it does
not touch the constitutionality of the act OF
the Legislature creating the office OF tax
collector and separating it from thar OF
sheriff. On the other hand, the Grenada
Republican puts this construction on the
decision:
We think that every one in the stale
elected to the Office of sheriff in Novem-
her should tender a vote of thanks to
Grenada county for calling forth the pre-
sent decision, and send in his name as
life subscriber to the Grenada Republican.
This decision, it seems, has Prdetlc0tty &c
cided the laar unconstitutional that was
passed by the last Legislature, giving the
Governor the power TO appoint the tax
collectors.
That the Republican is right, and the
Pilot wrong, is clear from the following
extracts from the decision of the Court,
pronounced BY Justice Simrall
V. The Sheriff Is the only omcer Whe
can legally collect the taxes; as under
the Constitution, he is invested with tins
power. The duties and functions OF the
office cannot be divided, and part trans
ferred to another official Kink vs.. Hun.
ter, 90 n. B., 500 2 DEMO, 272; q
Wis, 412; Bacon Abridg., 6 vol J., 30
VI. Although the provision IN the
| Code of 1857 1mt. ), sec. IL, chap. 81,
making the Sheriff tax-collector, Is omit
ted in the Code Of 1871, and hence re-
pealed, vet the Sheriff, by virtue OF his
office, created by the Constitution, IL
charged with the duty of collecting taxes.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-23

An interesting news letter from the
North Western corner of the States, will
be found in this number. 1t will be seen
that, catching the spirit of agricultural
reform, the planters of that region have
diminished their cotton crop, and proper
tionately increased the area in grain,
grasses and other productions for human
and animal subsistence. This is worse
economy, and the true road to financial
independence and pr 1sperity.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-23

THE CLARION FOR ONE DOL
LAR.

The WEEKLY CLARION will be sent
to any address from this date until the
first day of January. 1876, for the small
sum of One Dollar. We respectfully
ask all our present subscribers to aid in
circulating this announcement, and to
consider themselves as our agents and
friends in extending the circulation of
THE CLARION during the merit te,c months.
Who will be the first to send US a list of
names, and the material aid We will
send one copy free to the getter up of
a club of ten or more.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-23

We have published on our first page,
from the N. Y. Herald, report of the
hanging of negro fiend in Maryland,
for the worst of crimes, by sentence of
Judge Lynch's court. Now, lest some
of the Radical humanitarians should be-
come offended at this proceeding and
find ia 1t ain evidence Of lawlessness on
the part of the white citizens in the South
we will mention that about the same
date in the town of Concordia, Jefferson
county, New York, a man was hanged
by mob for stealing.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-23

REFERRING to the recent opinion OF
the Supreme Court on the question OF the
Sheriffalty of Grenada county, Judge
Watson, in the Independent South, says !;
This opinion settles the question of the
unconstitutionality of the act passed last
winter, giving to the Governor the APP
pointment of tax-collectors. Honest men
will rejoice that so corrupt and partizan
a measure has met its death at the hands
OF an independent and able court.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-23

A Boston dispatch says: "Gen. Fitz-
hugh Lee yesterday in conversational be.
half Of himself and all the prominent
gentlemen who came to Boston with the
Southern military companies, expressed
the utmost satisfaction and pleasure in
view of the reception given them by the
people of Massachusetts, and said he be-
lieved this celebration and attendant cir
cumstances would do more than almost
any other event to bring about the old
fraternal feeling between the North and
South"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-23
Crops In Newton.

An esteemed correspondent writes as
follows:
Our crop prospects are quite cheerful.
The oat and wheat crop was very success
full in this county. doubt very much
if the people ever made better oat crop
since we have been a State-an increase
of acreage is in corn, and if in time
seasons will make an abundance. A
good deal of rice and sugar-cane is COM
ing on. We made a good crop of sugar
cane last year, and the crop is increased
this rice looks very prosperous.
L. f. p.
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Grants Third Term FugIemeu

New York HERALD
Such recent federal appointments in
the south as that of Wells, ex-president
Of the fraudulent Louisiana returning
board; Pease in Mississippi, Brooks in
Arkansas, and others we could name.
point directly to the presidents intention
to be reelected, if, as he remarks, the
necessities of the country should demand
it. These men have no possible political
future in the states where they live ex-
cept as Grant men. No other republican
president would keep them in office a
moment longer than the time needed to
make out the commissions of their sue
cessors. Under a democratic admins
tration they would, of course, sink out of
sight as quickly They are third termers,
therefore, in self-defence they could not
afford to abandon Gen. Grant. When a
man notorious for his skill in selecting
the agents who are to do his will picks
such men for Office it means that he is in
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-23
A serious Charge.

The Plaindealer charges that the last
congressional nomination in this district
was " a matter of dollars and cents, and
that the successful candidate was out
/" of pocket several thousand dollars"
The same paper advocates the nominal
ton of James Hill. We are inclined to
think that Mckee viii lead the claybank
horse several lengths in the race.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-23

coaches, then it will n.
Mr.. Pullman to proyi5. ,la
separate accommodate
present, the matter ra,.i B
satisfaction Of the lr,5-l.
EATING srAua,
Recent changes In .,s..
upward-bound train b.
Siding for breakfast. MI
for breakfast 40 Grens1-
at Caution. Ny oh f...,s
is master Of cerem8u,..
and Messrs Turk u y
splendid meal at Cagt.-
l had the pleasure
meeting Col. Frost M.
ger Of the New Oa..,.
Chicago Railway. No..
hands full He travel.
one end Of his line ID ts.
orders to depot agents NV.
other employees A .sc...
nies him By the WIZ
tioning 70 Col. Frost ,ss
Editorial rvr-r
proposed by the Conserys
citation at Kosciusko. y.
dered a train from MeCons
cage. If other railroad
that point are equally
the excursion will d1a5as..
OF this, more anon.
Yours.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-23

The following is the purport of Vice
President Wilson's statement of affairs in
the South. He said ''That in his
travels in the South he talked with all
classes and conditions of men, including
northern gentlemen who had been trav.
cling or were living in the South, and
that the testimony of all was to the effect
that affairs were improving, and every-
thing were better aspect than it has
done since the war. Good feeling seemed
to be on the increase. The spirit of in
dustry is stronger than perhaps il has
been at any period since or even before
the war"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-23
Come 10 Grief

Sharp, short and decisive has been the
proceedings in the case of Marker, the
defaulter, whose exploits and arrest We
have chronicled. The last Oxford Rico,
Chef says
FL. c. Marker the defaulting postmas-
ter at Winona, submitted his case to the
court on last Saturday, and was sentenced
to hard labor in the Albany penitentiary,
N. Y, for three years.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-23
Homicide I'm Arkunsns

LITTLE Rock, June 4.-D. p. ClOyd,
one Of the editors of the Dardanelle In
dependent, shot and killed Hon. r. w.
Wishard, a prominent lawyer and ex-
member of the legislature, at that place
last evening. The afray was the result
of some publication in the Independent
rejecting on Wishard.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-23

Hon. SAMUEL MATTHEWS died re-
Gently at his residence in Pamela county,
aged seyenty-one years. He was the
last of three brothers, Joseph w, James
E., and Samuel, who were prominent
actors on the political arena in this State
twenty-five and thirty years ago.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-23

THE 'sTidal Wave" is the title OF a
new Democratic paper, which will be
published by the Executive Committee
of Tate county, at Senatobia, on Friday,
July I'd, 1872, and weekly thereafter.
1t will be conducted by |. d. Ogles by,
ESQ, an experienced and competent
journalist. Long may it " Wave"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-23

Los Angeles lCal.l STAR

Los Angeles (Cal.) Start
A new baggageman Oh one of our local
trains was told to pile up the trunks in
the baggage-car, and be sure to hang the
checks on the outside. The liberal mind
ed youth piled up the trunks and then
took off the checks, with the leather straps
attached, and hung them Oh the outside
of the car. The baggagemaster at the
depot was driven nearly frantic by the
passengers per the Orizaba attempting to
identify their boxes.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-23

THE Kosciusko Star announces the
death of the Rev. Berry Nall, of Holmes
county-aged seventy-two years. He
had been citizen Of the county for half
a century.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-23

Mr.. B. b. PEARSON, competent
Journalist, is now associated with Col.
Mayers on that excellent paper, the
Handsboro Democrat.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-23

SEVERAL young American ladies are
at present In Paris studying the art of
displaying their ankles, without appear
ing TODD it Intentionally.
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tes OF subscription.
COMMITTEES OF THE DEMOCRATIC
CONSERVATIVE STATE ORGAN
IZATION.

TEMPORARY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
J.M Stone, of Alcorli, Chairman; Geo
L. Potter, W. F. Tucker, r. H Taylor, l.
B. Graham, w. H. McCardle and W. ;.
Teatherstone.