The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-25
JOHN JANOWITCH.
231 Janson street

GEN. BURNSIDE, the Senator reject
| from Rhode Island, made sensible and
notable speech before Post of the Grand
Army of the Republic yesterday in
| Providence. His voice is for peace and
| he sees no cause for alarm in the election
of ex-Confederate officers to Congress-
| Here is another illustration of the fact
| that the men on either side who fought
while the war was going on are disposed
TO cease fighting now that it is over.-N.
Y. Tribune.
The danger of keeping alive sectional
issues and fighting over the war after Its
termination, does not originate with the
real fighting men of the war. Gen.
Burnside, himself brave man, ''sees no
danger in the election of ex-Confeder-
late officers to Congress-" because he
knows the instincts of the true soldier
revolt at idle vaporing and buster.
And he is not unobservant of the course
of the tex Confederate" soldiers who have
been sent to Congress. For example, take
Gen. Gordon, of Georgia. Who has
done more than this Confederate of the
lion-heart to smooth away the passions
of the war? Contrast his speeches with
the violent ranto his colleague, Norwood,
whose anger never rose until after the
war Take Gen. Ransom, of North
Carolina, since his election to the Senate,
and find a single utterance which
would excite the aPprehensiOns of the
country that the issues settled by the
war are to be revived in the event of the
success of his party; or that would fur
nish capital to the enemies of his people.
On the contrary, we have now before us,
in the Congressional Record of the 18th,
his response to Senator Sargent, OF Cal
iforna, that in order to avoid misap-
prehension of their motives, Conserva-
tives of his State had aban Toned the
idea of changing their defective constr
tuition, but, said he
"Let me say to the Senator that should
Convention be called and a new Con-
" stitution adopted, the new Constitution
"will conform in all respects to the Con-
'stitution of the United States, and sacred
''ly and tenderly respect the thirteenth, four
( teenth and fifteenth amendments.
When a soldier like Ransom makes
this pledge, a soldier Ike Burnside will
respect it.
And so We might cite the course of
our own Representative, Col. Lamar,
and its magical effect in allaying section
al strife and preparing the public mind
of the North for the great political revo-
luton which has been wrought in that
section. And to the pledges of Maxey
Senator-elect from Texas, and of Cock
erill, of Missouri, all in the same
strain and tending to the common end
of pacifying the sections and securing
for the South due consideration in the
councils and legislation of the country.
Gen. Burnside is right. Naturally
the whites of the South, in recovering
their privilege of representation in the
government, will delight to honor the
men who have shared the tolls and trials
through which they have passed; but
not from that class will come the danger
of renewing sectional strife. 1t will
come, if at all, from the truly loyal"
disciples-the old hunkers who were
never so happy as in croaking and pre-
dieting disaster to the Confederacy du-
ring the war, and who, strange to say,
are croaking still