The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-06-14
The Radical Policy of Hate and
Prescription.


Proofs accumulate that if the Radical
party should succeed in the Presidential
election it will more than ever be sec
tional party, with policy of hate and
prescription towards the South. The
growth of the feeling in favor of Blaine,
Notwithstanding the questionable means
bv which he has acquired wealth since
his entrance into public life, is entirely
due to his revival Of the issues settled by
the war, and his vindictive assaults upon
the white people of the South since The
meeting of Congress. 1t was a game de
liberately played by him for improving
his Presidential prospects, and his calcu,
lation has not been at fault. But the
following resolution, which was passed
with hurrah by the Illinois Republican
convention, is more conclusive still Of
the plan and purpose of the Republican
party:
SECOND. That the policy of leniency by
the Republican party toward the people re
Gently IN GCDtlilDil dgdIIiot lSuCI al A1
having resulted in the death by violence O
at least 1000 Unionists, white and black
since the commencement of the present pol
lev Of reconstruction; also III placing IL
power in the lower House of Congress po
fitical party dominated by ex-confederates
and finally in RELOCATING back into the con
troll Of disloyal whites nearly every state re
conquered to federal authority by federal
arms ii is the duty of the executive branch
of the government to extend especial care
over Union men throughout all the South
40 that American citizenship shall be IL
name. at least, what it is not now in fact
as secure as it is in foreign lands and upon
foreign seas"
ssThe policy of leniency by the Repub
lican party towards the people lately IL
rebellion, is decidedly cool. 1t remind;
Ms Of the remark of a historian in ap
proval of the course of the tyrani
during the era of the Spanish In
QUESTION in beheadiDg, butchering and
burning people for practicing their relig.
ion. He said that nothing was left I'M
done by the magistrates which could serve
for the correction and good of the dear
people" The policy of ''leniency" con
sisted of the disfranchisement of large
numbers of these "people," while then
States were being rehabilitated for re
admission into the Union the establish,
ment of bayonet rule; the maintenance
of alien administrations, which have
plunged them into bankruptcy and i'm
povershment the appointment OF Star
Chamber inquisitions to manufacture
SANDERS against them for partisan use
the dispersion of legally organized State
legislatures by the military power; the
denouncing them as 4" bandittl tor
claiming to exercise in legal and con
stitutional way their guaranteed rights as
American citizens. This is " the policy
of leniency" which 4" the Republican
party" has enforced against "the people
lately in rebellion !" and predicating
its conclusion upon false and slanderous
imputations, the intention is to be in
ferred that if that party succeeds III pro
longing its rule. this policy of lenien-
CIV" is to be substituted for one which it
will consider severe and rigorous. In
other words, that the last condition OF
the South is to be made a thousand fold
worse than the first. IL the face of this
proclamation of prescription and Perse-
cution-of war upon the peace and pros
perity not only of the Southern States
but of the whole country-how narrow
sighted and insane is the wrangling Of
Democrats, and especially of Southern
Democrats, over the selection of can
didAtes and the n0E-essentials of the
canvass upon which they are about en-
tering. with its momentous consequences;
and how eloquent the appeal that they
subordinate minor considerations to the
chief end of saving the country from the
rule of proscriptionists and fanatics.