The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-25
CONGRATULATORY,
Patriotic Address by the Demo
cratic National Committee.
The Election an Indication that
the Great Cause Of Reform
will Triumph.

40 utS 1eopte oJ Hte CHtteu CtdzeS-
w-CITIzENs-We congratulate
you as patriots and partakers with us in
the common destiny Of American freemen
upon the results of the October State
elections. We rejoice in the victory
which the peoples ballot have bestowed
upon the friends of reform in the Valley
of the Ohio, where the Republican hosts
have had overwhelming ascendeney in
every Presidential election since 1856.
We rejoice in the assurances these
elections convey that your ballots will
bestOw decisive majorities to the allied
forces of Democracy and reform in the
November elections throughout the
Union; but we rejoice not ss partisans
We rejoice with you as follow citizens,
and when the decision of this week of
1000, 900 voters along the Valley of the
Ohio shall be
RATIFIED NEXT MONTH
by the fat of 100000 voters through
out the whole Republic, shall still re-
ioice, chiefly for the reason that not one
of its citizens can miss an equal share
with US, who are Democrats, in the po
litical peace and good will which will
then and there be established among all
sections, races, classes and conditions of
men, and in the prosperity of which po
litical peace, based on equal rights and
fraternal good will, is the first condition.
Upon the three States of West Virginia,
Ohio and Indiana were concentrated all
the influence of the Administration, all
their efforts, and all
THE VAST SUMS OF MONEY
forced from 100000 office-holders of
the party in power. These were fearful
odds not again to be contended against
60 concentrated, for in the November
election the contest will be in every one
of the SO States upon the same day.
Nevertheless, against those odds the
Democrats and reformers of West Vir-
ginia and Indiana have been victorious,
and in Ohio they have all but rescued a
State hitherto deemed hopeless, and have
created an assurance of victory in No
vember If it falls to our lot, as the
National Democratic Committee, to con-
gratulate the people of the Union upon
this victory in the first battle of the re-
form campaign, it is only because the
Democrats have been honored to be the
leaders of the people in the work of
NATIONAL REGENERATION.
The victory won and the victory still
to be won, will be deliverance as much
to the Republicans as the Democrats.
The patriotic masses of the Republican
party may be thankful that the misdeeds
of their unworthy leaders have been re-
bqked and arrested. The suffering whites
of the South may lift their heads to greet
the dawn OF better day for them as well
as the Nation at large. The colored
citizen may share the general joy that he
/ will soon cease to be
THE STOCK IN TRADE
of corrupt politicians, but shall enjoy his
rightfuI liberties and his equality before
the law amid universal good will. As
for the reform Democracy, to whose
standards victory has been tied with all
her garlands on, it only remains for them
to welcome every ally, every friend, close
up the ranks and press on. shoulder tc
shoulder, under the banner and with the
: one tchsword-reform. FelIow-citi.
zens, peace between all sections, prosper.
ity in all our homes-of these you have
been for years deprived, by the mistaken
solicitude of patriotic Republicans, played
} upon by
} SELFISH AND CORRUPT LEADERS
: who have kept warm the dying ember
r of civil strife IN order to escape the in
spection of the trusts which they hav'
betrayed. For eleven years you hav,
: had the name of peace, but at no tim,
7 have you had the substance of peace. Il
! lie4 thereof you have had the grinding
q taxation and the wasteful expenditure o
war. Just before every election ever,
. year you have had the preaching of
new crusade against section utterly de
feated in war and anxious only to b
completely reconciled in peace. Fo
: eleven years the power of the men VIII
have seized away the control of theirpart,
, from the hands Of
IT'S sTATEMEN AND FOUNDERS
. has been supreme in almost every de
!, Discarding the hopes of prolonging thei
T domination by benefcent public measure
e they have created and traficked upol
public calamities The policy they adopt
e ed has been worked out. Its failure ha
been absolute. In place of past perform
t anees these same corrupt and eelfsh lead
e ers now protfef promises already broke
o as their titles to further trust. Havin
!. prostrated our manifold industries by va:
a aggregates and the worst methods q
!. Federal taxation they now again solic
: your confidence as instruments of r,
trenchment and reform. Having
It DEBAUcHED THE PUBLIC SERVICE.
: and having Just now in the face of ope
. day assessed their army of 100, 600 pfiel
y holders-the peoples servants, paid
y the peoples taxes--in order to Great
{ immense corruption funds to frustrat
the peoples will, they now profess to /
y champions of civil service reform. Ha'
u ing imposed upon the Southern Stat
= the rapacity, fraud and plunder of carpe
n n bag government; having almost RUNE
a the prosperity of the South, and havir
!: created terror, uncertainty and confusic
= in all the productive industries Of Il
e South, which furnish most of the expor
- Of our whole country, keep in motto
i'I l1 the commerce and manufactures of Il
III North and East, and furnish a mark
u for the agricultural products of the Wes
~ they now propose by renewal Of
THE SAME FATAL POLICY
to prOlong their own power, in the ho
of cOncealing their misdeeds, and for Il
purpose they do not hesitate to renew t
cry of intolerance, to revive the dyil
memories of fraternaI strife, and to a
peal to the fears and prejudices of {
timid and ignorant.
Fellow-eitizens, these men and thl
measures have been completely tried Al
have completely failed. Oppressive t.
ation, an exhausted South, an impOv'
ished North, fluctuating currency, {
enterprise Of an industrious people lock
fast in the paralysis of hard times-su
is the outcome Of their political poliC
such are the achievements Of
THEIR LONG SUPREMACY.
Your ballots in NovembeF can alo
&c. dictate a change Of measures and = char