The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-03-25
White Line OuGraSes.

The Chicago Tribune of the 14th says:
"The white-liners of the Mississippi Sen
ate, in pursuance of their programme for
Kidding the State of what was lett of the Re
publican administration, after they had car
ried the election by peaceful intimidation,
yesterday convicted LieuT.-GOv Davis upon
the articles of parchment against him.
Upon the foregoing the St. Louis Re
publican Conservative comments:
When one recollects that ''the Republican
administration in Mississippi is headed by
a notorious Northern carpet Dagger named
Ames, and that under bis guidance and in
fuence the State government has become so
thoroughly rotten that respectable negroes
have to hold their noses while looking at it,
he can appreciate the nature of the indig-
nation which the Tribune manifests at the
impeachment of Ames' lieutenant. How
long would the people of Illinois endure
what the people of Mississippi have patient
ly borne for five years past? Not two
weeks. Were AmeS ruling at Springfield
as he has been and is at Jackson, moth
ing but the fastest of mail trains could
snatch him from the avenging clutches of
our neighbOrs across the river Yet be-
cause the citizens of Mississippi are endeav-
orlng, by constitutional means, to break the
foul yoke which is pressing them into the
dust. Chicago newspaper intimates that
an awful wrong is being perpetra-
ted! The wonder is, not that the '.white
liners" have done so much. but that they
have done so little. We know of only one
place which has a "Repubican admnistra-
ton" of the Mississippi stripe, and that
place is ''not to be named i'm ears polite"
twill be seen by the foregoing that
our st. Louis contemporary has correct
perception of affairs here in Mississippi.
1t no doubt expresses the average con-
sentative sentiment outside of the State.
To attribute the action of the Senate in
finding the Lieutenant Governor guilty, |
Is characteristic of Radical fairness.
The proof that he and a carpet coadjutor,
who stood near the confidence of Gov. |
Ames, kept watch on the movements of
the latter and seized the opportunity of
his temporary absence from the State, to
confer apardon for which price in green,
backs was paid, was undeniable and unde |
nied-so clear that the Lieutenant-Gov- |
ernor In rendering his resignation attercon- |
vlctIon virtually admitted it, in saving
that he had mot been able to prove bis
innocence so clear that members OF his
own party in the House voted for i'm
peachment-so clear that every white /
Republican and one colored Sena-
tor voted to convict, and yet his
conviction is construed by outside par
tisan sympathizers as simply politi-
cal move to "rid the Statesof what was
left of Republican administration. The
Legislature which the people elected in
November, will see from the foregoing,
how utterly impossible it will be for them
to satisfy the bloody-shirt agitators at
the North, if they undertake to perform
their duty. Having acquired the right
to manage their own affairs, in their own
way, there is but one course left, and that
is to press forward with resolute step to
the accomplishment of the reforms which
they set out to achieve. "Let no guilty
man escape"