The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-01-29
srORTON's SPEECH.
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ments. To crafty the curiosity of some
of those who may not have an opportuni
ty of seeing it in other journals, we have
published, in this number, one of his
chapters. From its character the whole
may be judged. To say nothing of its
reckless falsehoods, was there ever a
more proftless, stupid, ill-timed and
wearisome performance 1t is simply
the game of desperate demagogue to
secure the support of the discomftted
carpet-bag element in the Republican
Presidential Convention. True, this
element cannot control the electoral vote
of more than one South Carolina of the
States it will claim to represent, but it
will, nevertheless, be an immense power
in deciding who shall be the Republican
candidate. Morton, we think, in waving
the bloody shirt and falsifying the
history of Mississippi for the last forty
years, to bring dishonor on the State,
has completely won over to his support
the vagabond element, which will declare
for him as soon as it can venture to risk
the bread and butter which it is now re-
ceiving from the hands ofGen. Grant.
The great mistake which Morton and
the rest of the Northern Radical hum
bugs make is that the abandonment of
the carpet-baggers by the blacks was I'M
der compulsion of the whites. Nothing
could be more untrue. 1t is shown to
be false by past results. The blacks have
in every instance exercised the utmost
freedom in elections in this State, and
for years they blindly followed the car
pet-bagger with the belief that he was an
agent of the Federal government for lead
ing them into the paths of liberty, light
and prosperity. Not until they had
been taught by bitter experience, that
they were the victims of a fraud did thew
see the error Of their way; but, at last,
seeing it, they rushed pell-mell with the
lmpulsive zeal of their race into the Dem |
ocratlc ranks, not without pledges, how
ever, that they would be protected in the
enjoyment of every right possessed by the
whites themselves. That this pledge,
we will say in passing, will be strictly
maintained cannot be doubted. The
Democratic Legislature has been in ses-
sion several weeks, and not a sim
gle measure discriminating against
the blacks has been thought of, much
less introduced. On the contrary, they
were recognized in bestowing the offices
within the gift of the Legislature, and ,
will share, equally with the whites. all the
benefits of the reforms that will be ac- !
!
Senator Morton, and the other humbues
Who echo his absurdities, forget that it is
10 unusual thing for complete revolutions j,
o occurin American politics. Other States
AVE furnished more signal instances of +
his fact than did Mississippi at the last F
lection, though none of them have ever r,
ad as great cause. Massachusetts, had
cen Republican by from 90, 900 to 1OO.- 7
w Tor fltteen years until 1874 when she
herself and the whole country
giving Democratic majority. Ohio
"o been proverbially Republican until =,
% when she experienced complete :, I,
''o'u'lon' The same remark applies to .
and to dozen other North. 81
IN States. But who was prepostorous &C
lough TO introduce into the U. S. SEN l.
e resolutions of inquiry into the cause. tn
al TO tabncate theory of fraud in th
mldatlon and violence, to the prejudice co
,'o ialf repute of the people al
'hose States, and for the purnose pi'
Justifylng armed interference with lay
e,r analrs by the military power of the
ederal Government?
The Soo del
l ne senator to make good his claim lin
'"' S"PPort OF the vagabond element wo
: gone back thirty and forty wears to p,
"a SUBJECTS for disappearing and vii. the
wing The State. Cows. Tucker and Of
'Nu't have been sleeping in their tbo
yves tnirty years, but yet their dust is mo
S'Iieo rom the touch of this hyena Co,
'a' mas the United States Senate a.
.''e oay' to do with the action of !
=
ssisslpPl IN refusing, thirty years ago. last
ueot which she never contracted five
' ~nien was never binding obliga- cool
upon her? Desperate indeed m1st doll
! =. au,'ai cause, if it needs prop
g by such an expedient. T
gam :, the old song is sung over again mas
the State, being the custod;an &C last
- rust Funds, had in bad faith Gus
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