The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-06-21
1ae Presid.AsissI Election aud
rEae smith.


In short time The country viii b. in
the throes OF The Presidential contest,
with its important consequences. To re-
member the wrongs ami insult. which
have been heaped upon the southern
States since The close of the war. i to be
warned Of the absolute necessity 10 their
future we'll being Of he defeat Of the BAD
zeal party Tie corruptions Of that party
have parmeated the whole country, until
lis administration has become Kissing
a1d by-word Of raProacb throughout
chr.stendom But TO the North the re
suit Of the election is trivial in import
aace compared to its effect upon tie
South. The former will retain their
right OF local selfgovernment free from
The dominating control Of the federal
government, and will continue to man
age their affairs in such way as to them
NAV seem best, no matter which party
succeeds but the continuation Of the
Republican party in power will mean the
v .tual abrogation OF the Southern State
governments not already under Radical
control, and their subsection to bayonet
rule rs it may suit the caprice of their
RELENTLESS and embittered prosecutors.
The conduct Of that party since the
rehabilitation Of the Southern States and
their re-admission into the Union under
guarantees of equal privileges with the
other States, forecasts its course should
lis lease of power be prolonged. 1t IS 4
long and horrid catalogue Of crimes
which it has committed against the PEG
pie Of these States, in violation of their
chartered privileges and the fundamental
and essential conditions Of personal Hber-
ty. The Ku klux and Enforcement
acts, one Of which fell under the weight
of the popular Indignation which it
awakened, and the other under the decis-
ion of the Supreme Court of the United
States that it was unconstitutional, are
monuments of the cruelty, injustice and
tyranny of the party in power.
1t is Idle 10 Fecite the narrowing tale
of cruelties and wrongs which were com
mit;ed by authority Of these unconstitu-
tionai measures to a people who have a
remembrance Of them az vivid rs it is
bitter indictments upon perjured testi-
mony procured for that purpose, sci
cures and Imprisonment without the
privilege or the writ ii i3aheas Cor
pus, (the birthright of every Ameri-
can citizen, which neither Presidents,
nor congress, nor the army Of the United
States, can take from him without tramp
ling upon the Constitution. trials by par
tilan juries packed to convict and remote
from the places where he offences were
alleged to have been committed, sen
fences 10 the penitentiaries of distant
States. The dispersion Of legislatures BY
the bayonet because MOI organized IN ac-
cordance with the wishes of the party
in control of the government, the denunci-
alton by military commanders Ct whole
class, constituting ninety-nine hundreths
of the intelligent, tax-paying, white people
of State as "banditli" for claiming the
right tQ administer the State govern
ment in virtue OF their success in legal
electio 15-these are bat f.tint glimpses
of the record of cruelties and crimes
which have signalized the conduct Of this
parry il lis dealings with the Southern
States, and ali because the intelligent, lib
Anglo-Saxon people Of these
were not willing 20 be ruled
by adyentgrers and treated as sheep to be
shorn by the annointed shepherds OF the
These adventures were
the real "banditti," who appropriated
The Offices and the revenues of the State,
who awakened the distlust o. The blecks
against the whites and kept alive the
Of race, who imposed taxes
not for the legitimate ends Of govern
nent tqt fer personal enrichment, who
invented cunning methods to deprive the !
States of their duly elected officers, and |
BY misrepresentation invoked the sword /
IF he federal government 70 keep them
n power at the cost of the lives and I
he liberties of the people they had
yronged.