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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-18
Gen. =. VI. West,

This gentleman is doing his whole duty
in the canvass, as %elector for the State at
large. He spoke at Durant, on Satur-
day at KosciuskO on Monday, and at
Kilmichael on Tuesday, with good effect,
to large and appreciatiye audiences. The
following is a deserved tribute to his
services and worth, in the Holly Springs
Reporter
This able and popular orator is doing
gallant service in this State in behalf Of
Tilden and Reform. Large crowds have
honored him at all his appointments,
and he has been received with enthusiasm
wherever he has appeared. His speeches
have made a wonderful impression on
the minds of all classes, and no speaker
in this anvass has been more successful
in carrying his audiences with him than
General West. He is not only an honor
to the section from which be halls, hut
to Mississippi In whose service he has de-
voted the best part of his life. We
should like to see Gen. West in the State
councils again. If he could be prevailed
upon to become a candidate for the posi-
ton, the people of Marshall would be
proud to send him as their representative
to the State Senate.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-18
RrOAxine.

The Aberdeen Examiner gives this
iail-bird and unanointed shepherd of
Radicalism a hrst-class notice in connee-
ton with the card of Rev. Marion Dun
bar, the pastor Of the colored Baptist
church of this city. The Examiner
says:
This same Bronzine was a few years
since the foremost apostle of Radicalism
in Clay county-then Colfax-and here
in Monroe his oily tongue and persuasive
~elequence won the hearts of the darkies
completely, and they almost worshipped
him as an idol.
Bronzine made it a business to gull -
his credulous votaries in every ways
preacher, politician, and dispenser OF
Justice among them. On one occasion
he quietly held court on a plantation neal
West Point, Il self,constituted ''justicc
Of the peace" fined both darkies who had
had a little %scuifie, and taxed them both
with the costs, pocketing both fine and
costs. For this ofiense he was indicted,
among other rascalities, found guilty and
sent to the penitentiary, but was soon after
pardoned by Governor Ames. He wa
known in Alabama under the alias oil
| Jamison.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-18

The pending Presidential canva is
far more vital than any former contest of
the kind. The Democratic Conserva-
tive party have in view the following
reforms, viz: Economy in the expendi-
lures of government punishment and
dismissal of all dishonest officials; a
strict adherence to every requirement of
the Federal Constitution protection to
both races in the enjoyment of equal pO-
litical rights; and IN advancement of
the ablest and purest men of the Repub-
lie to all offices and em~ployments under
the Government. Hence all good PEG.
pie, of all sections, who love their COM
mon country. should struggle untiringly
for TmDEN, HENDRICKS and REFORM,
resolved to vanquish the incompetent
and corrupt party which has so long mis-
governed the nation. Everything cher
ished by freemen is involved in this great
struggle. even the existence of our form
of government.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-18

The records prorethat AttOrney-G General
Williams, while at the head of the
Department of Justice, supported his
private carriages and horses out of the
contingent fund of the Department,
following in this the example of almost
all the Republican officials that with
another of President Grants Attorney
Generals, Mr.. Akerman, he diverted
$4,000 of the funds of the Department
to election purposes in New York;
proceeding for which the President and
these two Cabinet officers have been cen
sured by Il committee of the House that
with the connivance of another Attorney
General, Edward PierrepOnt, a letter
was written to District-A Attorneys during
the trial of Gen. Babcock for conspiracy,
to prevent conclusive testimony being
given against him by an accomplice
hat this is shown by the testimony OF
Bluford Wilson, late Republican Solic;,
tor of the Treasury; that the letter
which Mr. P%ierrepont said was not to be
made public, was given to Babcock''
counsel and made public by him thai
President Grant took pains to ascertain
the evidence against Babcock from Mr.
BristoY and Mr.. Wilson, who could no
refuse to give it to him, and communi
Gated it to Babcock and that largely b.
means of this prostitution of Justice
Rabanok Asonpad conviction
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-18
Have YOu RegIsteredg

The highest privilege, as well as a
solemn duty of the citizen is to vote 4;
but to vote, he must first register. Dem
o%crats, Conservatives and Reformers.
have you all registered? Our informa-
ton is that many have not. Some are
relying upon the supposed apathy of the
Radicals and others upon the ability of
their political friends to win the victory
without their assistance. Let all mo-
tives for i%nactiOn be dispelled at once.
The common enemy is neither dead nor
sleeping. He is moving stealthily, but
steadily to the work of recapturing the
State Government. The opposers of
Radical misrule who are not willing. to
aid them in this endeavOr, sud throw
away the legitimate results of the hard
fought battle of 1875. are implored to
register without delay in order that they
may perform their solemn duty at the
polls ON the 9TH Of November,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-18
GIorIsu. Resale srTne-aay,s Flee
tIons

We Sre fully satisfied With the election
results in Indiana, West Virginia and
Ohio. The 6nt two have gone Demo
eratic-the last Republican. The Dem
Ocrats have eve expected TO carry
Ohio, which, with exceptional instances,
has gone Republican for the las, twenty
Jears. They bad a hope. Nothing more.
The real fight was in Indiana, and there
The Democrats and Reformers, ander
the lead Of the glorious Hendricks. have
won the field and are masters Of the
situation. Neither Of these States were
deemed essential to Democratic success.
ia November; but the Radicals are in
evitably defeated unless they curry both
West Virginia goes Democratic.
Based on the results of the 10th, III,
following Is our estimate Of The Presi
dental election f:
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-18

Chamberlain, the iptsrioping Governor
Of South Carolina, Is trying the carpet
bag Mississippi plan-he is doing his Vi
most to get up trouble. in order to bring
Federal bayonets into use in the interest
Of Radical nisruIe. We presume there
Il not a Stale in the Union in which
there are not volunteer military crganizA-
ti0ns-it has lNsn - for g~eneradons- 1t
il their custom 10 be armed and equipped,
and 10 aave regular military parades,
and these organizations are the pride Of
the communities 10 which they exist.
Similar organizations, known as rife
clubs, exist M parts Of South Carolina.
They are armed by virtue Of that clause
of the Constitution OF the United
States, which declares that the right
Of the people TO bear arms shall not be
violated. In these organizations Cham
berlain has all ut once discovered 4 bug
abOO; and has issued a proclamation re-
quiring them to disband under a threat
Of declaring martial law, which is simply
no law at all but the despotic will of q
military leader. There IS not a pretenst
that these clubs have violated any law Of
disturbed the peace. But Chamberlain
hopes that his order viii be resisted and
that he will be furnished with a pretens'
to apply to the President for troops t,
protect the State from domestic insurrec
ton. Apprehensive that the peopl,
may be goaded to resistance to this rev
dictionary proceeding of the usurpinI
%adyenturer and thus play into his hands
Gen. Hampton, the Democratic candi
date for Governor, hasNsent out the fol
lowing appeal:
COLUMBIA, October 8.
, TO Gen. johnson Haywood
Urge our people to submit peaceabl,
to martial law and let no resistance b
made. | will see and consult with them
WADE HAMPTON.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-18
Radical RaIe.

National zves do no. 90 down. Yet,
ell the West is a great railroad cemetery
All the East is q tomb of sunken for
tunes, the rich dragging down the poor
The national debt is 81, 600, 100000
The municipal debt Is 81, 500. 600, 600.
The railroad debt i 81, 200, 000. 900. Our
total Indebtedness is ten billions. Our
interest charges are $500. 100000, Of
two thirds of the total aggregate Of our
foreign trade. Yet taxes do not go down,
and Government expenditures are as ex
travagant as ever.
For the SIX years ending june 80
1875, the total expenditures under Presl
dent Grant we're 81, OOS, ABS, 64I. 50.
Or at the rate of S66S, e73 ,o76.97
year.
Or at the rate of $50, $50. 1854
month.
Or at the rate of sl3, 9IS, 18O.1 10
week.
Or at the rate of 81. 9Ss, 312.6s a da,
Or at the rate of So. S42. 10 an hour.
Or at the rate of 1,3S0.70 a minute.
Or at the rate of s23. Oh a second.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-18
Crystal Springs in a White Heat

The reports that we get from the Dem
ocratio demonstration at Crystal Springs
on Saturday and Saturday night last,
represent it, as in all respects, one of the
most enthusiastic and elegant that has
taken place in Mississippi in this or any
other campaign. The torch.light pro-
cession, and the general illumination at
night, are described as especially impos-
igg and grand. The barbeGged dinner
was an ample proof Of the abundance and
patriotism of old Copiah. Gen. George,
Gen. Wharton, Judge Potter, and Rob-
ert n. Miller, and two colared men whose
names we have not learned, were the
speakers. Copiah gave a Democratic
majority of $40 in 1875, and she will go
1870 better in 1876. We have set her
down for a clean one thousand majority
for Tilden and Hendricks.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-18
Repatriation orVolers.

By a wise and wholesome law of the
State no citizen can vote WHO has not
previously registered and submitted his
title to inspection and ehallege. No mat
ter how long q man may nave resided in
the city, he must mske a new regisira-
tiOa every year. He may have owned
and occupied the same dwelling condnu-
0usly ever since General jackson re
tired from the Presidency, but unless he
registers this year he cannot vote this
year, although every citizen of his elec-
ton precinct can swear that he is a quail
fed yoter.-N. Y. Herald.
1t is the common practice in all the
States to protect the ballot-box from
fraud by rigid registration laws; but be
cause the Legislature exercised a similar
~precaution in this State (but took pain.
not to discriminate between classes o
colors in any way, the Radical dema
gOgues raised their characteristic howl.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-18
The Prospects in sIissis>lPpi.


From all the signs of the times, we
are %rejoiced to believe that Mississippi,
next month, will give a large majority
for the Democratic Conservative ticket.
Every where throughout the State the
white citizens are well organized, very
enthusiastic, and are working zealously
in the good cause. All over the State
multiplied hundreds of honest and re-
fecting colored voters stand boldly and
avowedly under the banner of reform.
Let us see to it, that we have a fair, full
vote of all the people. That is all We
want, and that ace intend to have, soldier:
or no soldiers.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-18

The agent Of the Associated Press at
Washington must be hard-up for matter
to send over the wires when he has to
quote from the Washington Chronicle
such a slur upon the rank and file Of the
army as will be found in to-day's dis
patches. We were not aware before,
nor do we believe it now, that the rank
and file ofthe United States Army is com
posed of the "rif,raff" of any party.
So far as we have been able to observe.
they are, as a rule, gentlemenly in THEN
department, and manifest but little in.
terest in politics. 1t is not to the rank
and file Of the army to which the people
of the South object, so much as TO the
spirit of rank hate to the South that ami.
mates the present administration.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-18
A Radical Statesman.

Gen. o. o. Howard, a Republican
still in good standing, vas proved by in
vestigation to have distracted from the
appropriations for the Freedmen's Bu-
reau, of which he was ths head, $780,
600 for Howard University, of which he
was also the head to have sold Universe
ty land improperly, and taken church
lands in payment; to have compelled the
use of brick in the University Buildings,
manufactured by a company in which
he was a stakeholder; to have paid Outof
Bureau funds over $40, 900 to adm build
ing his Washington church, taking
church bonds in payment, which were
returned in his accounts as cash, and to
have made similar advances on like Sc
curity to the Y. II. C. A. of Washing
ton.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-18
SCHEME.
He Wants Ia Negroes 10 Emicrate
from Mississippi and Alabama 70
Avoid AnnihIIatfon.
Washington Special to The New York Even
ing Post.

Washington Special to The New York Even
ing Post.
:" send you thu following intelligence
in the form in which it comes TO me
DIR, James Redpath is negotiating for a
large emigration of negroes from Missis.
slppI, Louisiana and Texas, where their
civil rights, as he believes. soon will be
oyerthrown. He is constantly receiving
from Mississippi the most heaEtrendinS
accounts of outrages on the colored Re-
publIcans of that State. Recent letter.
show so general a desire on the part of
the negroes to leave a country in which
they have no protection, that Mr.. Red
path proposes, if the United States will
not set apart a territory for them. to ar
range with Mexico and Brazil for a ei-
gantic emigration until the loss of labor
IN the Gulf States, thus crested, compeIs
the ~land-owning class to stop what Mr..
kedPath terms their 'hypocritical depre-
cation Of violence and so rise IN and
end it in fact. Mr.. Redpafh has had
large experience in colonizing. and his
scheme will, he thinks, soon be heard Of
as a practical achievement. He believes
that with ten per centum of Northern
men OF the anti-slavery spirit, a colony
OF blacks In Mexico would soon reach a
higher state of civilization than it Is ever
possible for the negroes to gain in the old
slave States. Throughout Mississippi
and Alabama the negroes are said to Be
eager for this movement
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-18
Tae Eject CT soaIh Carolina
Game

Referring to the desperate ~exPedient
Of that r-apac.ous and unprincipled adj
venturer, Chamberlain, to ~PerPetuate
the curse Of carpet-bag misrule in South
Carolina the New York Herald, an in
dependent paper. with leanings decidedly
towards Gov. HAYES for the Presidency,
utters the following word Of timely warn
ing:
SoaIh Carolina Politics
1.-THE Republican lea.Iers have not lost
their senses they viii make haste to warn
Governor ~Chsmberlaln Of Soa,h Carolina.
He l. llaying with IRE. He is evidently
stirriug up trouble in order that he may
have az excuse for calling on the federal
government 10 interfere in the election.
Fortunately ths Is q trick rkieA has BEEN
played 50 0ftsa ia L~ouisiaHa, ia Mississippi IN
Alabama aad eiss'shers ia The SOuiA, thI L Is
R6ic understood "a tie NortA. and ifthe North
ern Republican leaders are base enough tC
play into Chamberlain's hands, TO allow
him to use them for his purposes, in the
hope that his victory viii help them-it they
d. this. they viii between now and Noyem-
Der cause a Revision in public sentiment
against them all through the Northern
STAKES. This is not Mexico. The war ceases
eleven years ago; and all sensible men il
the North believe that il is now time TO ie
the SOuthera States manage their own si
fairs, End believe this because they see ths
wherever federal interference has cease,
pence has come at once.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-18

The figures in the recent Maine cleo
tons show a gain of more than II, OOC
over last year. and oyer three thousand
more the average maiOrities for the past
nine years. Maine is a Radical State,
and hence VI do not hear any complaint
that the recent election was a fraud,
owing to the increase of the popular vote,
as in the case of Mississippi last year
when the boot was on the other leg.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-18
1.-The EsaIIet a DsnSersa~ 1.-Psa
in Ehe Hana- 81 Exaoraat
Blacks.


hHasmnch as hi ex Excellerry. Is
GorernOr Ridgly c PoNers. makes
speech occasionally. By way Of instruct,
ing the coIored people in their rights and
duties as citizens In tie pending canvass.
agdassume=, Of cocssa, that he snd his
sort are yhe.true friends Of the colOred
people, We make the following extracts
fron a letter written IN 1857 BY this
distinguished author of "The G~rasshop-
per sittiu' on a sweet later yine.r ad
dressed to the Macon Beacon. When
Ridgsly says his piece, our friends should
read these choice u-tterances to his colored
auditors:
Since, then, il Is a fact, and in &c
cordance with the genius Of free institu-
tons, as well as 4 chief condition by
which Mississippi San resume ner nor
NAL relations with the government, why
should We not recognize il and try Il
control and guide il d lar as possible Il
good ends? The negro l. q DANGER.
iOCC ELLA1EA1 ~ SOciCQ because ne 4
ignorant. Remove the ignorance an,
there is no more cause for fear. Heaano
Be Temoved during tiis generation. Tn,
work can be commenced. THE BALLOT
IS DANGEROUS WEAPON PUT 1,
THE lands or IGssKASr BLACKS
s. il Is ID III hands Of ignorant whites
i aud where the danger is Imminent restric
u0ps Should be thrown around it. Th
! negroes COMPOSE The labaFing class of tn
south and hers I have q wont upcl
| capital and labor. :
IN the Acknowledgement Of the black
Mississippi, they being largely in til
majority and very ignorant, with few ex
5 ceptions, there Is danger that false notion
; between labor and capital 'oiU obtain, an
: property O,eners be placed at the mercy
ignorant masses. To avoid any such DO!
a sibility suitable provisions should be mad
by the constitutional Convention in r,
= modelling the State Constitution. On
lpay to accomplish ttts 1could be to requii
r A PROPERTY M INTELLIGENCE QUAIL
S FICATIoN from al electors for State Sen,
tors, and require at aeo thirds gOte 0fthe Sc,
ate before any lac affecting property eoui
: be passed"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-18

The property valuation in South Car
Olina amounted in 1860 to $3.50, 900, 600
in 1870 it was s17O, 900, 900, a decline Of
81 per cent. The tax levy amounted in
1860 to $500. 900; in 1874 to 81, 200, 600
an increase Ofnearly 900 per cent. The
Legislative expenses amounted In 1850 to
$40. goo; in 1871. to 1891 900, an in.
crease Of nearly 200 per cent.
And yet, with these facts staring them
in the face, the Radical spectators think
it is nothing short of treason for the peO-
pie of South Carolina to struggle to throw
of their yoke.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-18

Notwithstanding the belief that the
Centennial show at Philadelphia would
draw of many visitors who would other.
wise attend the st. Louis Fair-a be.
lief, no doubt, fully borne out BY the
fact-the attendance upon u annual ex,
position has been in excess Of that of apy
previous year. What the exact attend.
ance has been, or how much the receipt,
amount to, cannot be as yet but approx.
imateiY estimated; but tolerably Close
rgures give the gate receipts for the
week at $4,000, and the total receipt.
at $1O,OO0.-St. Louis Republican.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-18
WOn'G Win.

A Washington dispatch says that
persons p%urpOrting to be from Misssis-
"sippi, called on the Secretary of War,
I" urging a like use of troops for that
State Secretary Csmeron's reply ha;
not transpired yet" This old game Of
the wreckers is played out in Mississippi.
Knowing their weakness they are calling
for outside help. Mississippians so far
from being inundated, will take fresh
courage and press on the column with
increased determination.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-18

Observation-Disclosures and laws
confer political equality. We are all
equal, black and white, in that respect.
AS for social equality, that is a matter
over which the law has no control-it
regulates itself, in this and in all coun-
tries, by the DEGREES of society. Every
man has a right to say acho shall sit at
his board and be recognized as an equal
in his house.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-18

The Canton Mail, in speaking of the
Bell trial, makes this complimentary
mention of the able counsel for the de.
Tense:
The Generals effort was an able one
calm, logical and impressive, occupying
more than an hour in its delivery. Gen,
Lowry was followed by Mr.. MeLaurin.
of Brandon. His speech was a powerful
one-so free from flights Of fancy, vel
pure and finished in diction. 1t was
lofty without flourish, it was calm with
out GOODNESS Its logic, its fervor, its dis
passionate yet earnest delivery gave it a
magnetism that impressed all, and won
for the young and talented attorney the
encomiums Of his hearers.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-18

The prospects of success for the Dem
ocratic-C Conservative ticket for President
and Vice-P President, are very good, in
deed, and inspire a confident belief that
We shall be gloriOusly triumphant. All
we have to do is to hold fast to the faith
and to work ~zealously and untiringly. II
this be done, the country is safe. The
verdict is already formed in the hearts
of the people. We wiu remember that
rerdicf merit month.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-18

MADISON CoUSTy.-All the white
Democrats, who had been urged for the
vacancy in the Legislature from Madison
county, withdrew in favor Of a colored
candidate, and the nomination was con-
ferred upon Adam Simpson (colored) by
acclamation. In the same good faith
and good feeling he will be sustained and
triumphantly elected at the polls.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-18
TIE Democratic House

TIE Democratic House saved the
people thirty millions of dollars. But
suppose there had been a Democratic
Senate and that Mr.. Tilden had been
President Does any one doubt that
the savings to the taxpayers would have
been double that amount? The House
proposed retrenchment to the extent of
sixty millions, and would have carried it
out but for a Republican Senate! These
facts need no comment, but the people
should not forget them.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-18

THE New York Herald is indulging
in speculations as the composition of Mr..
Tiiden's Cabinet. Charles Francis Adams
for Secretary of State, and August Bel
mont for Secretary of the Treasury, are
men who, $50 far as their advice might
be followed, there would be nothing
crude, unsteady or erotchety in the
Democratic Administration in that higher
order of questions on which their advice
would be sought"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-18

Col. r. w. FLoURNoY writes to the
Times that he has not quit the Republi-
can party. We will have to make up
our minds to get along without him for
awhile, particularly as Col. w. H. Ed
mondson, the most influential Republi-
can in Clarke county, has published a
card announcing his intention to vote for
Tilden and II endricks.