The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-08-30
Oversher the Mark.

Boutwell, oserlil the thing. His ex-
agerated. one-sided aud manifestly
prejudiced and partizan report, and
proposition to put Mississippi under mar
tiAl law. has been treated by leading
Republican and Independent newspapers
in the North as most impracticable aud
monstrous scheme. Asitis Republican
measure, it has reacted upoa the plr,x
and is inhicting no little damage to its
prospects. To show how it has beea
received We viii copy some extracts from
leading Republican journals
y. Y. Times. tRepubiican)
Ii l. IN effect, that IL disor,ler. OF III. Kind
experienced in Mississippi continue. aud IL
~zll mild measures of \ remedial character
prove iaeaeetaai, the State In which they
prevail shall be remanlei TO territorial
condition, In order that ~thr,fash system
OF pshlie education and kindred means of
| improvement, the com 2lexiOn OF al
fairs shall be changed aud tina local
| Government reconstructed upon
| Republican basis i more Outrageous
propositions cannot De readilg Imagined
That, in this Centennial year. before the
echoes of our national self glorihca,ion have
died away. grave Senators should pro-
pose to vest somewhere power which on
| its face would De equivalent to confession
that the Republic Is failure Is u cireum-
stance that would tax the crelulity OF any
| diSpaSSionate observer. Here Is the propo-
sition, however, andin 4 form that leaves
no room 20 doubt the earneStHeSs of. its
| authors. lt l. proposition so far in Excess
| OF the needs OF the q scasion, SO obnoxious TO
all who would preserve the administration
OF the Government In the spirit which has
/ im parted all its vitality aud earned ,or il
all its glory-so directly la conflict with the
feeling that dominates among the people,
| and therefore in party sense, 50 insNped
ent-'hat we would fain believe its acctpt-
anee by the Senate impossible.
Bus there l. 40 statesmanship-
| there Is not even 4 SAgacious partiz tn<hip-
In plan OF reform that would reopen tin-
| necessarily the angry issues OF the period
Immediately subsequent to the war, and
| make subordinate to temporary advantage
the fundamental principles of the Union.
Boston Globe, (Repu
The majority report on the investigation
In Mississippi, which has been submitted to
the Senate by Mr.. Boutwell,, bears within
Itself such evidence of violent plrtizanship
as TO make &C comparatively tc1TfhleSs. Many
OF its statements vary so far from what we
know to be facts. or are So highly colored
that We. can place no confidence ia il as a
whole. The minority of the committee,
composed OF such men as Bayard and Nc
Donald, as worthy OF confidence in any
statement of fact as the majority, fatly con-
tradict some ctits main assertions, aud we
do not believe that such men would DENY a
clearly established truth. Besides, Mr.
| Boutwell'S report. which reads precisely
like fierce diatribe from the peu of James
Redpath. which it probably H. represents q
condition Of things in Mississippi m 1877
lNEFh f.In Il
coming matter of common knowledge al
the time.
. One who has studied the progress ofevents
in that State (MiSsissippi) from the a,lop
ton OF the reconstruction acts to the pres
ent time, can form his conclusions much
better without the reparts. Notwithstand-
ing the certitic IteS OF character which the
majority of tire committee give to Gov
ernor Ames and other officials, we know
that the State has been G6OmiRdbly nlisgou-
erHed, that men have held imp Drtant d bSi-
Llons Tor which they were in DO sense quili-
fled, that they have used their powers in the
most arbitrary manner, and that the people
have been Impoverished by heavy taxation
without enjoying the benefits which taxation
should pay Tor. ThePeople have been hu
INFLATED and ex1Sperated by the gross mis-.
rule which they could not prevent or check
and their hatred of their rulers has not been
mere prejudice of race, or party, though
these have been intensified from year tC
! ear.
, N. Y. Herald, Independent
, In the report which Mr.. Boutwell, has
pFeSentedto the Senate in regard TO Missis-
: sippi affairs, he gives As remedy TOR disor-
ders in the South the following recon- men.
d2tion from his committee: Estates in an.
archy or wherein the affairs are controlled
by bodies of armed m-.n, should be denied
representation in Congress -" Another re-
conmendation is that ali these disorders in
crease, or even continue, and il mild meas
ures thall prove inrlf,ctIal,' the Unit, {
states will be required to remand the State
to TerriGorial clnIition.''s D1es thi.
! sweeping proposition, for which thee is NO
just cause, mean more than is seen on the
face: May it not also III AN that the eloo.
TO al votes of Mississippi aud other State.
are To be thrown cut iI counting the Presi
DENTAL ballots on the pretext that the South
= err Stats "are controlled BY pIiiiial or.
ganizations composed largely OF araled M et
S whose common purpose Is to deprive Ih,
negroes OF the free exercise of the right o
suffrage and to establish and m iintain III,
r supremacy of the white line Democracy,
as the report say? II the Administered OF
tedder+ dream OF such al Interference they toil
= be rHdelg d,odkeRed. But The Il tutwell re
port seems 10 squint toward such arbitrar,
interference, and there are majors enouyi
who would gladly perpetrate this outrage /
| they dare 1.