The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-07-05
A Campaign Document.


he State administration by the party
shich obtained ascendancy last year
The real grievance is that the political
ldventurers have been turned out OF Of
ice and the habitual plunder Of the State
by faithless officials, Executive aud Leg
slative, has been stopped and the taxes,
which afforded life to the treasury |
leeches, have been reduced to the point /
required by an honest and economical I
government, with prospect of a still
further reduction when the machine IN
der It's present managers gets IN good |
running order. Hence these tears.
Hence these loud lamentations. Hence
the waving OF the bloody shirt. Restore
theso adventures to office. Put up the
taxes. Wipe out the constitutional
for sessions of the Leglsla-
ture every other year, instead OF two or
three times year as under Radical mis-
rule, so as to furnish pretext for feed
ing from the treasury the hordes OF va
grants who swarm about the Capitol on
such occasions-and everything will be
lovely again.
To show how these howlers, who wei
coined the Boutwell, Inquisitors as
Godsend for the reason that they held
out a promise of reviving the war feeling
in the North, and prolonging Radical
rule with prospect of restoring carpet
baggery to power in the State-to show
how these howlers talked ten mouths
ago about the condition of affairs IN Ms
sissippi, we will call attention to the sub
Joined extracts from the Jackson Times
of August 18th, 1879.
These extracts derive significance from
the fact that proprietor of the Times,
Col. Henry Musgrove, is the Chairman OF
the Radical State Executive Committee;
and the editor Of the Times is no less q
parsonage than Capt. J. l.. Lake,
United States Marshall of the Southern
Missis .ippi District, by appointment Of
President Grant 4 contributor to the
same paper is the Hon. J. Tarbell, late
ofthe Supreme Court, and one of the
most interchangeable grooms for the wit
nesses on the side Of the CORY shirt and
raw head before the Boutwell, investiga
tors. Judge Tarbell as an inducement
to Northern people 10 come and settle in
the South, pictured in the tints of the
rainbow the natural beauties and glories
of Mississippi; its rich soil, its wealth Of
timber, its delicious fruits, and beautiful
flowers. Sympathizing with the misfor-
tunes of the people of the bleak and bar
rem North, he told them that his "heart
g went out to those seeking a new dwell
cling place aud asked their thoughtful
81 attention to the value of such a home
/" as can be created no where else than
" right here Gin Mississippi with the same
"labor and expense" Not a word was
said about the terrible "banditti' who
pounce down upon Northern settlers like
tigers from their jungles upon unsus-
pecting prey. Now, was Judge Tarbell
Turing these people to their destruction !;
or in the honesty of his nature was he
giving vent to his true inwardness? If
the latter, why did We find him ':sitting
like toad at the ear of Eve" whisper
ing dreadful things to Boutwell, and Com
pany when they were here seeking capt
tai for partisan use in the pending can
Vass?
But let Us return to the testimony
which Messrs. M4sgroye, Lake & Com
pany gave, that there was no teign Of
terror here and that Northern men
would be welcomed and be protected in
life and property and in the free enjoy
ment Of their nj htz and duties
From the Times August ID, lS76.i
IS IT SAFE?
"The idea has generally obtained in the
North that there is no safety here for
life and property, and that Northern
families will not be kindly received when
they come. The writer, being himself Il
Northern man, appreciates the weight of
the objection, and in all caEdOr must ad-
NIT that the time has been since the war
when his voice would not have been
heard in favor Of immigration to this
State"
''But times have changed. The prelu-
dces of the native white citizens have be
come greatly modified, and in some local.
ties hare tqtGIig disappeared. There is no
section Of the Stats 'wEeFea Northern man
would not be safe in life and property,
and only in the remote 5, ctions, removed
from the railroad-where he would not 90
at any rate--is there such prejudice as
uight render home disagreeable. In
the best pGftiQns Of the State, where
our most Intelligent citizens reside, there
would be no cause for compliant On this
account, and no man desiring to make
Mississippi his home should hesitate for
fear Of mistreatment."
Again the following
cItIzEaz IIEFRAL MINDED.
''Our citizens are liberal minded. and
anxious to encourage immigration from
the North to their midst. Persons conf
ing here will be received with marked
kiadnesq. The opportunity to make prof
i Il nl4 investments in properly, or to en-
gage in business are exceedingly good,
aud the country round about IS especi-
ally well adapted to the growth Of fruit,
and for all agricultural purposes
1.-THE health of the city is as good as
can be found in the State, and persons
from the North can come here with per-
feet safety. Indeed they will find their
health TO be US secure here as in any
other portion of the Union"
Something more
LIVING CONTENTEDLY