The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-03-29
white Line Oufrases.

The Chicago Tribune of the 14th says:
"The whi'e-liners of the Mississippi Sen
ate, i'll pursuance of their programme fer
Kidding the State of what was left of the Re-
publican administrator. after they had car
ried the election by peaceful intimidation.
yesterday convicted Lieu-.-Gov. Davis upon
The articles of impeachment against him"
Upon the foregoing the st. Louis Re
publican Conservative comments:
When one recollects that 1.-The Republican
administration in Mississippi is headed by
Il notorious Northern carpet Dagger named
Ames, and that under his guidance and in
f1uence the State government has become so
thoroughly rotten that respectable negroes
have to hold their noses while looking at it,
he can appreciate the nature of the indig-
nation which the Tribune maniests at the
impeachment of Ames lieutenant. How
long would the people of Illinois endure
what the people of Mississippi have patient
ly borne for five years past: Not two
weeks. Were Ames ruling at Springfield
as he has been and is at Jackson, moth
ing but the fastest o. mail trains could
snatch him from the avenging clutches of
cause the citizens of Mississippi are endeav-
ring, toy constitutional means, to break tie
foul yoke which is pressing them into the
dust, a Chicago newspaper intmates that
an awful wrong is being perpet ra-
Ted The wonder is, not that the whit
liners" have done so much, but that they
have done so little. We know of only one
place which has a "Republican admmistra-
tom of the Mississippi stripe, and that
place is mot to be named in ears polite.''
1t will be seen by the foregoing that
our St. Louis contemporary has correct
perception of affairs here in Mississippi
1t no doubt expresses the average con-
sentative sentiment outside of the State
To attribute the action of the Senate in
finding the Lieutenant Governor guilty,
is characteristic of Radical fairness.
The proof that he and carpet coadjutor,
who stood near the confidence of Gov.
Ames, kept watch on the movements of
the latter and seized the opportunity of
his temporary absence from the State, to
confer pardon for which price in green
backs was paid, was undeniable and unde
Hied-so clear that the Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor in rendering his resignation after con-
viction virtually admitted it, in saying
that he had "not been able to prove his
innocence so clear that mem bers OF his
own party in the House voted for i'm
peacbment-sO clear that every white
Republican and one colored Sena-
tor voted to convict, and yet his
conviction is construed by outside par
tisan sympathizers as simply politi-
cal move to Grid the State,of what was
left of Republican administration. The
Legislature which the people elected IN
November, will see from the foregoing,
how utterly impossible it will be for them
to satisfy the bloody-shirt agitators at
the North, if they undertake to perform
their duty, Having acquired the right
to manage their own affairs, in their own
way, there is but one course left, and that
is to press forward with resolute step to
the accomplishment of the reforms which
they set out to achieve. " Let no guilty
man escape"