The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-02

+, ments. To crafty the curiosity of sons
t of those who may not haYe an opportuni
ty of seeing it in other journals, we havs
4 published, in this number, one of biz
chapters. From its character the whole
) may be judged. To say nothing Of il
reckless falsehoods, was there ever 3
more pro6tless, stupid, ill-timed and
wearisome performance II is simply
} the game of a desperate demagogue to
! secure the support of the discomftted
} carpet-bag element in the Republican
Presidential Convention. True, this
element cannot control the electoral vote
of more than one (South Carolina of the
States it viii claim to represent, but it
will, nevertheless, be an immense power
in deciding who shall be the Republican
candidate. Morton, we think, in waving
the bloody shirt and falsifying the
history of Mississippi for the last forty
years, to bring dishonor on the State,
has completely won over to his support
the vagabond element, which viii declare
I
the bread and butter which it is now re-
ceiving from the hands ofGen. Grant.
The great mistake which Morton and
the rest of the Northern Radical hum
bugs make is that the abandonment Of
the carpet baggers by the blacks was I'M
der compulsion of the whites. Nothing
could be more untrue. 1t is shown to
be false by past results. The blac&s have
in every instance exercised the utmost
freedom in elections In this State, and
for years they blindly followed the car
pet-bagger with the belief that he was an
agent of the Federal government for lead
ing them into the paths of liberty, light
and prosperity. Not until they had
been taught by bitter experience, that
they were the victims of fraud did they
see the error of their way; but, at last,
seeing it, they rushed pell-mell with the
impulsive zeal of their race into the Dem
ocratic ranks, not without pledges, how
ever, that they would be protected in the
enjoyment of every right possessed by the
whites themselves. That this pledge,
we will say in passing, will be strictly
maintained cannot be doubted. The
Democratic Legislature has been in ses-
sion several weeks, and not a sim
gle measure discriminating against |
the blacks has been thought of, much |
less introduced. On the contrary, they |
were recognized in bestowing the Offices
within the gift of the Legislature, and |
will share, equally with the whites. all the |
benefits of the reforms that will be ae-
complisaed.
Senator Morton, and the other humbugs |
who echo his absurdities, forget that it is
no unusual thing for complete revolutions
to occur in American politics. Other States
have furnished more signal instances of
this fact than did Mississippi at the last
election, though none of them have ever
had as great cause Massachusetts, had
been Republican by from GO, 600 to lOO,-
900 for fifteen years until 1874 when she
astonished herself and the whole country
by giving Democratic majority. Ohio
had been proverbially Republican until
1874, when she experienced complete
revolution. The same remark applies to
Pennsylvania and to dozen other North
ern States. But who was preposterous
enough to introduce into the U. S. Sen
ate resolutions of inquiry into the cause,
and to fabricate a theory of fraud, in
timidation and violence, to the prejudice
of the fair Fepute Of the people
of those States, and for the purpose
of justifying armed interference with
their affairs by the military power of the
Federal Government!
The Senator, to make good his claim
on the support of the vagabond element,
has gone back thirty and forty years to
find subjects for disappearing and vii
Iifying the State Cows, Tucker and
McNutt have been sleeping in their
graves thirty years, but yet their dust is
not sacred from the touch of this hyena.
What has the United States Senate, at
this late day, to do with the action of
Mississippi in refusing, thirty years ago,
to pay a debt which she never contracted,
and which was never a binding obliga-
ton upon her? Desperate indeed, must
be the Radical cause, if it needs prop
ping by such an expedient.
Again, the old song is sung over again
that the State, being the custodian of
certain Trust Funds, had in bad faith
loaned them to corporations for the pur-
pose of carrying out important public
enterprises; and Senator Alcorn mods
his Endorsement of the calumny. Why
did not the Mississippi Senator TebUke
him for his meddling with affairs that 6i6
not concern him, and at the same tine
repel the SANDER? Why did net MIR.
Alcorn say, that, as member of the
Legislature before the war, he himself
voted to loan these funds to railroad |
companies Why did he not say that
the State had faithfully paid the inter-
est upon them? Why did he not say
that, under his own (RadicaD admin
istration, the land scrip donated by Con-
gress to the State for educational pur-
poses, since reconstruction, had been
recklessly directed from the object of the |
grant, and squandered upon that den of
thieves and sink OF iniquity known as
"Alcorn" University And when Nor
ton, in his presence, spoke of the purity of
the Radical regime in Mississippi, why did |
not Mr.. Alcorn refresh his memory with