The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-08-16

Ih OF August, Io'o' "'S me-" Aai
l'sstipg Of the citizens of said county I
IN The nominations Of Samuel j
T;Ian for President, and Thos. A
IIan5rjeks. for Vice President Of tin
it,iteJ States, also that of Col. Van II
NIarniuq as candidate for Congress in tn
1IC,ngressional District of Mississippi
-.ommittee Of thirteen, appointed b.
C.rt ] :. Jones, chairman of the Den
-I,tic executive committee of Tat
.11nty also Chairman Of this meeting
,9n,ri.d through Maj. Thos II. John
IAN ~ their chairman, the following
PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTIONS:
WHEREAS The present administration
ofour national government has been char
..orized by the most reckless extrava
49, and rrossest corruption in higl
80 While our taxes have beer
lIaeroas to a degree that renders our la
Ilr unavoidable and our property worth
H.. onr government has been unable,
,Lr,tIgb the mismanagement, incapacity
.Ii dishonesty Of our rulers, to meet its
phI;,,,tions and redeem its pledges. An
;r..144mable and huctuating currency
los been entailed upon Us, making bust
calculations uncertain and invest
,nsnt. unsafe and insecure. The enor-
n,itv and frequency of corruption and
a.;,,4- in official stations are only equal
~ hy the boldness and etfrontery Of the
criuinals ard the impunity with which
tLey escape punishment. Our late sec
rotIrv ofwar, after be ~ guilty of the
lJIa.t and most heiuous ofcnses that
aver djsoraced any administration, con
e,..es his crimes, ! signs his high posi-
tion with the "regre ;" Of the executive
and stands acquitted upon the records Of
q radical republican senate. Through
the iucapaclty of Robe on, our navy
has been robbed ofits pristine excellence,
millions of dollars squandeeed with no
nprnose or effect but to fill the Golfers
and satisfy the greed of Il corrupt and
avaricious official. The course Of the
marty IN power towards the South, has
been unwise, ungenerous and unjust.
Instead of speaking to us encouraging
word. to rekindIe the hope in our sor-
row-stricken hearts, and lending US a
helm no h2nd to build up our waste
places they have Piled Us with abuse,
and resorted to every scheme which the
ingenuity Of devilfh malice could in
yea to goad us to desperation. "They
have erected a multitude of new off ces
and sent hitler swarms of new officers
to barass our people and eat out their
substance" Between the white and col
ored man whom God intended should be
friends, and whom fate has placed here
in one common country, they have at
tempted to stir up bad feeling and strife,
70 array one race againt the other.
Though the last shot of our unfortunate
and unhappy civil war was fired over
eleven years ago, and the true and brave
men Of both sections desire peace and
harmony, this party would obtain a
longer lease of power by reviving and
appealing to the passions and prejudices,
that wisdom and prudence dictate should
long ago have been suppressed and
made to Weld to reason. They would
forever fight over and over issues that
have long been settled, and are dead.
Like the Ghoul of eastern story they
take savage pleasure in haunting the
grave-yafds Of the past in the hopes of
digging up feasts upon which to grow
fat. The people of our country, have,
at length, awoke from the lethargy
which has 50 long possessed them and
have begun to look anxiously about for
some relief of the many troubles that be-
set them. The convention of the Dem
ocratic party which assembled at St.
Louis on the 9th day of June, 1876,
did but echo the voice Of the whole ma
ton yearning for rettenchment and re-
form Therefore, be it resolved,
Isl. That we do this day ratiiy, con-
firm, endorse and approve every article
OF the platform of the Democratic party,
adopted at St Louis on the 9th day OF
June, 1876, and we pledge ourselves to
dc all that lies within our power for the
election in November next of Samuel j.
Tilden and Thos A. Hendricks, Presi-
dent and VIce-President of the United
States, and Van Ii. Manning member of
the lower house of Congress from this
Congressional District.
Resoired ID, That the interests at stake
in this contest are too great and too vital
to admit of division and dissention in the
ranks of our own party that 1t has long
been Il maxim of the Democratic party,
that its constant effort and steady aim Is
the permanent establishment of the tue
principles Of a wise and good gov
ernment-not the aggrandizement or
elevation of individuals; that their
party leaders and candidates for
office are not men, whom 1T wishes
peculiarly to have or enrich, but
simply and merely opponents of grand
truths and principles. We will, there
fore, lay aside all personal preferences
OF feelings and work Zealously and
harmonionsly together for the accom-
pllshment Of a common object. We Will
do our part towards giving Tliden and
Hendricks the State of Mississippi by
forty thousand majority, and Manning
this Congressional District by ten thou
sand.
Resolred Sd, That the thanks-earnest
and hearttet-of the people of our grand
old State are eminently due, and are
hereby most cordially given, to our
representatives in the last Legislature,
for their earnest and successful effort IN
the line of honest government, retrench-
ment and reform; that, for their prompt
action in freeing US, as we hope, forever
from the presence of that corrupt class OF
carpet-bag' officials who have so long
dlsgraced US abroad while proving upon
Us at home, they are entitled TO our
gratitude as men to whom we are wiling
to entrust our dearest interests.
These resolutions were unanimously
and enthusiastically adopted, and the
committee instructed to publish them IN
the Memphis Appeal, the Jackson CLAIR
Ion and all papers in this Congress
slonal District.
Then, after an eloquent and stirring
address by Col Manning, and after
eating barbecued dinner, the meeting
dispersed.