The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-08-23

. had hanged at Charlestown as a feIoD VIII,
was now the ideal leader of reoenera
ted nation"
These references are made to the Mt
terances of the chairman, and of m,
clerk selected by him to accompany tn,
committee, and make public impression
OF affairs n Mississippi, and the remel,
70 be applied, because it indicated fuiIS
To the undersigned that from the first i
would be naturally impossible for them,
with their ideas Of constitutional duty. Il
subscribe to the deductions of those who
however intelligent or CONSCIENTIOUS, start.
ed out upon the proposed Investigation
upon such platform of ideas.
While writing this report, the under
signed have read with surprise and re.
greet the message of the President of the
United States, dated July 81, 1876, trans
uniting TO Congress certain corresDond
ence relating to the murder lately com.
united at Hamburg, in South Carolina
In tins message he has seen fit to use
the following language:
But recently IL committee of the Sen.
ate of the United States visited the State
OF Mississippi to take testimony on the
subject of frauds and violence in elections.
Their reports has not yet been made pub
lie, but | await its forthcoming with a
feeling Of confidence that it will fully
sustain all that / have stated relating to
fraud and violence in the State of Mis-
sissippi.
U. S. GRANT"
In his letter of the 26th of July to
Governor Chamberlain he had stated
9 Mississippi is governed to day by
officials chosen through fraud and VIC
lence, such as would scarcely be accredit
ed to savages, much less to civilized and
Christian people"
This last statement, come it from whom
1t may, we pronounce in the face of the
testimony taken by this committee, and
not yet printed, to be untrue and unwar-
ranted by the facts disclosed.
The tone of animosity to the white
people of the South which breathes
| throughout the Presidents message and
letter is unmistakable In his message
of July 81, six days subsequent to this
letter, the President says: g The report
on Mississippi has not yet beer made
public" Why should he anticipate
We hold it, and believe it will be
80 Leld by right thinking men every
trate thus to have exhibited such evidence
of prejudice against any portion Of his
| fellow citizens.
1t adds, however, but another proof to
the many given heretofore that the heart
and mind of President Grant are closed
to all sense Of justice where his political
opponents, especially in the Southern
| States, are concerned.
Other attempts to forestall public opin-
ion in relation to the affairs 10 Missis-
| sippi have been made, calculated to gross
ly mislead. Two attemps to fasten ohio
guy upon one of the undersigned, Mr..
| Bayard, and at the same time to con-
vey unjust Impressions against the people
| of Mississippi, may be noted.
Especial dispatch to the Baltimore SUM-
WAsHINGroS, July %.
1.-THE REPUBLICAN REPORT IN MISSISSIPPI
" Another case Illustrative of the gen.
! eral conclusions arrived at by the ma
jority Of the committee is that of a native
of Philadelphia. He settled near Vicks-
burg and was with his family. He had
been appointed a justice of the peace by
the governor of the State, and his wife
opened q school for the instruction of the
poor. lie vas subsequently, candidate
for office. On one night fifty armed men
dashed upon his premises and shot him
down without word of warming and in
the presence of his wife and family.
When the story of the wife was told by
| her syp lips to the committee, Senator
Bayard, ole Of the committee, ejacula-
ted, 1 don't believe H.
| " After the murder, according 10 the
| report, the assassins lowered about the
house and would not permit the wife to
enact even the Fites of sepulture. They
1 dragged the bleeding corpse from the
arms of the distracted woman, pitched
it into pig wallow. and left. Senator
Bayard, affected by the narration, re-
peated, / won't believe it under oath.
The report says that these banditti,
for it states they compare with Italians of
! the same class, live upon the people.
| They arc dissolute and indOlent, generally
the sons Of planters impoverished by the
war, or the remnant Of that class of ad-
venturers who fastened upon the insGtn-
ton of slavery as the camp-follower lives
upon "a army.
Mr.. Bayard never even saw the wit
ness referred to, who was examined in
| his absence, and he never made any state
meut even similar in language or char
acter to that falseiy attributed to him.
Yet this vicious falsehood las already
had wide circulation.
In the New York Times of the 9th OF
July we find the following letter and pre-
/ ce!ing comments:
. Senator Boutwell, has also received
letter from a colored witness who testi-
fed in Mississippi, from which It vii Pe
seen how the democracy of that State
propose 10 treat those who Obeyed the
summons of the Sepate Committee
"DEAR SIR: having been summon
before your investigationg to give a
sworne testimony in regard to the late
election, which did, and I told moth
inc but the truth Yesterday | was met
by An af5aed mob in the streets Of
and compelled ms 70 say that | swore
lie. And told Ile had
either TO saw that / swore to a -
lie or leave the city or die. The excite
mept grew SO intense that [ was com
nell to take back what [ said before the
committee ] vas also net by another
mob at the same day that |
was before the committee aud com
PEELED to do the same before | got home
| I w'd not be surprised if were not mob
before yop receive this letter. If you
!, read this letter where Senator Bayaro
can hear it he will write down here and
let these democrats know it, and / Wi
| he murdered as soon as | appear on the
) streets. Therefore it will be best fore
me fore you to keep this to yourself ane
other republicans"
COZ course every one who knows Gen