The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-02

! unreasonable for all t. be invited t. 60
i operate, ami that the democrats and con
+ servatIves OF the South should do this. Is
tue more necessary, since 50 many repub
llcans are arrIying themselve against
the national administration.
The memories Of the more recent past.
/ the necessities Of the present. AMI the
/ hopes OF the future, suggest the respou =.
OF all who cherish the general welfare of
the country above that Of mere party
/ domination. This service can not be re
/ formed except by men imbned with is
/ absolute necessity, and by the appoint
ment to office, Of those who are honest,
/ capable and faithful, and If citizens of this
/ nigh character refuse to cooperate in the
good work, and refuse to accept off "a
/ under President Hayes. the manifold
evils of which we have so long com
/ planned will surely continue. An ac-
ceptance presuppOses an offer,and an offer
/ presuppOses cooperation. 1t then Co
operation is offered and rejected, it
Will be obvious that his inaugural nd
dress was intended as a delusiOD, the
effect Of which will be to sOIidity the op-
position to the republican party, and ar
ray against his administration all other
just minded men. He cannot therefore
afford, even if So disposed, to abandon
the principles of his inaugural. If,
however, all democrats and Conservatives
refuse to respond, and evils follow,
they will be in moral sense response
bic for the same. If cooperation
Is accepted it will be time enough
for him to revise party rule when he
shall have restored honest, local, self gov
ernment in all the Southern States
eXtirpated the vicious men from office,
and removed the evils incident to their
conduct, and shall have laid the founda
ton of those laws and institutions which
are required to develop and foster the
material interest and future tranquility
of the Southern States as fOreshadowed
III the inaugural.
His recommendation Of an amendment
to the constitution prescribing a term of
SIX years for the Presidential office" and
forbidding a reelection, has also become
a necessity. Henry Clay, Daniel Web
ster aud other great statesmen of the
nearly a half century ago foresaw this
approaching necessity, and urged upon
their cOuutrymen to make provisions for
it,
There are but few epochs in the history
of civilized society where more intense
excitement, greater confusion and dis
corlances have existed, than have affiic-
ted the people of these Soathern States
since 1860. The calamties of war were
embittered by the more permanent evils
OF a general dissolution of the former
bonds of society and the overthrow of
their labor system, and as a consequence
the universal paralysis of all their indus
trial interests. All candid, considerate
minds who have a keen insight into in
dividual, State and National character,
must conclude that these evils owe their
origin to fanaticism and party spirit and
/ that their deliverAnce from this chaos of
! disorder is not to be found in the cause of
/ its existence, but in non partisan policy,
/ freed from the frenzed influences of ia
naticism, guided by truth, and that pa
/ triotism which is {" a pillar of cloud by
day, and pillar of fire by night" and
which lies at the foundation OF individ-
4 ual success and national renOwn.
The South needs repose after this long
continued excitement. Our physical ne
cessities, religion, morality and advance
ment require it. There must be 4 calm
: tr'Ar storm. Besides our political in
situations cannot much longer survive
/ these continued strains incident to violent
party contests and frequent elections.
/ The substance of the people of these
/ States is we'll nigh exhausted, poverty
with all its narrowing features, Is app
parent everywhere. labor is disorgan-
/ lied, commerce and trade anguish
and capital and immigration are re-
/ PEELED. Our young men, for the want
of congenial employment, are leaving US
for other lands, old men remain lisuess,
brooding over the crushed hopes of the
past, and the blankness of the future.
! Let Us therefore hearken to the voice of
reason and soberness, and have peace
and a revival of our hopes and former
prosperity.
Since 1860 you and many others, like
minded, have practically illustrated,
what l am now trying to enforce.
Though opposed to secession, when
your judgments were over ruled by the
action of your State, you co-operated
most nobly with your former political op
ponents in the common defence. Since
the war, though never Democrat, from
the same patriotic considerations you
affiliated with the Democratic party, and
in many instances followed the leader
ship of your ancient opponents, and IL
def of Overtures well calculated to Sc
duce you from the path of duty to the
qualification of that ambition, that 81
much delights in political power anC
official patronage, an example l canno
too earnestly commend to the emulation
of others. Ny advice is, therefore, not tc
permit ''powers, nor prlncipallties,
things present" nor things to come, Il
lead you away from these examples, fol
l am persuaded that, "as thy days, ST
shall thy strength be-"
do not believe a meeting such a,
you refer to as having been held in other
States is practicable in this State, but
might act disAstrously to the cause in
tended to be subserved.
1t is IL az fest that the Southern policy
so far successfully inaugurated by Presi
dent Hayes, is to encounter hostility
from many-ve.y many--of his owl
party; and unless this detection is il
some way successfully met, what ha.
| been gained in the South may vet b.
lost; and to whom should the Presiden
look for this needed help, if not to thoss
Tor whom they have risked so much
The President having planted himself
upou the Constitution, and avowed hi
purpose to be true and faithful to tina
charter of our rights, the practical ques
ton with us now is, shall we stand firm
or turn around and do wrong, becaus
| the President and so many to whom ",
have hitherto been opposed, now propose
: to do right. To state this question is t
! answer it. Already the Hampton Gov
f eminent has been secured to South Car
| DINA, SID that of Nichols will soon b