The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-04-18
"rIae solid South"


withstanding all the intrigues end
clamor of the demagogues to prevent it
For ten years Louisiana and South G.; r
olina have been kept under Republican
rule by the troops whose withdra wal re
moves the only cause that has kept them
from falling into line with Virginia,
North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi, Texas and the other recon
structed States. The extreme Radicals
are censuring Mr.. Hayes for this result
on account ofhis attempt in a bungling
and stupid way to execute the plain and
simple policy of non interference advo-
Gated by the Democracy and demanded
by the country, but he is not resp )nsible.
He is only consenting with poor grace
and in hesitating manner to what he
could not prevent.
Nothing could be more contrary to the
wishes ofthe leaders Of the party which
the Administration represents than this
condition of Southern affairs. They
have resisted it with all the influences
they we're capable of welding. They
adopted the reconstruction policy, with
universal suffrage, not from humanity
to the negro, but to make him Radical
voting machine. Tlmy established
Freedmen's Bureau agencies for that pur-
pose. They prescribed the whites and
denied them free participation in the re-
organization Of the Southern State gov
ernments after the war, for that purpose.
To that end they kept alive the passions
of the war, and passed enforcem ent and
ku-klux acts to harry and intimidate vo-
tiers Of the white race. To that end they
raised the battle flag of the "bloody
shirt; !" and adopted as their slogan to ex-
cite the alarm and fire the heart of the
North, the "rebel debt" and "Southern
claims" To that end they employed the
United States army and invested mill
tary commanders with supreme power
over the lives and liberties of the people
To that end, they stole the votes of three
States installed their President by in
timidation and fraud; and finally as a
last recourse they have attempted to di-
vide and conquer by forming a coalition
with the men OF whom they have spoken
derisively as ex-cOnfederates and enc
mics Of the government. In this last
i TO oil f,I
The Southern people, remembering all
the wrongs they have suffered ct the
hands of that Party-remembering its
Punic faith-and reminded perpetually
of its last browning outrage Of Selling the
Presidential office in defiance of the pop
ular voice will have but one indignant
response to its deceitful overtures: Get
thee behind me "Satan?"
And the South Will re1nein "'solid"
The Republican leaders, by their despo,
rate scheming to array the North against
her, commenced the game, and taught
her people the necessity of combination.
All that they have gained since the
war in re establishing their rights under
the common government was by
standing together. If the bayonet
is to be removed, it is because the
South contributed her p TT to the
popular majority Of three hundred
thousand voters who made the de-
mand through the ballot-box. There is
power in the voice of a people united.
The spirit of hate and persecution, more
deaf than wind and waves to the appeals
Of justice and humanity, quails before it.
The natural instinct Of Self-preseryatiop
points to but one course. II is for the
South to stand firmly by the National
Democracy which in the dark days, and
through good and evil report, demanded
equality of privilege for her in the Union
The Memphis Appeal no more truthfully
than eloquently remarks that ''ten years
&c ago, our only friend on earth, the
g Democratic party was in a hopeless
60 minority Both houses of Congress
50 were against US by over two-thrds ma
81 iority; the whole people of the Union
'' were against us, and thought it no
g wrong to revile, plumber and cypress
'' us. Most of the Southern States
g were in the hands of aliens and
: robbers. we were draining the cup
of misfortune and humiliation to its
Il Il.
changed. Aided by the National
Democracy, and opposed by the Rad
zeal party, every Southern State is re-
deemed and under the control of its
8 own people, except one poor captive
= sister, and the letters will soon fall |
{ from her limbs" In her strength she
,annot distrust the faithfulness of friends !
hat were true to her as the needle to the |
pole in her weakness.
When Louisiana joins the redeemed |
States, the South will be ''solid" for the |
of her own interests and for |
he Constitution which should be the
My cementing bond Of the Union. Thus
olidifed and united with the Democracy
f the North upon the immutable princi-
lies of justice to every section and to all
zen of every cline, color, condition and
ace, the South will be secure, and the
ssaults of her enemies will be like
urging waves against a solid rock
o >hiverS dashed, and in froth and bubbles
end.
EX-Chairman He witt.
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