The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22

when men, like wolves, Tapped up the warm
blood of their victims, and grew mad uoon
its flavor? When an armed mob. backed
By the moral power of the New England
went forth on its mission of ineendiarism
pulpit, and the material aid of her capitalists.
and murder, and finally, in defiance of the
government, installed itself in power-an
.netfaceable record of shame and guilt-the
one damned spot" on our history that will
not 'out."
California has her mobs and maSsacres of
the helpless Chinese, handful among mil
lions, and the more revolving because ir is
50 cowardly, and government, though
prompt To intervene for railway million
aires, guilty ignores these California muir
ders!
In all the great centres of capital and pop
ulation symptoms Of popular discomfort
are manifest. Monopolies and millions
control the markets in their own interest,
and in country teeming with the necessa-
res OF life, often render them scarce aud
dear. While reaping enormous profits out
of these monopolies, they hold in their
hands the whole adjustment of labor and
wages They can demand of the employee
every hour of his time, aud reduce his COM
pensation to the lowest minimum. The
legislatures that invested them with these
powers, and the weak or corrupt Judges
that sustain them, are really responsible for
the property that has been destroyed and
the blood that has been shed more respon-
sible than the despairing multitude, mad
dened by the cries of their children for
bread. Men will resist when trampled on.
II the oppressor plants his foot upon your
breast, be must ex pect 70 feel your poniard
clash against his ribs.
Communism, unfortunately, presents it
sell to the inturiated masses as the readIest
refuge. Gatling guns and bayonets are the
ramparts Of the privileged. They, in the
long run, prevail. And, as avarice never
gives up its gains but to guard them, the
suit, live guage the future by the past,
VIII be the gradual growth of a great mill
tary and centralized government, which
Will favor the concentration of wealth, the
stability of Its possession, and the power
and distinction of those who amass it.
Should the government itself become pro-
prietor of the railroads, canals and tele-
graphs, as has been proposed, it at once be-
| comes a colossal power, over and above the
| people, the Consti tuition and the States. 1t
| was the doctrine of John Quincy Adams
| that, if State demanded and received the
| Intervention of the federal government to
| suppress insurrecton, it carried with it the
| power of voluntary Intervention at its own
discretion and for its own purposes ever af-
forwards. When Mr.. Scott, the Pennsyl-
| wanna railroad king, was recently humbly
approached by some of his wOrkmen for re-
dress, he haughtily replied that it was too
! late-that the government and the State, by
| their Intervention, were now partners in
his monopolies, and their consent must be
| obtained-thus making the State and the
| United States share the odium of his exac-
tions,
/ We have drifted from our ancient moor
ings the government of oar fathers, which
was strictly limited, looking to the States
as the reservoirs of its sovereignty, and to
them for counsel and approval, cannot be
recognized in the government of to-day, nc
matter by whom or by what party admin
istered What will it be fifty years hence
under the corrupting influence of capital: oil
sectionalism, and OF mobs? win it have
become splendid, powerful, aggressive, and
more corrupt, controlled by its legions, and
those legions the terror of the world? Or
will it, happily, under the conservative in
fluenee of recuperaUed South, which ha:
been purified by her EufferiDgs and in
structed by her misfortunes, return to 1T
primitive simplicity and excellence?
BIobs in the South are but little known. II
is an agricultural and pastoral region, it,
incubation scattered over a wide area, will
no striking inequalities of condition. They
know little of the cooperative principle
which, properly directed and restrained, of
ten produces useful and grand results Thu
prime motive power is not social and mu
tual, but personal. Every man pushes hi
own fortune and enterprises, and, to som'
extent redresses his own grievances, with
out calling on mob for help. There ar
! no great aggregatious of capital, few mo
nopoles; no oppression of labor, no wretch
edness and restitution, such as are witness
! ed in more opulent and luxurious commu
mites The working man, whether whit
: or black, is nowhere else, on this earth, il
the enjoyment of so many comforts and 81
many guarantees.
There was a mob in Baltimore many
I years since, but it was, in fact, conflict o.
2 political factions, and not the antagonist
i between labor and capital. Her recent mol
sprung from the oppression of Northern
monopolists, and the men who composed
), were mainly refugee miners from Pennsyl
: vania. and starving operatives driven fror
their homes in distant communities to be
tor bread.
The normal condition of the South Ia
been grestly changed and deteriorated o
. late years. This is the concomitant of civi
war. She can by no means claim all hel
former characteristics or her ancient glory
But with her broken spear and her shattere
fortunes she still retains her old conserva
u tism, and it may be safely said that mob
= and agrarianism will never thrive upon he
soil. Let us hope too, that her legislator;
true to their ancient traditions, and he
courts now conducted by upright and en-
liohtened men, will take measures to re
- strain the exactions of corporations, an
give the proper security to industry and la
! Dor.
- Georgia RePudiates she Preten0l
ed Obligations Fraudulenfly
: FOfsfed ON Her People.