The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-01-17
sIi-.i--fppi and Her A@saIIans..

The penalty which the people of
Mississippi have to pay for an indefinite
time, if the Ra 1ical= continue in control
of the Federal Government, for throwing
of the yoke of the carpet baggers, are
the food tides of calumny and falsehood
that will be poured upon them by the
partizans Of the Administration, and the
annoyances of the ultra Radicals seeking
to reduce the State to a condition OF
territorial bondage. 1t is only in this
condition when the people are held down
by the bayonets of the United States,
that the spoilsmen are permitted to APP
propriate their earnings, and the vultures
to feed upon their vitals.
Nothing that is just, honorable or com
mendable in the management of the
affairs Of the State, will avail to arrest
this warfare Of the Vandals. They are
prompted by malice, lust Of plumber and
determination to commend themselves
to the favor of their masters. and
what does it avail if the expen-
ditures of the government have been
reduced and the burthen lighthened-
if the Public School system is on
better footing than it has ever been
if Just laws are impartially administered
if the civil administration is abundant
" able to preserve the public peace-if
order reigns-if coed feeling exists be-
| tween the races? And what if this refOr-
nation has been achieved by the people
in peaceable and fair elections, and by
| the union of both races to rid themselves
Of rulers whose administration was the
curse of both All these causes furnish
no grounds Of justification for the people
in the estimation of the Radical parti-
zans. The crime of the former is in
having broken the rod of the latter whose
study is retaliation and restoration to
power with federal bayonets.
In another column will be seen the n.
Y. Herald's report of the game the ultra
Radicals are playing, and the part that
Z. S. Marshal j. f.. Lake, is performing.
His statement that large number of
citizens have been indicted since the
election is true; but it is none the less
true that they were indicted upon testi-
mony procured by the basest agencies,
and to subserve the vilest partizan pur-
poses. They are founded upon misrep-
resentation and falsehood, and the end
they are designed to serve is to put fees in
the pockets of Radical office holders, to
harass and impoverish the victims Of
these prosecutions and intimidate the
people from the free exercise of their
fairer and more peaceful election than
the Presidential election in Mississippi
in November last, and there never was
more just verdict pronounced against
those who had entitled themselves to
the execration in which they We're held.
Marshall Lake thinks in a "free and
fair election" Mississippi would have cast
%, 900 majority for Hayes and Wheeler.
OF course this is all pretense. The ma
iority of coIored voters in the State does
not exceed fifteen thousand and to esti-
mate the Republican vote by the colored
vote is a false test Nearly all the
whites and one-fourth Of the blacks are
Democrats. The accession to the Dem
ocratic party from the latter is constant
ly increasing and it is a safe prediction
that in short time they will abandon
the Radical party entirely, for the rea-
son that they have discovered it to be
party of fraud, plumber and mischief to
both races and to all classes. The Rad
ical Administration may keep up its war
fare and its petty methods of persecu-
ton, but it will only intensity the oppo-
sition of the people to Radicalism and
their determination to hold the State to
her Democratic moorings.