The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-09

ms evil must be ~ oOronSly eradica. ed
from both States We have heard of no
more atr0cious crime than that which - as
perpetrated IN kemper county. and Gov.
STONE iIas now an opportunity, by fearless
and determined action, 10 strike such ter
Tor TO the hearts Of aHle-s men in MiSsis-
sippi, that he will, If he avail- himself Of il,
nave little trouble of a similar nature in the
iuture--N. o. Democrat.
This is a specimen Of the tub which
some Southern newspapers that ought to
know better, is throwing out to the North
ern whale, which they imagine is craving
for a sensational feast. The conductors
OF those papers cannot but know that
sometimes there are evils TO be uprooted,
for which no peaceable methods provide
sufficient remedies, and that others be-
sides ''violent and lawless men" resort
10 them. Chief among them is system
2uc and premeditated assassination, the
evidence of which is necessarily circum-
stantial, but of which there is neverthe-
less confirmation as strong as proof Of
holy writ to the public mind That the
kemper county affair is the product Of
the bad passions which were propagated
under Radical misrule, and that they
were INDUCED by depraved and vicious
men who hourished under it, cannot
be questioned. But that the men who,
to rid the community Of the evils which
it inflicted were compelled to resort to
summary measures, were F'lawless and
violent" in the sense employed, we ut
terly deny. II our New Orleans eotem-
porary will tax his memory just a little
he will readily recall ''crimes" equally
as "atrocious" as the Kemper affair,
when outraged communities were
forced, by abuses for which they
were not responsible, to intlict
summary vengeance upon evil doors.
1t happened at Mechanics Institute in
New Orleans in 1868. In Grant parish
in 1874. In New Orleans again on the
memorable 4th>of September. At Gin
ton, Miss, in 1878; and at Hamburg,
South Carolina, in 1876. If our New
Orleans neighbor will tax his memory he
will recall the scenes at San Francisco,
just few years preceding the war. And
the summary vengeance which the Indiana
people inflicted upon the Reno clan, after
finding that the slow processes of the law
were wholly inadequate to the punish
ment of assassins who lurked in thickets
on the way-side and made their tracks
under the cover of darkness. And if he
will take a peep into his Northern ex-
changes any day, he will find there re-
corded deeds which are committed with
out provocation on the innocent and help
less, compared to which the conduct Of
the Kemper people are examples of mercy
and humanity. Even as we write we
have before us a New York Herald con
tanning an account Of an outrage almost
in the suburbs Of that city which exceeds
in fiendishness any offence that the annals
Of Mississippi, or any other Southern
State, can furnish, even though they be
the outcroppings of Radical misrule, In
this case the victim was helpless, unot-
Tending woman. After suffering I'M
told inhumanities at the hands of
"twenty.three ruffians" she was left
to die in the woods alone. "In the
meantime" says the Herald reporter "not
a single step has been taken by the
g authorities to bring to justice the
g fiends who, if they nave not murdered
" the girl, have terribly injured her for
life" Now this poor, helpless female,
was innocent of oAense to God or man
she had done her wrong doors no in
iury-she had not broken the peace of
the communicate had not committed
nor plotted it-but she
was subjected TO cruelties by the side of
which the punishment inflicted upon the
Gilmer Chisholm clan were mercies. A
later Herald, (the 3dj has reference to
still another crime in that community of
almost parallel enormity to the one just
recited and the Herald is fair-minded
enough to say: "This outrage, (the New
York atrocity) happened i'll the midst
. of wnai We call the highest civilization
4" and seems to haze excited the author
% tiles here surprisingly little. 81
90 Let us make our own police do their
" duty and then we can complain of
" Mississippi"
We don't understand what is meant
by the cali upon Gov. Stone to strike
''terror to the hearts of iaRless men in
The Governor is as much
bound by tie law as other people are,
and it distinctly prescriLes bis duties. 1t
gives him no authority to try anybody
to hang anybody-or to put anybody in
the Penitentiary. The men engaged in
the Kemper affair did their work in open
day. They will not run away nor hide
They are amenable to the
laws; and judicial tribunals are estab-
lished to try them. 1t will be tiWe
enough foF the Governor to exercise his
power as commander in-chief when the
laws for the punishment of the accused
are defied and when the courts are
shown to be powerless to execute their
DEGREES.
III. c." of the New York Times, par
L L Al IL