The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1877-12-27

~y friends
= CLARION On a re-
&has devised plan to
the rule of the Republican
party for another generation and it D.
characteristic of Yankee thrift witch is
always ready to drive bargain and un
errlngly aims at the main chance The
scheme is embodied in the following ex-
tract from the New York Tribune:
HOW TO KEEP THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN
POWER.
81 am satisfied" Mr.. Woodford con-
tlnued, that the Republican party can
1eA8 the country for another generation, il
ILL ystO an uucOmprOmisiug defense
4 OF honest currency, an idea whsth some OF
our Eastern Republicans will look upon as
a heresy, but which is entirely in line with
the traditions of our party and of the Wing
par y, whose successor we are. L mean in
ternal improvements. We must advocate
the opening of the Mississippi river for
ocean commerce as far up as st. Louis, and
| the removal of all obstacles that Interfere
with its navigation at all seasons by light
| draft boats to st. Paul. The East has got
| its harbOrs made and its rivers opened, and
now it is disposed to selfishly oppose the
| very policy it used TO maintain; tut the
! West, which is turning from purely agri-
| cultural pursuits to the mixed occupations
| ofagriculture, manufactures, and internal
| commerce, demands the same aid from the
General Government which the East has
| already received. We must not anita gonize
| that demand. 1t is just, and our party
should take it Up and give 1T potency. We
| in the East should sly to the West, EYOu
want these great improved ents, but you
cannot have them unless you drop your
| currency heresies and come upon the hard
| money platform. Without national credit
no money can be had for your magnificent
! enterprise; and your imitation schemes will
destroy that credit. Help Us t,-=Ssttle for
| ever the currency questions, ana remove
all doubt abont the kind OF mof%y the Gov
| eminent bonds are to be paid ~, and the
| money that will be saved in interest by
funding the five and six per cent. bonds
| with four per cent. will be ample to open
| the Mississippi to the commerce of the
world.
Our knowledge embraces many men
who were of the Wing party when it
went out of existence nearly two genera
tions ago, and we know they will repeI
with honest Indignation the statement OF
this INSCRIPTIONS demagogue that the
Republican party, with its history of in
famous crimes which make humanity
shudder-its Iandalism-its habitual
violation of TIE Constitution-its vices
and its corruption-has any such rela-
ton to the OLD Wing party as he de-
scribes If it has inherited its princi-
pies, it would have been a conservative
and constitutional party. If it had ad-
hered to its practices and traditions it
would have been an honest party. So
far as the improvement of the Mississip-
pi river is concerned, both of the old par
ties held that it was the duty of the
In 1847 Convention of Southern and
Western States was held at Memphis
with the avowed object of inaugurating
grand work of the kind, and it was
presided over by John G. Calhoun, one
of the great lights of the Democratic
party. The Convention was composed
of Wings and Democrats elike; and a
committee consisting Of representative
men from both parties was appointed to-
memorabilia, and did memorabilia Con
gress on the subject. Mississippi was
represented on this Committee by Roger
Barton, a lion of the Democratic tribe of
his day. Others no less prominent in
the Wing party figured conspicuously.
The New York emairic who has PIE
scribed fo1 the ills of BIS party does MT
say so, but leaves it to be inferred that
the traditions of the old Democratic
party are opposed t6 anc1s55sr improve
ment in which the entire co Try and
the South, is interested-a
to the Pacific upols the thirty
second parallel of latitude. The merest
tyro in political history knows that ac-
tive measures for concentrating this |
work was put on foot during the Pierce
Administration by Mr.. Jefferson Davis,
of War, who ordered survey |
of the route, and in his report demon
strated its practicability and necessity. |
and that to no party of former day>be- |
longed the exclusive honor of originating |
and advocating it, Certainly the ffS ss51f'S $
which Mr.. Pierce's Administrations rep
resented is entitled to~>a large shape of
the honor which will attach to its 3ofigi-
nal championship.
But tho cream of the joke (for SO bold
a proposition to legisla+s upon the cor
rupt principle of ':you tickle me and I'll
tickle you" can 'Oe considered hardly less
than a ioke1 is in the admission that these
Southern improvements is just and
riS5SS1[-that the welfare of the country |
demands them-that the North and |
East have had their equivalent in the
of their rivers and harbors |
but that the South and West must
purchase the favor of the North and
East by prolonging the wretched life of
the Radical party and supporting the f.
nancial policy which has been adopted
in the interest of the capitalists and
at the expense of the la
boring masses and the industrial inter
ests of the country. There can be but
one answer to proposition so unjust
and so corrupting in political morals;
and but one feeling of intense loathing |
for its author and propounder. The
trade will not be made.