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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30

With the CLARION. as with the Bourbons
generally. everything depends on the par
iiZan label. IL cannot be denied that since
The 4th OF March the condition of tae South
has wonderfully ian proved; that the people
now govern themselves, AM that conf lence
in future prosperity Is expressed on every
hand The CLARION will say that no credit
Is due President Hayes Tor this; but il the
acts which produced thi glorious revolution
had been performed by Mr.. Tiden the
CLARION would have insisted that To him
alone all praise beiOnge !. Mr.. Tilden hap
pens u wear the CLARIONs label. This
makes all the difference. The CLARION rep
reseHts in Mississippi tie class of politicians
OF which it i truly said. they learn nothing
and forget nothing. Il represents the reac
tiOnists who desire To carry the world back
to the prehistoric ages.--Memphs Ava
lanche.
This IS the silly gable of an Admins
tratioD organ. We Will not discuss the
CLARION We contend that it has been
consistent upon all the main issues that it
has had to deal with since the war. It
took its position firmly upon them at the
beginning at the fisk OF being rnisunder-
stood by some and rnaliciously misrepre-
-ented by many. It pointed out the way
Of safetv-and it has lived to see the in
telligent white people Of every Southern
State occupying the sumo ground, and
the National Democracy which was tri-
umphant in the last election, p!edging
Itself to its original poIicy.in the admins
tration Of the government. But that's
not the point 1T the declaration which
was entered on the journals of Congress
by the House Of Representatives on the
Sd Of March, 1877, is not a falsehood
Mr.. Hayes is Il usurper. While we dc
not intend to put this fact out of mind,
we are willing to give him credit for a.
his good acts that deserve it but we shall
never cease to maintain that to the PEG
! pie of the Southern States themselve.
belong the "credt" Of achieving the
glorious revolution in their aff'4irs o
which the Avalanche speaks. The Ma
tional Democracy did what they were
able to lit them out Of bondage, but they
were in the minority until reinforced by
the almost solid South, which gave then
the victory and the moral influence i
has exercised upon the present Admins
tration. So far az the non Intervention
of Mr.. Hayes IS concerned, it must BIZ
remembered that Gen. Grant initiated
it in his refusal to respond to the repeated
calls Of Packard for troops upon thu
ground that the public sentiment of The
nation had rebeIIed against the continued
policy of holding the Southern States il
subsection to carpet-bag rule with tbs
bayonets of the government; and ;
feeble man like Mr.. Hayes might well
have recoiled from ground upon which {
man Of iron nerve like Gen. Grant dared
no longer tread
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30
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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30

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AZ lin ~ him 10 tb. c5 lHi; they q.,
this junc,ur. Mi.,is-ipnf III. ~ State
thr "a after 'leck. ami Mn. p'.' A trAy \.
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the Dem 'crttlc purity viii .. '1'.r..-
tory whose >pleudor viii .t.,..'. Sir.
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black. will rally 9r..nii W.T., HN.fr.
rlrce Aim bv am ,i,rir. '.I b.H"
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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30
Etawanabal County.

Hon. David johnson sends material
aid to the CLARION. and appends a post
script about crops and politics, as fol
lows
Crop prospects Frightening. Wheat and
oats very good. We are preparing for the
coming election, and will be a unit for the
nominees, be they whom they may. We
would prefer the holding of the State Con-
vention about the last of July or first OF
AUGUST
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30

Nh. B. P. ROBSON, Superintendent of
the Ripley, Kentucky & Ship Island
marrow guage) Railroad, writes to J. S.
Harrison, Esq, of the Winston Banner,
that the Company will be ready to go to
work extending the road from Ripley to
New ALBANY, eighteen miles, sometime
in June, and will be at New Albany not
later than November: that it is condi
ton to obtain all the iron, ETC., that will
be needed to put the road through the
State, and that Mississippi City, on the
Gulf shore, is the Southern objective
point.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30

THE Meridian Mercury amends a
statement of the Times that if the assas-
sin who attempted the murder of John
w. Gully had been convicted for the as
sault, the events of the 29th of April
would not have occurred-by saying:
We wish now to state fact for info: m n
ton OF TIL Times and to amend Its PROPOSE
tion by adding To it somewhat. We say, il
Rash and his accomplish or dccomplces had
been promptly arrested etc we should have
been ''spared the horrors ofthat awful Sun
day" And, for Il good reason; for, in that
case We think it safe to say that w. w.
Chjsolm light have had the walls of the
pcnitentiary between him and the mob.
We sail in our last, that Ben Rush never
had been publicly S"en in kemprr county
since that attempt on the 10th Decem Der,
To show the Tunes how his arrest was not
made. And we state the Tact to be, he 1cdS
seen in ChiSOlHa'S house, for Information of
the Times. that it may know who was his
omplice.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30

THE latest Presidential deliverance is
that his fraudulency has made up" his
mind "to bestow the offices in his gift
g exclusively upon men who worked for
90 the success of the Republican party in
q the late campaign." From which We
infer that the idea of obtaining recruits
for the Republican party with govern
ment patronage, has been abandoned.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30

A PLAIN, unvarnished statement of
the Kemper troubles from the beginning
to their terrible denouement on the 29th
of April, will be found in another column.
The name of the writer, which is left
with us. would, if it accompanied the
account, be a sufficient guarantee of its
strict impartiality and fairness.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30

GES. w. A. WALKER (Democrat) has
been elected to the State Senate from
Chester county, S. c., by 1, 900 majority.
Hayes carried Chester by 500, and
Chamberlain by 100 majority. It is the
same in South Carolina as in the other
reconstructed States. The Radical party
once badly beaten, is forever ':dOne for. .
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30

The letter Of Senator Norton chief of
Radical bulIdozers, will attract attention.
Its argumentis that "the Republican gov
ernments of Louisiana and South Caro-
lima have yielded to force, and that
president Hayes has but accepted the
situation as t was bequeathed to him on
the 4th of Marcia It's object IS to bring
the Administration back to the "bloody
shirt" doctrine, and to array the North
solidly against tue South, and Will
constitute strong reason for the lat
ter 70 maintain its unity upon national
principles.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30

0NE Fapin, who piled the calling of
lobbyist and put through jobs by the use
of money during the Radical era in South
Carolina, undertook to play his old game
with the present Democratic Legislature
and landed himself in jail.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30

The pracifcation of south Carolina
under the conservative policy adopted by
Governor Hampton. is already having
a good effect The visit of Western cap
itallsts to Columbia and tho study they
are maxim ~ tbe Southeast indicates
that the West begins d have faith ~ the
future of the cotton state. and chat cap
italA-the great want of the South Wy
BE Forthcoming for sound aud prohAy.s
enterprises. N. Y, HERALD,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30

THE LITTLE VILLAGE (not De-
Kalb, in Kemper county, buO "Haver
- straw, on the Hudson, n. y, upset by
{" Il thousand lawbreaker>,' is the stand
ing headline in our New York exchanges
of the Doth
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30

Col. J. II. JONES has retired from
the WoodvIlie Republican and is sue
ceeded by Hon. j. w. Shattuck. The
Republican will continue Democratic in
politics
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30

The large b. ly OF the white people HH
engaged in the rebellion are firmly mrI
in tavor of several things, and they W.
stand by the patty that mvUrs Them. a.|
oppose, 20 the bittcr enI, the ptsty Hlf uu.
poses them AmOug these 4. the UIfmu.f
for rebel property taken or DESTROYED b..
our armies.
When Mr.. Tillcn wrote his letter #u.. U.-
fore the election Hguu~t these claims ~.
lost his hold upOa tho Slu,h. and u4.mI.I..
10 feel it in the struggle in Cuugw. $50
Democratic candidate will repeat HI- H".-
der
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30

COMMERCIAL writers attribute the de
preston in the cotton market to APP
prehension that the war in Eastern Eu-
rope would become general, but they
predict that this alarm wiki soon disap-
pear-and that there will be an improve
ment in prices Meantime breadstuifs
have already tumLled down. from the
prices to which the bulls had elevated
them, AMI there is no prospect Of an adj
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30

WE have reason to believe that the
Secretary Of State, Mr.. Evarts, has not
addressed letter to Governor Stone in
reference to the Kemper affair.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30

"a STEAMER with arms and ammuui-
ton to the value of 81 900, 600 reached
Constantinopie from New Haven on
Thursday" It's an i'll wind that blows
nobody any good.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30

Since the New Orleans and Mobile rail~
road have raised their rates thew carry empty
cars instead of being well filed as before,
and the hackmen Running between the sta
ton and Mos Point and the Seashore in-
form us their travel has decreased fifty per
cent.-Pascagoula Star.
This road runs across our State and
enjoys the protection of its laws without
paying one cent of taxation for the sup
port of the State government.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30

AT a Convention i'll Pittsburg, Pa,
held Oh the 22l to nominate Il candidate
for Judge, the supporters of the Admin
istration attempted to have pissed q res
olution inlorsing it. The convention
laid it on the table.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30

a WAsHINGToN special says that Gen.
Pillow is in Washington seeking the place
on the Federal bench of the u. 5. Court
vacated by Judge Emmons' death. IN
this same connection it is stated that
Gen. Pillow is enthusiastic in his praise
of the Administration Of Mr. Hayes.
He goes so far as to say that ''the South
" would support Mr.. Hayes as a man, in
" dependent of his party. He believed
g that new party would gain great
9 strength in the South. The masses
g there are very true to their principles
g They have been solicited in their sym
" pathies since the war. Now that this
" oppression has been removed, divisions
must naturally follow" Now, who will
say after this, that Gen, PilloY has not
entitled himself to the office he is seeking
at the hands of Mr. Hayes?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30
RAILROAD Rally at Raymond.

A Picnic and Basket Dinner will be
given at Raymond on the 18th of June,
in aid Of the Natcnez and jackson Rail
road, when Gen. Martin, President Of
the road, will deliver an address.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30

THE next best thing after winning a
victory is TO know how to maintain your
ground. "Hold your hold is a good
maxim (Which our leaders had not we'll
studied at the close of the late Presiden-
tial contest.) We are gratifed to note
that it has been learned in South Caro-
lima. The first election held in that
State since Gov. Hampton's glorious tri-
umph in November, came off few days
ago in a special election in Fairfield cqrp
ty, hitherto . Republican stronghold.
The Democrats carried the county and
elected two members Of tue Legislature
by over 1, 200 majority.
THE Westinghouse AutoRatia Brake
4
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30

MR. HAYES, in his desire to recipro-
crte the favor of the South Carolina
returning board appointed one of its
members, Mr. Dunn, to lucrative
Office. Mr.. Dunn had the good sense to
rebuke him by promptly rjecting 1t.
it, Well done, Dunn.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30

TFE Copiahan copies our paragraph in
reference to Senator from the fifth Dis
trict to add the names of W. CWilkipson,
DR.. w. Myles and Thad. G. Watson.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30

81. Q. w" Washington correspond
ent, states that Eek Governor Powers, of
Mississippi, and L. NJ. Cockrell, of Lou
lsiana, will be retained as internal reve-
nue. collectors for the consolidated dis
tricts of these two States The order
will take effect on the 1st Of June next. ."
So far as the Democracy of Mississippi
are concerned, we are not apprised that
they have any choice in the distribution
Of government patronage among the Re
pubIcans in this State As between the
contending factions, their feeling is ga
plague on both your houses"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30

CAPT. BURKrrr, of the Chickasaw
Messenger, gracefully declines a call
upon him to run for the State Senate,
and presents the following list of worthy
and true Democrats, from whom a choice
might be made 1t is good list, only we
don't see the name of Robert McIntoch,
which naturally, comes up to the front
when patriotic service is to be performed;
Gen. Griffin, Judge L. n. Martin, S.
L. Wilson, Esq, Gen. W. F. Tucker,
Capt. J. w. Buchanan, McDuffie Green,
Esq, Capt. w. I. Houston, w. A.
Bodenhamer, Esq, and Judge b. F.
Owens.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30
iExtr,ctI

In the late canvass the dividing .Iua Hr
tween rebel and royal claims Wu- Ignored
aud iil single ID mDcrufic udm0uIs.ul.H.
would be Obiteratcd. when fHis cymu. F.
pass alb mt claims, the distinction Iu uI"
and Union debt will bee ObiItcrltul. NII .lE
slaves will be treated rs other property .l.-
rihced by our Government. ~ will uuI H.
be done or avertcd at once bur step by -.N
already more rapid until the publ. WuI
has become dem rallied. The raJ HIHu I.t
ceased 70 be crime, scarcely "a mistake
The complete restoration of thr fraternity
will demand the abolition oft HII distinctions
IN law between loyalty aud treason.
The Republican party was meyer more
necessary 10 the nation tIBu IN I- tH.....
All talk about laying down rbs E.pu1.. .H
organization 10 take mp % new uuH, H...
new title into which Old Confederate m..
enter without wouuding their rp.l..
ties, would be criminal if it were Dob. .H-
premely silly.
THE SOLID sgtIH
AS the Democracy have acquired > .l.I
South by force. the Republicans should f..
quire "A solid North bv their Vg.hu.. ."
the justice Of their cause Northern h.'
publicans are now almouirheI tIt. I..F
can endure no divisions thlt wIII euIA'-"
their success. Should the North by uH.Nu
py discord be divided aud they h.I WH
TO the solid Confederate South. reJ...I.0
Will have been suppressed Zoo vain, tlr If..'
OF the war lost, aud our lust rINI'..''
worse than the first
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30

THE Memphis papers announce the
death in that city where he resided, OF
Col. NJ. d. johnson, in his 54th year,
formerly of Holmes county from which
place he removed to DeSoto county
which he represented in the Legis
Itture two terms. Thence he removed to
Memphis where he became prosperous
merchant and a useful and respected cit
zen. a correspondent of the Appeal,
Hon. J. w. CIapp) concludes in these
words, sketch of his career:
As a citizen he was liberal, enterprising
and public spirited. generous ard unseltish
N his i'm pulses aud habits. gentle and coar-
teouS in social intercourse, and exhibited II
life eminently useful and exemplary. tie
vas Il kind neighbor, steadtaSt friend. a
tender and devoted hush sympathetic
ald iudulgrnt but prudent and considerate
father-in short, model christian gentle
man. The protracted and intense suffer
ingS that preceded his death were marked
BY patient endurance, and when exhaust
ed nature could bear no more, the end was
peace, and his last moments were tranquil
is an infSnt's sleep. j. VIC.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30
Close Banks and stand Firm.

IL Q. W." the best informed of the
Washington correspondents, states that
''the probability Of Grant being the
brought forward as a Republican Presi-
Dental candidate, is being discussed"
The statement is confirmed by signifi
cant passage in the speech of Ex-senator
Simon Cameron, at the Philadelphia
ovation to the Ex-President, on the occa-
sion Of the latter's departure for Europe.
1t is in these words:
Gen.Graut will come back to US with more
popularity than ever before, and | should
NOT be surprised to see him again called to
take the helm of State to save the ship from
going TO destruction
Mark the prediction. Gen. Grant is to
be the next Republican candidate for the
Presidency. The faith of his party in
his star is implicit, and they will losk to
him as the only hope of saving it from ir-
retrievable disaster. In the almost Ger
tainty of contest which is foreshadowed
with a party under a leader who has
never known defeat, and whose party has
invariably won by fair or by foul
means. it is worse than foolish, it is
criminal, to encourage dissensions be
tween Northern and Southern Democrats
There is no safety except in closing ranks
and standing firm.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30

do not believe that President IIyes ..
tend. To destroy the Republican party W.
attempt the erection Ui 3 new one upIu .s
ruins. believed in his patriotism aUH
high integrity; in his undivided purUte u
make the adm stra,iOu i bturli. l U.
country.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30

SOME newspaper writer's insist that the
fact that murders, less justifable than the
Kemper killing Chat is the killing of
Gilmer and Chisholm, the assassination
of Gully not meriting consideration are
constantly committed in other States, does
not palate the affair in that county.
That's all true; and nobody has said
it does. But the fact is cited to show
that hue AMI cry j. raised oyer the
Kemper troubles while crimes of greater
magnitude in Northern communities are
treated lightly and that the distinction
is made for partizan effect.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30


OUR able contemporary, the Holly
Springs South, dissents from the CON
illusions Of Judge Hudson in reference to
the kemper affair, and comments at
length upon his letter, but fails to repro
duce il. rs it ought to have been done in
common Justice, to enable its readers to
decide for themselves upon the merits OF
the decision. The South very properly
sanctions Gov. stones visit to kemper
when he received intelligence Of the pas
sionate proceedings of the people IN their
indignation at the cruel murder OF John
w. Gully, which was but one Of a long
series of wrongs but fails to say that as
the Executive of the State, sworn to obey
the Constitution which forbids one
department from exercising powers con
fded to another, he had no authority to
do what Republican newspapers have
arrajpned him for not doing-vlz: to
punish the accused parties who are
abiding the action of the Judicial author
tiles. One Of the contributors to the
editorial columns of the South is under
stood to be a jurist of learning and Of
Cato-lke integrity, who has been freely
quoted by the Republican newspapers in
their assaults upon the Kemper people,
and we would nave been pleased to hear
from it upon that point.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30

According toa Washington telegram in
the Cincinnati Commercial at the time
Hayes wrote that now famous letter to
Garfield. the friHnds OF the administration
were quite contidelt that two Democrats
from South Carolina, Casey Young, Of Ten e
ncssee. Schlecher and Throckmnrt0n. o
Texas, and Siemmons and Cause, OF Arkau-
Sas, would vote Tor the Administration can
ddate for Speaker. Now, however, it ap-
pears that these gentlemen are unwilling to
vote for Garfield. Whether they would
vote for any other Republican is not as
sumed.'-EXchange
1t is manifest that at one time politi
clans at Washington, Notwithstanding
the asseveration put IN the Congressional
Record that Mr.. Hayes was a usurper,
had induced him to believe that he had
the solid South in his breeches' pocket
1t was the infatuation of ianatic, that
Southern Democratic members could be
influenced to throw away heir own or
ganizltion to take up such Il malignant
Radical as Garfield. This mutual ad-
ministraion business has played out,
and the organization of the national De
mocracy will be preserved.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30

The history OF carpet big rule in the
Southern States--its rise-vicious prac
tices-and the causes of its downfall
has an important chapter in the expert
ence of Eek Governor Chamberlain of
South Carolina as related to reporter
of the New York Herald The Elk
Governor naturally exempts himself
from the crimes and follies which re-
suited in the downfall of his party and
claims to have failed because he was un-
able to enlist sufficient Republican sup
port in his policy of reform: but he bears
ample testimony to the corruptions of his
party; to the truth of the Democratic ar
raignment, and the justice of the judg-
ment that fell like a thunderbolt upon
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30

Texas wheat. of the growth of 1877,
5 in the ST. Louis market.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-30

Aswe predicted the eoutherngush over
President Hayes, and the ogling cores
pondence which fora time seemed destined
to end in downright dallianee. between
his Administration and Southern Demo
cratic leaders, have well-nigh killed off
the poor man with the Northern Repub-
Iicans aud destroyed what power for good
he possessed in allaying sectional strife