The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-11-21

A Washington correspondent Of the
n. i. Tribune lRen. j writes:


n. \. Tribune rep, J writes:
have been AZ some pains TO learn the
views OF the Southern leaders in Congress
on this question, not putting them IN
to the fnferviewer's iuQuisitOrial chair for
public examination, and taking down such
opinions as they may think IL polite to be-
come responsible for in the newspapers. but
drawing them out ia the freedom OF TREND
/ w and confidential talk. None think q
/, solid South desirable or possible. They give
due consideration to the Influences that
have led the Southern States 60 act together
thus far-the fear of further Federal Inter
terence, the dread OF a renewal OF evils oil
earpet-bag government, the habit of unity
of action learned in the war, and tradi-
| tfOnaI attachment to the Democratic party
ali these are carefully weighed ard meas
ured, also the irritation produced by ex-
| treme partisan speeches at the North but
| in spite of all the conclusion is reached that
| division must speedily occur. An emf
nent Congressman from Mississippi ex-
pressed the general belief when be safd
"There Ii no law In phy sizes more lneXoraDle
| than that mental law which divides men In
! TO opposing parties. and its operations be-
Gin TO be felt throughout the South. Ire
/ independent movements ia many counties
/ in NV State show that the process of dlsln-
| tegratiOn has already begun" The indie
| pendent movements to which this gentle
man referred have no general principle IN
common except the spirit of revoIJ against
the dictates of the solid Democracy.
| Whoever may be the g eminent Mis-
sissippi Congressman" referred to by the
writer in the New York Tribune, he
must have unlearned his mistake by this
time. The election is over-the people
have been heard from-and they have
pronounced their solemn verdict against
the independent" movement having for
| its object the destruction of the political
organization by which carpet baggery has
been expelled from the government of
the State The sovereign people have
passed through the ordeal of "reeon-
struction" and acquired the privilege of
self government, and when they get ready
to abandon the party which has given
them control of their State administra-
ton they will let the world know by their
acts that they have doomed themselves to
destruction. But they have not reached
that point of lunacy yet. Hereafter,
eminent Congressman and all eminent
men claiming TO speak for them, who
choose to enjoy the luxury of friendly
and confidential chat with Northern Re-
publican newspaper correspondents, may
point to the verdict of the people of Mis-
sissippi as recently expressed at the polls,
in proof that " the process Of disentegra-
ton has not " commenced in Mississip-
ri" and that if there is anything upon
which they are resolved, it is not to ''dis-
integrate." 1t was a "process" invented
by black-liners, mal-contents, sore-heads,
and that ilk to disrupt the Democratic
Conservative party, and restore Radical
rule in Mississippi, but it did not work,
and the men who were engaged in it
we're taught lesson which will guarantee
against its repetition, The !" Independ-
ent" movement was success in but one
county in the State, and that was due to
exceptional causes. As rule, it was a
worse failure than the Radical party of
which it was the Iineal successor
We are not prepared to believe, as this
II. Y. Tribune writer alleges, that all the
Southern representative men at the Fed
eral capital are of the opinion that
ssolid South is neither possible nor de-
sirable." The meaning of the opinion
attributed, to them is that the Southern
Safes should break ranks, some fsthem
remaining In the Democratic f1sd, and
others wander off in the outer darkness
of some other party having doctrines and
maxims distinct from those which consti-
tute the creed of the party which won the
victory out of which they were cheated
in the Presidential election. In the as
signment of Southern States under this
new arrangement, we are not Informed
what disposition is to be made of Mis-
sissippi, but hope, that in consideration
of her long suffering and severe strug
giles for deliverance from the corruption,
rascality and oppression of Republican
rule, she will be permitted by the states
men who are making the new dispense
ton, to remain where her people have
placed her. The idea of the g solid
South" dissolving and commencing to di
vide and war upon herself after the ex
hibition of sectional hate which the Re-
publican leaders have made at the pres
emit session of Congress in the discussion
of the Army bill and other measures, and
their hostility to the Administration for
the discontinuance of military interven-
ton in the South, is more than prepos-
terous-it is treason to the liberties of
the Southern people and to the constitu-
tionaI guarantees which lie at the founda-
ton of a government of co-equal States.
The g solid" South means unanomous
Southern vote for government of justice
to every State and to every class, condi-
ton and race.