The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-12

cent occasion. has devised 4 plan to
proloug the rule of the Republican
party for another generation and it is
characteristic Of Yankee thrift which is
always ready to drive a bargain and IN
erringIy 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.
timed, "that the Republican party can
hold the country for another generation, il
| it will add, to an uncom promising defense
Of honest currency. an idea which some OF
our Eastern Repu blicans will look upon as
/ heresy, bat which is entirely in line with
the traditions of our party aud of the Wing
party, whose successor we are | mean in
ternal improvements. We must advocate
the opening of the Mississippi river for
| ocean commerce as far up as st. Louis, anu
the removal of all obstacles that interior.
with its navigation at all SEASONS by light
draft boats to St. Paul. The East has got
| its harbors made and its rivers opened, aud
| now it is disposed to selfishly oppose the
very policy it used to maintain; but the
| West, which is turning from purely agri-
cultural pursuits to the mixed occupations
Of agriculture, manufactures, and internal
| commerce, demands the same aid from the
! General Government which the East has
| already received. We must not antagoniZe
that demand. 1t is just, and our party
should take it up and give it potency. We
| in the East should say to the West, 'Yon
want these great Improvements. but you
| cannot have them unless you drop your
currency heresies and come upon the hard
money platform. Without nationai credit
I no money can be had for your magnificent
I enterprise; and your initiation schemes will
| destroy that credit. Help US to settle for
ever the currency questions, and remove
/ all doubt about the kind of money the Gov
| eminent bonds are to be paid in, 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
tons ago, and we know they will repel
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 Vandalism-its habitual
and its corruption-has any such rela-
ton to the OLD Wing party as he de-
scribes. If it has inherited its princi-
plies, 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
General Government to accomplish it.
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, lion of the Democratic tribe of
his day. Others no less prominent in
the Wing party figured conspicuously.
The New York empire who has pre-
scribed for the ills of his party does not
say so, but leaves it to be inferred that
the traditions of the old Democratic |
party are opposed to another improve
ment in which the entire country and
the South, is interested-a
railroad to the Pacific upon 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,
Secretary 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 party
which Mr.. Pierce's Administration rep
resented is entitled to a large share of
The honor which will attach to its origi-
nal championship.
But the cream of the joke (for so bold
! proposition to legislate upon the cor
'upt principle of ''you tickle me and I'll
tickle you" can be considered hardly less
han ajoke) is in the admission that these
Southern Improvements is just and
ight-that the welfare of the country
demands them-that the North and
Cast have had their equivalent in the
Improvement of their rivers and harbors
but that the South and West must
purchase the favor of the North and
Cast by prolonging the wretched life of
he Radical party and supporting the Fl
ancial policy which has been adopted
n the interest of the capitalists and
at the expense of the Ia
oring masses and the industrial inter.
SITS of the country. There can be but
ne answer to a proposition SO unjust
nd so corrupting in political morals;
nd but one feeling of intense loathing !
Dr. its author and propounder- The !
rade will not be made.