The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1877-01-12
Mississippi and EEer A>sarianss-


The penalty which the people of
Mississippi have to pay for an indefinite
time, if the Ra1 icals continue in control
of the Federal Government, for throwing
of the yoke of the carpet-baggers, are
the flood-tides of calumny and falsehood
that will be poured upon them by the
partizans of the Administration, and the
annoyances of the ultra Radicals seeking
to reduce the State to a condition of
territorial bondage. 1t is only in this
condition when the people are held down
by the bayonets of the United States,
that the spoilsmen are permitted to ap-
propriate their earnings, and the vultures
to feed upon their vitals.
Nothing that is just, honorable or COM
mendable in the management of the
! affairs of the State, will avail to arrest
this warfare of the Vandals. They are
prompted by malice, lust of plumber and
a determination to commend themselves
to the favor of their masters, and
what does it avail if the eXpen-
ditures of the government have been
reduced and the burthen lighthened-
if the Public School system is no
a better footing than it has ever BEEN
if Just laws are impartially administered
if the civil administration is abundant
ly able to preserve the public peace-if
order reigns-,if good feeling exists be-
tween the races? And what if this retor-
nation has been achieved by the people
in peaceable and fair elections, and by
the union of both races to rid themselves
of rulers whose administration was the
curse of both. All these causes furnish
no grounds of justification for the people
in the estimation of the Radical parti-
zans. The crime of the former is in
having broken the rod of the latter whose
study is retaliation and restoration to
power with federal bayonets.
In another column will be seen the n.
Y. Herald's report of the game the ultra
Radicals are playing, and the part that
U. S. Marshal j. T.. Lake, is performing.
His statement that large number OF
citizens have been indicted since the
election is true; but it is none the less
true that they were indicted upon testi
mony procured by the basest agencies
and to subserve the vilest partizan pur
poses. They are founded upon misrep
resentation and falsehood, and the enc
; they are designed to serve is to put fees il
the pockets Of Radical office holders, tt
harass and impoverish the victims O
these prosecutions and intimidate the
people from the free exercise of thei
rights at the ballot-box. There never wal
= fairer and more peaceful election thar
the Presidential election in Mississippi
= in November last, and there never was
. more just verdict pronounced agains
= rulers who had entitled themselves tc
+ the execration in which they We're held
f Marshall Lake thinks in a "free anC
fair election" Mississippi would have cas-
%, 900 majority for Hayes and Wheeler.
/ Of course this is all pretense. The ma
e jority of colored voters in the State does
: not exceed fifteen thousand; and to esti
n mate the Republican vote by the colorec
vote is a false test. Nearly all the
:, whites and one-fourth of the blacks are
: Democrats. The accession to the Dem
: ocratic party from the latter is constant
h ly increasing and it is safe prediction
d that in short time they will abandon
the Radical party entirely, for the rea-
: son that they have discovered it to be
1t party of fraud, plumber and mischief t.
S both races and to all classes. The Rad
I I ical Administration may keep up its war
n fare and its petty methods of persecu-
ton, but it will only intensity the oppo
sition of the people to Radicalism ano
their determination to hold the State t
her Democratic moorings. /
J. PLEASE FXcHANGE-Thee editor of