The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-04-04

Official Journal of the City Of Jackson.
The by Commission in the Louisi-
ana case, is in session.
MoTTo for the Democratic House of
Representatives No more military in
reference with State governments, or no
more army appropriations.
4 MASS meeting Is to be held in New
Orleans, Friday evening, Of Louisianians
who are determined 10 support the legal
government (Nicholis) at all hazards.
HoN. joins YoUNG BROwN, Of Ken /
tucky, announces his intention to retire
from public life. After his recent per-
Torrance, nothing would 50 well become
him.
INDIANA has a Democratic Congress
man named Car, who went all his might
against the electoral bill. If the other
Democrats had hitched on to him, they
would have been all right
CAPT. :. i. MAssEYs suggestion for
a special convention Of the Democratic
press Of the State, has been respectfully
considered by its members, and though
feyi22gaf4 PT 5m9ag1SSfi5gye m' to have been re-
A ~, "a baay 1.ptapaH MT
by which the Brookhayen Comet and the
Monticello South have been combined-or
merged into the former, Of which F. /.
Cooper, we'll known as a first rate journ-
alist with all that the name implies, is the
editor.
Mr.. HAYES is protesting to do in
very dilatory and circutous way what
Governor Tilden would have done with
dash Of the pen-viz: to execute the
Democratic policy Of relieving Louisiana
and South Carolina of military surveil-
ance.
Mr.. A. J. FRANTZ, of the Brandon
Republican, has leased his paper to Mr..
r. Il. Mcdowell The latter is entitled
to a rest after twenty-five years Of inces-
SAINT labor at the helm. We hope the
arrangement will be beneficial to both
parties.
THE Democratic majority in the pres
ent House Of Representatives Is much
smaller than in the last Congress; but
we hope it will make up in stamina what
it lacks in numbers. The last House
had = superabundance of the latter,
but was wofully deficient in the former.
In the documents just published, 1t is
brought to light that Gen. Grant on the
day his term expired, issued an order
for the removal Of the troops from Louisi
ana. 1t was not executed, it is supposed,
owing to the Intervention of the Hayes
crowd. When Congress meets in June,
1t Will no doubt investigate the matter.
Ir is said that the recent decision of
the U. S. Court in the civil rights case
at Baltimore asserting the right of Rail
road managers to conduct their own
business in their own way, in the trans
portation Of passengers, viii be brought
before the Supreme Court at Washing
ton. We have no idea that the decision
will be reversed.
Mr.. HAYES administered comfort the
other day to couple of disconsolate col
ored politicians, Bruce and Lynch. lie
argued that the present loss of Louisiana
and South Carolina to the Republicans
would be the ultimate recovery Of those
States as well as of Mississippi, and
probably other Southern States, by the
Radical party. Has Mr.. Hayes ever
known an instance i'll which the lightning
struck his party in any Southern State
without killing it?
" BROKEN PLEDGES to the South is
a favorite headline now. The truth is
there ought not to have been any
" pledges" They furnished no excuse
for members to proceed with the count
after the spirit and plain letter of the
law had been violated by the electoral
tribunal. The fact that promises were
exacted on the one side, and given On the
other, is conclusive that the way was
open to the defeat of the conspiracy after
the original blunder was committed.
IN an interview with a delegation of
Mississippi Republicans the other day
the President is reported by the Wash
ington correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette to have reiterated that it would
not be his policy to sustain State govern
ments by Federal troops for the reason
that "public opinion had pronoune-
ed against it" He could have only
discovered the fact by the majority which
che people gave to the Democratic candi
date Hayes own party was committed
10 the military policy.
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In Mr. Hayes letter to the South Car
DINA Governors he admits the wrongful
ness of the interference by the national
Administration with the army in the
affairs OF the Southern States and prom
Uses ''to put an end to it as speedily as
possible" But he has very rounda-
bout method of doing it. Cows. Nichols
and Hampton have again and again
assured him that nothing is needed but
an order TO the military commanders to