The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-23
Southern Interests 81 nd the Nation.
AL Democracy.

tempted TO depart from their association
with the only national organization that
has stood between the down trodden
South and Radical hate and persecution
during the long years that have passed
since the war, by devices as numerous as
those with which the arch fend was wont
to allure his intended victim from the
path Of duty while tarrying in the vii
derness. There IS nothing that the
partisans Of the Hayes Administration
have not promised them, if they will only
break up their own organization which
has been their strength and guiding star
to victory, and fall down and worship the
golden calf which they have set up. Their
tongues so lately charged with venom,
drop words Of honey now. Flattery IS
one Of the agencies by which they are
striving to scale our citadel. Their
Harpies are transformed into Delilahs
pattiBg the cheeks of our leaders and
calling them pet names illustrious
statesmen and the like. Whatever the
South wants, she shall have. Don't
stand upon expenses, just name your
price, and here it is. Do YOU want a
Railroad to the Pacific? Here it is /:
The Mississippi river and its tributaries
levied2 So be it. But occasionally the
cloven foot obtrudes from under all this
garb of humbuggery and false pretense,
and even Administration organs, afford
US view of their true inwardness-
among the rest, the n. Y. Times, which
is par excellence the Hayes oracle in the
Empire State In a late number, discus
sion the measures in which the South is
particularly interested, it says:
That is to say, the Southern people shall
receive from the Federal Treasury loans or
! gift as in part an equivalent for the penal
ties for which the South has only itself to
thank. Passing from generalties to partic-
ulars, " Z are furnished with partial emu
meration of the objects for which national
/ help is to be sought. The Texas and Pacific
Railroad job invariably heads the list. The
! whole South is intent upon eilrcting that,
| ana does not pretend to be nice about
means 1t is quite willing TO concede to
| MIR. Scott and the clique of the Pennsylva-
mia Company, and to Mr.. Huntington and
the clique OF the Central Pacific, bountcous
| pickings from the spoils wruuG from the
| Federal Treasury, but the South must have
the Pacific ROAD, and the American people
/ must pay for it. Another cherished scheme
| is one for aftording aid to States on the Mis-
| sissippi for constructing leyees and reclaim
| ING overlooked lands. Then there are canals
| to be dug to bring the interior South into
| communication with the sea- board and
ports to be bdilt up by calling into exist
ence. at the public cost, lines of steamers
with the view of cultivating direct trade.
SucE are a few of the burdens that are in
store for us if the policy of the Southern
Democracy be successful. The TeXas-Pa-
cific Road will te the test case Ii that job
be successful, there is no scheme of SWIM
ding too fragrant to be beyond hope.
Now it is we'll to remark that great
newspaper like the n. Y. Times has
more influence in speaking and .adicat-
ing public opinion, than ten thousand
such men as the Matthews, Fosters,
GarGelds, e ID 0ptne, with whom our
leaders bargained and dickered until
they traded off the victory whieh the
Democracy won last November, and it is
wise, before they conclude to break ranks,
to take council Of what it says, as well as
of the soothing pledges of the politicians
who are striving to build up the Admin
istration, Notwithstanding its fraudulent
title.
As we have said before, while the
Democrats party is the sworn foe of rob
berry and corrupt rings, there is nothing
in its creed to antagonize the building of
a railroad to the Pacific on the Southern
line, or the levying of the Mississippi
river and lis tributaries, on the reclama-
ton of overlooked lands on their borders,
or the improvement of the harbors
on the Southern Atlantic and Mexican
Gulf OF any other national measure. The
present Democratic party is composed of
former Wings Democrats, and the young
generation who have come On the stage
of action since the war. The old Wing
party always advocated Internal improve
ments by the general government, and
to show the position of the ante bellum
leaders of tbs Democratic party, it is
only necessary to refer TO tI6 public
record eff its great apostles, Benton, Cal
hoon, Davis, /. c. Brown, and others,
who like their illustrious contemporaries
of the Wing party, have made names
that they were not born to die. All
Democrats may not agree upon the par
ticular measures, and they may differ
widely in reference tG tbs mode of accom-
plishing those about which they do agree,
but the National Democratic organization
as now constituted is broad enough in its
principles and aims to do as much as
any other organization can do, or has
ever done, foy fostering the interests of
the country, and wheE it finds in the
South an object of national Importance
requiring the assistance of the govern
ment, no narrow spirit of sectionalism
will restrain it from employing the re-
sources of the government for that par
pose.
A kInaIi Intrigue.