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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-03-28
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LOUHSNAN A.


Mr.. Hayes may abandon the policy he
outlined in his inaugural, but we tell him
now, and the warning will be echoed from
every parish and nelghbOrhood of the State,
he and his army cannot make ). B. Packard
Governor of Louisiana. If he should finally
yield to his evil advisors and determine
to attempt any SUCH wicket and desperate
thing, let him prepare for war. In the pros
ecution of such scheme he will have to
fight the armel AMI disciplined citizens
upon the streets OF New Orleans, and he
will have to invent some new and ingeni-
Gus process of hateful tyranny to protect
the creatures who attempt to hold Office I'M
der Packard in the parishes, for they will
be slot down, as il they were mad dogs
in every locality ti.sE may venture to in
wade He may finally whip OUT, by MUIR
dering them in such an infamous warfare.
the citizens of New Orleans but he will
have to do it by sending reinforcement Of
federal troops here, and with the fires of
civil war raging in one State, rotten title
backing him in Washington, and a vast
number OF men in every State in the Union
eager to dispute and overthrow by arms his
usurped authority. can he venture to send
reinforcement of troops to Louisiana on
such an errand.--N. o. Democrat.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-03-28

IT will be agreeable intelligence to
anti bellum mail contractors that at the
late session of Congress ''the sum of
three hundred and seventy-five thousand
dollars, or as much thereof as may be
necessary, was appropriated to pay the
amount due to mail contractors for mail
services performed ia the States of Ala
bama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Ken
lucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas,
Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia,
the years 1889, 1860 and 1861, and be-
fore said States respectively engaged in
war against the United States; Provided,
That any such claims which have been
maid by the Confederate States Govern
ment shall not be again paid" When
the war commenced there were a large
number of balances due to persons that
had performed mail service; and this
appropriation maks provision for their set
Element.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-03-28
Oar Sentiments.

THE dawn of a new era in Southern
politics. is the vay some of our ex-
changes puts it. We fully agree With the
Nashville American that it is not necces-
sary to gqsh at all The South has been
so long held in bondage that the mere
promise CT q better policy renders excuse
Bile, no doubt, some iittle enthusiasm. It
will be better, however, for the Southern
people to maintain the calm, impertur-
bable temper which has been tried in the
school of adversely, and which has char
acterized them throughout the recent po-
litical struggle. There is no necessity
for leaping open-armed into support of
an administration which was seated by
gross violation of the rights Of the very
people it now offers to protect. 70 accept
the benefits which may accrue, to support
whatever measures are good, to wait
quietly for developments, will best COM
port with the dignity and the love for
principle characteristic of the Southern
people.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-03-28
The Failure of the Mississippi
LeVee Appropriation.

The following extract is from the House
proceedings as reported in the Congress-
ional Record of the 4th
The question then required on the motion
of Mr.. Ellis to suspend the rules and pass
the bill TO repair and rebuild the levees OF
the Mississippi River, aud to reclaim the al
luvial lands thereon, 70 improve its naviga-
tor, and promote and protect its COM
merce.
Mr. Holman called for the yeas and nays
on agreeing to the motion, and they were
ordered.
Mr. Mills-I desire to know the question
we are to vote upon.
The Speaker--It is a bill approprialing
$4,000 600 to repair AVID improve the levees
of the Mississippi river.
MIR. Ellis-This appropriation is to be d.
vided between six States.
The vote upon this motion resulted
yeas y, nays 113. A co.emporary an
aIyzes the affirmative vote (for the appro-
priation) as follows; Democrats 43,
Republicans % and makes the follow
ing statement, which we copy without
verifying, from the Record:
OF the nine Democrats from Georgia, but
one voted for the leYee bill. OF the six
Democrats from Alabama there were two.
from Arkansas two out of four. from Louis
lana two out of three. from Mississippi two
out of four. from Texas three out of six,
from North Carolina three out of seven,
from Virginia two out of eight, five out of
thirteen from Missouri, and four out OF ten
from Kentucky. The six Democrats from
Maryland were against the bill When We
turn to the Northern vote, the opposition is
appalling. OF the eight votes of MasSachu-
setts there is but one vote for levee appro-
priafion. That vote is Democratic. There
is one vote in its favor from Connecticut,
Delaware New jersey, Rhode Island,
Maine or Vermont. From Pennsylvania
there ar. three Republican votes. From the
State of New York but one-a Democratic
vote-~out OF thirty-three votes.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-03-28
Grav~ teca~.dioa.

Col. Robert Irg -rspll, in recent
speech in New York, which he had pre-
pared deliberately and read from man
uscript after a conference at the White
House, made the following statement
which we find going the rounds of the
press with varied expressions of indig-
nation and incredlbility. The country
has seen, what almost every man outside
of the influences that predominated at
Washington saw, that the electoral Dill
was an indirect agency for overthrow
ing the popular verdict and putting the
Republican candidate into the Presl-
dency in defiance of the Constitution !;
but as we have not lost confidence in hui
man nature we verify believe that lu-
gersolI's statement that there were
Southern Democrats who were pledged
to vote for Hayes if the election had
been thrown into the House, is an I'M
mitigated SANDER. 1t is pity that the
names Of the persons referred to were
not mentioned for the protection of the
innocent and also of the people them
selves:
REPUBLICAN INDEBTEDNESS TO SOUTHERN
DEMOCRATS.
For my part call me of what party you
please | am willing to join hands with
those men without regard To color or pre-
ViOus condition These men have already
these men of the South have already
made us their debtors. Let me tell YOU
something. Ii the High Joint Commission
had failed; it the Vice President had never
counted the vote; if the election had been
thrown into the House of Representatives,
Samuel j. TilIrn would never have been
elected but Rutherford B. Hayes would
have been elected bv Southern votes. A p
plause | know what am telliag about
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-03-28
South Carolina.

While Louisiana is to be bulldozed
by another committee, South Carolina
in the persons both of Hampton and
Chamberlain have been summoned to
Washington by the President. The
case of Sonth Carolina has none of the
embarrassing features to the President
which attend that of Louisiana. On the
face of the returns the vote was for
Hayes and Hampton. Hampton is in
the legal possession of the government
by the decision Of all the State Courts !;
and there is no shadow of excuse for con-
tinuing the military occupation of that
State.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-03-28

IT is stated in New York papers that
Messrs. Appleton, publishers of that
city, have in press the "Memoirs of
Jefferson Davis" and that the work will
be issued the present year. In the COM
pilation of the historical material which
will comprise large feature of this in
teresting book, Dir. Davis has been as
sisted by Major w. T. Walthall, a
well-known literary gentleman residing
in Mobile. The book will be immeas-
urably superior in interest to any other
work relating to the war and the causes
which produced it, and will be eagerly
sought in both sections of the Union and
in both hemispheres.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-03-28

THE RIGHT SPIRIT-The entire DeIn-
ocrscy of Kemper county. are making
common cause with the citizens who were
arrested by the Z. S. Marshall and bound
over for their appearance at the next term
of the United States Court on charges Of
violence, ETC., in the election, These
prosecutions are a part of the machinery
that was put in motion by the defeated
Radical officeholders, to set aside the
election, and the people who have been
benefited are right in sharing the burthen
with those who have been marked for
Punishment It would be nothing but
just for every county in the State to
come with its contributions to their relief. |!
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-03-28

The Springfield Massachusetts, Re-
publican admits
All accounts agree that the new Demo-
cratic administration in Florida has made a
most successful aud promising beginning
sion in which not single measure was in
troduced which the negroes could complain
of and their representatives confessed in the
closing speaking that there had not been
time since the war wnen the relations be-
tween the two races were so good as now.
Gov. Drew continues to command the con-
fidence Of the best men in both parties. and
the State really seems to have started on
new road To prosperity.
This is what may be said with reference
TO Mississippi and every other Southern
State in which the Democrats have OBJ
tanned control
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-03-28
THE BRUCE PARTY.
mississippi Republican, at Wash
imglOn.
Cor, n. Y. HERALD

Cor, n. Y. HERALD
Today large delegation of the Bruce
party, composed of District Attorney
Walton, Robert Alc0rn, Receiver of Pub
lie Moneys James Hill, Secretary of
State; j. B. benson, Chancellor, and
others, waited upon the President for the
purpose Of ascertaining his intentions In
regard to the matter. The interview was
not as satisfactory as these gentlemen
could have desired. He threw no new
light on his Southern policy, and they
were as as wise in regard to his intentions
before as after their visit.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-03-28
LATEST NEWS.
SOUrH CAHOLIy,
Gov. HI"mPton'- Let,er

COLUMBIA, March 20 -G..,...
ton received yesterday. SuDl,,. '.E limp.
- PRESIDENT Haze uyIffrg ''t letter
" Washington -dlY hp b.te ,.,t..uH 20 fsIt
ply the following etter: '''''eh IHr..
COLUMBIA. S. g.. M.r,r....t
Ills EXcellency, Il. Il Have. p-..' ''''.
the United sttte., Washington n lstt o.,
sIR-l hive the honor o. a.l.,.,.
So"i C3''''llUN ,eal'n oi the g3l m., '4se
UIe SCI ~ me oy your Private 500. .t-
As sou expressed desire Tor 'Aif
conference With myself arr.,, 'oul.
motives OF proper courtesy 'o t' through
invitation you have extended tt.' 3 poe
not hupo By doing So, to tbroo. beam
l'ght on thr que lions which NV. 'HN
OeIh 50 @o'S 'hl thoroughly
ana tle solution ~ which + 81 o',,. 'N
slhP.t' hu,' uAurf-tHrdlug from r.. N
munlc1uon / have received Chad fl.. gone
contemplated hy the p-opo,. n ...,..'. "lI .gt
solely that / might place D. .s,.. '..r s
views OF the ituped m 600 3D. fl. .' .hl
ana orderly organization Ul a .'. aus
undisputed state GuyrruuI.,.t "'' FHt
Carolina. and ct the best m..I,r' .'i.H
movit them. shah avail mt..rI Zee
INVITATION SO IVA, may r.i...c Ia NV
S"l ~" ! nav "'d INC honor D ,r....
ln writing, that go nay judgment .Ir 5.'.'.
iment' TO the objects 80 etfu..r.tI r.N-
yourself and 50 caruc,,ly,N,a .'I 10y
people of this state, cas- at uu.. '.r
moved by the withdrawal dr. rIn r.t rs
troops from our SIN p-h1u.r. Tu .'' A.
on the part Of tile G. mW9uInr b.. ,. Won
The United states forces AouIg n.t ...,..,.' 'i
hailed by orr people as am ,yfl..... POP.
the civil authority is no longer No i,...., .lt
dinated 20 the military power Nd ma .''.
Try, but IL would establish Hv. i....
meslic tranquility, revive our v..t.I Voc
dustrIes, aud give m u.surlAc. t... '.-
state is to be restored To her iu.t r.,... ..'
der the Constitution '-.'' "A-
WADE N tNrr.,
Governor 81 South tir.Ii...
More About the PresidrntinI NJ.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-03-28

In view OF the recent decision of the
United States Supreme Court on the pow.
ers of State Legislatures in reference to
common carriers, Hon j. X. Edsall, the
Attorney General of Illinois, has pub
lished the following opinion in response
to a resolution of committee of the
Illinois Legislature
''It is now settled by the recent decisions
of the Supreme Courts Of this State and of
the United States, that common carriers OF
passengers and freight and others who en-
gage in public employment of like nature,
are subject to legislative control. Mum &
Scott VS.. The People. 60 H., p. so; Same VS..
Same, 8 Chicago Legal News, p. 1893 c., ID.
and Q. r. r. Co. VS.. Cults, Attorney G ner-
al, ct al, 8, Chicago Legal News, 200
"Upon the principles established in these
cases persons or corporations engaged in
the operation of :leeping gears, as that bust
ness is now generally conducted, are I'M
doubtedly subject to such reasonable regu.
latiOns as the general assembly may see fit
to prescribe. If the operators of sleeping
cars are not common carriers in a general
sense, it is certain that they discharge func-
tions so intimately connected with those of
common carriers of passengers as to bring
them as fully within legislative control as
are common carriers The statutes now in
force in this State respecting the transport
tation of passengers by railroads do not APP
ply to sleeping car companies.
ct is not incumbent upon me to suggest
what regulations of such companies, if any,
may be demanded by the public interests.
These matters which address themselves to
the sound discretion of the general assem-
bly,. Il am very pectfully,
[Signedl 'JAs. X. EDsALL,
EAtttorneY- General"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-03-28
THE SOP ITO CERRERUS.
Fred Douglass AppOinted-Whm
the independent Press sayE
About IL,
independent Cor. n. Y. Sun. !

independent Cor. n. Y. SUM-
Inc nom naton of Fred Douglass To ba
Marshal of the District OF Columbia is n son
10 the negro Ccrberuscs. The mliIIment ~
Inc promises made to Southern HenOcrafs
before and since Hayes was illecaiIv mol.
President will neeessitnte HI" Irantjoai
aoandonIneat Gy she II publican narLy Of
lis DoaSted guardianship of the wards III rho
nation hence It was necessary to single ont
TWO or three cons picuous negro DoIiticions
IN Washington and q We than D6sitionr ~
some I'm portance, in order that the old aboli-
Cion sentiment at the North might NOT he
shocked too severely by the new Southern
policy OF the party. Fred Douglass ia battar
kho~h at The North than lie is to the
oouthcrn negroes. Indeed the gre3t
mass OF the blacks south Of the P,tomac
nave never heard OF him, and the few
VINO nave know him more as one Of the
oanIiss5ohers or the swindling Ere, a.
mahs Savings Bank than "a Tie clio
quent orator of their own race who con
trlouted SO largely TO awaken Nortbern
sym ~ PatnY Tor the poor slaves at the south
atnt neIoFe even this sop was thrown to
Nofthern abolition sentiment distinct M
Outstanding was had with Douglass that ne
was not 10 claim the ancient pre- ro0ative NJ
the ONCE that of standing beside the PresiI
ueilt on II state as well as on all other pub
Tic occasions and present all visiting strsn
gers, distinguished and OTHERWISE 30 ~
Chlei Magistrate. From time whereof the
ItMoTy OF the MASKING tOnians runneth |
nor e ihs yontrary, the Marshal az the
rs ai1stf &c q Columbia has been considered
dent. the Lord High CbamhepSair
the Republican Court This ;,onor o.
y not OF 10 be accorded to Fed DOUGLASS ms
IA our Of respect to the feellncI F of
W = is-s slave drivers, WHO are expect-
the ~ r noch 10 the White House to paw
a anetr res bects to Republican President
An receive ut his hands the offices from
~ ~ nlc, me ignorant plantation darkevs and
IT, Y. 'g carp t-baggers are q be driven
80 e % "a InaL ms afrangement is satisfac-
re politician. has his eye on the main
nance and was willing to f,rego the honor
monuments sOs'AhVlal
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-03-28

IT is stated that a well known ex-
Confederate general called upon Presi-
dent Hayes recently, and said: "Mr
President, have always been a Demo
crat; | led Confederate brigade
through the war 1 voted and spoke for
Tilden, and did all 1 could for him,
"but am for Hayes"-and an appoint.
assnt, he Might haYe added.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-03-28

IT is singular Key that Hayes has
selected for finding his way to the hearts
of the old line Wings. Said the new
Postmaster General the other day:
II see some of the newspapers put me
down as All old line Wing. | wi Ii 10 GER
rect that. never Was anything but ID tm-
OcrAt.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-03-28

IT is said that Keys letter declaring
that "When vacancy exists in any
office connected with this department in
the Southern States. preference will be
given to Republican, all other things
being equal" was written in the White
House that it was submitted to the
Cabinet. and stands as the authoritative
action of the Administration. The
Memphis Appeal says that this exploit
puts him in the attitude of ga Democrat
accepting office for the sole purpose of
distributing stolen property among R1di-
GALS"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-03-28

THE unseasonably cold weather during
the past two weeks has been destructive
to the fruit prospects. We fear there will
be serious disappointment to Orchardists
who were making arrangements Tor ship
ments to the Western markets.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-03-28
The Extra Session.

An extra session of the new Congress
has been decided necessary, and the
fourth of June is the day fixed on Tor II
to meet There is no lawful way of
avoiding it without letting the army go
unpaid and unsupplied after the 30th of
June next, and so it must be accepted.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-03-28

Mr.. HAYES is reported to have state d
to an interviewer that "for eight years
g the policy of force and muskets had
" been tried in the South, but had failed,
" and public sentiment now demanded a
" change" If the head of the Republi
can Administration makes this admission
of the failure Of the Radical policy, who
can longer question the justice of the
Democratic position in the late canvass.
and say that the labors of the party of
reform were without avail, notwithstand-
ing the fraudulent count. There is
strength in a good cause.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-03-28

THE armed occupation Of Louisiana
and South Carolina IS a violation of
State Rights and an intervention in the
interest of the carpet-b bag conspira
tors who were defeated at the election.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-03-28

On our page will be found report of
of a decision of the U. S. District Court
at Baltimore in a civil rights suit brought
against the Baltimore and Ohio road by
one of the nations wards. The verdict
was in favor of the company.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-03-28
Ma Has,, refusal to anpoi

MR. HAYES refusal to appoint
members of Congress on the Louisiana
Commission on the ground that they
might be called to act judiciallY on
the question, shows that he expects TO
sustain the Packard crew with bayonets
all the summer at least.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-03-28

Col. J. r. MCINTosH has been select
ed as Chairman of the Democratic Exec
utive Committee of Choctaw county.
That means business.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-03-28

GIVE US a mess of new turnip salad,
or give us-death. Liberty is too much
to hope for IN these days az Retugning
ko9rdg anL Electoral Com missions. -
Holly Springs Reporter.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-03-28

my Southern policy" began by 81
lecting six members of the Cabinet fom
the Northern, and Que from the Southern,
States.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-03-28

PLAYED OUT NONSENSE. -"After all
q it was. best to count in Hayes. He
50 will do better for the South than Til
% den would or could"
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seeking office, but others are doing 1t for
him. Don't belong TO the Bruce cro,od:
WASHINGTON, March 81, 1877.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
Your Washington despatch published YES
terday said that had gone to the President
about his Mississippi patronage to secure it
TO the Republicans. This is not true /
have never said q word to the president
about patronage, and went there for the
10 him, and had no conversation with him
on any Kind of bu.iness, nor did any ono
who went with me. Your despatch repre-
scented me also as one Of what they called
the BRUCE party. resisting the influence of
Colonei Lamar with the administration and
the appointment Of Democrats. This too
Is not true. Colonel Lamar is a conseFya-
tive statesman whose influence | rejoice To
see increasing in every direction. lie GER
tainly is the oldest and the best friend ever
had, and so far from our being in antaoo-
nism, he strongly recommends nv Sp
pointment to the District Attorntyshfp In
Mississippi, which NOW hold. and he has
loineA this mnnth thirteen other Senators
IN Recommending and urging my appoint
ment TO thu Brazilian mission, and has back
ed this up by seeing both the President ana
Dir. Evarts In person and giving me the
very strongest kind OF Endorsement
Neither do object to the appointment OF
democrats to Office in the South hut. on the
contrary, haas earnestly advocated that
they &c appointed equally with repu biieans.
and have done so ever since the last Presi
Dental election took place.
Respectfully,
THOMAS WALTON. |
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-03-28

The stand which Mr.. Hayes has taken
on the Southern question shows that he
understands the force of Morton's opin-
ion:
The administration of any President
viii be in the main what the party which
elected him n.akes it. II he breaks away
fEpm his party, the chances are that he will
be broken DOWN.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-03-28

THESE disIGtseested Canfeds who have
aushed SO over Hayes, about Louisiano
aud ): Carolina, southern policy and Ali
tnat' It appears now, were rather too
Hdyesty.-Meridian Mercury.
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The Oxford Eagle gives this comfort.
inc assurance {:

Ii judicious selection Of candidate. Is
made by the Democracy OF If Netie We
do not believe our Republican ri. nls will
deavor To get soft-shells To run a. iudepea-
dents, but dyed he wool Ralicslism is
dead in the good old county OF Lataye te.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-03-28

TIE meaning of the Louisiana com.
mission is that the Administration has
resolved to sustain Packard.