The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-12-11

One of the modern ways of becoming
famous is to go abroad and be inter
viewed. Ex-Gov. r. G. Powers, Inter
nal Revenue Collector for the Southern
! District of this State, has recently ac-
quired some noteriety by that means
See extract from a Cleveland paper in
another column While there is good
deal of apparent venom and downright
misrepresentation in the statements
credited to him, knowing his amiability
and mild manners, we are charitably in
clined to believe that they result more
from desire to keep time to the music
of the Administration whose patronage
/ he enjoys, than from deliberate malice,
or wish to put the Democrats and Con
servatives of Mississippi in false light
before the world We care nothing
about his explanation of TIE position OF
| the Republicans of the State on the
Greenback issue, nor of the motives as
cribed to them in voting for the Green
back candidates, what few there were,
but we do enter an emphatic protest
against the misrepresentation which are
designed to keep up sectional agitation.
For example:
"If the people OF the North have that re-
spect for the purity of the ballot box which
| they ought to have, and if they are aware
| of al the dishou est means that have been
employed to bring about the present state
of affairs in the South, there ought 10 be a
/ solid North, and an indignant SOLID North az
that -
Now an ex Governor ought to know
that under the constitution and laws of
the land, as expounded by the highest
tribunal in the government, ''the peo-
pie of the North" have no concern what
ever with ''the affairs of the South. ;"
No more, indeed, than the people of the
South have with "the affairs" of the
North. For example, we saw the
other day that in Darke county,
Ohio, the very State in which the above
extraordinary deliverance was made
to stir the stones to mutiny, vigilance
committee notified six colored men
and their families to abandon their
homes within given time or take the
consequences. 1t was an outrage on the
"nation's words"we calculated to fire the
hearts of the 'ssolid South but what had
her "people" to do with it? What could
they do? We are constantly reading of
elections carried by ballot-stuffing bull
doing and the like in Northern commu-
mites, but we do not jump to the conclu-
sion that the South ought to become sin
dignant' and lash herself into fury
about it? How m UGH more ridiculous
would such conduct be if these alleged
lawless proceedings were creatures of dis
ordered imaginations, invented for vile
partzan uses instead of real facts.
Gov. Powers undertakes to verify his
statements by citing the result of the re-
cent Mississippi election, and he is even
so unfortunate as to specify localities.
He tells his interviewer that in ''our
county," Noxubee we suppose he means,
'there is voting population of 5000,
that the Democratic candidate "got 500
votes, and that's alr'-that 100 Repub-
Iican voters staid away from the polls;
and the Interference is intended to be
drawn that they were inundated or
knew they would not have fair play. |
Every citizen of Noxubee will see the |
of this statement. BY |
what authority does he assume that there
are 4, 500 votes ia Noxubee county who |
are in favor of re-establishiug Republi- |
can rule in this State with its high taxa
ton, corruption, violence, and strife be-
tween the races? What right has he -
keep up the color line which was originally |
drawn by the Arabs who came South for
the plumber and oppression of both races?
Is no allowance to be made for the growth
Of intelligence among the colored voters
and their discovery that their self appoint
ed guides were deceiving and entic-
ng them to their ruin? The truth is
he colored people have become con
7inced that their rights are safe
n the hands of the Democratic party,
md no longer feel the intense concern
bout the elections which they expert
.nced when they were acting under the
inspired by the adventures
hat they would be depriv ed of their
newly found freedom if the Democrats
got into power. So far as the election
n Noxubee Gas well as eIsewherein Missis
ippi) is concerned, the Democrats them
elves polled only small fraction of their
eal strength. Will it be said that they too
we're bulldozed or deferred from voting
~ dishonest means" of any kind
Assuredly not. The true reason of the
madness of the vote was that the Dem
,cratic candidate had no opposition, and
here was nothing to inspire the people
# any party to turn out in their num-
,ers. The pretense that improper agen-
les were employed to carry the county
or the Democratic nominee, is untrue,
s every citizen in Noxubee will testify.
there could not have been a canvass and
IN election freer from excitement and
in more orderly, peaceable !.
nd law abiding manner. The same re-
Dark will apply to every county in the
tate.
The fact is studiously kept in the
ack ground by these partisans who earn
heir bread by stirring up strife between !,
10 sactYons and vilIifvin0 tha Southern q