The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-10-16
The Northern Republican Leaders
and ahe Sectional Issues.

the Western canvass and have delivered
themselves Of misrepresentation and
calumny Of the South, disgraceful to
lowest pot house demagogues.
We have seen how the Secretary of
the Treasury has arraigned her people
for bad faith in refusing to accord equal
rights to either white or black Republi
cans'---in violating the new amendments
to the Constitution-and thus making
it necessary to concentrate against the
South) the people of the North to secure
peace, order and liberty"
We have seen how the Secretary of
War has proclaimed that ''the South is
on tria"-that she don't allow a fee
ballot" he has specifically arraigned
Mississippi, slanderlng her good name
and threatening remedy for wrongs
which he had originated for partisan
effect, in his own disordered mind.
We have seen how Representative
Charles Foster Of Ohio, the Spokesman
of the Administration, has repeated the
poisoned speeches Of his file leaders,
with the cant superadded to their indict
ment that JEFF. Davis makes as trea-
sonable speeches as those of 1861 and
receives the endorsement and approval
Of a large portion of the press and the
peopIe-out of one hundred newspapers
in Mississippi ninety endorse and
applaud jeff Davis" The latter part
of the statement is the truth, for it IS
creditable to Mississippians that they
have not sunk low enough to lalsify a
history of which they should be proud,
nor abandoned a chleftain who was true
to his convictions and to theirs but it is
false that his speeches were ever
"treasonable, or that he utters treason"
in vindicating the truth of history and
the honor of his State and people from
misrepresentation. We have seen how
this same demagogue, Mr.. Foster,
candidate of his party for Congress
threatened to meet the South with the
"most Greeks" because she IS ''solid' in
support of the party which has champion
ed her against prescription and whose
principles are the foundation of the
Federal Union as it was reared by It's
founders.
And now comes greater than them
all to illuminate his accusations against
the people of the South and to rally the
North again under the banner of the
bloody shirt-Senator Conkling of New
York. He is not a sniveller like Hayes
"a treacherous and malignant intrignant
like Sherman "whO can smile and smile
and be villain still, nor commonplace
brawler like Foster-but a lordy caval-
lier who marches directly to his object
with visor up and delivers his blow. He
is the Republican leader of the Empire
State of the Union; without rival in
his own party, as imperious as Henry
Clay, and as omnipotent with his follow
ers to whom his word is the "stamp of
fate, the sanction of a Cod" His recent
deliverance before his State Convention,
is a remarkable emanation. We will APP
pend that portion which makes reference
to the matters in which the Southern
people are chiefly concerned, that they
may be warned Of the designs of the
party that plunged the country into war
and is seeking to keep alive the passions its
produced, and the proscriptiye measures
that succeeded it:
EXTRACT FROM SENATOR COMBINES SPEECH.
Credit, currency, and business are not tha
only elements in the election this year
Schemes t. take money from the Treasury
in staggering totals for claims and grieV-
ances ana projects. which no man can num-
Der, are being hatchPd and nursed and per-
fected against the time when they eau COM
pei attention. When will that time be
When full sway in Congress is given to the
party, and the sentiment which now rules
'SoIid South'f-a south made solid not by
honest majorities, and free honest voting,
but by minorities dominating through
crimes against God and man. That solid
South again, as of old, sends up majority
of all the Democratic votes in Congress; it
rules kffe GFcfhocTdllG caucus, anu must de-
eide the party action whenever it insists
In the House of Representatives there are
forty comm itteeS, and already the Cnairmeu
of twenty-three of them are eX-Confeder
ates from the South. After next March the
south will control the committees OF the
senate also. \ on need not be reminded
that committees are all powerful in legiSIa-
tion--more than ever nOY. because of the
overwhelming pressure OF business, which
makes full and open discussion, especially
in the House, impossible. You need not be
reminded, either, that one third of all ma
tional revenue aud expenditures comes from
the State OF New York | ask whether
those who are TO pay 81 of every 50 taken
from the treasury have not need. before we
Drift much further, TO inquire: Nv atehman,
what of the night!
/ am for conciiistion and reconciliation
and concord and peace ali around; but my
belief is that the men aad theeoMmunitieS
who stood by the dag and prayed tor it and
fought for il, If they behave them selves, are
Just as good as those who drenched the land
with blood and covered 1t with mourning,
debt and taxes. | believe, too. those who
Strove TO save the country are as safe legis-
lators and ehairmen of committees as those
who strove to destroy it. Magnanimity.
generosity. and forgiveness. unparalleled in
human annals. maze been the policy of the
nation toward those who sought its over
throw. This is grand majestic, ChriStian
but i may be carried too far.
II is not use for the North, nor the South
ITSELF to hand the government over bodily
to those who were lately ia arms against it,
aud vino in many instances now bold seats
in Congress gained by sitting elections,
b. terrorism and bloOdSbed. II is not wise
or lust thus to tempt human nature. 1t is |
not sale COR the habitations of the North or
OF the South.
When pestilence smites Southern homes
let the North pour out. as she now does,
money aud sympsttig. never holding back
A farthing because it is southern, not
Northern woe. This is right. Bit Uhsl i
taking political action. let US be just to all. |
not only to ourselves. but TO those, whether
black Or white, to whuse protection we are
bound by ties which would not be forgot |
ten by an Algerine pig&te or Barbary |
eorsair.