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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-24

The Supreme Court of Missouri, in
deciding that the bonds of Greene coun-
ty, in that State, issued and sold on a
subscription to the stock of tic Hanni-
bal and St Joseph Railroad Company,
TO aid in the construction Of the Kansas
City and Memphis Railroad, are INVALID
on the the ground that the issue was not
simply irregular but utterly unauthoriz-
ed, in noticing the argument touching
the rights of innocent purchasers, as
serted what is unusual in these DAYS that
the rights of innocent taxpayers are
equally entitled to protection, and declar-
ed that the latter might certainly be pre-.
sumed to have acquired their property
lawfully; and that their right to protec-
ton from unlawful diseizin must be re-
spected.
The enunciation Of this palpable truth
i decidedly refreshing. 50 much il it the
custom Of courts and legislatures to over.
look the rights Of the people in their
concern for the aanctity Of contracts %
aah they effect the INNOCENT purcbae.
'aH vine nttaE I'LL ire hol e Innocent
.sa Nalsa6 hlf are willing to
NnneAA NR RFh | nVAnlln6 n IL
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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-24
State Superintendent Public Educati,'


At meeting of the Democratic Execu-
tive Committed of the Fifth Congressional
District, held at Brookhaven, July Is, 1878,
pursuant to call of the chairman, there
were present:
Hon. d. w. Hurst, of Pike, chairman /:
Hon. Tim. E. Cooper, of Copiah; Hon. j. l..
Meade, of Simpson; Capt. S. Gwin, of Law
renee; DIR. FL. p. Atkins, of Lincoln, an
Hon. T. A. Magee, of Franklin.
On motion of Mr.. Cooper, j. M. Buckley
was requested to act as secretary, of the
meeting.
The following resolutions were adopted ::
Resolved, That Convention of the DEM
ocratic Party of the Fifth Congressional
District be called to meet in Broo&haven on
Tuesday the Sd day of September, next, to
nominate a candidate for representative in
Congress.
Resolved, That until otherwise ordered
BY the convention, each county represented
shall be entitled to two votes in the conven-
ton for each member of the lower branch
of the Legislature from said county.
Resolved, That all the Democratic papers
in the District be requested to publish the
proceedings of this meeting.
Ordered that the meeting adjourn subject
to q call of the chairman, should occasion
require another meeting of this commit
tee. ID. w. HURST.
Chairman.
J. N. BUCKLEY, Secretary.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-24

DR.. H. V. REDFIED, the famed cores
pendent of the Cincinnati Commercial,
in speaking of the mortuary reports of
the colored population in the principal
localities of the South, showing its de-
crease by disease writes as follows;
:" Is the negro incapable of enjoying free
dom in the flesh? In slavery they multi
piled at the rate of 25 per cent. every ten
years, which was faster than their white
neighbors and masters, as the census reports
show. Can it be that freedom is fatal? If
so, they are the only race OH earth afflicted
in that way. When the census figures OF
1880 are in, the country will be startled BY
the exhibit, and we shall be enveIoped in a
learned newspaper controversy lasting about
five years, as TO the why's and wherefores
of this decrease of the race
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-24

IT is pucrile in the Vicksburg Herald
to attribute our approval of Mr.. Davis
speech to "hero- worship" What be
said was simply historical truth and the
occasion demanded it. 1t was due TO the
living and the dead. While the cham
pioDs of the Northern side of the late war
are speaking and writing history in their
own vindication, and disappearing the
cause of the South, defaming her sons
vino dedicated their lives to it, shall the
living be denied the privilege of speaking
in her defense? Our friend of the Herald
thinks it a hideous crime in Mr. Davis to
assert that in Withdrawing from the
Union the Southern States exercised a
sovereign right The consequence of this
doctrine is that in obeying their States the
citizens did not incur the penalty of
treason. The inference is that the Herald
prefers it should be understood that they
did. But this was not the position of the
United States government. When put
to the test it shrank from the trial of Mr.
Davis on the charge treason before its
own tribunals. Mr.. Alexander II.
an original Union man, has
published two volumes to prove the cor
rectness of the identical position assumed
by Mr.. Davis in his Seashore address,
and every friend of truth appIauded his
motives and conduct.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-24

''FIGUREs do not lie," and there is nc
disputing the incontrovertible facts pre-
scented by Mr. j j. Halbert, one of the
most inte!ligenttaxpayers and staunchest
Democrats in the county, in his commu-
nication published on our fourth page, in
regard 10 Kinds county taxes. 1t is not
to be denied that the Democrats in OBJ
tanning control of the State Government
passed q law forbidding boards of super
visors from ieVying county taxes which
added to the State tax would exceed IF
teen dollars on the thousand and that a
subsequent act reduced the amount to
twelve dollars and half, but in conse-
quence of outstanding debts created by
the Republican administrators in some
of the counties, it was found necessary
either to repudiate these liabilities or ex-
empt them from the general law limiting
taxation as above. 1t seems that Kinds
was one of these counties, though we
have not found the law in which she is
mentioned as one of the exceptions. The
facts stated by Mr.. Halbert, and com.
planned of as a grievance by numerous
taxpayers, is properly referable to the
President of the late Board of Super
yisors, and an explanation from him
would no doubt be acceptable to the tax
payers of the county generally.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-24

This effort of the CLARION TO defend the
course of Northern Democrats IS singular
" unfortunate. The CLARION fails TO re-
mind its readers that the Republican senate
passed the Brazilian steamship subsidy with
the aid OF Blaine, Republican leader and
against the opposition of Herman, New
York Observation-Disclosures
And the said Blaine advocates a bloody
shirt campaign, and a strong military
government for the rule of the South.
The Brazilian steamship subsidy was not
an exclusively Southern measure. The
company for whose benefit it was got
ten up was a Northern company and
Northern ports were equally interested
with Southern cities. The bill may have
been meritorious in some particulars, but
one of its effects would have been TO
build up a monopoly and drive out
Southern companies already engaged in
the trade. If we failed to mention
BIaine's support and Kernan's opposi
ton, we did not forget to note that
opposed it, and we argued that it was
unreasonable to part company with the
Northern Democrats and destroy the
only national organization in the Union
for causes which apply equally to South
ern men. 1t must not be forgotten that
if Blaine, who Is a notorious corrup-
ZIONIST and has made an overgrown for
tune by running with rings and voting
subsidies right and left at the expense Of
the taxpayers, does tender the Brazilian
steamship copartnership an appropriation
with one hand, he is carrying an iron col
lar for the South in the other
The Coahomian in the same con-
nection arraigns Speaker Randall
and charges him with defeating the
measure. We will leave that matter to
be settled by the Democratic Represen-
tatives from the South, every one of
whom voted for him for Speaker, and in
their vindication we will say that in the
reign of terror in the South when she
had no voice nor vote in in Congress and
was ruled by the bayonet and robbed by
importations from the Northern pig-stye,
by authority of the infamous measures
which Blaine q Co., originated, Mr.. Ran
dali was one of the brave band of North
ern patriots who stood up for her wrong
ed people and championed their cause in
the national councils
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-24
THE DEMOCRATIC ORGAIZA-
TION.
Extract of a Letter of DIR. q. ". ID
Hill. DECLINING TO Compete for
the Congressional NOmfn alton i'm
the 3rd District
Macon SUM

Seriously, there never was time Ia the his
tory OF our country when il was more impor-
tant that all mere personal aspirations and
preferments should be subordInaIed to the
interests of the public and the integrity and
perpetuity OF the Democratic party which
alone can save the people of this Union from
gross mlsrule, commercial stagnation, ma
tional disgrace, and ruin.
The Radical party in the South sis not
dead but sleeprthl' aud nothing can so GER
tainly and pr ,nptly awaken it to action a.
division and disSentiOn in our own ranks.
and when we recall the fact that this miser-
able party, whether il the North OF the
holth a. the old Republican organization
or the new National, Independents, or what
not, Is chiefly inspired by opposition to aud
hatred OF the white people of the South
the sn-calied rebel element: and that it Ia
now struggling in the .slast ditchD to re-
gain supremacy IN Congress and carry the
Presidential election IN $780, it Is calculated
10 renew our energies. increase our devo-
ton dIiQ more lrmIg unite rs in pkfphfnat.
ing che ss50lid SOUTH Let - stand to-
geEher q one man IS we did 10 20, and Nj
Will he WELL
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-24

A writer in the Cincinnati Enquirer
claiming to be informed of the Republi-
House # Represehifatr9eass,r says: tho "ov'
Before closing L want to say a word in
regard to Republican prospects in the South
They expect TO hold their two members in
Tennessee, gain one in Mississippi, one in
LouiSian :, and one in Alabama. )ld two of
them in South Carolina, and also their pres
ent members in North Carolina and Vir-
ginia. The sixth Maryland district is very
close. In 1874 Walsh's majority was seven
ty-eight, and in 1876 it was fourteen. The
exerJion to carry this district for the Re
publicans will lack no element of success. 1t
Is one of the very few districts in the South
where the white population is almost entire
~ divided.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-24

The public sentiments that the House
should not have receded from its bill to
reduce the standing army to 10000 in
stead of $4,000 as providid in the Senate
amendment and as finally concurred in
by the two houses. The maximum be-
fore the war was 5000, and it was am
ply sufficient for all the purposes of the
government. The Republicans who want
Grant and the restoration of bayonet and
alien government in the South, insisted
upon the maximum figure and finally
got it. Let the Democracy plant them
selves upon the demand for a reduction
of the army and no military government.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-24
Let MIR. Davis Speak.
Raleigh IN. Co observer.l

Let Mr.. Davis speak then, for say wha
be may, we venture to assert that not fac
will he misstate or exaggerate. If Mr.
Davis utters word of untruth 1t will be an
easy m after to show it. Do our Northern
brethren fear that jefferson Davis car
controvert the truth of history? The
time will never come when in northern
esteem it will be right and proper for
representative Southern men TO assert bold
ly and publicly that the cause in which
they hazarded their lives was lust
cause We are tired. heartily tired OF
waiting for that overcoming, never arriv-
ing convenient season; we believe, indeed.
that IL never will come, and so believing.
we are unwilling &c keep our mouths closed
until our enemies shall have made IN the
record against us, and we unhesitatingiy ar
ray ourselves with those who say, let Mr..
Davis speak-let us all speak-and with
those who think we have done ourselves no
good by having sought so anxiousIv to
please Yankees and negroes Turing the LAST
twelve or thirteen years.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-24

Two Dollars per Bale i'm the COun-
ties of Bolivar, Warrington, H.
saquema and SharI6ey-The Sue.
ceSSful LeVee Con tractors.
Mem phis Appeal

At the regular meeting of the Mississip-
pt Levee Board of the Eleventh District
comprising the counties of Bolivar Wash
lngton, Issaquena and Sharkey, held at
Greenville, Mississippi, on the ninth instant,
the following tax was levied:
Tax on cotton for construction purposes
assessed at IA per pound and five mills adj
yalorem on personality and realty in the
district.
The old tax on cotton levied by the Leg
islature is 14c per pound. making a total tax
on cotton in the said district of &c or 81
per bale. This is a reduction of ST. per bale
from the tax of last year, when the tax was
80 per bale.
The levee contracts were let out by the
board to the following named persons, and
at the following rates:
M w. Hughes, of Vicksburg Mississippi.
secured the Catfish Point levee, 100000 Gu
bic yards, at lac.
J. S. Tattley, of Greenville, Mississippi.
secured the Choctaw Bend levee, 81, 900 Gu
bic yards, at 1890.
John Scott, of st. Louis. Missouri, Sc
cured the Argyle levee, us 600 cubic yards,
T, Ford & Co., of Keokuk, Iowa, gecur-
ed the Skipwith levee, 10000 cubic yards,
at 15c.
Tom Sweeney, of Greenville, Mississippi.
secured Duvall's levee, $4,000 cubic yards at
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-24
First District.

Hon. H. L. Muldrow, was nominated
for Congress in the first district. The
Convention adopted platforms the pur-
port of which it is condensed as follows
Demands the repeal of the resumption
act, favors a currency to be issued
by the general government alone, the
abolition of national banks, the regula-
ton of Railroad fares and freight by the
the Legislature; denouncing the Presi-
Dental fraud, etc.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-24

lCol. A. G.. Horne in the Meridian Mercury.
The editor of this journal felt it duty to
be peFs0nally present. to tender his RESPECTS
to our fallen chief, and In that way attest
his respect for our ssLost Cause, So far
from entertaining any penltentfal thoughts
which could make him ashamed to be there
lest the great chief should give utterarce
= sentiments in his hearing OF unchanged
and un..hanpis..ses confidence in the righte-
business 81 our cause, he VS. proud to grasp
his hand, aud pr0uu Of bis noble sastar-
ances, spoken Is Ii mare, and was, in the
presence and hearing or tlis people 81 the
ern of fha AEonQnefed Banner that they
bad none nothing q De ashamed IA. n0tll-
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-24
Republican Rule in Louisiana

The Potter Investigating Committee
have in addition to furnishing evidence
of the fraudulence of the Hayes title to
Presidency as strong as proofs of Holy
Writ, made an amazing exposure of
the corruption and rottenness of Repub-
ican rule in Louisiana, which, by the
way, was fair specimen of what Repub-
lican rule was throughout the Southern
States. For example, Mr. E. L. Web
Der who was a Republican Senator for
four years and was a candidate for cleo
tor on the ticket of his party in 1876,
and was besides a member of the State
Republican Executive Committee, has tes-
tilted that when he was a member of the
Senate he belonged to ring of nineteen
members constituting majority Of that
body, including Antoine, t. C. Ander
son, Twitchell, Burch and other promi-
nent leaders, who passed large appropri-
atoms for money considerations. For
instance they received 100000 for pass
ing the levee bill and $40, 900 for passing
the State House bill. Each member of
the association received $4,000 of the
money. Twitchell was President and I.
C. Anderson Treasurer of the Associa-
ton. Both these men have received pro-
fitable offices from the Hayes Admins
tration.
The revelations amply justify the ex-
treme measures resorted to by the people
in the Southern States to rid themselves
of Republican rule.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-24

Crystal Springs Monltor-l

Crystal Springs Monitorl
". We are authorized TO state that goi. Benz.
hlnR will not be a candidate or nomul.
m Son before the Fifth District Convention.
LUIS determination is in accordance win
the well known and oft-expre-.eI courc-
LIONS OF Col. King shat the office must sees
tne man and not the man the Office" O.
SoI' Mugs qualifications tor this high and
HWohofahle position, his constituents in
11o9Plah county can bear ample testimony
MS ueclihation Of the candidacy, cmanat.lr
a As " does from pure and patriotic motive
5So.ely' Is creditable alike 70 his head ana Die
On the seashoFe, the names of Gen.
> K. Davis, Hon. o. r. Saa0li and
non. Roderich Seal are freely mentioned
and in the Eastern portion OF the Dis
trIct, the Hon. J. p. Carter, of Perry
has numerous supporters.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-24
The Law Should Know No Dis
IimC1iOR.

If investigation, by parchment, OIL
otherwise, should establish the fact that
Hayes holds his Office by fraud. he should be
instantly 'aeposed and elected" in the name
of "God and the Continental Congress-
He is no better than any other tenant bv
fraud and justly administered law knows
no distinction. Democrats, hold fast to
your integrity.-Port Gibson Reviele.
This is about the position declared by
Mr.. Muldrow in his Okolona speech be-
fore his nomination, and the declaration
received applause from his entire audi
ence.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-24

Congress adjourned on the Goth inst The
most i'm pOrtant acts passed during the se<-
sion were the silver bill, the bill allowing
criminals to testify in their own behalf in
T. S Courts. and the Pacific funding BILL
Central Star.
The right of criminals to testify in their
own behalf ought to prevail in all Courts,
and for the same reason that plaintiffs in
civil have the same rights. 1t often occurs
that party charged with crime knows i'm
pOrtanr facts, which, corroborated by cir
cumstances, might change verdicts and sat
iaty justice, aud, at all events, the testimony
could be taken at its value-judged of by
the jury and the Court.-POrt Gibson
Reveille.
A bill authorizing criminals to testify
was offered in the State Senate at the last
session by Hon W. S. Parish and passed
that body by decided majority. In the
pressure of other matters, and the want
of proper attention by its friends it failed
in the other house.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-24

Whatever may be said Of r.. b. HAYES "a
= civil service reformer, it cannot Be de-
ter. His whole family woui1 sccept Az 1"H 81
vl.ation to attend a quilting in anv State
AdJoinlng the District, expensea All neid
am y anyhodY ghQURhe enough or I'm ~ 1913 ~
-! I'm would probably be lonnd tbat be
dogs haltlmore Gazette. 'os' so's ana
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-24

The FIFTH DISTRICT BY proceed
ings of the Executive Committee of this
District elsewhere published, it will be
seen that the Convention of the 9TH Dis.
trict to nominate a candidate for Con
gress viii be held at Brookhaven on the
Sd of September.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-24

THERE was a reunion of ex Confeder-
ate soldiers Of Carroll county on July 9th
at Carrollton. Fifteen hundred persons
were present according to the estimate OF
the Advance Dr.. b. F. Kittreil
of Black Hawk, and Hon. H. d.
Money, of Winona, addressed them.
After speaking and dinner were oyer,
the proceedings, published in our last,
were had.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-24

THE New York Times describes Hon
to be perpetually surprised that he has
been allowed to live" The Times is the
leading organ of the party which, when
it had full control of the government in
all its departments, judicial as we'll as
executive and legislative, did not dare to
give him trial after all their clamor
that he was a criminal, thus practically
admitting the falsity of the accusation
After this confession the language of the
Times is mean and pusillanimous. What
the Ell emies of the South abhor is not the
revolu tionary effect of Mr.. Davis speech
nor its tendency to revive the sectional
controversy, but his vindication of the
truth of history and of the cause for
which his countrymen of the South
struggle and suffered.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-24
Ehe GraRdeat Hero of abe IOtR,
Century.
Brandon RepubIlcan7

Brandon Republican,
The first vote we ever cast IN AFiss,s.,,u,
against Mr.. Davis, when he wasa sesasg;aa,
eSnulaate for Governor, and we Continued
20 oppose him and secession until secessIor
became an accomplished fact. Even durino
Iae war NO sometimes criticised his acts
since the war that has made him X o,en, ~
est ss. nero OF the nineteeth century in our e.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-24

TIE Democratic Convention Of the FIFTH
Congressional District of Texas adjourned
sine die yesterday, alter 3 session Of five
DAYS and nights. N ....hieh fffty-five ballots
were taken without effecting 3 nol...nafion.
Kne candidates are Mr.. Schleicher. the
present Cong Gresham, and Judge Ireland.
After Mr. sehleicher's earnest opRasi-
ton 70 Tie reduction 81 the Army: We
do not Wsnder that bis Democ ATTIC con
asitaenla pFefernpt % rel nrn lln ID Con.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-24

THE Mississippi Baptist State conven-
ton Assem- bled at Summit on Wednesday
last. Important reports have been made
on general education and foreign missions.
The following new officers were elect
ed: Elder J. T. Freeman, modera
tor; Elder A. J. Miller, secretary
W. T. Ratlif, corresponding secretary
DIR. NJ. w. Phillips, treasurer.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-24
VvhoIesomo run Good Tor Thsrs.
Memphis Appeal. /

Memphis Appeal
A. some Of the Northern papers are giving
ff5neliselveS great deal Of trouble over ht'
10 e9'e sSi AaYiss speech, tCisall for morn.
Ing. This Is a free countrv and surely lho
4saulGai organs that howl 90 much about iree
speech should not begrudge the great states
ma ian an opportunity Of once On a while leI-
l ing tnem the truth, as they don't get 10 from
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-24

THE President has insulted the people
at New Orleans by appointing as Post
Master of that city, A. S. Badger who
led the Metropolitan riffraff against the
city, or the memorable 14th of Septem
Der 1874.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-24
Let Then. shrek.
N. O. Dem ocrat.

- A-- oSA@t'
- for the New York Times and Tribune
the Chica go daily bulletins of indecencv
ana other Northern Republican, journals.
leL lnem shriek on they cannot disturb the
ear or arouse 8 single emotion in the hear,
81 the grand old man who Is passing Inc
remainder of his days at Beauvoir. Tor he i
as high above his traducers a. i the orhed
moon 2 sD above the d1G that hOWis at ifs path
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-24

The fernando Press and Times says
Judge j. B. Morgan, whose valuable
services to the people in the State Legis
lature will not be forgotten, is not and
will not be candidate for Congress from
the ID district.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-24

The society column of the Corinthian IS
edited by Mrs. Mary Inge Hoskins-wife OF
our poet friend. VIM. H Hoskins Esq. Mrs.
81. is lady of rare taste and sparkling cul-
ture. She wields a graceful pen and her de-
partment gives additional interest to our
favorite journal .-Southern States.
Without casting any reflection upon the
past management of our brilliant young
contem porary, we have noticed marked
improve ment of late. We now see how
If IL