The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-09-25

in 1915 have been rGlvincea long ere
this that they made bad bargain: The
prominent members Of Administers
ZION which was putin poverty methods
foreign to the Constitution and in def
ance Of the choice of itheo people, have
all been speakias reeend8 at aIehustings
to control pending elections in the States
where they were PRESUMED to exercise
control, and their speeches. carefully
prepared and deliberately. uttered are
sectional and breathe but one
language of Misrepresentation and of hot
wrath in reference to the South. ,..,, :.
First in order is the Secretary of the
Treasury, Mr. John Sherman, who is
pm. excellence the guide, counsellor and
friend of the acting President. In his
Toledo speech august 26th) he recites
the old bloody shirt story Of the whip
ping, manning, wounding; numbering
and driving into the woods" during the
Presidential contest of 1876, Of colored
voters in the South upon whom politicians
Of the Sherman school claim to have "a
billaof sale and then after the utter
ance Of this atrocious calumny, he
proceeds to arraign tbe people Of the
South for infidelity to-, their promises in
language as follows :''f4 asl ta4' rt>U
But I, who supported this policy, and
f.4.l. -
that the South has never frankly or man
fully responded to this policy. They do not
enforce the ameDdmepts- They do not give
equal civil and poliCical rights TO either
white or black Republicans. They do not
perm it or tolerate that free expression
of opinion and discussion and action essen
tial TO a Republican Government, but, by
their adherence to the very elements in the
North that encouraged them in a rebellion,
that brought upon them the very waste
and desolation OF which they complain,
they repel all efforts to break down the
sectionalism of the past, and make it vitality
necessary a...s;iiss e eonceHFra1' RI enple
of the North in order to secure peace, order
and liberty, ..,. = - .s@ &c. -
Which simply means that because the
Southern people naturally. adhered to
the party in, the North who have opposed
the viDdictive legislationIof the Radicals,
they are to be overwhelmed bya solid
North in order to secure '.peace, order
and liberty another form of expressing
the .favorite Republican pqlicy of lbayo-
net and alien rule. i is with profound
thanksgiving that we are permitted to
say that the SfrOracls of the fraudulent
Administrator does not hold the North
ern States in the hollow of his hand.
Nevertheless, we of 1.-THE South are fairly
warned of what may be expected if the
rule Of the Republican party should be
prolonged. !, ....qha as .fa,a.
: Having quoted what the holder of the
purse of the government has said, let US
listen to the language, Of another
member of the Administration
next in importance--thei keeper of
the sword, the Secretary of War, Mr..
G.. w. MqCrary, and by the way one of
the. chief benefciaries. of the electoral
porter In Ills Keokuk speech, Sebtem-
Der 10th, he plunges deep into the grave
of the. past, drags up its skeleton. and
actually fights over again, the battles of
the 'frebellion, . claiming, of course,
great'credit to his party for Violating the
Federal compact and pluhging the coun-
try into war: But passing over all this
stuff as the mere, rant of "a vapOring DEM
agogue, let us see what he says of. the
South, and the treatment with which he
threatens her;
The South is now ou trial. There assure
ly no excuse now, even by their own con-
fession, for a continuation of the process by
which. prior to March 4, 1877! all the South
ern States but three, and nearly all the
Congressional, districts, manya0fth hav-
ing conteSse1lV large Republican maiorir-.
ties, were carried over to the Democratic
party. when another election comes, we
shalpsee whether, when left too themselves
the Southern Democrats will allow a free
ballot and guarantee fair and honest count
Of the votes cast. II the process of tbull-I
dozing"' is continued, or If the plan OF sys-
tematici outrage, the Wholea country VIII
understand that it is, because the white De-
mocracy of the South do not intend TO re-
spect and obey tie amended Constitution
and are resolved that they, whether in the
majority or minority. will rule in all that
section. If, unhappily, this purpose should
be made manifest by the logic of events,
Ddu nthg rest dSSttred that The people of this
country lcdtt RBd pe0eed6te and cDnStttuliondI
relae0y Or course, We are fbeHnd to FecUg-
nlze certain constitutional limitations upon
the power OF the United States. We know
that we can, In thine OF peace, exercise no
strictly war powers; aandilu is a. fact wfIfGh' 1
we are sonnet ines inclined to Admit with
regret, that there are many crimes W hich
the L nitcd States cannot punish, 1t is not
long since the country looked With herror
upon thea awful massacre OF the chisholm
family in Mississippi, and the public indig-
nation was vastly Increased because the
United States could not, and Mississippi
would not, punish the guilty Wretches who
it. OFdinarily, the crime OFF
murder is not within the ljurisaietion ofIthe |
Federal Courts. ,d.,, ...,..,t 4
This speech has butrone einterpreta-
ton and it is too plait to need exblaha!-
ton. It is an appeal 20 the passions. Of
the, country based upon, .aiealumnious.
against the South and a |
threat to reinaugurate bayonet rule in I
violation of the Constitution and Of the
government, which, however. does. not.
amount to q puff Of.wind with the Rapnb.d
lican leaders, when it comes between
them and the qualification of their LUST
Of power and spirit, Of bate The Sec
Rotary of the Treasury, to quote helan.
guage of an aide and Influential NORTH |
en- contemporary, the New Y orrk
World, safgg1nes that the South is on trial. /
lnd intimated in various waysthat, there t
Eoaldibe asreaewali of'repressive meas
ires if thatAection failed topass through /
he ordeal ID away, to suit the Republi-
IAN parry According to his doctrine, /
the centred of. the aGenerah Govern
mint. ava EaiArak4 aIe,.t;6ns tl,,s sn.=f