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

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Vicksburg Herald
The Radical party should certainly thank
Mr. Davis for his Mississippi City speech
II is worth a half a million dollars to them
at least. They will have it printed as a
campaign document and scattered bro id-
east over the North. Every Republican
speaker will quote from it, and gioat over
its detestible destructive secession Sehtl-
ments Every newspaper viii ring the
changes on the damnable hereSy proclaimed
and persisted in by the fallen chieftaln OF
the conquered South. What an opportunl-
tv for good was lost; yes, worse IMAM los1'
for it was made the occasion 10 advocate
doctrine EVIL IN ITSELF, DESTRUCTIVE OF
GOVERNMENT AMONG MEN. and cruelty hurt
ful TO the South. Every Radical IS re)olc-
ing: every patriotic Southern leader Is
nlaced on the defensive. and under tue
necessity of making unlimited explanations
As often as the poor is forced To Explain, 20
often do the Radicals win. And 10 be forced
TO try to explain Sc GEES s-i-o-n.
Great Heavens! What next? Mr.. Davis,
one of the greatest men the world ever pro-
duced. has ex pressed his opinion of secession
regardless of all consequences, and IL Is now
the duty of every prominent man In the
South to express his opinion OF It, WE DE-
sPIsE AND SPIT UPON 1T, AS ONE OF THE
MOST DEvILIsH DoGMAS EVER DEVISED By
AMBITIOUS POLITICAL LEADERS. We 10 not
believe men should make governments as
they do limited partn erships, to be dissolved
at the caprice OF a very small portion OF their
number, il that portion happens TO be called
State When governments are formed,
there is no such thing as peaceaoly spIlt-
ting them up into the parts of which they
were M ade. There never was, and never
will be such thing as peaceabie secession
But here comes Mr.. Davis. in 1873 proclaim
ing his faith in THIS wRETCHED EVIL; the
South should DIsowN THE DOCTRINE, AND
ASK OF HIM TO BE LET ALONE"
Port Gibson Revei13.l
1t is a question with us whether or not
the foregoing is worthy of respectful con-
sideration. That it is a gratuitous refiec-
ton upon the living and the dead-cruelty
to Jefferson Davis--and fragrant political
blunder, is shameiully and strikingly pal
pable That it is u sad requiem for the
.sdeathless dead,'' a mournfnl refrain for
those who sleep in the bivOuac of death, on
"secession's' hallowed grounds, the battle
fields of the Confederacv, will be painfully
and sorrowfully realized by every mind,
every victim, and especially by the brave
ones who wore the gray.
We pretermit, for the present, any elab-
crate argument on the right of secession as
eregnty, to recall the astute editors atten-
ton to a conspicuous and memorable fact.
Jefferson Davis was formally arraigned,
and true bill of indie ment found against
him for high treason. Why was he not
tried? At each recurring term Ofthe court,
Charles O'Connor, counsel for Mr.. Davis,
announced to the court his readiness for the
trial of "prisoner Davis" 1t was case
of such magnitude that bond of 100000
was required. Why was he not tried
Simply and solely because the trial would
have necessarily involved and deter
mined 'the right of secession and it is
known to those high in authority and in
public favor that Chief Justice Chase stated
that rather than hazard decision upon that
Dointhe would avoid the trial, and the pris-
oner might go. The Chief Justice couldn't
Spit
The Natchez Democrat is the only other
home paper which seems to have gone off
in an anti-secessiOn paroxysm, and while it
gives up to solemn ''Chadbandsh" lamen-
tation and wall of woe over the sea-shore
speech, it does so. seemingly, upon the in
sipid idea that all we say and write must be
udp1dOiC ~ II oChbAAlSAby anu
sugar-coatad and made palatable to the
squeamlshness of those who turned our
homes into houses of mourning, and filed
our land with widows and orphans, and
squalid poverty.
We have said that the Herald's article is a
fagrant political blunder, and the same may
be said of the article in the NatcheZ Demo-
crat. These TWO DapfE3raTA. theo ,acknowl
representative, whom the people have aE AZ any
delighted to honor, and is it not probable,
and III accordance with experience, that the
Jol mt and simultaneous assault by these two
journals, upon secession, and Mr.. Davis and
his speech. will be deemed reflex of the
character and spirit of the canvass, and in
like degree, attach to the distinguished cam
dIdate, and damage him in the house of his
friends.
Reproachful filings at Jefferson Davis,
:" splitting upon secession" and denOnucinG
it as "devilish dogma" will not fall pleas
antly upon the intelligent and patriotic
Democrats of this district, and as we desire
to destroy, at the outset, the effect of this
nytro-gl ycer1ne cOmbustible-the contemp-
Iuous splitting upon secession''-uhe g. deV-
llsh dogma'-we warn these journalistic
Solons that they may do much more damage
than simply sending pang of sorrow to the
heart, and tear to the eye, of the sad old
man on the sea shore.
Before the winds of the autumnal equinox
shall admonish us of the season of the fall
ing leaf and the fading flower, there will be
formidable opposition, and possibly Two can
didates in front of US. The radical party
SLYLY SLEEPS; the Nationals. the
eenbackers" are in our very midst, and
in our own county, and they
propose to organize throughout the district
and, jointly or separately, they will GIVE
Js WORK TO DO, and no mans ''spit, ;" nor his
oily must be allowed to turn our Joy into
nor to provoke the opening of a
Tawning chasm, that may swallow up our
BUOY ant and brilliant hopes.