The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1878-01-30
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vice of its sort had been taken, the
Radical party would have still retained
control of every branch of the State
Government, Legislative, Executive
and Judicial. The incumbents under
the Radical regime, were all mar
velous proper men in the estimation of
the Times. The present Superintend-
ent, without whose incompatible services
we are taught, the Institution for the
insane cannot be successfully carried on,
may have made the study of insanity a
speciality" for 10! these many years;
but we do know that he mingled his
studies in that direction with the most
persistent efforts to keep the Radical
party in power. As an example of
the style in which he was wont to
conduct the canvass against the party of
reform in this State and for the perpet
uation of Radical rule, we will quote
from the incendiary address, of which
he was the author, signed by Hill, Cald-
we'll, (of Clinton riot notoriety,) and 9th
er colored Republican leaders, in 1875:
Once under the iron heel of Democracy,
the colored man will at once sink back to
the status he held III 1S65--free in name, but
not in fact-poor, ignorant and helpless,
hedged in by uniriendly laws, which he has
no power to circumvent--a 'Ehewer of wood
and drawer of water" forever. \
Read the Acts of the Legislature of 1865,
after you were emancipated, but before you
were voters. Under the operation of laws
provided for you then, your condition would
have been far worse than III that Of slavery.
-Entrdct from the address Of Jim. HtI1, Cald-
eoelI, Bruce d Co.
The author of the foregoing could have
had but one object in connecting so stupid
and malignant TRADE, and that was to
keep the Radical party in power by Gull
tivating enmity and strife between the
races. Nothing is more unreasonable
than that he should claim office at the
hands of the party which he so shame
fully abused, and which, if his assur-
ances had been believed, would have
never triumphed at the polls.
The Office of Auditor of Public Ac-
counts is in no sense "political,'
no more than that of Superinten-
dent of the Asylum for the Insane
and the late incumbent Major Gibbs
brought to the discharge of its duties
equal honesty, equal skill and equal
efficiency in every particular as are
claimed by his most Jealous cham
f pions for Dr. Compton in the office he
S holds-nor was he ever accused of dis
? missing employees from Office on account
of their politics--but whoever dreamed
of asking exemption in his case from
2 the rule of putting Democrat in his
r place?
, The Times insists that certain "charge:
2 made against Dr. Compton, though they
emanate from discharged employee
= Should be rigidly investigated, and if DR.
e Compton is fully exonorated he should
f in our judgment, be re appointed, and
this we believe is a view of the large ma
, jority of the people in Mississippi" Il
has never occurred to US that the ap.
b pointment of DR.. Compton should depend
upon the truth or falsity of these charges
We think it wholly immaterial whether
they are true or not, so far as
his retention in office is concerned. The
people demand the appointment of some
: other person, upon other, and we may
: add, higher grounds. But since the
subject has been mentioned, we would
: suggest that if an investigation into
' the grave charges alluded to, is
made at all, it should be done
by special committee of the Legisla-
; ture which will possess an essential power
] that the Board of Trustees however anx-
lous they may be to prosecute an inquiry
r does not possess, viz: to compel the at
. tendance of witnesses and force them
to give testimony under oath. Once be-
, fore, an investigation was undertaken OF
charges against the same official by a
Board of Trustees, and they found this
y same difficulty in the way of its
/ complete and satisfactory pros ecu
e ton. If the investigation is made,
we would suggest that the following
charge even Though made by a dis
missed employee" be first taken up
and if established, it alone will be amply
! conclusive that he is not the proper
; person 10 be retained at the head of the