The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-17


erroneous impressions and to destroy
the only national organization which
opposes the military policy of the Re-
publican party and the permanent estab-
lishment of imperialism aud bayonet rule.
| We shall not cease to demand for the
South full share of the appropriations
which are made from the National Treas
ury for internal improvements and have
reioiced that some of her States in the
| late River and Harbor bill were fortunate
enough to secure large sums, and shall
always claim for Mississippi, as the larg
est cotton growing and one of the largest
timber producing States in the Union, all
that she is entitled to; but we would
regret to see the Democratic organization
degenerate into mere log rolling concern,
having for its sole object the game of grab
and the distribution of the sums collected
from the toiling people of the country,
and its standard of merit graded by
its success in that line. Nevertheless we
shall not lose sight of the supreme i'm
portance of preserving the National
Democratic organization, because it has,
from the beginning of reconstruction,
upheld the right of local elf-government
for the Southern communities, and OPP
posed the Republican policy of alien rule
supported by the bayonet. 1t planted
itself squarely upon this doctrine and OPP
posed the ruthless policy of prescription
and plumber enforced by the Republicans,
when the organization was composed ex-
clusively of Northern Democrats, in con
sequence of the ostracism Of representa-
tive Southern men. On this ground it
has camped and kept its colors flying
until accessions have made it the power
full organization that it now is. Its rule
Of action on this paramount, this supreme
issue, is unchanged.
In the present Congress the only
Northern men who voted to reduce the
Army and put it out of the power of the
President to revive aud execute the coer-
cial policy of the Republicans against the
South, were Democrats. The only North
err men who supported the clause forbid
ding the use Of the army as a posse coma
tatus for the oppression of the people in
time of peace, were Democrats.
The fact is so plain that it ''glimmers
in blind mans eye" that the next
Presidential election will be fought upon
the issue whether the Union shall be
government of the people and of co equal |
States, administered according to the
principles Of the Constitution, or gov
eminent of the sword, with Gen. Grant |
as the representative of the party espous
ing the latter principle. Upon this SUI
preme issue the attitude of the Northern |
Democracy is well defined. The liber-
ties of the people of our section are at
stake, and God forbid that we would
consent to the destruction of the only or
ganization which holds out a hope of
their preservation.
To break up the Democratic party is
to destroy the only existing national or
ganization, and its logic is disunion
1t has often been said that if the Demo
cratic party had not broken up at
Charleston in 1860, the Presidential
ticket of the Republicans would have
been beaten, and the war would have
been averted. The Republican party
S more sectional now than it was then,
aud the Democratic party, especially in
.he South, being composed of the con-
sentative element of all the old parties,
Wing, American and Union, is more
Our worthy brother of the Herald
'ays that "the last Congress should have
aiken steps to give the South railway
% the Pacific Ocean, and that the North
ern Democrats did not do their duty in
he premises. Does he not know that
he Southern representatives in Congress I
could not agree among themselves upon
| bill for building the road, and that the
Inference among our own members from I
were as wide apart as the
POLES? Again he says: Immense
mounts have been spent on Northern
'ivers, harbors, steamship lines, etc.,
)ut the request of the South for very 6
reasonable sum for the reclamation of
he valley of the great river that drains
hree-fourths of the States of the Union,
vas coolly ignored, because Northern
Democrats opposed it. The best answer i,
o this, is a reference to the river and har (
'or bill, showing that out of $4,000, 900 '
for Improvements, 'the great r
'iver' and its tributaries will get 81 200, .
100. What does Hon E. j. Ellis, a ;.
from Louisiana, say on n
his very subject? VIII our good friend
f the Herald hear him:
After all we did very well. The river and s
arbor bill appropriations amount to about !.
$4,000 Louisiana gets for her own riv-
rs and harbor about 100000, while for b
he Mississippi river. which is indirectly in :.
he interest OF New Orleans about 81, 2OO. 900 81
as been appropriated. Louisiana, there d
pre-, directly aud indirectly receives the =
enefft Of ; $780, 900, or more than one-eighth T
the entire appropriation, and she is but Y
ne of thirty-eight States. ;.
OF this sum, Vicksburg herself will u :,
eceive $S4, 900, and it will be increased u
the next session, Of the Representa- %
YES from this State do their duty, as q
e believe they wilD to whatever o.
mount that may be needed to thoroughly tie
pair and preserve her harbor, SO as to az
ontFol for her the trade and commerce la
which she is fairly entitled by SOW il
.ignty of her commanding position on ca
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