The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-05-07
THE ELECTION OF 1879.
The Importance of Preserving the
Harmony and Integrity of the Dem
ocratic Party.

ocratic Party.
Hon. William Price, Chairman of the
Democratic Conservative Executive
COMMITTEE of Winston county, having
been solicited to become a candidate for
the Legislature, in declining to do so,
writes an able letter from which the fol
lowing extracts are taken:
Louisville Index.l
l am free TO say. If there ever was q time in
the history OF our country, when duty and pa
ulotIsm alike demand of every true southern
undying allegiance to the Democratic party.
that time is now At hand. hence | trust that
there will be no effort from any source to disrupt
the Democratic party in Winston, on any ques-
ton whatever, and that her gallant sons rec
ognizing the Importance OF union, in order 10
overcome the combined hosts of Radicalsm,
in the great battle that Is TO be fought in 1880
viii rally around.the glorious banner OF De-
mocracy and bear it triumphantly on 10 Wet
~, keeping ever in view the necessity Of
presenting Il solid opposition to the enemy.
The war is over, and the great constitution
al question, 10 the right OF State 60
absolve her allegiance 10 the general
government submitted ii was to its ar
bitrament, was decided against US vet the
South without murmur acquiesces in the de
cision, and stands pledge to abide the results.
As people we recognize the fact that Ameri-
can Union rs ours To perpetuate ours 10 de-
tend, cherish, and love- whose flag il floats
| upon land. and sea, waves a. symbol OF the
pride, strength, and majesty of forty-tive mill
| lions of freemen. still have deep and
abiding interest IN the manner, in which this
| government shall be administered. whether il
shall be a government with constitutional imi-
tations, guarding the rights of the subject, and
comforting a y great man has recently said,
- maximum of liberty on the citizen, and "A
minimum OF power on the government CON
Sistent with just and rational construction of
the organic law of the country, or whether
State lines shall be obliterated, military des-
potism set up, and the black flag OF consolda-
ton wave over what once the ramparts OF
constitutional liberty.
The eighteen years, in which the Republi-
can party has been in power, have been sig
naiized by the malignity, with which that
party has prosecuted the SOuth-Congresso
al statutes, in the way OF Force Bills and other
penal laws, have been passed and enforced by
the Republican party, for the purpose of par
alyziug the energies, crushing the pride, and
rendering people subservient to the inlet
tered slave until Southern manhood asserted
itself, and with united effort on the part OF all
her sons, Mississippi burst the chains so gall
ing To freemen, and in 1873 threw proudly to
the breeze the glorious flag of democracy
Radical yoke, and asserted their right To he
heard in the halls OF the nation, and Joined
by the democracy OF the North, we control in
1879, both houses OF Congress.
\ great contest however is now being waged
between the Democratic party, and the Re
publican party, on the repeal of the test oath
Tor jurors IN L. :. Courts, and the statutes al
lowing troops, marshals and supervisors at
the polls. The Democratic party with a una
nimity hitherto unknown demand the repeal
of these statutes, and have already put the
good work into operation. The repeal of
these statutes is question which more vitally
affects the interests of the people than any
that have ever been submitted to Congress-
for on one hand it is liberty, on the other it is
despotsm. l cannot see then, how any true
Southern man can 10y word or act weaken the
party, upon whose success our future happi-
ness and prosperity depend.
There is a new era dawning upon our land
and il rests with the men of the South to de-
termine, whether or not, it will herald the
bright day of renewed constitutional liberty,
or the dark days of Radical despotism The
hopes OF our common country are centered on
the Democratic party, and the strength of that
party in its union Let us then as a people,
cast aside all thought OF personal aggrandise-
ment, and immediate upon tho altar Of our
country all selfish motives; while the future
liberty, and prosperity OF our whole country
should become the goal toward which all our
energies turn, and around which all our hopes
cluster.
In conclusion permit me say to the good
people OF Winston, ii | can be OF any ser
vice to the Democratic party in the coming
canvass, | am ready, as have always been in
the past, to vindicate its glorious principles,
whenever, and wherever assailed, it matters
not from what quarter the assault Is made.
Respectfully,
VIM PRtrF