The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-03-05
&C., from Col. Claiborne.


FprroRs CLARION: In my article written
for the Picayune, entitled NORTHERN MN ~
~, so,-rrt > which THE CLARION, and many
other journals have done me the honor TO pup
fish | omitted several names OF Northern
gentlemen long identified with Mississippi
and among the most distinguished IN her an
nails.
Thomas Rodney OF Delaware, an officer
Of the revolution long L. s Judge OF tins
then Territory, who stood by US in our lnian-
o. and now rests in the old town OF Wash
;,,top six miles from where | am writing.
, Jpdge Svlvanus Evans, that upright man
and learned lawyer, OF whom II was renl"i Aeu
when he lost his library by fire, 8 he won't feel
the loss. Tor he carries all that was III ms
books. and great deal more in his head ana
in his memory.
3 George Wood, so long SO prominent at
the bar on our sea- board, and now the aoie'
honest impartial and energetic Chancellor Oh
that rapidly improving district
| t. The late Col. Walter, OF Holly Springs a
native OF Ohio, whose recent death has called
out such emphatic eulogy from the press
| ). Our genial friend, Hon f. Stafford, oil
/ Magnolia, whose attractive narrative oil
Ions-ago tragedy. has just adorned your col
umns.
/ IS. John T. McNlurran, of this city, who
came from Ohio a poor young schoolmaster
attained here the greatest popularity, rose tt
the foremost rank in his profession, and was
rendered the highest judicial positions.
:. Last. but not least-peer among the
ablest, the brightest and the best--ciarpm e
renerabQe ,toBlea-born in the remote North, bu
loving Mississippi, her virtues and even hel
faults-truc to his convictions, and those con
yictions generally right-learned, logical, per
suasive. brave. sincere, a great intellect and
noble heart-GEoRGE L. POTTER, OF Jackson
who fell like Pinckney, Harper and Emmett
suddenly and in the full glory OF his intellect
His death evoked all the eloquence OF you
Bar, and even now the fearful pathos and ele
gale sentences OF your brilliant Wharton, fal
on my ear like a funeral dirge.
Your own recollection viii probably recall
many more eminent men Of Northern origin
For wears our Clerks and Sherifs in thi
county. the oldest and most clannish an'
sectional in the State, were Northern men, an'
their offices were, before the war, good 10
$4,000 year.
Is there any Northern State where Southern
men. poor and friendless, would thus be takel
bv the hand, adopted into the family circle
and promoted to the highest and most remu
nerative offices?
Our Northern friends are inquisitivc, anC
| will wish to know how it il that theI
sons may come among us, and be thus wei
coined and honored? Well, the truth is
and this should soften their judgement OF us
| we are not only citizens of the same country
bat of the same kindred and blood. The dis
trict of Natchez and the district of Big Black
in the present county OF Claiborne, the earlies
! American settlement, consisted, almost cN
clusivelv, of Northern emigrants. Nhel
this constituted part OF the British province
of West Florida, Gen. Lyman OF Connection
obtained large grant OF land on the Bll
Black, and colonzed it with New Englanders
The Ogdens OF New jersey, obtained what Il
still known as the Ogden mandamus covering
one-third of the present county oil Adams, anC
it Is still known from its first settlers, as the
jersey settlement and its citizens to this day
have the characteristic thrift and industry
and other excellent qualities of the NorthcrI
people. All the old traditions OF common
suffering during the Revolution, and in thu
Indian wars that followed their household
customs and religious faith, have been here
preserved, and when their young men came
they were received not strangers, but a
kinsmen.
But while these hereditary attachment
were retained from generation to generation,
stronger feeling sprung up of fealty and dut,
to- and affection for our .Stdte-a feeling in
tense, and pure it intense-endurins
and nextinguishable, which will account tt
our Northern friends for the constancy anC
enthusiasm exhibited in a war which many o
them did not think expedient. The following
table compiled for me by a gallant and accom-
pIished soldier, Capt. T. Otis Baker will show
the number that marched from the city o
Natchez-aaore than half Of them Of Ne1c EHgianC
| descent
Aggregate of officers and men.................141t
Killed died OF wounds IA
Killed accidentally
Died OF disease. s.
Disabled by wounds. 2
Total dead and disabled. 22t
Discharged for disability .............. Ia
Discharged for other ses................... p
Transferred and commissioned ........ ........ ..
| Transferred without promotion 3.
lteSlgntu
Aggregate losses from all causes.............. 5O
The county OF Claiborne, settled original,
by New EngIanders, will show a similar re
cord. OF all the gallant men of Northern ex
| traction that followed the standard of tn,
South in the late great conflict, | know of no
a'single man who proved faithless to the cause
| and they sleep hundred battle fields, sid,
by side with our brave Southern boys.
Tho Hood of Nov Epf,Ia,J i a,,J