The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-07-23
Union for the Good of the Cause.
Holly Springs Soulful

to make war upon the Democratic party
We were never a Democrat, except in tn
modern sense. \ et our clear conviction Is
that at this time we can look nowhere, wit
the faintest hope OF success, but 10 the Demo
cratic party, for relief from the burdens an,
oppression which Republican corruption an'
misrule have brought upon US
For period Of ten years ending with tn
year 1876. Mississippi was under Republican
rule. and more corrupt and prodlgal dynast.
never cursed a people. For deliverance from
the body OF this death We are indebted Il
the Democratic party, reinforced by all wht
/ at heart were Republicans Since tn
overthrow OF Mississippi Republicanism a
| the election OF 1873. our laws have been anne
! liorated, our judiciary improved and oul
! taxes greatly reduced. For our present Stat,
1 Government we do not claim absolute perfee-
! ton, but the reforms that have been effected
BY il within the brief period OF four or five year
are such a. should satisfy all reasonable per
sons. As these important results were accom-
/ lished by the union and joint efforts Of all an
| ti-Republicans, if the Federal government
/ at the Presidential election Of 1880 Is to be
wrested from the hands of our oppressOrs, II
will have TO be done in the same way and with
/ the same process.
Why should any Southern voter be found
! to-day in opposition to the Democratic party
! This party Is in wise responsible Tor the
! idleness. the distress the want and bankrupt
| cy which abound as the result Of unwise
sectional and partizan Federal legislation
| For all these evils the blame Is to be laid al
the door OF Republicanism. The present
/ Democratic party had its origin in the blum
ders and sectionalism, if not crimes, of the Re
| publican party, and as the opponent OF the
| Republican party, it has stood all the time in
| antagonism to its leading measures.
| However strongly may justly condemn
| the financial policy of the Republican party,
| its unconstitutional, arbitrary and proscriptive
| laws are no less Objectionable. The ballot,
| which Is subject alone to State authority, so
| long as its regulations make no distinction on
account of race, was placed under the super
vision of Federal bayOnets, Marshals and
| Supervisors and with these laws upon the
statute book elections are free but in name.
Then all persons who had in any way aided
or even sympathized with the Confederate
cause were by express Federal enaetments
rendered ineligible to the Federal jury box.
These laws involve principles destructive OF
free government and yet they are wholly ig-
nored by Greenbackers in their wild delirium
after rency reform.
The Republican party had the sole control
of the government from the 4th of March,
1861 until the 4th of March, 1875, when the
Democratic party acquired the control OF the
lower house of Congress and since that date
all mischievous legislation has been prevented
But the control of one house OF Congress with
the Senate and Executive against it, still left
the Democracy without the power of legisla-
ton and it so remains to the present time
though ii has also had majority in the Senate
since the 4th of March, 1879. But during
all this time the Democratic minority has
stood forth the champion of the Constitution,
of the rights of the South, and of the people,
and of good government. And now for what
can anv Southern man condemn it. unless
unjustly for something that it did not have the
power to do? Still however, Greenback
newspapers and Greenback speakers are louder
and tiercer in their denunciations of the
Democrats than of the Republicans.
This single fact is one which should go far
toward opening the eyes OF the people and
weaving them from the idolatry OF Green
backism. Why this war upon those who have
been our only friends and this forbearance to-
wards those who have been the authors of all
our woes
The Democratic party has redeemed every
Southern State from the curse of Radical dom
nation and by the ability of Its leaders and
its press, has exposed to the public gaze the
iniquities of the National Bank SYSTEM and OF
all the leading features of the financial policy
of the Republicans, and has succeeded in ar
resting the further contraction of the currency
in the reconciliation of silver; in having re-
peaed at the late extra session the law ex
Guiding Southerners from the jury box, and in
restoring to them the right OF trial by an i'm
partial jury; and has refused to make any APP
preparation for the pay OF the military, or OF
Federal Marshals or Supervisors brought into
conflict with the freedom OF elections. 1t has
also increased in numbers and power until it
has maiorities in both branches of Congress-
and the popular vote OF the Nation with it.
And SO it is that all that is necessary for the
defeat of the Republican party in the Presiden-
tial election to be held next year. and for the res
toration Of every department of the Federal
Government to the hands of friends, is the
continued cooperation and unity of all anti
Rut in Iuhr ba
Greenbackers insist upon a division OF the
anti-Republican forces, which, if effected to
any considerable extent, must result in the
election of Republican President and Con-
gress next year. To propose that the Demo-
cratic party should dissolve and go over to the
GreenbaCkers, is to propose that the smaller
body should attract to it the larger, and not
the larger the smaller, which would be a re-
versal OF the laws of nature. The Greenback
party polled only few thousand votes at the
last Presidential election; has single State
under its control no representative on the floor
of the L. s. Senate and only nine reliable
members of the House of Representatives
whilst the Democrats carried a majority of all
the votes cast in the elections of 1874, 1875
and 1873 control a majority of State Govern
ments, and have majorities in both branches
of Congress.
The Greenback departure has been made on
a single question, that of the currency; whilst
the Democratic creed includes enough OF the
Greenback idea, and many other great princi-
Piles essential TO free Government.
The Republican party combines too many
supporters and too many other elements OF
strength, for it to be thought possible for it to
be defeated by the Greenbackers in 1880. No
instance OF SO rapid a growth OF political
party has ever occurred
Giving to Tilden in the election of 1876 all
the States claimed for him by his friends, and
Hayes was defeated by only fifteen majority of
the electoral vote. However the Republican
minority at the polls at the election was most
formidable, and with this strength, with which
to begin, what are some OF its other adyan-
tages?
The entire patronage of the general govern
ment is welded by it. This includes the an
nual collection and disbursement of between
four and five hundred millions of dollars, and
the appointment of one hundred thousand
holders, scattered throughout the length
and breadth of the land and penetrating every
neighborhood. Then the national banks with
their immense money power, and the holders
of the United States bonds amounting to hum
dreds of millions OF dollars and all capital
lists are interested in the success of the Repub-
lican cause, and wifi literally contribute to its
electioneering fund.- since its policy favors the
rich-the few--at the expense of the many,
the non-captalists and producers. party
that favors the demonstration of silver, and
gold as the only legal tender that has forced
the resumption OF specie payments; exempted
all U. S bonds and currency from taxation,
and that pledges itself to pay hundreds of
millions of the public debt, by contract pay
able in coin or Greenbacks, in gold alone is
certain OF the support OF the wealth of the
land, against a party holding contrary
views.
Then taking in the entire situation we APP
peal to all Republicans not to fritter away
their strength by pickering and divisions, but
by union and consolidation with the Democrat
ic party, to make one great effort to rescue