The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-24


Sopr two weeks ago the Local here had
a lengthy and somewhat ridiculous, ana
xrbolIv unjust and uncalled-for assault
mon or review of. Mr.. E. Barksdale,
ba=ed upon his candidacy for the United
states senate. We did not consider that
this required any notice from US; as here,
whence it emanated, the weapon welded by
the Local Editor that Is really dreaded, Is
his praise. But we observe that one of our
Democratic exchanges has copied the article
in question. We therefore deem it due to
our locality to say that 50 untrue, so radical
an arraignmeut of one who has served the
State for so many years with fidelity and
ability, finds no favor here among members
of his party and that political assaults and
utterances from the source of that one, weigh
nothing 1t is well known that we are no
supporter of Mr.. Barksdale for the United
States Senate; but, if we can prevent it, we
will not permit the animosities of an old
time Radical, etc, to operate against his
andidacy.-Greenville Times.
The generous words of the Greenville
Times are valued by Mr.. Barksdale
more highly than hewould value its sup
port Of him for a responsible position.
They emanate from one whose every
instinct is that Of a fair-minded and
chivalrous gentleman. The following is
the essence of ''the assault" referred to,
as we find it reproduced in the lone paper
mentioned by the Times. For the silence
with which it has been received by the
press of the State, we acknowledge our
supreme Indebtedness
The Greenville Local and Advertiser asks
Mr.. Barksdale to sit down" as follows:
Who was responsible for "precipitating
the war p Who led the administration
forces in the Confederate Congress who
drafted the $50 bounty law the substitute
act? the conscript law and the twenty
niger" exemption? Who fostered the
/ Northrop -four contract and the blockade
running business, when the spectators
received cargoes of goods at a time when
thousands of hogsheads of meat were rotting
/ in Bermuda and Lees army was starving
/ within a stones throw of the capital of the
/ confederacy? Ethel Barksdale, then editor
of the Mississippian and now editor of TIE
/ CLARION, and at that time the bosom
friend of the President Davis led the adj
ministration forces i'll the lower house. He
/ is not the man to-day to represent Missis
sippi. The unfortunate and and unhappy
people have too long been the prey of the
politicians. Sit down, Mr.. Barksdale.
The mention of Mr.. Barksdale's name
for the Senate by some of his probably
too indulgent friends furnishes no JUST
fication for lying about him in
thisstyle. Here are twenty odd lines
and nearly as many lies. He die
not draft" a single one Of the
measures recited and some Of them
he never heard Of before The military
laws Of the Contederacy were drafted
and reported by the Military Committee
Of which Hon. William Porcher Miles
Of South Carolina, was Chairman, anC
of which Mr. Barksdale was not ;
member. If the cold time Radical OF
whom we know nothing except as he i:
characterized by the Times, who ha,
gone down into the past to resurrect
events that have been in their grave fol
nearly a generation, had been as careful
to search for the truth as he has beer
! to propagate what is untrue, he NIGH
have ascertained that Mr.. Barksdalt
''drafted" the bill which repealed the
so-caled twenty negro exemption.
As to beinga friend of President Davis
Mr.. Barksdale does not deny the i'm
parchment but he does not admit thai
he was ''the leader of the Administra
ton forces" He has never assumed the
Leadership" of anybody, nor anything
He has simply been the humble follow
er of his convictions of duty in what
ever part he has been called to perform
conscientiously and truly, and has ne
! apologies to offer.