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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-04-23
1880.
In Hoe Signo Vinces !"

WINoNA, Miss, April II 1879.
EDITORS CLARION: In your issue OF last
week l read an extract from the LOUISVILLE
the Presidential question: and your comments
thereon. | write simply to give my approval
of your view of the question, to-wit that the
people are for araijdbIe candidates. such as
they feel sure will carry our party banner to
victory There is, unquestionablv, grow
ing sentiment in favor of the denomination Of
the old ticket The logic OF events point
clearly to their result True, there are those
who feel that Mr.. Tilden manifested more or
less weakness in not asserting boldly, and
demanding his right to the position to which
the people had so clearly elected him. A lit
tie reflection, however, will show to any think
ing mind that he cannot be Justly CEN
sured for his conduct in this respect As
the chosen servant of the people, he was
in the hands of his party and there was
nothing for him TO do but submit to the action
of the peoples Representatives in Congress
And further than this, TO his credit be it said.
the Potter investigation brought out the fact
that Mr.. Tilden refused to have anything to
do with corrupt bargains with venal Return
ing Boards. That investigation has clearly
shown that Mr. Tilden could have purchased
the votes which rightfully belonged to him.
and which the people had already given him.
This he promptly refused to do, for. az he
said, if he took the Office at all, he desired to
people demanded, and to expose the fraud and
corruption in high places. As Maj. Mason
says of another, "he is simon-pure, of the high
est type, and above suspicion"
In published interview on the Presidential
question, Hon. III. D. Money, the able Repre-
sentative from the third District, is quot
ed as expressing a preference for Tilden
on the ground of availability. IF he
has been correctly qouted the faithful
and distinguished member from his District
has, IN this, given the people another evidence
Ct Ct his sagacity and practical Judgment.
Having gained control of both Houses of
Congress we cannot afford to bring minor
questions, and local preferences into the
Presidential issue. Now in the food-tide az
the Democracy, and if we lose this golden on
portunIty, when viii we ever have another
such Mr.. I1iden is represented az being
stronger In New York TO-DAY Inan ever befnka |
and if he carry his own great State. a tri,,
umphant Democratic victory will be the |
result. The people want an opportunity to |
severely rebuke those who reversed their clear |
" expressed wish at the polls and this cannot |
De done so forcibly with any other candidates |
ILDEN and HENDRICKS mo other names |
would arouse the enthusiasm, or wake the |
sleeping energies of the people to an emphat- |
c assertion in favor of needed reform and
constitutional rights, as would these honored
Democratic names, which have already been
lrowned with the prestige of victory Under
heir standard, thou shalt conquer !"
MONTGOMERY.
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The Proposed Mississippi Valley
Convention.

The proposition for the assembling OF
a Convention of Mississippi Valley pee
Die of both races, at Vicksbnrg on the
5-b of Nav to consider the Kansas move
nlent, and the question OF supplying
whatever demand for labor it may create,
is timely and wise We trust the Con
vention viii be composed of practical
men who have given the subject dis
passionate reflection. 1t will devolve
upon the Convention to take into con
sideration the causes which have pro-
duced this movement and to take notice
of the extravagant stories and down.
right malicious and partisan falsehoods
that have been widely circulated derog
atorv to the Southern whites in connec-
ton with it. That they are chargeable
with having caused it by harsh and UNI
just treatment of the colored people,
we DENY. We affirm that no laboring
class on earth has had better opportuni-
ties Of enjoying their condition, of ac-
curing education without money, and
of acquiring property by the use of
capital belonging to others, than the
colored people in the South since their
emancipation. We do not speak Of ex-
ceptional individual cases of wrong and
hardship; but we assert that as class,
they have been protected in their per-
sons and property and in their civil and
political privileges equally with the
whites. If their pretended friends
elsewhere have been disappointed in the
results of emancipation, they are moth
ing more than has happened in the
| West Indies, and wherever else the
experiment has been tried. If it is the
failure which they are admitting it to
be in their description of the present
condition of the negro in the South, the
blame does not belong to the whites of
this section In lifting themselves out
of the slough of desPond into which the
by selfinterest, if by no higher motive,
to help the colored man along for the
interests of the two races, occupying the
same country, were identical.
Our impression is that time and ex-
perience will prove the surest agent for
arresting the migration of the blacks.
They are lured to a country whose
climate, labor, and productions are all
unsuited to them. After the novelty
and excitement incident to the change
have passed away, then will follow bit
ter disappointment, privation and suff
ering, and longing for the old home
whose conditions are so much more IA
vorable to their well-doing, than the
new one. Nevertheless, if these inevi-
table agencies can be supplemented by
any other methods for arresting the
movement, let the wise heads which will
assemble at Nicksburg, suggest, andp
them into activity. And in the mean
time, it will be well to prepare for the
worst, by devising means for supplying
the places of the emigrants. To this
end committee should be appointed,
to proceed at once to the Pacific coast
to inquire whether Chinese labor will
answer the purposes of cultivating our
alluvial lands, and into the practicable
ity of obtaining it.
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The Yazoo River Appropr iation.

EDITORS CLARION: Recently you copied
from the \. o. Times, under the head OF
chalmers Heroic Fight an article credltlng
Gen. Chalmers with obtaining the 1azoo river
appropriation and stating that but for him the
river would have got nothing in the ApPro-
priation bill Now, the truth Is, Messrs-
Singleton and Money both interested them
selves in the measures and the sums approprla-
ted not only for the Yazoo but Tor the sun
flower. Tallahatchie and Coldwater rivers
were definitely agreed upon by Mr.. Money and
Mr.. Reagan, who reported the bill and who
saws he has no information OF Mr.. Chalmers
agency in the matter. 1t cannot be ascertained
how the statement got into print, but this
correction should be made in the interest Of
FAIR PLAY.
Of course we do not assume response
bilitv for the original statement.
1t was telegraphed from Washing
ton to the New Orleans Times. Anxious
always to give credit to our delegation,
or any single member thereof, where 1t
seems to be deserved, We reproduced 1t
in THE CLARION and now in the IN
terest of Fair Play" we have published
the foregoing correction.
We will seize the occasion to say that
from what we have been informed by
reliable persons, the previous appropria-
ton for the Yazoo river was virtually
squandered. 1t was spent, but might
as well have been thrown into the river.
We would respectfully suggest to our
members that in obtaining appropria-
tions it would be well to see that i'm
provements, for which money is appro-
priated, are confded to persons who will
exercise judgment and economy in dis
bursting it.
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THE latest scheme of the Northern
agitators and their Southern abettors,
against the South is the conspiracy to en-
tice the colored portion of the population
away with view to reducing Southern
representation in Congress and the Elec-
toral College. Fortunately, their scheme
can have no effect upon the next Presi-
Dental election which must be held I'M
der the present apportionment; and before
another Presidential election, the infamy
of the scheme will have been revealed,
and its authors will be as much despised
by the viotimized colored people as the
perpetrators of the Freedman's Bureau
swindle.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-04-23

SENATOR WINDOW of Minnesota, has been
elected President of the National Emigration
Aid Society; Edward Mcpherson Treasurer
and Richard Greener, Secretary. The object
of the society is to promote the emigration of
the negro population from Southern States to
more genial political climate. Arrange
ments are to be made for the organization of
local societies.-Chicago Journal.
To promote" that's the way to put
it. Not to aid the colored emigrants
after they have left their homes but to
induce them to leave the South for a
more genial political crime" That is,
to put them where they will do the Re-
publican party most good.
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CONTRACTION,

CONTRACTION,
Fourth. The contraction of the cir
culating medium-the forced resumption
of specie payments" former is the
necessary consequence Of the latter.
Resumption was opposed in the House by
the Democrats almost TO a man; and in the
Senate by every Democrat without ex-
ception. From the date Of its passage
and forward until its final contamination
in the destruction of values, the robbery
of labor of its earnings, and the disaster
to all the industrial interests of the
country, the majority of the Democrats
steadily and increasingly toiled for its
repeal. For example: On the 18th ofJan-
January, in the House Of Representa-
tiyes, Mr. Holman (Democrat) moved
suspension of the rules to enable him
to submit the following resolution:
That it is unwise and inexpedient. at this
time that a specific and arbitrary period
should be prescribed by law at which legal
tender notes of the United States should be
paid by the Secretary of the Treasury in coin,
anu iiltTtiDEt lilt act 10 pEONlhS AoI TIC IL
| sumption OF specie payments" ought to be re-
pealed and the Committee on Currency be in
| structed to report bill for that purpose.
Ayes, 106-all Democrats but ,.
Nays, 106 Republicans, and 81 Demo-
Gratis.
Again, on the 10Th of March, 1877,
Mr.. Atkins DemocraD, of Tennessee,
offered bill as follows, and asked a sus-
pension Of the rules in order to put it on
its passage:
! Be it enacted, That the provisions of the
act to provide for the resumption of specie pay
ments which authorize the Secretary of the
| Treasury to redeem or cancel United States
notes and to sell United States bonds for that
purpose, be, and the hereby re-
| pealed.
Yeas, 110-all Democrats but 2.
Nays, 10S-67 Republicans, Al Demo
Gratis Showing, as in the former vote,
that the bulk of the Democrats were for
repeal.
In the strict line of these votes, the
National Democratic Convention of 1876,
entered this declaration: eve de-
nounce the Resumption Act Of 1873,
and we demand its immediate repeal"
The Democratic majority in the House
of Representatives of the 40 Congress
passed bill repeating the law, but it
was defeated in the Senate by the Re
publican majority. What stronger ev-
idence does any one require of the Oppo-
sition of the Democratic party to this
measure, whose baleful effects have
been felt in the scarcity and enhanced
value of money, and the increase of the
amounts which unfortunate debtors
have had to pay? What stronger ev-
idence need be adduced that upon the
issue of financial reform, the Democratic
party is sound to the core? If, with
such record of invariable opposition to
bad measures, and of steadfast support
of good ones, it is not trustworthy, what
party can be relied upon?
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THE NEGRO EXODUS.
Mississippi Valley Labor Cov,7a,+to,

N@lSSAS0APP1 Nal1ey LABOR Convention.
To the People of the Mississippi vaIIev.1
After conference with many persons inter
ested, and believing that much good NAV re-
suit theretrom, we call upon the people Of rha
States OF the Mississippi Valley to meet IN
convention at Vicksburg on Monday. the 5tr
of May, to take into consideration H. T,-4-.,,t
agitation Of the labor question. We believe
that by united action we may be able to adopt
Such measures as will allay the excitement
prevailing, which at least will enable M r.,
supply the place Of those laborers who have
gone or VINO may hereafter go to the Western
states As this Is matter Of great importance
ana one OF common interest, we call upop every
county, parish and city in every state in an.
valley interested in the growth of cotton anil
sugar, to send delegates of both race f. thi-
most influential citizens
We also earnestly call upon the colored peo-
pie to send to the Convention sucb delicate
a. ,!hey choose to appoint to participate in its
ttell2efatlons' and discuss with us fully and
called upon to determine.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-04-23

k well considered article on the
Exodus and Labor Question, the Green
vile Times suggests that the Southern
delegations in Congress should fully
understand, that this impending problem
demands of them total reversal of
their position on the Chinese Immigra-
ton bill as the Chinese are the best
source from which the depletion of
labor flor the alluvial region may be
replaced.
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NOXUBEE COUNTY.
LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN OF THE
COUNTY COMMITTEE
MACON, Mss, April II. 1879.

MACON, MISS, April y, 1879.
HoN. +. BARKsDALE, Chr'n state r., Com.
DEAR SIR: The meeting Of our County
Committee was well attended, and was entirely,
harmonious. A resolution was adopted favor
ing a District Convention for nomination of
candidate for District Attorney, and authoriz-
ing eorrespondence with other Committee ON
the subject, The Committee agreed unani-
mously that the interests OF the part,, i, FIN.
county, would be best subserved by the nop,ir-
alton OF all candidatea-from Senator fo CON-
stable. But the committee, while holding tbi-
view, will not undertake to mauufactI7r. ar
Iiorestal public sentiment as to the course TO-
De pursued, Yours respectfully,
ROBERT G. Party, Chairman.
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Kinds County Democratic-Conser
tive Executive Committee.

w T. Ratlif, Chairman.
1sT SUPERVISORS DIsTRIcT.-W. /. Nugent,
D. NJ Potter, Jackson, Jacob Hewes and NJ.
C. johnson, Clinton.
% DIsrEICT.-CIem Davis, Bolton; F. Mat
thews, Edwards A. II. Bradley, Brownsville.
Sd DIsTRIcr.-T. T. Hart and J. b. Ross,
Utica j. L. McCiehee, Edwards.
4TH DIsrRICT.-Jno. w. Peyton, X. Charl-
ton and y B. Smith, Raymond
JTH DIsTRICT-J. V. Enoches, Terry.
COUNTY AT LARGE-W. r. Ratliff
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The Constitutional Amendment.

Hon. Thomas Spight, who was men,
Der Of the Legislature that passed the
proposed Constitutional Amendment,
which will be submitted to the people at
the next election, explains its effect, as
follows, in his paper, the Southern
Sentinel
If the proposed amendment is adopted, the
officers elected in November next will hold for
three years. Those whose constitutional term
is two years, which embraces all except Circuit
and Chancery Clerks and District Attorneys
and State Senators will have their terms extend
ed one year. The others, Clerks Senators and
District Attorneys, will have theirs shortened
one year. These officers will all go out of office
on the first Monday in January, 1888.
In November $780, another election will be
held for State officers and a portion of the
Senators but the officers elected then will not
go into Office until the 1st Monday in January,
1882, and they will hold for a term of three
years, theirs being also shortened one year,
The members of the Legislature elected this
year will attend two regular sessions, one in
January next, and another IN January, 1882.
The object of this amendment is a good one.
Under our present system we have election
every year, attended with a heavy expense,
and more or less decentralization and injury to
our industrial and agricultural interests. II this
amendment is adopted our State and Congress
sional elections will come on the same time.
The changes proposed by this amendment in the
length of the terms of the various offices will
apply to only term, after which it will fall
back as it is under the Constitution now-two
and four years
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ANSWER.

Under existing laws Hon. III. c.
Myers, appointee of the Governor, will
continue in office until the expiration of
the regular term in 1881. The answer
is made public to satisfy numerous en-
Quirers.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-04-23

THE Vicksburs Herald is entirely
mistaken. We have no idea Of precipi-
tating the subject of holding a Consti-
tutional Convention into the approach
ing canvass. We subordinate it to the
unity and success of the Democratic
Conservative party, ana would exclude
it as test in determining who shall be
its standard bearers. The lists are open
to all corners, if anybody wishes to be
heard in opposition to the changes in the
organic law of the State so powerfully
championed by our correspondent ''B."
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-04-23
Facilities for Shipping Vegetables.

To meet and supply the Western de-
mand for early vegetables, General
Manager Clark of the Chicago, St Louis
and New Orleans railroad, has made
arrangements to furnish the Southern
Express Company with number of
well ventilated ears for the quick trans
portation of these articles to Chicago
and all other large cities of the West.
A fact worthy of note, and which all
shippers should consider, are the re-
duced rates which are offered by this
line for the transportation of vegetables
and fruit.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-04-23
The Cotton Market.

The rise in the cotton market is one
of the interesting events of the day.
The quotations from low ordinary to
good middling, vary from 10 to -
cents in the New Orleans market The
rise is occasioned by the great falling
off in the supply as compared with
previous years.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-04-23

SEcTIoNALLY the honors of Chair
mlanshiPs of Committees were equally
divided by Speaker Randall. OF the
ffty-two chairmen the North has twenty.
aix and the South like number.
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The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Platform.

LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT
HONEST JURIES.
HONEST COUNT.
NO ARMY AT THE POLLS.
UNLIMITED COINAGE OF SILVER.
GREENBACKS FOR NATIONAL BANK
PAPER.
BULLION CERTIFICATES.
A SOUND CURRENCY AND PLENTY
OF 1T.
NO INCREASE OF THE BONDED
DEBT
Low TARIFF AND CHEAP GOODS.
No RESTRICTIONS on THE CARRY
ING TRADE
FAIR DISTRIBUTION FOR PUBLIC
IMPROVEMENTS.
THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER LEVEE.
4 RAILROAD FROM THE MISSISSIPPI
RIVER TO THE PACIFIC ON THE BID
PARALLEL.
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No Election for Secretary of State
Next Fall.
GREESvILLE. NJ

GREENvILLE, Miss, April Is, 1879
Hon E. BARKsDALE, Chairman Democratic
Conservative Executive Committee:
SIR: | write to learn if it has been determined
to elect Secretary of State at the election next
fall, as there conflicting reports concerning
it, l am very respectfully, &c,
JOHN ID. WEBSTER
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-04-23

LOYAL claimants may now clap their
hands with joy. Representative Bragg's
amendment to the Legislative appropri-
alton bill, abolishing the Southern
War Claims Commission, was de-
feated in the House by vote of 106 to
s..
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-04-23

A COLoRED Exodus Convention was
in session in New Orleans last week.
1t was simply an old time color-line
political affair. We wonder if the Muir
rell who Haunted the bloody-shirt flag
50 defantly, halls from Madison parish,
and if he is the same Murrell who ten
dered his services to the Democratic
Executive Committee of Mississippi as
a political campaigner in 1877?
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Meeting of Kinds County Democratic
Conservative Executive Committee.
Roo,ls or HNDs Co. d. C. Elk. Con-. I
RAYMOND, March 81 1879. :

A meeting Of the "Hinds County Democrat
ic-Conservative Executive Committee" will
be held at the court House in Raymond on
Monday the 14th Of April 1879, at II o'clock
L. NJ for the transaction Of important business.
W. T. RATLIFF, Chm.
n b. SMITH, Sec'y.
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DEMONETIZING SILVER.

Second. ''DemOnetizing silver" This
infamy was perpetrated in 1873, surrep-
titiously. 1t was engineered under
cover of bill importing different
object, through the House of Represent
tatives by Mr. Hooper, Republican of
Massachusetts and through the Senate,
by Mr. Sherman, the financial oracle of
the Hayes Administration The Dem
ocrats had no part nor lot in the trans
action. They were in helpless minority
in Congress. But they have proved
their faith by their works. They have
given the most substantial evidence of
their right to be trusted on that ques-
ton They agitated it until public SEN
timent came to their rescue, and through
their agency and their almost unanimous
vote in both houses, and over the veto
of the fraudulent President, they have
succeeded in remonetizing silver in re-
storing it to its normal functions and
though its coinage is only partially re-
stored, the Democratic party is pledged
never to discontinue its labors until sill
yer is placed in every particular "upon
an equal footing with gold" Why
should Democrats desert their party on
the Silver question when it presents
such a record as this 4?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-04-23

4 BILL has been introduced in the
House, authorizing the immediate pay
ment of money appropriated IN 1871 to
pay mail contractors Of Mississippi
among other Southern States.
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Town and County in a Blaze.
BYRAM, Miss, April 10, 1879.

BYRAM Miss, April 49, 1879.
EDS. CLARION: Our town and county are I'M
a blaze! people are running hither and Won
in terrible excitement All the Bourbous of
this vicinity to be roasted alive a very
large and enthusiastic meeting of IAB8TIN'
Greenbackers assembled In the town hall too
day, and after singing Rally round the Green
back banks, boys, Rally round the Greeuback-
they proceeded to business i'm very haru,n-
NOUS style, by the appointment of a committee.
OF live to draw up resolutions, preamblts. che
But 10 here comes in another terrible prob
lem to solve, they couldn't find five Iaboriu'
Greenback committeeman, unless the Prcsi-
dent appointed himself, which modesty and
custom prevented his doing The same gen
leman came to the front again and suggested
a visiting laborin' grecnback" man from
Raymond would act on the committee. his
plan was unanimously adopted, and entered
on the minutes
The Committee was out but short time
when they Offered the following resolutions
which were unanimously adopted without dis
senting voice.
:"
lIARusfTrrT
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On the side of the opposers of the
doctrine of the Right Oh Instruction, we
published in our last number an elabo-
rate article from gentleman of learn
ing and ability. On the first page OF
this number, viii be found powerful
and conclusive argument in support of
the Right, from Gen. Joseph r. Davis
paper, the Seashore Gazette.
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UPsoN, Democrat. is elected over
Nancy, (Greenbacker, to FIJI a Vacancy
in the 9th Texas District.