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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-25
The Ballot Law Works Badly.

The Walthall Pioneer and Central
Star are among the papers that have
called for a repeal of the Ballot Law.
Evidence of the trouble, expense
and litigation it will produce is seen
in the fact that at the late election it
resulted in the rejection of several
thousand votes which would otherwise
have been legal, in single Congress
sional District. How many were cast out
in the whole State, for the same cause
we are not at present informed. Enough
is known to show that the law ought tc
be changed and that it comes under
the rule laid down by Gen. Grant il
one of his official papers, that the way
TO test whether laws ought to be per
mitted to remain on the statute book i:
TO see how they operate. The Ballot
Law was faithfully executed by the
Election Managers. They did not refuse
to count vote that ought to have beer
counted. They had no discretion but
it works badly.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-25
The National Health Laws.

The louisiana State Board wants
Congress to repeal or modify so as to
divest it of its essential provision, the
law creating the National Board of
Health. In this undertaking, it will
have no support. To the vigilance and
efficiency of the National Board the
country is indebted for protection from
the yellow fever the past season. The
mouth of the Mississippi and New Or
leans are the gateways through which
the pesilence enters, and past expert
ence has shown that the country can
not rely upon that city, nor the author
ity of Louisiana, to protect it from the
desolating scourge. If there is any
change in the law creating the National
Board, let it be made more stringent
and cOmDrehenSiVe
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-25

he resorted to to give the coloreo
Wnien IN .hsnce to assert his politlcal rights
\. Y. SUM- L,;oons in.
II understood that the hePuDi. .',aasure
4and m resist TO the bitter emu an! at
senu - ~ of represen ta1IOn -
TOT IeaHT session, hoping in this way 70
tile o onT If the legislation on that SUI =,
ge' ~ next Congress, and to shaPS IL ~ ~
leoe ~ -t;san interest. In other woIus' .nS
tLi.Irs ,,roDose to set aside the actua.
ieAa l' .f,,op6nIation. and to make the ulsell
t su.HS - ,,6on new theory To the qeS:lon
pu. ., th;5 Is to be done, the hePnp'I lI =
nov i'"',.,,ars answer that they have lounu !,
sav in the second section OF the ,L;cb
4 amendment to the Constitution
reads as follows; N 10 o,nortioued
vi - several States according TO their
au I''nsS.ivs numbers, counting the "nole
,,aa,hnr IF persons in each State, eAc!u
T'IJ;ans not taxed. But when the rlght W
,ots at any election for the cholce Vi IT,
~ =. p-as;dent and Vice-Presldent OF INC
TT,;+ad states. Representatives IN congress
r. Executiye and Judicial oincerS VI +"
State. or the members OF the Leg
thereof is denied TO any OF the MAJ -
habitants of such State, oelhS t"eTSy go
vaars of age and citizens OF the Onlt s'
ASStates or in any way abridged, except lot
narticination in rebellion, or otneF cru ~
tha hasis of representation therein snail Oe
ra5ucad in the proportion which the mum
- of such male citizens shall bear 10 the
rb,Ia number of male citizens tWenty-ohe
wears of age in such State.
The plan is to appoint committees Oh IN
vestigation in the new House, and upon
their partisan reports, 10 feduce ~. ~
,enfati6n OF several of the Southern States .JoT
,UsgeT infractions Of the Fourteenth Amend
meRt.
We will conclude these extracts fore
shadowing the Republican programme
with the following extract from letter
in the N. o. Picayune, of its able and
observant Washington correspondent,
Mr.. L. Q. Washington:
think it may be set down for certain
that the Republican leaders will do the
south all the harm they can. So far as the
execution of existing laws is concerned, the
South need expect no pity or relief 1hey
will be strained to the uttermost by suDtle
and INSCRIPTIONS construction OF OnlUeu
States Attorney Generals and their subordl
Mates and the United States Supreme Court
will be ready to indorse it all. But the eX-
isting laws are not enough for this cruel
party. The want to bind our people IN
fresh chains They want to forge an cleo
ton machinery from which there will be no
escape, no opportunity for the people to rid
themselves from Radical rule aC the North,
and negro rule at the South. But the SEN
ate is not theirs. The House of Represen-
tatives they will have, and they will punish
the South by expelling their Representa-
tives.
Some may expect moderate course from
Garfelds's Administration. l do not.
believe the Republican party will never
change its course towards the South until it
has been thoroughly beaten at the North
and deprived of the Presidential office
Meantime it will act as it has always done, so
that no Southern man with any selfrespect
can cooperate with it.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-25
An UnanswerabIe Argument.

We beg our contemporaries who have
gone off half-cocked in condemning the
action of the Warren county election
managers for rejecting the illegal tick
cts cast in the late election, to read the
Hon. Martin Marshall's argument il
the case. 1t is complete and unanswer
able. The Commissioners were not
constituted Judges of the merits of the
law. 1t was their duty to obey it.
They did obey it, and in obeying it they
rejected ballots that were Intentionally
printed by the Republican managers OF
the 9th District, for reasons of their
own, different from the one prescribed
by law and from the one authorized by
the Republican State Executive Com
1uittpe
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-25
The New Code.

JACKSON, Miss, Nov. %, 1880.
EDITOR VIcKsBURa HERALD: In your
issue of yesterday, a card appears from
Judge Arthur, in which he states that in
the copy of the Revised Code of 1880, sent
to him as President of the Board Of Super
visors, he has discovered the omission OF
16 pages-from 72O to 737-embracing 81
sections-and wants to know in what part
of the book the missing sections may be
found. The sixteen pages constitute a
full sheet, or signature" and was omitted
from less than a dozen of the first few
hundred copies delivered to the Secretary
of State, and not discovered until parties
returned them to the Office for correction.
If Judge Arthur will do the same, his Code
win be perfected, or complete copy sent
him. The gathering of the several sheets
that make book was done by ladies inex-
perienced in such work, who did not at
nrst understand the importance of great
care to prevent emitting or duplicating
signatures. / have recently heard of =
copy of the Revised Statutes of the United
States in which signature was duplicated.
NO that you see mistakes win happen in the
best regulated book-binderies as well a. in
the best regulated families.
Yours very truly,
J. 4. PoWER. State Printer.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-25
A Sad Mistake.

The Democrats who "stuck in the
bark" in dealing with the Kellogg case,
instead of going to the core and dismiss
ing him from the seat which he occu-
pies in defiance Of the rights Of Louisi-
ana, will rue their conduct, when they
have realized that they have trihed
away the Democratic control Of the Sen
ate The doctrine of "Res Adjudicata
does not existin Legislative proceedings.
The supreme law of this country, is the
right ofthe people to be represented only
by agents Of their own selection in ac,
cordance with their Constitution and
law
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-25


THE Courier-Journalin reply to a ques-
ton, says that the authorship ofthe reso-
luton of the National Democratic Con-
vention of 1868, denouncing the Recon
struction Acts ''as usurpations, and I'M
constitutional, revolutionary and void, .
is attributed to Gen. Hampton. This
writer happens to know that there is no
foundation in fact for the statement. The
member of the Platform Committee who
had more to do with framing it than any
body else, was the Ex-senator James A
Bayard, Gather of the present Senator,
Hon. Thos. F. Bayard) Delaware. The
Southern members took but little part
in framing any portion of the Platform.
IF the Democratic majority should
keep Kellogg in the Senate at the COM
ing session, and Malone should act with
the Republicans, which he is almost
sure to do, as he is dependent on that par
ty for his election and for future favors,
the organization of the Committees
which will give shape to legislation,
will pass under the control of that party.
For example, Mr.. Sherman, of Ohio,
will be Chairman of the Committee on
Finance. Mr.. Edmunds, of Vermont,
Chairman of the Committee on the iu-
dietary; Mr.. Conkling, of New York,
Chairman of the Committee on Com
merce, or of Foreign Affairs, etc. etc.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-25

GEN. SCHoFIELD having advised
against the admission of negro cadets at
West Point, and the compulsory ming
ling of the two races in that institution,
the Meridian Mercury has adopted him
as its candidate for President in 1884
on the following platform extracted
from his report on that subject:
The education and elevation of the new
ly enfranchised race is a work worthy of
the united efforts of all citizens, but that
work cannot be advanced. It must rather
be retarded by forcing colored men into
official positions for which they have not yet
become duly qualified, or into social rela-
tions 1bere they cannot be freely welcomed
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-25
GA Tariff for Revenue Only"

Carthagenian.
Let us plant our colors here for the next
fight. This is platform enough for the South
and West, and on this platform, free from
''entangling alliances" with Eastern protec-
tionists, we shall win. If we have but one
plank our candidate must stick to it, for he
out kicking down the only thing he stands
upon. We want no more campaigns where
in the party platform asserts one policy
while the party candidate asserts another.
We must have it either flesh or fowl if we
hope to win; an indefinite quantity is
worth nothing in politics.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-25

THE MISSISSIPPI FARMER is the name
of a paper recently established at
Trenton, Smith county, by Messrs. c..
c. Thomas and L. F. Bowling. The
title indicates the good work to which
it is dedicated, and the numbers we
have received give promise of its use
fulness. We hope the conductors will
be rewarded for their toll in a field
where the laborers are few and the
harvest abundant.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-25
The Negro Exodus.
WHAT PARsON CONWAY sAYs-A MOVE TO
DRIVE THE STREAM INTO NEW MEXICO.
Special to Cincinnati Gazette

I'M ' - AAiE d hf@A+h IN 10 NEW MEXICO.
Special to Cincinnati Gazette
NEW YORK, November 22-Pre.ident
Sherman, Of the Mechanics bank has re-
celved the following dispatch:
Gen. G.. w. Conway, when questioned
about the Browne dispatch, SAYS
The Southern negroes are bound to-
leave the Southern States. | and Others
year ago advised them to wait and see if
their treatment would not be improved
1he intimidation and prescription shown
during the late campaign have only increased
Ihelr determination to find homes elsewhere.
1here are. 100000 negroes in the different
southern States, organized in bands and
having money to buy land with IL lisa
mistake to suppose that all the Southern
negroes are Penniless. When it is remem-
oered that In seven years they accumulated
more than $90,000,000 in the Freedmen's
saving bank, they cannot be accused Of
lmprovidence. Since that bank failed, they
nave hidden their savings in the ground,
In their houses, and in their clothes, and if
they had been fairly paid for their labor,
they would be in a still better condition.
some Northern men who want to test the
question of the negroes capability as a land
owner, have founded a company, Of which
!. NJ. Woodward, of New Rochelle. is
President, and have purchased 100000
acres of land in New Mexico, which they
Will offer on easy terms to the oolored emf
lgoants. Poor white men have gone West
ana become prosperous now it is proposed
70 see If poor black men cannot do the
same,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-25

HENCEFoRwARD let it not be said that
Georgia is not reconstructed. Her Leg
islature has elected Ex-Governor j. E..
Brown to the United States Senate.
An original secessionist he was an OBJ
structionist of the Confederate cause,
from the beginning to the ending of the
war. Soon after its close, he affili-
ated with the Republican party and sup
ported Grant for PRESIDENT in preference
to Seymour. He received the solid Re-
publican vote for Senator, which is not
strange but he secured . strong Demo-
cratic support also, and that's what sur
prises us.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-25
1he Ballot Law and the WarreR comfy
Election.

Now we are strongly in favor of recogniz-
ing the intention of the voter in counting
the ballot, and would not favor the passage
OF any law by which that intention would
be disregarded. But the law, however oh
lectlonable it may be, is on the statute
DOCKS OF the State, and the Commissioners
Oh Election were sworn to enforce the State
laws. We are uncertain whether the Com
mlssioneTs Of Election of Warren county
Were too punctilious or not, and this doubt
Is increased when it is so freely asserted that
the violation of the law in this instance was
i1ntentlonal on the part of the Republican
leaders by whom the ballots were prepared
The law is very specific in describing the
form Of the ballots, and it would be either
stupid or dishonest man who would not
prepare the ballots for the use of his party
In such manner that they would bear the
scrutiny Of the Commissions
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-25

SECRETAY SHERMAN has issued his
call for the payment of what are known
as ''the skies of 1880" These bonds are
payable, by the terms of the law, De-
cember 81, 1880. Here is an opportuni-
ty for getting rid of the silver dollars
which Secretary Sherman has applied to
Congress for buildings wherein to store
it. The bonds are payable in
coin, which includes the silver dole
of 4124 grains. 1t was only after the
purchase of the bonds by the capitalists,
that the silver dollar OF that weight was
ascertained to be dishonest" Never
theless it is precisely what they agreed
to take.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-25

THE purport Of the resolution passed
by the Mississippi Valley Convention, is
that Congress be urged to build the
levees along the Mississippi River, and
improve its navigation and that of its
tributaries. The President elect is COM
mitted to that grand project, and there
Is every reason to look forward hope
fully to its success.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-25
Just Like Him.

Hon. j. L. Pugh, in his speech &C
cepting the nomination for Senator by
the Democratic members of the Alabama
Legislature, said: eve will plant our.
selves on local self-government, crystal
lie the solid South, and never go back
on the Northern Democracy. Every
body in the solid South is satisfied"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-25
,. GWIN, Auditor.
JACKSON, Nov. ., 1880.

Hon. s. GwIN I'm reply to your
enquiry / will say, that the Supreme Court
has decided that the State acquired no title
to any lands in Kinds county which were
sold for the taxes of 1875, '76, III, '73. 1t is
your duty, therefore, under Section $50,
Code 1880, to strike from your books all
lands sold for the taxes due for the said
years, and to transmit list of them to the
Chancery clerk of the county. When this
is done, it will be the duty of the assessor,
under Sections 487, 487, and $50 of the Code,
1880. to assess tie lands so struck off by you,
for the years ISIS, '76 ~, '7S, 70 and 80,
and to give written notice thereof to the per-
son whose property Is 50 assessed, if such
person is a resident of the county. The lands
50 to be stricken off by you, have paid no
taxes for any of the years specified. They
stand consequently in the attitude of any
other property which has escaped taxation
and it is plainly the duty of the assessor to
assess them for those years, and Of the tax
collector to collect taxes when so assessed.
Respectfully, T. G. CATcHINGs.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-25

THE Governor of Louisiana, by au-
thority of the Constitution and laws OF
Louisiana, has appointed Judge Man
ming United States Senator from that
State, vice Spoford, deceased, whose
seat Kellogg has usurped for several
years past. As the complexion Of the
Senate which is the only fortress that
remains TO the Democracy since the
November defeat, may depend upon the
action Of the Democratic members Of
that body, it is looked 70 with deep
concern By the whole country.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-25

Hon. A. II. STEPHENS thinks that
the whole Democratic canvass was a mad
rush for the hog trough, and that if
Hancock and Davis had been the ticket,
and the National Executive Committee
had been abolished we might have won.
Mr.. Stephensis peculiar politician, you
know.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-25

By statement in the Handsboro
Advertiser we learn that 8, AIS, $50 feet
of lumber was shipped from the Pearl
river district, and cleared through the
custom house during the month of
October. The lumber shipped coast
wise is not included in this statement.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-25

THE Hon. J L. Pugh, who has been
elected Z. S. Senator by the Alabama
Legislature after a nomination by the
Democrats in caucus, is man of ability
and State rights statesman of the
strictest sect. He is an earnest, straight
forward man, utterly devoid of cant and
time-serving.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-25
Carpet Bag "Reminiscences.

There must be something in name
after all. Isn't getting time to call the
good county which-goes by the name Of
Lincoln, something else And how
about sumneri Why cling 70 these
putrid "reminiscences Of carpet bag rule
IN Mississippi
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-25

Grand Jurors summarily dismissed by
Judge Hill, upon the advice of the
District Attorney, the Raymond Gazette
says that it was "the best Grand Jury
ever impannelled in this District"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-25
Hon. John d. Bills.


81 Inc Inc respectable majority given in Alcorn
- 80 oCz lor hancock and 474 for Muldrow is
o LUG IN great measure to the vim and ener-
~ ulspiayed by Hon. John. d. Bills, Chair
.ll4n Oh the Executive Committee of that
county. He utilized home talent and mt
4l speakers in the field By this means in
tne last two weeks before the election every
ne 1eig9 Dorhood in the county was canyassed.
Oo lI bllis IS a man of great executive ability
ana pushes forward to success evervthinp he
undertakes whether public or a private
S sLIssi 9ueh a man the people will always
ueAgnt 70 honor when the time arrives
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-25
J. G.. BROWNE

(The public are familiar with the des-
titution and suffering of the colored peo-
pie, who have been enticed into Kansas
and other western States from their
Southern homes where they had every
opportunity for comfortable and pros
porous lives. A fearful responsibility
rests upon the schemers and cracked
Drained sentimentalists who have been
instrumental in deluding them)
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-25
The Exodus to Kansas.

A quaker lady from Kansas, who has been
in New York this week soliciting aid for the
Southern negroes who migrated to that
State, places the number at $4,000 Accord
ing to her account, very few of them seem to
have obtained work of any kind to which
they have been accustomed. Only one-thlrd
of the number have obtained work of any
kind, and of these by far the greater mum
Der are employed in the coal mines and stone
quarries, and on public buildings, only a
very small fraction having been employed
by farmers. She describes the remaining
two-thirds as being in an exceedingly desti-
tute and suffering conditios--Exchange.
This statement shows the condition of
the colored people who were induced by
false representations to leave comforta-
BILE homes and good opportunities in the
South for the inhOspitable climate and
doubtful chances of living upon uncer-
tain employment and begging in Kansas.
We have heard but little of the Kansas
movement in Mississippi lately, but the
foregoing facts ought to be circulated
among the colored people so that if they
insist upon emigrating they will know
what to expect. Many of them sacri-
feed their homes and other property to
get there, and are dying of starvation
or living on charity.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-25

EIGHT years ago the Republicans had
eighteen members of the Senate from
the Southern States. Twelve of these
were carpet-baggers. In the present
Senate there are only two Republicans
from the South. One is Bruce of
Mississippi, who goes out in March next /;
the other is Kellogg, of Louisiana, who
ought to be put out as soon as the
Senate meets.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-25

IT now transpires that Gen. Garfield
has only little over 10000 majority in
New York. A change of 1000 votes
in voting population of over million,
would have given Gen. Hancock large
majority in the electoral college.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-25

REPUBLICAN leaders in Louisiana are
saying that the Republicans propose to
contest the vote of the Democrats re-
turned as elected from the Fourth and
Fifth Congressional Districts of that
State and may also decide to contest the
First and Second Districts.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-25
THE Alabama Penitentiarx during tn

THE Alabama Penitentiary during the
last five years has not only been a self
supporting institution, but has paid into
the State Treasury $81, 900. Within
FIVE years from the date of the new
lease the Mississippi Penitentiary will
yield more than twice that sum to the
State Treasury.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-25

SUPERINTENDENT WALKER has vigor-
ously prosecuted the investigation into
the alleged census frauds in South Caro-
lima. The investigation is not compile
ted, but enough is known to prove that
the census of 1870was grossly defective
by reason of ignorant and corrupt emu
meratOrs, and there is no doubt that
the revised enumeration will give South
Carolina about the number of inhabi-
tants reported in the late enumeration.
A short time since, a correspondent OF
THE CLARION called attention to the
fact that the census of 1870, so far as
Mississippi is concerned, was fraud,
whole pages having been extracted
bodily from the enumeration of 1860.
For the past decade, in consequence of
that fraud, Mississippi, and Ono doubt
other Southern States) has been de-
privsd of her rightful representation in
Congress and the Electoral College.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-25
Honor To Whom Honor is Due.

e. no 70 man in Mississippi did uoIIar serv;os
The 49, cock and the Democratic party. in
- .sS We 1aee canvass than Capt. Fred CS B5rrv
e q "ess polnt His speeches were poo5eis III
u sS .eaces force and conYinoine logie, And
sarr;s s4em All over tho state, az much
fort "a ~ q Tine money and physical com
that high order 81 merit thst asssjH, a 5
- Eecognition in TIE fature an rnst
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-25
The DeIuded Colored People.

Sherman, of the Mechanics Bank. has re-
ceived tie following dispatch "West Phil
adelphia-Can thee find Gen. Conway. I
have Just come from Louisiana and Alabama
Thousands of colored people are leaving
pellmell, and no influence but his can pre-
vail to guide them. Kansas has all it ought
to have, and he ought to distribute them
throughout the west"