The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15


III not fear the South when in arms Y
a. cannot fear any hostile invasion from |
9i bow when she has surrendered her gu
l. on cannot fear a restoration of slave
: nor any claim of payment for slaves,
lie these things are expressly prohibited in t
: amendments to the Constitution of t
II United states, which have been ratified
all of our States. The cry that we "
}. bankrupt the Government with Southe
e war claims l. equally absurd. None can
{ PAID, under the law, except the claims
. loyal men, and the idea that the Confede
{ ate brlgadlers should bankrupt the Cover
I ment and impOverish themselves with ia
I alton to pay war claims to Southern Unio
0 men, who they hated as much as the cope
heads were hated by the Union men of til
D North, IS too ridiculous to need REPUTATION
! | cannot believe that such a sham can |
imposed on the thinking, calculating, bus
ness men Of the North.
! But II Is said If the Democracy return [
power the Southern men will assume contrC
As leaders. Three times since the war tn
Southern men have had control of tn
House of Representatives, and each tim
they have elected Northern man Speaker
Northern man Sergeant alarms, and
Union soldier from Kentucky Clerk an,
have taken only the Door-keepers place 70
themselves. -Four times they have support
ed Northern men for President and Vice
| President, two Of them Union generals, and
one the father of abolitionism, and have
| asked nothing for themselves except thai
you do not elect men who will Cypress them
! You remember that this argument of q
| solid South was pressed in all its vigor in
the canvass of 1876. The people of the
! North were told then that all the South
wanted was to get into power and then the
! Confederate flag would be drawn from its
hiding place and the Union destroyed. And
what, l ask, was the result? The most
| bitter and vindictive ku-klux who was
ever painted by the Imagination of Il radi-
cal stump shrieker to alarm the women and
children and infame the men of the North,
could not have devised nor asked better
opportunity to destroy the Union that was
afforded to him by the Republican party in
1861 They had sent troops into South
ern States in violation of law and Consti-
tuition in 1876 to carry the election. When
they failed in this they sent visiting states
men to aid the infamous Returning Boards
IN making out false returns with an army
ready to sustain them in any villaiuy they
might find it necessary to perpetrate. They
next announced that the Vice President of
the United States was alone authorized to
count the electoral vote, and that these
false and fraudulent returns should be
counted. They assembled troops in the State
to hold the forts, and they began to assem-
bic troops in Washington City to intimidate
Congress into submission TO this arbitrary
count. And then it was, fearing less the
Eon-hearted hero who stood between Texas
and persecution might be a bling-block
in their way, they prepared to send Hancock
to the Pacific coast.
1t was dark hour for our government. |
The end OF the republic seemed to be near
at hand, 1t seemed as if the army in the |
United States, like the Janigarie in Rome |
were about to begin to name and to inaugur- |
ate our rulers. The monarchs of the old /
world were rejoicing in heart at the APP |
preaching dissolution of our republican /
government which had stood as a menace |
to their thrones, The friends of liberty |
everywhere stood aghasu, with pElseless 1
hearts. The mutterings of Disconnected |
people gathering in multitudes, began to be
heard all over the North, and the skeleton /
IF war seemed about to rise in its most
lorrid aspect, when brother would arm
against brother, not in sectional, but in
,igii stFife. IN this supreme moment, the
Confederate brigadieF, The red-handed rebel
If the South stood master OF the situation,
With power to have shaken the government
% its very foundation. At a word, had his
leart been nIlcd with IualICe, he nlgtI have
plunged the divided North into in
which the solid South might have avenged
81 hel auferinps but in that solemn hour,
e said to the rising eleHfe2tts Of war, peace,
Re STILL" No honest man can remember
hat time and ever say again that this gov
rnment has anything to fear from the :
malice Gf Southern men. The Republicans {
ometimeS say we abandoned the fraud issue {
" failing to renomiuate the man who was {
efrauded We answer that they confessed t
he fraud issue when but one single man in
heir convention was found to vote for the {
# him who stole the Presi- {
ency. But to Tetufa 10 lay question.
When | and others sought to seoede from {
he Union you brought Us back. What, | |
SIX, did you want with us if we are danger c
as ~ tho peace of the Union?
! can understand the uQsition of the war
Democrats and of the nion-loVing hepub :
leans but the position Of the machine Re-
ubllcans Is ever changing. They seem to
egret that they ever helped to save the
jnion, and Mr.. Frye of Maine, openly ex~
ressed his regret on the floor of the House
f Representatives, that they had ever ex-
ended the right of suffrage to the negro
In the beginning it was said that the war !
iaS Yeged to save the Union, and the Re
ublican party, hy Solemn resolution in :
congress, bitterly denied any intention to !;
Interfere with slavery in the States. But |
then war was over the Republicans cried |
ut that all the results of the war would be | |
)st unless Slavery was abolished, and hence
he thirteenth amendHent was adopted. !
he slaves were emancipated, and no South l
IN man is fool enough to want them back
i slavery after they have been free for a
but If there was 70 other reason I
would take fou= white men standing
uard day and night to keep one slave from
unning away. daughter and applause)
: hen py-.aupipatiou had baan accom- nj shod 1 Z
he Republicans SAID t4at az the results of t
ao war would be lost unless the south was o
epriyed of representation for her negroes, | a
ence the fourteenth amendment was adopt 5
1. California is Permitted to enumerate t
hiaamen TO swell her representation, and a
ct may exclude them from voting Rhode v
sland excludes foreigners from voting t
less they have property, and Massaehu-
tits excludes uneducated men from voting, fl
nd yet both are enumerated to swell the [
of these States. NeVeFthe- v
50, this amendment said to the South, you F
iall permit your negroes, whether ignorant [
property holders or not, to vote, or they s
lall not be enumerated, we'll knowing that | L
- would reduce Southern representation. t
Jhen this was accomplished, the brilliant il
lea struck the Republicans, suggested no e
lubt by the carpet baggers, that if the [
egro was enfranchised they could control {
! the Southern states by negro votes, ana
len they raised the cry that all the results {
the war would be lost unless the negroes /
ere made voters, and hence the fifteenth =
nendment was adopted. Il
But still they were not satisfied, and the h
,untry was again told that all the results
the war would be lost unless the negro t
as made not only as good but a little better n
ian the Indian, the ChiHaman, or the g
white man. thence the civil rights {
II was passed. But still they are not /
Apply.
And now the patriots who thought they n
ere fighting to save the Union are aston
he'd to learn from the Republican platform P
lat the war was waged entirely by the Re- d
lblicans against the Democratic party, and a
seems it was waged, not to save the Union, t
1T to save the Republican party, and the "
,untry is even told that all the results of Il
i. u .....a "