The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-06

returned as elected to Congress in the upper
t Aiabma district over Lowe, Independent,
and there is little room for doubt that Mack
ey, Republican, was counted nut in the
Charleston district of South Carolina.
These returns are all made wore or less after
| the fashion of the Republican electoral
| frauds of 1876, aud Their are few intelligent
| men in the South, outside of the immediate
| ly interested parties, who win not be glad to
see Congress correct these patent frauds,
which are so awkwardly hidden under films
| sy techniealities.
|. MISSISSIPPI POLITICAL TRAGEDIES.
This State has been discretiably notable
for terrible political tragedies for half Gen.
| fury. In old ante-bellum times, a Vicks-
burg or Natchez political editor who escap-
ed a twelvemonth without bullet or Bow
ie-knife wound, was singularly fortunate. 1t
is the State that bred the Bowies and gave
the world the Bowie-knife, and the ballet
and the blade have been much more the ar
biters of party disputes in the past, than
even in the turbulent times since the war.
The Premises and the Browns and the Da-
vises made the duel and the street-f fight re-
spectacle, and the ignorant accepted them
with the greater savagery that pertains to
them. The Chisholm butcherv has its score
of counterparts in the past political contests
of Mississippi; but they were not then of ma
his heroic daughter was an unmixed and
cowardly murder, for he was a helpless prs-
oner and arranged on what was a false
charge, although his murderers believed it
to be Just. But even if he had been accessory
to the Gully murder, his butchery when
alone, unarmed and inprison, was the veriest
mockery in courage and murder without an
extenuating circumstance. 1t was in one
of the proyerbially lawless regions of the
State, where poverty, ignorance and brutali-
ty go hand in hand among both races, and
there is no more law for such crimes there
than there was, for more than ten years, in |
the murderOus stronghold of the Mollie Ma |
guires of Pennsylvania The Dixon tragedy |
of Yazoo was another of the regulation Mis- |
sissippi out-croppings of what has been bred |
in the bone of the primitive settlers Dixon |
was an outlaw and murderer, and he had /
met the doom he had more than once given
to his foes ;but it was a crime, growing out /
of party dispute, that the laws of any well |
ordered community would restrain by pun
ishment, while in Yazoo punishment is inn
possible With these tragedies the black
race has had nothing to do, nor were their
rights involved in them but, in the present
of the North in regard to all
political tragedies in the South, they have
done much to cloud the name of Mississippi.
THE RACES AT PEACE.
liners Is uHu1Sput0u ndEmOuy between the
races in this State Labor is abundant and
we'll rewarded, and the negroes are quite
willing to take a respite from the turmoil
and decentralization of politics. They tried
It as a race, here as in the other Southern
States, and they are not disposed to take the
ield aggressively. They organized in the
district and elected Lynch to
Congress, voting their full strength without
lindrance. as they did in DarrelPs district
n Louisiana, but beyond these two districts
hey made no organized effort in either
State. They are gradually charging their 8
lumber of owners.or lessees of cotton land | :
md just as the negro gets enlisted in bust
less he ceases to care about politics, and !
east of all about the more doubtful rule of
lis race. Wealth is rapidly growing among t
10Th races in the State, and, while the adj {
ancement of Mississippi will be slower than i
most OF the other Southern States, her peo- .
lie have everything to warrant their faith {
n great future. A. K. NJ.