The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-10-03
REPLY OF i. BARKsDALE 10
THE vICKsBURH HERALD.
Editor 81 the Herald /:

Editor q the Herald:
Zion motives which / will not char
acterize, but will leave fair-nlinded
public TO Judge, in frequent numbers Of
the Herald Of recent dates. extracts
have been paraded conspicuously from
my writings in The CI.ARloS Of 1874.
accompanied with bitter invectiye. In
order that my reply may reach the pub
lie through the same channel in which
Iheye been arraigned, I request the use
of che columns of the Herald. These
extracts are unaccompanied by any
statement whatever Of the circumstances
under which the articles from which
they were taken, we're written and are
calculated. if not intended, by care
full suppression of these circumstances
to convey a false impression Of my
course. For the purpose Of reply, l
will copy the extracts just as they are
printed in the Herald;
Vicksburg Herald, Sept. 9th 1888
We dislike to disturb the serenity Of s'the
Warwick OF Mississippi but the path of
duty is not generally ''the primrose path of
alliance aud however disagFeeable the
task of delTing through old hies, partie-
ularly in warm weather like this, the de-
mands of duty must be obeyed.
In examining some old papers that re-
Gently feel under our observation, we came
across the following in the jackson CLAIR
ION, journal of which the Hon. T. Banks.
dale was then, and until very recently, the
editor. The passages We quote do not sound
much like a christmas CAROL" but when
they were published they answered as a
New Years requiem for the deal Demo-
cratic party, the party which, for theree
quarters of century, had braved the bat
tie and the breeze, as well ia peace as in
war, in sunshine as ie storm aud tempest.
Here is what the Hon. E. Barksdale then
had to say of the Democratic party
jackson CLARION, January l, 1874
'The Vicksburg Herald don't agree with
us that the Democratic party has outllVed
its day, and that it ought, after IL years of
ignominioas failures and defeats, to give
place to a new organization better adapted
to the necessities of the times and the spirit
and temper of the masses. and better cal
culated to achieve the reforms which the
country needs
maryland, Kentucky. Virginia, Georgia,
Tennessee and Texas have been secured
against radicalism by their own over
whelmiHg white maioritieS and the opera
tons of influences that dom xist elsewhere.
Having these Inajorities at their back the
Democratic leaders drew the race line, and
thus established a precedent for Radical
imitation fatal to Democratic a-cendeney
in the Southern States where the blacks
have the numbers
The late elections in Iowa. Wisconsin,
Illinois, Kansas aud other Western States,
including California, show that the people
are rife for dismissing The Republican
party from power provided they aye not
forced to a choice between il and the Demo
cratic party, which they have again and
again and again repndiated. The people
do not well understand how they can sue
cessfully carry on crusade against corrup-
ton by selecting as an insirument1lity for
the work an organization which is az deep
in the filth and mire OF Tammany frauds,
Credit Mobilier Infamies and back salary
grabbing as it, antagonist.
Jackson CLARION, January %, 1874
"rhe Meridian Gazette is very much mis-
taken in supposing that the Republican
newspapers and politicians look with favor
on the idea which is pereeptibly working
lit way into the minds of the masses that
the Democratic party has outIived its use
falness, and by reason of its loss of public
confidence, after II years of successive de
feats, ought to be laid on the shelf for a
newer, pnrer and more athletic party
through which its principles eoul be pre-.
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