The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1884-02-26
A Pungent Vlndicatlon of Legisla-
tive Supervisionists.
JACKSON, MISS, Feb. 18th, 1884,

JACKSON, MISS, Fob. 18th, 1884.
EDrToR GRENADA SENTINEL:
l noticed in the last issue Of your paper,
a communication under the signature of
"Modoc," which reflects severely on the in
telligence and virtue of the present Legis-
lature, of which your correspondent is an
humble factor. Whether 'Modoc" intend
ed it or not, he certainly seized upon q
nomdeptnne in which there is wonderful
fitness, so far as name and facts can be ad-
justed. OF all the savage criticisms upon
the present Legislature that | have seen,
Modoc takes the lead. OF all the savage
tribes that have succumbed, in late years,
to United States authority, the Modocs
we're the most senseless and brutal, for
they had no respect for treaties and con-
tracts,nor even the rules of Indian warfare
Your correspondent Modoc leaps into the
arena of criticism, besmeared all over with
war paint, his scalping knife in one hand
and his tomahawk in the other, and with
out the least adjustment of wrongs to be
remedied, or rights to be secured, he
slashes right and left into The present Leg
islature with not bit more discretion of
mind or scruples of conscience than Capt.
Jack did when he murdered Gen. Candy
under flag of truce. So much for the
paint, feathers, claws and other adorn-
ments of Modoc, the correspondent of the
Grenada Sentinel; now for the facts.
The one thing which this Legislature did
to bring down on them the fearful venge-
ance of Modoc, is that they presumed to
pass bill to supervise railroads. Had
Nn1Oo lyaI s,,t ba arran ~ NtOarr aho,1f3
have no Cicero to have exclaimed, o tenn
pore, o morss' but Modoc would have OK
claimed, big Injun heap" and continued
his splendid rhetoric wherein be says, ''the
particular act wherein they 1.-THE Legisla
ture) have showned their asininity, is the
passage of the now famous, but sill more
infamous railroad supervision bill" Why
it is that Providence did not ordain that
Modoc should have preceded the great Ro-
man critic and statesman, is a question
that we shall leave for the casuists of the
ages to come. Is Modoc aware that such
Commandments were uttered from the deca-
logue of the Tories of our Revolutionary
War! Does Modoc remember that such
pious anathemas were hurled at the head of
old Hickory when he vetoed the United
States bank bill! Yet, the revolution sue
ceeded, and jackson went to his grave wet
with nations tears. Instances multiply
of similar misfortune, when the great
public had a Modoc to forecast their
troubles.
'They had sense enough to know better,
but they lacked the courage of their con-
victions" Modoc here not only tells Us Of
our great lack of craftsmanship, which We
1.-THE supervisionists) chesrfully allow sub
iect of legitimate remark and speculation,
but, with the prescience of more. than
demigod, be marches straight into our con-
sciences and by the divine right of pre-
sumption snatches from Us, honest motives,
and exposes the rank and file of the super
visionists in the present Legislature, as :
sc. of arrant towards. How shall We curb
the assumptions and Prescriptions of this
modern Delphic Oracle, bat BY saying that
the voice which he utters may be the echo
of some more potent and cunning agent
unseen, the refrain of q song that he has
caught in its ehangin; cadsncss. aud a.