The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-06-30
dale said this II rHr CLARION Of January

dale said this In THE CLARIos of January
LIST, and 2lst. 1874.
This shows Just how much the Colonel
knew about the political situation in
Mississippi at that time, and confirms
what he was in the habit of saying on
the stump, in 1876, when he was taken
up and borne into Congress (where be
remained eight years. upon the political
revolution of that year, that he had
taken no part in the political struggles
of the State for seven years-aad done
nothing whatever to reclaim it from
/ carpet bag misrule. But it so happens
that while Col. Hooker was quietly re-
posing on his laurels or waiting for
something to turn up Maj Barksdale
was working in common with the other
true men of the State to cast off the
incubus of earpet-baggery. He was in
full cooperation with Lamar, George
Walthall, Stone, Lowry, Featherston,
Watson, w. P. Harris, Calhoon, Nugent,
Reynolds, Houston, Morgan and we'll
| known men Of that class who have been
honored with the highest trusts the peo-
pie could confer. They were marching
steadily in the line marked out for the
overthrow of the carpet-bagger, and the
restoration of honest and competent State
government. The great moving consid
Grafton was not to build up the "grand
old party" but to reclaim Mississippi
from misrule.
In THE CLARION of January %, 1874
contemporaneously with the editoria
cited by Col. Hooker, there appeared
the following extract from letter o.
Hon. L. Q. G. Lamar, then a Represen
tative in Congress, dictated from th'
watch-tower on which he stood:
Your views as to making anything out o
the Democratic party that will be Of benef
to the South, | agree with. 1t lost it
strength when it swerved from its prinei
Piles and opposed the South just far enough
to incur suspicion and odium and yet no
, far enough to command the sympathy AM
support of the friends of CONSTITUTIONS
freedom. 1t is very weak in the intellec
tual and moral force of lis leaders.
1t will be seen that there is strikin
similarity in the extracts from tn
editorial of Maj. Barksdale and tn
letter of Col. Lamar and that Co
: Lamar fully endorsed the article o
: Maj. Barksdale saying 81 fully agre
with your views" Now Col. Lamar ha
: been honored by the people of Missis
sippi by election to both Houses o
: Congress and by President Cleveland il
transferring him to his Cabinet Co
Lamar endorsed Maj. Barksdale's view
"fully," and what is Col Hooker goin
to DO about it?
Mr.. j. K. Chase, the confidential agen
of the Grant administration tells i
what esteem Maj. Barksdale was he'll
by the trusted leader of the Democrat
hosts in 1875, in his testimony befor,
the Senatorial Comr1ittee as follows:
l told Gen. George / was from Washing
! ton, that the Attorney General had sen
me 10 Mississippi to ascertain the true cor
dition of affairs, and to ascertain wha
could be done to insure peace and quie
! throughout the State. Gen. George said h
lcould do nothing without the consent Q
Maj. Barksdale ; that while he was chain
man and recognized head of the Oppositio
, in the Stare, he had no authority to max
any compromise, or pledge without tb
consent of Mr.. Barkslale and he desire
me to meet him. He then made an appoint
ment for that evening and brought Mr.. I
to the hotel, etc.
We could give innumerable instance
of the services rendered the people o
Mississippi by Maj. Barksdale. But W
will content ourselves by saying that b
has been in the van of every movemen
to establish good government in Missis
sippi and has never faltered in his de
votion to her interests or her people.