The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1888-01-11
BISHOP ClLLOWLT'S REJOIKDER
70 TIE LAST LETrER TRon-
Hon. jefferson Davis.

state OF Arkan1ass i nave t1c 9Pp0E- Il
tunity Of reading the letter Of Hon.
Jefferson Davis in your issue Of EoTeu- |
Der 23d. II space can be accorded, /
will ask tha privilege Of respectful
Il Is to be regretted that the vener
able statesman quite ignores the great |
public question at issue, and, becoming |
angered gives expression to wrathfni |
words and petnlant personalities. Ego |
fism, vain cenceit, and similar terms he |
freely applies, and throughout the COM |
municati0n evidences 9 painful sense of |
evaporation. And even these were
but the suppression Of anger As is seen
from the following. consideration for |
the Office be holds, and veneration for |
the church Of which he Is dignitary, |
restrains me from further characteriza- |
fion Of his pEetensions. Such a spirit |
weakens rather than strengthens argu
ment have no harsh words to nse in
reply, and entertain only the highest
veneration for the historic sud honored
gentleman. The terms Of personal
findness emel0yed in former letters are
not withdrawn, albeit they are resented
and characterized as hollow commenda
tion,D and as "the garlands with which
in olden time a saerifcial offering was
decorated The cause of moral reform
is too important and urgent to be
obscured BY irrelevant issues, and too
sacred to be freighted with mere personal
controversy. While willing and ready
to discuss the principles involved. must
be excused from bandying epithets-
an exercise as useless as it Is anbecom
| ing. Buff the earnest, honest advo-
cacy of the principle and policy Of
prohibition subjects me to the charge OF
Hegotism," ..vain conceit,D etc, can
not, per force, promise abptement OF
effort or the surrender of my Convictions.
Believing that the suppressQ1t OF the
| liquor traffic will arrest inteinperance
with all its attendant evils, and thereby
prove the greatest possible boon to
suffering humanity, shall continue to
toll and pray for that end, though my
humble labors may be characterized as
"pretensions" AID my public ntterances
as "harangues." 1t will be sufficient
reward if / can share in lifting the
shadows from a single home, and,
| thanks to the Lord of the harvest, the
blessed assurance is not wanting
Mr.. DAVIS reviews the origin of the
controversy between ps In order to con
vict me of an unwarraptsd and "severe
attack" upon him. In my first letter
the full text Of that part OF my address
| eorrss1ondarca wss nublished. TO which
the reader i referred. II will there be
seen M that nv Nv onlv otIense. or avain con-
cs;t y Il he nvafer. was n nresuming to
refer resnectfnllv 10 his Texas letter and
in lamepting The use or abuse Of hi,
Great name Nv tha whisky men. Special
eh;ection was taken IN the sfatemen,
tbst his words had ssbeeone fl,a shib.
hoIetb of the .saloons.s That WAS :
question of faA When asked. there
fore for the aassape n his letter iusti
fving such 4 remark. / replied BY giving
the evideuce.fo support the utteranc@
! Whether iusflv or uniustly his woii
we're embiazo1ed on banners and ira
.. lparencies at anti prohibition meet
and repeated erhly by saloon men
over Texas. Mr.. 1avis replied that b
WAS not responsible for the utteranee
. of such men. I aid not so state. Nj
lsmeDt was and that bis word
; SHOULD have ubecou the shibboleth ol
, the saIoonsn And ~ haze. His ez
nF0.s u about s.nefN N2pal liberty ~
|, IRptlo, g
~ (rdom.
. i6s to ones responsiDinB for the
ea Its of his acts and utlerances, q
s. uatfn textbook on law has this to say
Every man is presumed to intend the
, natural, necessary, and even probable
consequences of IN act which be inten
tionally performs" In face of thai
maxim of law and common sense, it il
idle for Mr.. Davis to complain of mis-
representation and lnsist ,tnat ne nai
uttered nc sentiment IN IaVor Oh in'
Liquor trafilc. he wrote carefully
worded letter against the proposed con
stitutlonal amendment promoting tn'
manufacture ana sale 2. lneo4icAtlhs
liquors IN Iexas, ana, IN ms open letter
! tome, invelgneo against tne progress o
prohlblton In the lolAoHtng Vlgorou'
phrase: 10 me = seems the pialn duty
: OF every citizen VINO loves inc iiDefe,
our slres bequealned 70 Us 20 cneci
thfs scheme before It acquires dapgerou
: proportions. MS letters nave oecom'
! popular anti-pronipitlonc campaign ooSu
) ments ana seem 10 nave greatly cnSeIe'
the neafts Oh Hnlssy msu Ssely wneIe
IofDear 10 lepIouucs, u ~ .nls eonhec
tlon eeztaih "iueiy pup.l.l'eo us.si alce
ana oneIlngs Oh brewers anu Lguoi
oeaiers recently AZ Masons va. AZ mus
. De annoying even 70 oisgus. 70 IN
renneo, cultured, PiOus anu 4Inos =,
: peerless gentleman anu statesmen 70 =. y
appiauoed py tnat class oI men y
/, | 00nOT OF Ms anlI-DTOnlDlLlOu 1CbleF.
, but these iacts palhl1hy Justify III
statement 10 Wnlcn sueh serious II ho
: snpeTcihous, oDlectlon y nAue.
In his last letter Mr.. Davis evidence
more pronounced anti-prohibition sym
pathies than heretofore. / had though
I and hoped otherwise. Certainly exa'
perated feeling must have betrayed hiI
into extrayagant expression. Anaimac
verting upon the cause of mors
; reform, he paraphrases the historic e1
preston of Madame Roland and e.
Z claims, ''Ohl prohibition, sometime
I called moral reforms what crimes al
: committed in thy namelD He denie
the effectiveness of prohibitory laws an
asserts that their potentially for goo
! is most visible from affair." II is signif
cant, after that statement, that he shoul
: quote Washington paper, and it th
organ of the Brewers Congress, to prov
!. the failure of prohibition in Maine, an
: Chicago paper to support his positio
! as to Iowa Why not take the testlmon
: Of those on the ground-those VII
: have opportunity, and whose duty I
4 guires them TO ascertain the facts Go
{ Bodwell, of Maine. who died q lew day
) ago, in bis annual address in Januar
7 1887, said: THE law has been Of ID
4 measurable value in reducing the iqus
Z traffic, and has correspondlngly I
= ereased the wealth Of the state
!. increasing the so6rlesy OF the peop
Y and saving the fruits OF industry II
d experience OF Maine for the last thlri
8 years abundantly lustifles the adopto