Year: 1873

straight-out ticket, 1t would be well to
examine the field and see what chances
there are for success. We are one Of
those who look to the truth, and do this
regardless Of personal preferment, predi-
lections, or prejddiees. Like the com.
petent general who scans the coming
contest and ponders on the consequences
Of an overthrow, so should the handful
of BourbOns weigh the effect Of the Wa
terloo defeat that awaits any ticket they
may choose. The question is, shall all be
cast upon the hazard Of the die? Shall
we make one plunge and, like Louis
lana, be made to drink the cup of misery
to the very dregs? Let US see what
show we have for success. According
to the census Of 1870, which is before US,
Mississippi mad an excess OF sixty-one
thousand three hundred and five Of col
Ored people, and since then a perfect
food Of them has been pouring in from
Tennessee and Alabama. 1t will be
seen, especially when you add the white
Republicans, that at the next election
their majority will be greater than ever
before. But we will say, for argument
sake, that the conservative masses can
elect their candidates; if we do, what as
surance nave We got that we can install
them into office? Il
Let US keep out of the field, and let the
contest which is bound to rage with in


tense ferecity, be inside of the Repubi-
can party. There is no feud so intense
as among relatives-no quarrel so bitter
as bet4lfen members Of the same party.
But this can only be done by the Demo-
Gratis and conservatives keeping out of
a fIald IL ~ .e..i
there, and you unite the Republicans,
and as unit they are invincible in Mis-


sissippi- These are the plain facts, I'M
palatable though they be, and we write
them down regardless of what extremists
on our side of the question may say,


feeling that time will bear us out. Let
US, then, reason together. Let us take
the example of Tennessee, Virginia and
Arkansas. Each one Of these States was
redeemed by the Democrats allowing the
fight to be made inside Of the Republi-
can party. This is no Dent movement,
but simply the adoption of a plan that
has proved successful every time it has
been tried. Will Mississippi take warn
ing from Loui lana and plan after the
other States mentioned? If she will,
deliverance is at hand; if not, worse
than the fate of Louisiana awaits her
there viii be the same difference be- |
tween that unfortunate State and Mis-
-issippi that there is between a Kellogg
and an Amesl


From the Jackson Clarion.J


1t is time the Opposer Of Radical rule |
in Mississippi had full understanding |
Of the position they intend co occupy in |
reference to the question of constitution !
al amendments. There ought to be no
hollow truce. There ought TO be no ar
nlistice with prospect of a renewal of |
the quarrel and of elimination after the !
canvass is over. II a msjOrity of the !
party in the State are in favor Of reject |
ing the Observation-Disclosures pledge !
against re-opening the question settled
by the thirteenth, fourteenth and if
teenth amendments, the fact ought to
be declared in the resolutions OF the
State convention, so that nobody will 90
into the canvass blindfold. No honest
man wants to cheat, nor to be cheated.
Our own opinion is that the pledge sol
emnly made by the conservatives of the
country at Baltimore against reopen
ing questions which are as fixed as sny-
thing else that has become history can
be liked, ought to be inviOlabIy main
tanned, either by pretermitting them
from the platform as permanently set
tied, or by positive declaration to that
effect. 1t would be best to meet the is
sue fairly, and say that they are settled
go far as our party is concerned, provided
we mean it. If this is not meant the
truth should be spoken; and if major


ity Of those who call themselves cOnser-
vatives, or Democrats, are honestly in
favor of keeping up agitation on the
vr-h har h. IL 4
tied by the amendments, and Insist on
fighting the ''Dentn and "Greeleyn bat
ties over again, they ought not to be
hOeus-pOcussed out OF the right so to de-
clare. There are some things preferable
to dwelling together in perpetual strife.
From the Jackson CIarion.l


The Clarion may be sss weak" paper
We don't profess to have gifts beyond
those with which nature has endowed
us. II may be "a strange" paper; and it /
may have "disgusted thousands with its
conservative views,n but its conductors
are recompensed by the reflection that
they have the approval of their own
conscience, and By the knowledge that
if their counsel bad been follow
ed when the question Of the
political and civil rights of the
negro was first presented, the strife and
bitterness and humiliation and oppres-
siOns Of military law and taxation and
debt which have attended the rule of
carpetbaggers would have been
avoided. The negro never would
have placed himself under the
government of the adventures if q
majority of the southern whites had
nor attempted to defeat the plan Of con- |
gressional reconstruction and refused to |
become his guide and teacher in the en-
jOyment of the new privileges which |
the plan was designed to confer. This |
attitude Of guide for the negro in his |
new and untried responsibilities we
urged the white people of our State to |
assume. Our advice was rejected |
What has followed has become history. |
The Ledger says we will "never for |
give" the majority for discarding our
cOunsels. 1t is very much mistaken. |
We are too busy with the present to |
brood over the past. If those who over
ruled our advice and plunged the State
into worse evils than those we are trying
to avert, can "forgiver themselves, we
will be satisfied.