Clarion-Ledger clipping

Jefferson County.

Merriman Howard's wing of the Radical party has thrown overboard every Carpet-bagger except the poor ? Kearns who came to their support and who saved himself from expulsion from office, as the public have seen, by pleading that it is all that saves him from the poor-house. As it is the fate of the public to support him, why not send him to the care of the editor of the ? the mad-house?

Howard, who is the leader of the Anti-carpet-bagger crusaders, is a colored man - an old resident, who in times past testified his good will for the Southern whites by adhering to them during the war; and who, by his industry and enterprise, had previously succeeded in amassing sufficient means to purchase his freedom from his former owner, ? George Torry, towards whom he has always manifested the highest respect, will doubtless receive the sympathy and support of the Conservatives of the county in his contest with the clan ? which he has taken up his cudgel. Whenever the colored people show a willingness to throw off the rule of the carpet-baggers, who, with their unscrupulous renegade allies, are the enemies of both races, they deserve to be encouraged and sustained by the whites.