The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1865-08-10
Let 10th race. be represented

Rink from our longer acquaintance wit
his characEeFisIlcS, that We understan
the subject better and know better wis
is for hIs good. Isn't there slight pr,
judice against the egro In the State ths
our correspondent Rails from? BefoE
the war there was law upon the sfatut
books of Illinois absolutely forbidding
black man TO enter its borders. We hav
not heard of the repeal of that law, an
il must be admitted TO be pretty s:eep TO
State, one of whose sons comes wa
down here to lecture US on negro pr' Ju
dices. We have none of The prejudice
against the race which are SO remaI kabll
illustrated in the Illinois statute. W,
are willing. therefore. TO hear and to pub
IIsh anything that will truly benefi, ths
negro, and especially at this time, wher
we look upon him as an object of the pro
| foundeet consideration.
We would not undertake, under this
promise I" open our columns to phe in
cendisry poi-on of such fanatics a. HEN
ny WARD BEAcHER, CMAs. SUMNER, or
WRNDRLL PHILLIPS, for they are the en-
mics of the negro, and their love for
him is like the d, aih hug Of the Califor
mia besr. The negro is their pawn in the
game in politics, and they bSve played
oAb0 WIZ SOuNInuO WIN hAA4
remorseless seIfishness This is one of the
sides" that We will not hear in these
columns /; but anything that our CORES
pendent has to say that will raise the
negro in the scale of existence, anything
that will help him on the dreary pilgrim
age and unequal struggle upon ~hica
Abolitionism has rufblessly launched
MIN, we will near and print with un
teicneQ satiSf .c.ion
Our correspondent doubts that this
race is zy, improvident, and thriftless
1t seems 10 Us that he might rs we'll
doubt the color of their skins, the fl ltness
"f their feet, the thick ne.s of their lips.
and the proiuberancs of their cheeks
and shin bones. If he can show us any
spot OF earIh which this people has in
habited-save the slave States o the
South. Brazil and the West India Islands
in which be has flDurished and improved,
or even stood still on the plane of ex
l>tehce he might claim an arsunlent on
The question. But the lazy improvi
tence of the negro is p-ov. b and an AK
nm all over the 3rld-even in Illinois !: |
! why should he be singled out OF ail |
men and races to be exclu led from thai |
State? In his own country. the Airi |
csn is savage and q cannibal, and his |
i4sh the very currency which fila the
7.iGs of African commerce, and the capi |
ri that gives credit ''on change" in
London and Paris.
In the Tree North. ever siace his free
iom has been d-ciared-which was done
ha moment the humanity of that sec
ion had cold its slaves to the South and
the purchase mon+y-he hes
'een yearly dwindling in numbers, and
liz place will ere long be- vacant in the
and. Freedom and the necessity of self
upport, aided by climate. are killing the
ace. In Jnmaica and Hayti he has had
be best field Tor the display of his native
igor-perfect freedom, tnlI sway 10 ali
is native faculties, the richest soil and ?
ongeniAl climate. And what the result
.rad Cariyle's description of "Sambo"
r ~ -'AS al AZ Piss iI' tsEit1>, the spoes
'heous growth of the soil, and content =
d"ze away his life SO, without one :
troke of industrious and improving Ia /.
or. In Janaic4 lie has relapsed into a
lveetry, and that once garden spot of
~ tropics is Wild waste, where natur a
MS been prolific OF her f,u,s aud h+r
erdure, and the negro has done-l 9th :
g. Hayti is given over to bloody r.
lronIc wars, anarchy and brutality. !.
loerla ls q failure, despite the money. .
e fostering care, and the benevolent !,
lc'tude that have been iavished on the !,
',@rprise OF making a sel,-supportine.
oeP' ndent negro community. Follow 9
IN where you will over the earth. and n
sept where he has had the whites to nc
ide bis energy and to compel his lsbor D .
nas iailed to keep pace with the ne J
ssitles OF his nature. and has halted hu
'lnd!ed and died morally, intelleciuallv ps =.
d physically. The uniformity OF his m
''oiy IN this respect Is too perfect no, T
nave beep the result of law of his fo fo
Ing. God made him inferior to the
ucasslan, aud a miracle must he =, f
ought BY the negro-humanitariaps in B,
doing the work of Gpd, and cast1n, ms
over again in their own enthusiastic -. o.
'u.ds, before he can be otherwise. See vi.
" ne has h1nrished and expanded in No
south Tor fifty years past, and let who 20
hity vesTs hence make the cont, ast pre-
ais morai amt physical statistics. W.. "0'
a That the decree of bis freedom here sfo
ne nAt OF his eventual extinction. and As
lengtn OF hma ut Its accomD. .ish ant nc nc
ne measured accurately 10y the d-yr.. cu.
hnu-nce which fauAticism shall exarf &c
MS iuiure career. We hope judge b, Z
Sc may i've TO measure and dandia On -ar,
-NS'O dF0tHCFdcy or GWenty-9Ve ~,
rs hence. Nothing can save the pc "A
from his fate but laws 10 .esist bis pera
arai tendency to induleuca. and TO r;io, ,Sao
&c MN to work for his own existence to !
ut our correspondent states a fac, A
% ne seems to think is conclusive on o. q = ,
queslionS, ana that Is, that at the Kind
arr post of Meridian. the Govern /,
& Is feeding much larger number Of -"D D,
whites than OF poor blacks All we -
say to this is, that bafore the Govern. 81
commissarirs we're brought out here Ams
opened for this business, neither
es Cor blacks needed any such men Sy
nt ass stance. White men are m,ita r.,
@ De poor and in need whose labor
M has BEEN rudely broken up. their SIR
houses burnt, their agricultural i'm
ents destroyed, and the smoke O.
es and corn cribs emptied Il re-
$ the time OF at least one crop season ST.
cover from suca staggering blows 10 Au
means OF livelihood as these. W.