The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1866-09-13
The Radical Convention at rhilaSei-
49, phia.

or an the miserable shams and
cheats on popular representation, that
have taken pace during thc existence
1 Of The Government, She assclnblage ct
pretended Southern loyalisls at lllIla
dclphia, tal,ca The precedence Iho
notorious Jacl, Hamilton Of Texas
| the diabolical wretch, Brownlow' and
Fred. Douglass, an impndent self con
Connected negro, have been among the
most prominent Of the actors in this
dlsgrhccful drama
The Southern rcncgade3 WHO took
part In the Convention representing
nobody bat themselves, with no char
nctcr or influence at home, pretend TO
bc more loyal than Northern loyalists,
more radical than even Tbad. stevens
and Wendell Philips, They arc filed
with maleyoloncc aud hatred towards
the people among whom they live,
whose hospitality they have betrayed,
aud whose just resentment they have
provoked, and desire, If possible, to
bring on another war to gloat over
scenes Of robbery, burning and muir.
der
They claim, and the prctensc Is sus.
tanned by their Jacobin allies Of The
North, that, the only loyal people o
the South are themselves and The
negroes, that the great mass d
(. the Southern whites are "rcbcls
who are waiting an opportn
nifty TO renew the war, and wherever
they have the power ty?anizo Owe
white aud colorcd Unionists Blu
these mean Southern whites, whilC
they claim that all the negroes are loya
ana should have equal rights witt
themselves, have strangely neglected
10 give their colorcd brethren a fai
share in the representation ofthc con
ycntion. But few negroes were dele
gates, and al these from the NVrtherl
States While bowling over the griey
Gus wrongs Of four millions Of loyo
blacks In the South, who arc dcnic,
representation and suffrage, they re
fused to send one to their sjU,oa PR
loyal conventions If the freedmen
here are fitted for the rights Of citizen
ship, and the high prcrogatiye of free
dom-thc ballot--why not convinc,
the nation of il, by having ut least one
half the Southern delegates Of th'
African raee2 Was it because, lik,
Falstalr. they Wouldn't 'march theil
recruits through Coventry or be
cause the negroes were two sensible tt
sit in convention Of such miserable
poor white trasll2 From what W,
have seen OF their proceedings, il wa
wretchcd failure, and will have ne
effect on the county but to increase
the contempt and detestation wild
; which all respectable people must re
card Brownlow, Hamilton, and thei
co laborers, We publish some extract
, from the speeches of these wrctches
which show the doyilish spirit by whicl
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they are animated.
They are ripe for revolution, an,
with ocruelty greater than Robcspierr
would renew the horrors of the Fronc
revolution, The fact that such mis-
crcants are allowed to breathe III
Southern air, gives the lie to thei
! statements, that Union men are no
safe.
The Northern people will be dis
gusted at the exhibition of malice an
4 barefaoed lying this by "niggcr' con
4 vcntion of mean whites, and the ciIeC
. of IL will be TO increase the ranks O
the conservative party and insure tn
= triumph of the wise aud constitutions
r policy of the President.