The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-03-06


In one case, as high as fifty dollars Be Be
,as demanded of the wife of colorea
older for license, under threat OF I'M S.
,risonmeut She was harmless, lndus- al
ions woman. and we'll cared for by her 81 81
,nsband. That large sums have thus =
,..sn axtorted, is reasonable to suppose. b
70 urocure payment of such unreason-
.bIe demands, it is frequently represeh- r
ted that the Yankees and agents OF the \
Bureau had authorized the'r a
assessment, and they feign sympathy TOT
the ''poor negroes who are shanle'"' t
imposed on" t
In most cases poor negro would
nav fifteen or twenty dollars or even '
more rather than travel fifty or 1t may
he one hundred miles TO consult some
AGENT of the Government and write OF
read he cannot. Should he make com
n1aint. or expose any wrong on the part
IF z his employer, heis liable to be DIS
charged with loss of wages, beaten OF
Killed. He must silently submit to an
grievances. Patient sutferance Is the
badge of all their tribe
lii provided also, in this Nagran55
Act, that every freedman, free negro ana
mnIatto, between the ages OF eighteen
and sixty years, shall pay an annual
noIl-tax Of one dollar each, to constitute |
! q Freedmen's Pauper Fund. The ag-
c,raoate amount of this tax must be very
treat. The number of negroes IN TINS
State in 1860, was 437,454 whites
353,90l. 1t is probable that there are
not less than 100000 subjects OF this
special tax. 1t will soon be collected
unless prohibited by the military or Gen
eral Government.
Resides all these special taxes upon
coIored people there is no burden OF tax
alton which they do not equally bear
with white citizens.
Bv revenue ordinances, city OF Jack
son, approved January II, 1866 each
! male iinhabitant, white or black, over
eighteen wears of age and under fifty Is
, required to pay an annual poll-tax OF
/ FIVE dollars. This is a special hit at the
= NEGRO. who can scarcely be reached by
= any other method of taxation than on poli
# or occupation. The same ordinance tax
n es BARRIERS (who are colored) twenty-five
4 dollars annually, and the State taxes
h fbar twenty-five more, while the broker
II novs hut one hundred and the hotel
d I,eepar only fifty Nearly all the cartlns
= and drawing is done by negroes witt
e ricI,ety old vehicles, drawn by poor old
1r broken- down horses and mules, betweel
" whose Aeshless bones the wind can al
1r most whistle yankee Doodle as an &C
ID commandment to the creaking of the cart
t. wheels. On this miserable outfit he pays
~ in this city, tax of fifteen dollars yeaI
st or two and half per month for less pe
eft. riod, while the livery stable keeper (e'
ervwhere a white man. with his two
ny three score Of horses and costly equlp'
ed oes, pays only one hundred dollars.
to Weighed down by all these disa61I
ci- ties and burdens, the negro, were he les
fly hopeful, might despair.
is If all this injustice is done to treedmt
to at this present time, when every effort
by being made by Southern men to whit
st wash their disloyalty and mask the
ur- real sentiments; done, too, in the pre-
ons ence of the United States military al
i've officers of the Freedmen's Bureau; do
mt in the green tree, what might we not e
ors meet in the dry, when there Is no Bure
Ugh TO afford protection, but State mill
lch for oppression II.
ice, In Jones county, in this State, I'm
om- organization was maintained during
-er tbe long wears of terrible treason a
tale desolating war. The stars and strip
The though not always unfurled to the $
had breeZes of the South, in these trouble
heir times that strled mems souls" yet W,
no Ii l,n 6TSt
ear under foot in Jones county. 1t wa
law little republic-the San Marino of N
sissippi- -christened by its founders
law Free State of Jones" 1t was
OBJ .swheel within a Wheel" or secession
e. ceding. 1t was the grand rendezv
ome, for Union men and loyal conscripts fl
yet the confederate army. Here they
egal themselves in the woods, and in the ca
d to brakes and thickets, and bivouac
and under the leafy trees, till, from II
any sylvan lives, they We're named "moS
dus- backs" Its soil was crimsoned with
ire blood shed in many a desperate recoul
} en- Of rebels against rebels, fighting to
lear down rebellion within a rebellion. Fl
ime; Iy there comes the great day of un'
ele- ditional surrender. Afterward a Cor
: his tutional Convention assemblies at the
reed ital, and ''mossy- back" delegate co
ions, up to represent the "Free State ofJon
gible Later, the Legislature convenes,
It of the gallant little State whose Spa
u TO band defed the power of the Contede
s ex- States, must perish by the hand OF ,
lt-at legislators. Invincible in the field,
hut, TO be vanquished in the Cabinet. j
ex- County, by being loyal, had disgr;
nths, the State, dishonored the Conteder
committed the objectionable SIM an
been very name must be blotted out.
daily there be no memorial of loyalty in
pro- sissippi; obliterate its every trace.
writ Legislature triumphed. The Repl
IS APP folded her mantle upon her pure br
some unsullied by treason, and was Stable
0 job the assassins of liberty in the
fined, House at Jackson The name of j
s. County was changed to Davis Cot
ng and Eilisville, the name of the co
seat of Jones County, was change
Leesba. Yet Lee and Davis, tire
city and tr.,itor, live-but let Jones ano
the lisville, loyalty and liberty, die
Ining The most loved and honored men
nulat- of Southern society, are the men VIII
DIX IN and suffered most to destroylthe 90
ment; while the most hated and desl
CIV are the men who ala ana sunered III
dding tbeir efforts TO preserve it.
A militia company, recently organ
at Crystal Springs, has printed &C
'or. tuition and bylaws, prescribing CO
crate gray as the uniform, and a
.dmen ting to membership only men who
to the served in the Confederate army, or c
ana wise actively supported the rebellio
dollar l am informed by good authority
several companies were organized IL
express purpose of "hunting negroe
90 Yankees" In some instances thi
ture has been made so prominent
y an certain citizens (through policy, n
or1k or triotism) solicited the Governor II
city, issue commissions u oineeAS e'e'''
ubject .-esT ~rws-