The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-05-05

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long lost harbor of the Constitution
where we can anchor in safety, despite
: all the storms which demagogues and
fanatics can ever conjure up.
|. II is dcmonstrable that, II the rule
had been strictly observed in every
, department Of the Government, ofcon'
cutting the Constitution to learn what
7 powers were delegated, instead OF what
. were ressreed to the States--(as all are
, reserved, which are not expressly defe-
goted,) and IL only such as are thus
delegated had been exercised by the
Federal Government, we should to-
day be living under Government adj
ministered with as much purity as It
was when presided over by the Father
of his country, In that case we should
have escaped the horrors Of the terri
BILE civil war which has desolated the
Z fairest portion of our land, and the
complex systems Of Government,
Federal and State, would be working
as tremendously in their respected
spheres as when first inaugurated. l3
i 1t is just as demonstrable that, the
same causes operating, and the same
rule Of construction applied, viz; the
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exercise Of doubtful powers, or powers
not expressly delegated by the Federal
Government, it was only question Of
time when conflict would arise,
even if slavery had never existed. 1t
could arise on other questions, as well
as slavery. That happened to be a
subject about which the popular mind
was most sensitive. and could be most
easily infamed, and, therefore, it
became the subject, Or the occasion,
not the cause, of the war. just as
when disease is about to invade the
body, the organ which happens to be
the weakest, or the most susceptible,
is sure to be the one attacked. l
The moral to be deduced from our
political history is this: now that the
root of bitterness Slavery has been
forever eradicated, and all pretext for
agitating that exciting topic has been
removed by enfranchising the black
man, and placing his political and L.
gal rights on footing with those of
the white man, and now thatthe South
stands pledged to abide the award of
arms, there is no. reason why, humanity
speaking, the Union should not be per-
petual To be SO, however, the Gov
eminent, in every department, must
return to the landmarks of the Consti-
tuition. -
Let us of the South make the
most and the best of the situation.-for
our country, ourselves and our poster
ity. As anew element in our midst
has been Incorporated into the body
polite, and elevated to equal political
rights with their former owners, it is
as much matter Of enlightened poll
cy as it is of duty, to protect them in
whatever rights are secured to them
by law, and to afford them all the aid
we can in qualifying themselves for
the new and responsible duties which
have been imposed upon them. For
veal, or for woe, the two races are
identified, in interest and in destiny,
at the South. Here they are both to
live, drawing their protection from the
same laws, and their subsistence from
the same soil. They must be friends
or enemies. This identity of interest,
this mutual dependence, by all the {
laws of common prudence, should
make them friends. Let not the enc t
my of both come in to SOW the seeds
Of dissension between them. To pre- 8
vent that, if it be not already too late, !
ne should approach the freedmen, and .
offer them our counsel and our friend
ship. Naturally, they will stand aloof 7
from us. The change Of relation is
loo sudden for them to feel free to APP 9
proach us.
Whilst we stand of, our State will a
swarm with puritanical missionaries t
who will poison their benighted minds t
With false, but plausible stories. If t
iuch influences are not counteracted, l.
he child is born--yea, has reached h
mans estate, who will live to witness b
! war of races in the South which will i
,nly end with the extinction of the o
me or the other. To avert such a /,
errible calamity it should be the e
'raycr and the earnest effort of every
'atriot and philanthropist. $ ),
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