The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1867-05-11
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The Supreme Court decided tfsi mita
tr PET fpefe penalties, aud anconsti
iuii0nal, yet tongfess applied them
n voters as veil as ofiiocfs The su
rfeme Coafl decided Military Com.
missions unconstitutional Ia lIme II
/ pcaee, md then Congress ordered
them 10 exist all over the smth
What arm will W. mlscd "a enforce
feapeel 10 The Judicial authofity7
The old men who asa upon the bench
oi The Supreme Court ara aa imto
tent 10 do more than sil IN silence, as
were The Iloman Senators In their
chamber when the oonqucring barla.
rims entered the old worlds capital.
That which our enemies wish 4
that we should not vote. ~ they
alone vote, as Is ihe case In Tenncs.
see aud Missouri, they will make
constitution which will exclude nine
" nine ont of every hundred white
men In the State, aud full Of cunning
devices TO enable them 10 keep out
The young men Of Southern attach.
ments not yet Of age. Such consti-
tuition will be gladly accepted by
Congress, aud lis authority enforced.
Under il, all the real estate of the
country will be taxed out of present
hands, and suits be entertained in lis
courts, of which we can now only
have a faint idea, which will utterly
ruin and drive away all the present
proprietors of lands in the South.
Is this time to stand on mere
color, or the forms of the Constitu-
ton Of the United States? Those
who claim to be the Union, the
; United States, have lived for over six
years in constant violation of the re-
quirements of its constitution, and
we have no reason TO expect that they
will conform to it now. 1t was all
along known that this instrument
was repugnant to the acts of their
government, but neither court nor
citizen dared TO obstruct its action.
As il was before, it will be now.
Perhaps, you say, it We do vote,
and do reconstruct on their present
terms, they may refuse us admission,
and try to increase our burthens. We
do not believe that this is at all like
ly to fellow, If we accept the terms
upon which they now promise to lei
/ us afterward enjoy unmolested the
right of making our municipal regu-
lations. The conservative Republi-
cans, with the Democrats, can prevent
further oppression, and are disposed
to do so, il we yield what is here de-
manded. Otherwise, they join the
ultra Radicals.
But if you refuse to vote you put
all the authority in the hands of the
strangers and renegades who have
made loyalty their trade and peddle
+ il out among the freedmen. They
will make a State Government if you
no not; and regrets at your non
action will then be all too late.
If the white man holds back and
declines to vote because he does not
like negro suffrage, he will never see
any other than that in this State for
a score Of years; for the few white
men who will be voters under such q
. constitution as such neglect will give
us, will be blacker in principle than
! their associates are In color.
, If you wish to see such govern
/ ment as this organized here, stay
away from the register and from the
, polls; you can hardly do more to
promote il if you vote for il directly.
Il was the hope Of your opponents
, that you would sullenly stand by and
see them seize the rcins Of power,
, without an effort on your part to
catch them. You will be told that
you were offered an opportunity to d.
|, , 50 and rejected il; that you have
i yourselves only to blame If you dc
! not. What answer can You make tc
, this? None but that your pride was
the cause Of your fall.
, We do not mean to say that the
a newly made voters, the negroes, are
4 as whole, inimical to your interests
But by your sullen refusal to TAX,
!. part with them in this reconstruction
!. Won tell them you will have none o.
: their aid, and turn them wholly ovel
2 to your enemies. This Is neither
: just to them nor to yourselves. The,
/ need your wisdom and experience &
Q guide them; they need your sympa.
thy to encourage their love for theil
9 native soil and Southern interests
!. they need association with YOU 10 b
!. kept out Of association with thos'
/ who desire to ruin the South that tn
{ North alone may prosper.
! Under ordinary circumstances yol
: might consult your sense Of the fit
: ness Of men TO vote with you, an.
), decline 10 vote with such as yol
: deemed 80 fl. But this Is a momen
: Of peril TO your wives, your children
o your sisters, and to those men VIII
r are disfranchiscd by Congress; an
i if you shrink from voting now, yo
commit their future-which the
4 cannot, but you might, control--t
4 those who desire to irample all thei
e feelings. aspirations, hopes. interests