The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-02-09
The New Plan.

have, In connection with the Presiden
concocted new plan Of reconstrut
ton, is assuming somewhat auther
tic and definite shape. The bill whic
the Legislatures of the South are eS
pected to pass, hos been telegraphe
to the leading northern prints, an
which summed up amounts to abou
this
No State has right to secede, no
has the Federal Government the RICH
to reject State, or deprive it of rep
resentation in Congress; the Fedora
war debt to be paid, but the Confeder
ate never co be recognized by the gov
eminent or States, all persons born
or naturalized in the United States ant
subject to its Jurisdiction, shall be cit
liens, and shall have the rights anC
immunities of the same in all tn,
States, representation must be baset
on numbers; but when State ex
cludes any of its population on accoun
of race or color from voting, ther
those excluded shall net. not lbts be ,Giounftaf
article proposed to be incorporated as
part of the State Constitution declares
every male citizen in the State year,
and six months in the county immedi-
ately preceding an election, and who
can read the Declaration Of Indepen-
dence and the United States Consti-
tuition in the English language, and is
the owner of two hundred and fifty
dollars worth of taxable property,
shall be entitled to vote, and no per
son who has heretofore voted shall be
excluded from voting.
Another feature of the scheme is to
submit to the Southern Legislatures
the proposition to disfranchise only
the prominent men engaged in the re.
bellion from holding any Office under
the Federal Government, the disability
to be removed only by vote of two
thirds of each house of Congress-
They claim that this will be more ac-
ceptable to the South than the third
section of the pending constitutional
amendment, which, in addition, dis
franchises such persons from holding
any State office. If it is found that
that this, coupled with qualified SUIT
frage, can pass the Southern Legisla-
lures, the plan will be submitted to the
10th Congress on the day of its organ
ization. In addition to the prominent
Southern men who engaged in this
movement, Howell Cobb has been tel
egraphed for and is now on his way to
Washington.
Anxious to see our section pushed
forward on the high road of prosper
ity, and knowing that it cannot be
depa ssasii a'v 4atienaa 5iffeuenca5se
every report touching the efforts of
those whose time has been spent, du-
ring the past year, in a succession of
to, Washington, and are
now free to say, after carefully consid-
ering the new scheme as its chief fea-
lures are reflected through kilograms,
The project will not amount to much.
We would be glad to see our people c
adopt any plan for the pacifcation Of
he country, consistent with honor to
and duty to their section t
We want the political horizon bright !
med, but not at the expense of our d
'wn degradation; we want the indus. :,
rial interests of our section inspired Al
nth new life, but cannot submit to hui A
niliation in order to secure it. Aside al
rom the negro question, the PROPOSE y i
ion to brand our leaders with the W
lark of infamy, by excluding them ~ y,
rom office, unless Congress smiles pr
pom them with the summer of its pity, VI VI
lust tumble the new platform to the th
round. Let our people be calm and IN
onsiderate,and if the new plan of adj
lstment is found sufficient, after care HT
Il scrutiny, for the Southern people to H
and upon, adopt it. Otherwise, to ~
uote the language of Prentice, let us
.ithfully abide by the Constitution, g
I'd within two years the Northern co
eople themselves will recognize us as
Iuals with the States of the North, fol
r our rescue will be included in their MI
WI preservation; but let us once ere
nit the Constitution, and go to traf- an
king with the revolutionists in pow J
, and neither the South nor any other mi mi
ction of the country will ever regain
c shelter of constitutional liberty in ma,
c present generation at least. The the
'uth is now the main hope of the of
spublic. This is undoubtedly strange, to
It it is true. The South, dismantled i
she is, stands to-day the breakwater Bro
the very Constitution whose pro- Gri
,tion is denied to her. If she fails, !
> mad waves of revolution will pour Cor
er, ingulfng, it may be forever, the Ret Ct
critics of us all. The South is the the
pc Of the nation but she in the same SGt;
Use is also her own hope. The N
lntry is one, and its fate cannot be n o1s
ided. The South by her weakness pon
lid bring down upon the North the Tn n
ne vengeance that Sampson by his Tip
sngth brought down upon the Philis- ~ N
IS, but, like Sampson, she at the from
he time would share the fate Of the N
'ressor. We pray that her weak rate
5 may not prevail Let her be NJ
'ng,-strong to salvation. If she conc