The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-17
STANDING ARMY SCHEME.

This is stupendouS project IN
der the title of militia" they require
"all abe bodied male citizens between
the ages of 1S and A. to be enrolled
for service; and it is declared that the
Legislature shall provide for ''organ-
ling, arming and coupling this force.
It's number may be fairly estimated at
The cost of providing each
man with gun and other necessary
warlike parapharnalia, can not be less
than $40 each, which in the aggregate
would foot up the sum OF hreehundred
and forty thousand dollars. This is for
a single item But it is also required
that the Legislature shall makeit "ef-
fective;' and shall provide for sspay
ing the same 1.-THE troops) when in
actual service" The Radical Govern
or will have power to call them Unto
service" when he may deem it war
ranted by the public exigency. When
it is considered that upwards of nine
thousand officers to be appointed by
the Governor all ''loyal'' black or
white) will be required for this force,
an estimate approximating the cost
may be made. How often, how long,
or in what numbers, it will be called
and kept into active service, is left to
conjecture. Under the most moderate
calculation, 1T will impose an annual
tax of A MILLION OF DOLLARS
upon the people, besides Withdrawing
them from their peaceful vocations,
and industrial pursuits. a....s
1t is plainly to be seen, that it is
contemplated by the Mongrel Oil
garchs, to establish this military sys-
tenn upon a grand and expensive scale,
to plumber, and tyranize over the OPP
pressed people. Under pretext of
"loyalty," the g effective" force will
be composed, sschiefy, of negroes
Everybody knows what the prerequi-
sites Of loyalty and fidelity" are, as
defined in the Radical vocabulary.
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM.
This is to be Seminary for the pro-
pogation of the pernicious heresy of
amalgamation in the youthful mind of
the rising and coming. generations
That this is the object of the trainers
VI VHio pIONlSlOI, 10 deCOoGOu Ny eHC
fact that they positively, pointedly
and repeatedly refused to recognize
the natural distinctions of the races
Mr.. Stovall, Radical member, offer
ed an amendment, providing that g Sc
parate schools should be established
for the two races" but not discrimina-
ting against either, for the benefit OF
the other; and it was rejected by the
negro and ultra radical delegates.
Under the Constitution, every man
white and black, is required to support
this mixed scheme of miscegenation
whether he has children or not, OF
whether he sends his children to the
amalgamation schools or not. This is
an unequal distribution of taxation fol
the support of a system which is con
trary TO the civilization of the country
North and South-revolting to oul
white population-unsatisfactory to
intelligent and reasoning freedmen
who do not desire any such informing
ling of races and necessarily produc.
tive of disorder, confusion, and dis
cord, whenever it is attempted to be
put in practice.
The cost of this scheme, in actual
money, will be fearful to contemplate
in the present financial distress of the
people The interest on the bonds set
apart for defraying the expenses, will
not pay the salary of the State Super
intendent and his army of Assistant
superintendent, scattered throughout
the counties of the State
OF these, there will be sixty -one, land
the combined salaries cannot be less
than. fifty thousand dollars a year.
The whole expense required to put
the scheme into operation, and keep
it going, will be immense. But the
money lost in the experiment, great as
it is, will be nothing compared to the
disorder, anarchy and discord, (not
to say bloodshed) which must neces.
sarily result from the attempted impo.
sition of this abomination upon the
people.
PUBLIC WORKS
What is proposed to be done by the
article requiring the Legislature go
ITS first annual session" to organize s
Board of Public Works, is not stated
1t is only known to be another grant
scheme for quartering greedy adven
turers upon the public crib Whether
it is designed to establish "governmen
plantations, to labor upon, which
freedmen who will have voted away
their liberties to the carpet bag rulers
may to be conscripted; or to built
railroads, Or levies-is left to conjec
ture The power is general; and tn
rulers who will have been installed 1
this mongrel constitution should b,
ratified, will adapt whatever schem
their fertile ingenuity may suggest 70
the plumber and oppression of tn
masses.
OTHER PROJECTS.
To these are added other N ino
schemes, but all part of genera
| system, hitherto unknown in I'll
State, involving heavy expense. Sec
ton % of article II, makes it the dut'