The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-06
THE PROPOSED NIONGREL
CONS rATUTHON.
ITS FALSE PREAMBLE.


is in these words:
To the end that Justice be establish
ed, public order maintained, and liber-
ty perpetuated, We, the people of the
State of Mississippi, grateful to AL
mig hty God for the free exercise of
the right to choose our own form Of
Government, do Ordain this Const;-
tattton. gi I lau37 hsGsaTi aa-E ati
Establish justicer' How2 By
taking from large class of the prom
inent citizens of the country, whose
property is subject to taxation, whose
liberty and whose lives are at stake,
the right of voting and of holding
office, and thus reducing them, so far
as their polical status is concerned, to
the condition of dumb brutes.
"Public order maintained !" How :?
By passing bill of pains and penal
ties, in form of pretended Constitu
ton, against the white population. 1t
will not be questioned that this entire
class of the community with the ex
ception of the chosen few who are to
be benefited by the government mo-
nopoly) will be more or less affected
by the proposed legislation. To as
sumo that a system so cruel and in
iquitous will promote ''public ORDER"
is to assert an absurdity so monstrous
as to shock credulity.
'Public order maintained r' How :?
By placing the intelligent and quail
fed superior race, who have hereto
fore enjoyed the right to participate in
legislation, entirely under the control
Of the inferior and incapable race,
who were but recently their slaves
VIII such a scheme of government
maintain order" any more than ''es-
tablish justice ?" On the contrary,
reason, nature, the very instinct which
God has planted in the hearts of all
his intelligent creatures, revolt against
the system, and proclaim it to be an
| element of discord-a fire brand-an
invitation to resistance-an appeal to
revolution. In his official report of
November last, Gen. Grant, the Rad
ical candidate for the Presidency, said
that simply to secnre ''the freedmen in
the right of suffrage" would "rLquire
for sometime larger military force. !"
He knew that the Northern people had
refused to permit the negroes in their
States to vote. and he supposed, jndg-
ing from this exhibition of Anglo
Saxon opinion in that portion Of the
Union, that the sensibilities and intel
| ligence of the same race in the South
would be no less shocked by the en-
Reimbursement of thoir recent
slaves, and hence the opinion
which he expressed. But if the
simple enfranchisement of this class,
would render ''large military force
necessary, in the estimation of Gen.
Grant, to prevent a practical display
of popular Indignation by the whites,
what scenes of tumult may we not rea-
sonably expect when to the enfranchis-
ment of the blacks is added the disfran-
chisement Of large class of the
whites, embracing those who have
hitherto, and who It'll enjoy, the re
spect, and in many instances, the ven
Grafton Of their countrymen. If con
ferring suffrage on the blacks will re-
quire an increased standing army
what may not be anticipated when thu
control of the government is placed
almost exclusively in their hands?
Gen. Grant being the Judge, Thu
constitution, so far from maintaining
order, will sow the seeds of terrible
disorder. Born in falsehood and cor
ruption, it will bring forth progeny
of all the evils which are engendereC
by the passions of hate and revenge
6 Perpetuate liberty What /;
shocking mockery. "Perpetuate lib
erty," by divesting large class o
white people of the prerogatives o
freedmen; by subjecting this class t.
worse than Egyptian bondage; ant
by substituting the unbridled will o
mere brute. numbers for the safe
guards Of constitutional liberty.
And to magnify the crime of thes
monstrous faisifications, their author
make plasphemous professions O
thanksgiving to Almighty God,in 9Th
name of the people of Mississippi" TO
"the free exercise Of the right t,
choose their own form of govern
ment" Could wicked imposture q
further? .os.1
Here is a preamble which woul,
properly describe their devil work: