The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-09
AMALGAMATloN OF RACES.

proposed as a permanent organization of
government, and lrrepealable at least for
twenty y-seven years, if adopted.
- AMALGAMATloN OF RACES.
q We have thus seem thatsthe late slaYesaof
the State are to be exalted to all the offices,
|, honors and 5emOfHments, and hold in their
power all the appointments and patronage
| the State. 4 They are also by express pro
vision, thrust into all, the public convey
anees and places of entertainment. and thus
socially, as weif as cfviIly and politically,
elevated above the educated, refined, chris7
| tian, and heretofore governing class: L i
The school lands and educational funds
| are all appropriated to this same system OF
forcibly uniting and mingling the negroes
among the whites i'm all thelpubiic) and prifi
yate affairs of life from the cradlepto the
| TO complete this BIZ of denominations, it
| contains no prob ibitfor against 'intefmar-
| riage between the black and white races
| This, suppose. is)intendedA as a charitable
| eondeseensiqn and privilege extended to the
inferior and degraded white race to enable
them in the course of coming generations to
| appreacli the Consention standard of negro
isnperiorityand supremacy. Was there ever
| a more disgusting and criminal compound OF
amalgamatien, miscegenation' "a and d taxa taxa
tion? 1l4- - q
INCREASE OF sALARIED OFFICERS.
/ I1oIehll I -3sKAN ,ft3l3 ~ J4AJ 10 s@H4DeS@
| aqA Board. of Public Works with salaried
7 officers at the will of the Legislature. a
Lieutenant Governor, Commissioner of
Emigration, a Superintendent of Public
1 Education, with swarm of new and here
| tofore unknown officers, detectives and spies
to be appointed at the will of the Legislature
are also provided for in this amazing paper,
! prolific as il is with Ingenious devices to rob
/ the best people of the State of all that lis
hi alrrot IN
JUDICIARY APPOINTED. aoi5om
Tn the Judicial Department, the elective
system is abolished, and the Judges of the
| Supreme Court are appointed by the Gov
| ernor for nine gears and the Circuit Judges
/ for six years. qf t.>.
{ The Boards of Police are abolished and
replaced by a new system of supervisors; 90
The Probate Courts are abolished and that
I jurisdiction conferred on q separate Chan
| cery Court which is also established-a
| grevious outrage on the rights of widows
| and orphans, whose expenses Will be enor-
mously increased and their business there
| by delayed ad ingenitam. '-
J. Ne property qualification is required for
jurors in any case, thereby permitting land
! cases to be adjudicated by negro paupers to
| the injury of the landowners.
NO nFDUCAT ONAL QUALIFICATION
i-t FOR NEGROES FOR 27 YEARS.
H.. Although an enormous fund is to be raised
| out of the property of the white race to
| force the education of the negroes in the
same schools with the whites, no education
al qualification is required for rOters or jurors
aud by the wholesale disfranchisenlent of
| the whites the liberties of the people will
be in the hands of the ignorant negroes who
are sworn in the Loyal Leagues tn be the
political slaves of their Radical masters.
TfTTfI
| amendment of the same can be made re-
quiring an educational qualification, or even
an intelligent understanding for voters, un-
| til the year eighteen hundred and eighty
|. five. The barbarous motive here displayed
is palpable The registered negro vote is in
the majority. They are ignorant, and likely
| to remain SO in despite of the unsought hon
ors aud emoluments thrust upon them
They have no capacity whatever for govern
ment, and these Loyal League manipulatOrs
| and kidnappers will necessarily be the chief
| recipients of the honors and emOluments OF
| the State for period oftwenty-seven of years
| in other words a life estate for the Conven-
| tiOn carpet-baggers. 70 For this horrible
period we shall have the unbridled reign of
| ignorance over Acknowledgements over virtue,
| and crime over innocence. le s3qod #aaF7e
BARBAROfTss PENAL CODE-EX POST
= FACTO LAW. i1
| In short1the felonious designs of Ben.
Butler &zJCo., entrusted for execution to the
s'drop-shot-gang" of the late federal amy,
whose special duty it was to udespoil the
| Southern States to the last point of human
I endurance, crops out in bold relief from all
| parts of this, the most ingenious, audaeious
and barbarOus contrivance ever devised as a
| form of government for a civilized people.
| 1t is falsely and fraudulently denominated
"a form of civil government. 1t is simply
4 tba chrlo
| of the white race of Mississippi, because
/ they had the manly courage to assert their
| constitutional rights against the corrupt
usurpations of the Radical party in Con-
/ gress, and when driven to the wall ito MAIN
tain the principles of tie Constitution of
1 United States by force of arms. 1t is GRIM
1 inal legislation after the fact creating po-
Htical offences. and providing punishments
/ therefor never before known, and is in di-
/ rect violation of that clause of the Constitu-
tion of the United. States, which prohibits
| er post fdcto laws.
COST Of CovENTIoNZT NZTAxATToN.
The Convention was guilty of the most
unblushing and corrupt extravaganee alike
j in the per diem of its members-its appro-
i priations to political presses established at
the expense OF the people for its own uses
4 it's allowance of extortionate printing bills
i at the rate of S2S,000 for Job worth only
/
from period of three days, all sufficient for
| its legitimate purposes, to one hundred and
thirty-three days, and by all these corrupt
devices taxing the already over burdened
and exhausted people to the estimated
/ amount of quarter of a million of dollars,
to be immediately collected, and if not paid
! to he enforced by the military power of the
United States now present among us o 3
I LoYALsLEAGUE CONVENTION.
-
Last though not least in the black cata-
4 logue of its infamous devices is the evident
adaptation of all the governmental powers
and official patronage of the proposed gov,
ernment to the political aseendency of the
! Loyal Leagues, composed as they are chiefly
of negroes sworn under the pains and penal
i ties of perjury, as we are reliably Informed
| to support their brethren of the Convention
in all their measures. Having disfranchised
large portion of the white vote by requir
ing an oath which few men can take. and
enfranchised the negroes who are in the ma
iority of registered voters. and sworn them
to vote the Radical ticket, the seizure OF ths
political power and revenues of the State
b and the adoption of such legislation as vii
perpetuate their negro despctisins, is, tt