The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-10
REPEAL OF STATE CONSTITUTIONS

They claimed and asserted ;urisdiction
over the entire body polItic. They have de-
siared total repeal of the present constitu-
y. .lon ana adopted another radically different
IA IA many vital particulars. Sections 4 2, 5,
| 81, 20, 70, 2I-parts OF section I9 and %
ana The conclusion of the Bill of Rights are
| entlrely omitted. These omissions are as
| follows: 'i = = = % =
SEC l That all freemen, when they form
social compact, are equal in rights; and
tnat no men, or set of men, are entitled to
exclusive, separate public emoluments or
privileges from the community but in con-
slderation of public services.
oEc. Z. That all political power is in
| herent In the people, aud all free govern
ments are founded on their authority and
established for their benefit, and therefore,
Ghey nave, at all times, an inalienable and
lndefeaslble right to alter or abolish their
form OF government in such manner as they
may think expedienu. rf s.l
SEC D. That no person shall be molested
a lor ms opinions on any subject whatever, nor
| suner any civil or political incapacity. or
acquire any civil or political advantage in
/ consequence of such opinions exeept in
cases provided for in this constitution
Sec ~. No conviction for any offence
shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture
OF estate the Legislature shall pass no bill
| of attainder
Sec. 81. That the estates of suicides shall
| descend or vest as in cases Of natural death:
and II any person shall be killed by cas-
| ualIty, there shall be no forfeiture by reason
thereof.
Sec. "a. No standing army shall be kept
| up without the consent of the Legislature
Sec. %. That no soldier shall, in time of
peace, be quartered in any house. without
the consent of the owner, or in time of war
but In the manner to be prescribed by law
! Sec. 26. That no hereditary emoluments
| privileges or honors shall ever be granted or
conferred in this State.
| Sec. 81. Emigration from this State shall
not be prohibited, nor shall any free white
citizen of this State ever be exiled under
any pretence whatever.
| Tie rejection of all these important pro-
visions of our present bill of rights, neces-
sarily gives the Legislature supreme control
over all these topics, and would empower
the Legislature to declare tie reverse of all
these inestimable liberties; and as a large
| number of oul most useful and valuable
citizens are disfranchised and deprived of
| bolding Office by the proposed Constitution,
we ale at liberty to suppose premedltated
design of the Convention to persecute and
| punish this class of persons to any degree
| that malice may invent. The Legislature
| Is also given unrestricted power over the
organization of the militia, and are required
at their first session to make it Immediately
Il
! vene soon after the election to be held on
| the ED of June, next. There is no limit
placed on the terms of it's session, or the
compensation of its members. The terms of
all county, township and precinct offices are
made to expire in thirty days after the Con-
stitution shall be ratified. All these offices
are to be filled by the Governor, and are to
continue i'll Office until the Legislature shall
provide by law for an election of the same
but no time is limited within which tie
Legislature shall perform this duty. The
Radicals, through the Instrumentality of the
oath bound freedmen now sworn into their
Loyal Leagues, claim twenty thousand
majority in the State. They are perfectly
confident of success they expect to WELD
all the despOtic powers of the proposed
Constitution for their own emolument, and
the oppression of the people.
LEGISLATIVE DESPoTISM.
In the event the proposed Constitution is
adopted, we may therefore expect perpet-
ual session of the Legislature, with an enor-
nous per diem; subsidized press, which is
provided for in the same Constitution. to
be located in each judicial District,
under Legislative patronage; standing
army of negro soldiers, with pay dd Hbitunt;
a Legislative consent for the federal govern
ment to keep standing army here also a
continuation of all the county, township
and precinct officers during the will of the
Legislature, and subject to its orders a
school system that will compel the white
people by taxation, to educate all the ne
groes III the State system OF public works
with a large number of salaried
officers without any occupation what
ever; forced social, civil and political
equality between the black and white races;
negro officers, spies and detectives, in all
the dep 2rtrents of the govornment-the
oath bound Loyal League established by
law and protected by military force-a sys-
tenn of taxation unparalleled and beyond all
endurance. A brave, virtuous and enlight-
ened people reduced to penury and political
degradation. or compelled to raise the
standard of rebellion and slay the oppressor
throughout the limits of the State.
Such are some of the leading designs that
crop out from the Bill of Rights, and its
connections with the Legislative and Exc
cutive Departments
TEST OATH-WHITES DISFRANCHISED.
The test oath for electors, in addition to
the ordinary form, requires the voter to swear
that he is not disfranchised in any of the
provisions of the acts known as the recon
struction acts of the 39th and 40th Congress,
and that he ''ad,nits the political and cirt
eqatitY of all men so help me God" @
Any intelligent man knows that all men
are not civi, aud d litical equals-the Atri-
can race has never been admitted to a civil
and political equality with any other race
the barbarian races are not the equal of the
civilized races-men convicted of high
crimes and incarcerated in prison are civilly
dead, and not the equals of freemen-the
Indian race are not the equals of the white
race Besides, large majority of
persons never saw the acts OF
| the seth and 40th Congress-they do not
know what those acts contain. The dis
qualifications of the whites in those acts
were temporary, applying only to the cleo
| tiop tLen to be held for delegates TO said
| Convention, and the approaching election,
| and not intended as a permanent dlsfran-
chisement after the adoption of the amend
| ed Constitution. Yet the Convention
| lead the public to believe that these dis-
qualifications are permanent, and make
| them SO by the proposed Constitution, with
/ out any authority from Congress for that
purpose.
This oath is unnecessary, absurd and
wicked to the last degree. 1t is evidently
[ intended to confuse and defraud consclen-
tious minds, and to exclude majority OF
| white men from the polls, while the negroes,
nnder the supervision of the Loyal Leagues
| and the Convention Election Committees,
4 can be made TO swallow it all IN the bind