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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-11-21
SOUTH AMERICA.
THE PARAGUAYAN WAR
Description of Lopez's Position
at Villeta.
Tho Engagements Of September 60
and October /.

mo steamer Mississippi Captain slocpm, from
Rio Janeiro October 70, via st. Thomas Novem-
Der IL arrived ~ this port yesterday. :
Minister Charles A. washburn arrived ct St.
Shoras aboard the United States steamer Shamokin,
Commander Braine, ana VIII leave November rs for
Phlladelphia VIA Havana. sl sew
Among the passengers by the steamer Mississippi
re the following officers Of the United statos Navy:
captain Thomas q. Corbin. Lieutenant Commander
y. L. wallace. Paymaster Danforth p. Wright
The American neet with General Mcmahon, our
aew Minister to Paraguay on board was to leave Rio
sor tho river Plate the 9th or 2sth nst and vcor
Gus measures would be taken to obtain justice nom
Lopez for his ignominious treatment Of Americans.
In the same errand three English and French men OF
Nar had already gone up to Paraguay to settle with
me Paraguayan despot for his tnhuman treatment OF
British and French subjects.
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VERY SERIOUS AcclDg>r, resulting In the severn
injury Of two gentlemen named James Iowme ana
water Huchings. took place AZ ION pAinsvuie yes
euleliv IN MA wagon along Bay street when Mr..
flutchlugs appeared driving very splendid horse
nj yer, fist rate. OWING 10 tue Darrowness OF the
street the Two WAGONS came ~ co lision, throwing
Ar Iowme VIC enty against large tree w the road
side and a.so veIy severely inJarlng tne other gem
ueu1eu
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-17
JACKSON, June 16. 1879

Editor Clarion:-The town of Tor,
was, yesterday, the scene of an occn:
renee to rejoice the heart of every I'm.
friend of Mississippi. Gen. + 7
Wharton, and the writer, went dow
to address the freedmen at that nIaca
Notice had been given for sevprsi
days, and any and all Radical orators
had been invited to participate in tbo
discussion. AS usual, however tIo
men who delude the freedmen in secro,
conclayes, dared not, in open discus.
sion, face an exposure of their abom.
Unable doctrines. The meeting was
opened by myself, with brief disclos.
ure to the freedmen of Democrstie
principles, and the purposes of The
Dem ocratic party. l say disclossn
for the freedmen have been basely
and adroitly deceived by Radical poi.
iticlans through the criminal instru.
mentality of the Loyal Leagues. Next
Gov. Brown made a few practicsl.
telling remarks and after him, co..
ored man, William Bingham, made an
earnest appeal to his race not to de-
se TT their friends, the Southern PEG
p lie, for strangers who cared nothing
for them. Then Gen. Wharton, for
two hours. held this large assemblage
of colored people spell bound by one
of the most earnest, persuasive, praC
tical and instructive addresses that |
have yet heard delivered to an aU
dience of freedmen. After the Genera
had concluded, Pompey Dixon "a col
ored preacher) and freedman, who
proudly styles himself "the royal
Democrat" spoke in a manner that,
however defective the grammar
might be, showed u clear understand.
ing of the questions under considers
ton. The attention of the freedmen
was earne st and thoughtful, and with
kind, patient, and practical instrnc'
ton, am convinced that they can be
made to understand who are their real
friends. The white people of Terry
are thoroughly aroused to the ire
mendous import of the next election
and its bearing upon the material IN
terests of the State and the liberties
of the people. Would to God that
every friend of Mississippi were sur
red by the same conviction, urglnss
him to such tireless efforts IN DenaL
of Justice, liberty, and humanity, tha
would sweep the infamous minlonS o.
foreign ruffians and domesu'
renegades all from the soil OF regen
Vonro J.B.C.
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For the Clarion.
The Tyrannies OF NaiOritieS.

Sir James Mcintosh, a celebrated
British Statesman and Political Philo-
sopher, and an advocate of the extern
sion of the right of suffrage in Eng
land, in well considered essay on that
subject, makes the following remarks,
which we think apply with great
force to the situation of political af-
fairs in the Southern States; and we
would, ther efore, urge upon any man
who has the slightest belief that the
proposed Mongrel Constitution pos
sesses any feature, whatever, calcula-
ted to promote the peace, happiness
and prosperity of our people, either
white Or black, to ponder and consider
well these words of wisdom, before he
casts his vote for that infamous docu-
ment
That the majority Of a people may
be tyrant as much as one or few,
is most apparent in the cases where
State is divided, by CONSPICUOUS marks,
into permanent majority and minori-
ty. Till the principles of liberation
be universally felt, as well as acknowl-
edged, religion will form one of these
cases. Till reason and morality be
far more variedly diffused than they
are, the OUTWARD distinction of color and
feature will form another, more PERM
ious, and less capable of remedy. 4
Does any man doubt, that the estab
lishment of universal suffrage, among
enadnclpdted SLAVES, would be only
another word for the opposition, If not
tie destruction Of their former masters
X X If they (the emancipated
| slaves, Care considered as forming, in
this respect, one class of society, a
share In the representation may be al
lotted to them, sufficient to protect
their interest, compotibly with the equal
protection of the interest of all other
classes, and regulated by a due regard
to all the qualities which are required
in a well composed legislative assem-
bly,. But if representation be proper
toned to numbers alone, every other
interest in society is placed at the dis
posal of the multitude. No other class
can be effectually represented; no
other class can have a political securi-
ty for justice; no other can have any
weight in the deliberations of the leg
/ lslature. No talents-no attainments,
but such as recommend men to the
favor Of the multitude, can have any
admission into it. A representation
so constituted, would produce the
same practical effects, as if every man
whose income was above a certain
amount, were excluded from the right
of voting. 1t is of little moment to
the proprietors, whether they be dis
franchised, or doomed, in every cleo
ton, to form hopeless minority"
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The writer has just returned from a
hastv tour through the counties of
Copiah and Jefferson, and found the
political situation all that could be
desired. In Copiah the registration
closed last year with more than one
hundred black majority. The final
registration gives the whites nearly
two hundred majority in the county
We have not seen greater zeal any
where. The county will certainly give
five hundred against the Constitution.
Colored Democratic Clubs are being
very generally organized. Hundreds
of colored men have ranged them
selves on the side of Conservatism,
and many who entertain doubts as to
the proper course for them to pur-
sue, have concluded not to vote at
all.
On Saturday last we had the pleas
ure of attending Grand Mass Meet
ing at Union Church, in Jefferson
county. About five hundred persons
were present, including some two
hundred colored, who listened atten.
lively to the addresses delivered on
the occasion. Speeches were made by
K. HI. Truly, Esq, Judge Shackleford
and Thos. Reid, Esq, of Fayette
Maj A. P. Barry, of Copiah, and the
writer. The Radical Constitution and
the Radical candidates were unspar-
ingly handled. The Democratic Club
is presided over by John A. Galbreath,
Esq, The organization is thorough
and effective. A Colored Democratic
Club has also been organized, and {
meeting is appointed for next week
and colored orators selected for the
occasion. ese ~.
Outside of Anderson and the board
of registers, there is only one white
skinned Radical in Jefferson county
The Democracy are quite hopeful o.
being able to carry the county agains
the Constitution. s..l
The people in the interior are, il
anything, more Jealous and ACTIVE
than those along the lines Of our rail
roads.
The Constitution will be rejected by
twenty thousand majority. Every mar
to his post
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Election Tickefs-HOw 10 be
Printed.

Our attention has been called to the
ordinance prescribing the manner OF
voting on the Constitution The
tickets should be headed ''AGAINsT
CoNsTITJT1oN," and not against the
Constitution" In other words, the
article "the'' should be omitted. Our
brethren of the press, in printing tick
cts, are requested to bear this in mind.
II may seem to be small matter, but
Radicals are strict constructionists,
when it suits their purpose.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-17
For the Clarion
FROM Clark County

QUITMAN, Miss, June H. low
Mr. Ep1ToR-Dear Sir:-The WIon s
force of the Democracy Of Clarh W. Va
been engaged of late trying 70 IVA nrsI
a division in the ranks OF the HV nd
Leaguers. 1t has been e1ecUe n cor.
there is no doubt now that we WIN ~. ~
ry the county against the Cons 5Ia n
by large majority. Hun'u nd by
white men are now registering anu .bats
the time the registration Closes tbsse
will be a white majority, anu " " who
we add several hundred freeolnen xill
are ayowed Democrats, and there xotir
he NO donbt of a great DemocI4 ~
triumph here. I visited eul' meeting
day, to attend a grand mass me IarUe
O f the Democracy. There was aoro
concourse of both white and pia'A .be
A fair division Of time was gi.en ming
Radical speakers. The o GP"II;ps
speech was made by A. b. O9n zeal
Esq, that eloquent, talented anu DnfnIly
Gus patriot, who has labored ms m;asi:.
to build up the party IN east D n
sippi. He is doing yeoman s SiIl Of
for the party in dissecting tins sti tIll
denominations, called the Constl,u' Of
and holding it up in ea al the
;ts bideous deformity before
mass meetings he is smith,
He was succeeded by Z. a. who
ESQ. and Judge S. Evans s,bolf Of
made eloquent appeals in pen Great
their down trodden country, reed
enthusiasm prevailed, and many ab the
men were brought over throus Talent,
powerful appeals of these three &c e.
ed gentlemen.
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more Glad Tidings From.

Ed sa1'D ssal Miss June 18TH s.
saw the lists of appointmo.uou bt yop
non; W; NJ. Hancock, Raa niadeby
ana the invitation by the FIJI Pilot &C. c. DC,
re 1?' to come and partieie 70 any
the discussion. That, altbonaIhe ipate il
mas the name of most nj BUCK
little fellow, who defies 6pn,teguaciOQs
and Is as brisk and nimbIe as 'ssaoletiOn
nlte and claw his adversary, % s,;n rat TO
IL. Il: W are, of Rankin, saw T nn Hon
visit Raleigh last Saturday upper to
sent the Democracy. He was IS .9 pepre
panied by Richard Cooper, Fso acc9n,
To- and behold when thew Y. But
there no tidings could be had -eaeAsd
and Cooper spoke. By INV fe
they spoke that evening at SylvaaHtlon
Academy, east of Raleigh. to ware" .
and appreciative audience, and 81, iafse
night to the negroes specially b ~I io. 4
1aIloh' capt Hardy and Hon " II
Powe, from Paulding, also sn ;" /
They could give no tidings of 'P gal
cock. Smith county is all riab nan a
the Democracy. All the 9 9as iOf
spoken to on these occasions s @
out fort he Democracy and agains S'@e
scallawag constitution Lewis r ~ ae
hug Esq, is the Democratic CANDIDA
for the Legislature and will hsyo oa'e
opposition. He is native Of = IN ~
county,a worthy gentleman, is eTci fLs
and will make good member sue
If time allowed, l could give 70.
some good items from Scott ~. sua
Newton. SrRscp,nn"" uu
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OFFicE DEAocRArfc Ex. coM'fTrEE.-

The Committee take great pltase
in presenting to the people of Missis
sippi, the following able review of the
political "situation," including the
proposed constitution submitted for
ratification or rejection. This is the
great topic ofdebate before the coun-
try and Maj Barksdale has so thor
ougly examined and exhausted the sub.
ject, that electors will enquire no far
Their. JOHN D. FREEMAN,
-v = Gilman Dem Elk. Committee
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per day each, and this unauthorized
Committee has appointed one hundred
and eighty three so-called commission
ers of election in the several counties,
at an aggregate cost of one thousand
and ninety eight dollars day to do no
duty except what is devolved on the
commissioners of election appointed
by the Commanding General. s-saae.
BY section 8 of article 13, the Leg
islature is to assemble Immediately
after the ratification of the Constitu-
ton to put all these mammoth schemes
into operation. Consisting of 40
members-their pay at the rate voted
themselves by the members of the
Convention $50 day will require a
daily expenditure for their support Of
fourteen hundred dollars, to which
must be added the cost of salaried Of
ficers, swelling the sum probably to
taDo thousand dollars per day, and upon
this expensive body is devolved the
business of putting into immediate
operation the gigantic schemes whose
costs have been described.
One of the reasons is now seen why
the architects of this stupeddious fab
ric of despotism and oppression, which
is proposed to be reared on the ruins
Of our Constitutional liberty, and So
cial and industrial systems, have
sought to exclude large class of white
people from their right of suffrage and
holding office. Intending to create a
vast office-ho lders, monopoly, they
have taken especial care to keep the
people who are to pay the taxes, from
having voice in the State Govern
ment Could the cunning malignity
of the father of all evil have suggested
a more execrable scheme?
THE UNLAWFUL CONSPIRACY.
To drive their proposed Constitution
through, they have resorted to the tX-
pedient of an unlawful oath bound,
armed combination, known as the 10y
al League. The members of this As
ISOLATION are compelled to do the bid
ding of the leading conspirators, by
the double agency of promises of re-
ward for faithful service in the matter
of voting, and by threats of violence
in the event of their refusal to carry
1
out their edicts.
Such combination to buy and to
coerce the suffrage of voters, is pun
ishable by the laws Of the State passed
in 1857 to protect the freedom of the
ballot box, by fine and imprisonment
in the Penitentiary. Such is the terror
exercised by these armed bodies over
the minds of freedmen who were in
duced to become members, that num-
bers have declared, and are declaring
every day, that it would cost them their
lives to vote the Democratic ticket
These combinations show the wicked
designs Of the authors of this scheme.
1t should be known that the oaths they
administer are not binding and their
combinations are in the highest degree
criminal
Fellow citizens-Arouse we to &C
ton. Work while it is yet day
The night cometh when no man can
work. You have seen that the basis
of this monstrous scheme is the spo-
liation of whole race. What more
need be said to awaken your dor
mant energies into new life?
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The Radical leaders, IN proposing

The Radical leaders, IN proposing
negro suffrage, are not inspired by a
sentiment of justice, or even of good
will to the colored man. Their object
is to secure power for themselves
They allow him to vote in none of the
Northern States, except on conditions
which virtually exclude him from the
polls altogether. From 1860 to 1867,
their power was unlimited in those
States; and yet they refused to give
him suffrage. In the elections, this
year, the great States of the North
have refused to let negroes vote, what
ever their education or property inter
ests may be. Their Chicago Conven-
ton refused to declare for negro suf-
frage in the Northern States. Wen
dell Philips says they are merely using
the negro in the South to help them to
office. The Anti Slavery Standard,
the oldest of all the Abolition journals,
says that g the platform of the Repub-
g lican party, at Chicago, is magnifi-
scent piece of patent extensive Jug
g glery" The same paper says that
g 1t uttered the language of freedom
g and equality out of its Southern
g mouth, and that of caste and race
g out Of it's Northern one" General
Grant, their candidate for the Presi-
dency, in 1866, authorized Senator
Doolittle to declare that he was OPP
posed to negro sugrage.
A policy of suffrage for the blacks,
founded on the prescription of the
whites, is monstrous injustice. If
supported by the freedmen, it is vir-
tually a declaration of war against the
the whites 1t must provoke retalia-
tons, as wrong always does, and al
ways ought to do. The instinct of
race is stronger taan any other, and
it must necessarily ultimately provoke
a war of races, in which the weaker
must go down. 1t is owing to the
wholesale prescription of the South
ern whites, that the party, under whose
control the wrong is perpetrated, has
experienced series of defeats in the
Northern States. In the Union, the
white population approximates 10000
600; that of the blacks is not 1000
000 The former is increasing, by
natural laws, and by the stream of i'm
migration which is pouring from Eu-
rope. The latter has no source whence
to draw accessions; and it is estima-
| ted that their numbers have been re
duced nearly one million, since the
close of the war. If the negroes per-
nit themselves to be used by selfish
and mean whites, to perpetrate the
threatened wrong they cannot hope
that it will not be fearfully visited up
on them hereafter
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THE TEST OATH.

This is part of the DISTINGUISHING
scheme. 1t requires the voter to swear
that he is not disfranchised in any of
the provisions of the acts known as
the reconstruction acts of the 39th
and 10th Congress, and that he sad
naits tie political and civl equality Of all
men, help me God"
There can be no such thing as the
civil equality of all men" Those
who are punished for crime are civilly
dead. But the most shocking feature
of the oath is, that in the very act of
taking it, the person is required to
swear to support a Constitution which
establishes the civil disability, or in
equality of privilege, of large and
meritorious class of the white people
of the State.
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TAXATION.

A faint glimpse has been presented
of the burthens which are to be i'm
posed in the way of taxation. The
Constitution itself, if ratified, will be
brought into operation at cost of
but little, if any less than tuo hundred
and fifty thousand dollars Over $780,
600 of this sum has already been al
lowed. The Convention, withour an
thority of law, lperpetuated its exist
ence in the persons of an irresponsible
Committee OF Five, with headquarters
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Judge Sharkey

Will speak at Vicksburg tomorrow,
and on Saturday, at Vernon. At the
latter place large assembly Of freed
men will be present. -4-fz-- ~-
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DESoTo CoUNTY.-We have cneel
inc news from this county-a friend
writes;
On yesterday, Gen. Alcorn a al,l
Mai. Wofford, were to address G Dt
people at this place. They diq NJ ~
come to time, and the courteous DS
mocracy invited the assembled lIseu
men to their speaking, and we m"us .
rich thing Of it. o+or.
DeSoto, has 4,7O3 registered Volg ls
-2,3S9 blacks, 2,314 whites-Ola!eh'
over whites IS. Mark my predlcUC.n. 1
old DeSoto will roll up 900 malof"!
for the Democracy.
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Doct. e.. G.. Banks

Will fill Judge Sharkey's appoint
ment at Edwards Depot, on Friday,
and will speak at Clinton, on Satur-
day, also. - IrFI #Ir
JNo, D. FREEMAN,
Chm Dem. Elk. Com'te.
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WINSTON = An esteemed patron

WINSTON. = An esteemed patron
writes us on the 18th inst, as follows |:
We promise you a good account
from Winston, in the approaching
election. Tue county was never in
better trim. Thoroughly organized,
actively and diligently eanvassed, and
the white people wide awake and al
most a unit. Scallawagary is very
low down here.
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OTHER PROJECTS.

To these are added other inor
schemes, but all part of a general
system, hitherto unknown in ur
State, involving heavy expense. Sec
ton % of article II, makes it the duty
OF the Legislature to "provide houses
Of refuge for the correction and refor
nation Of juvenile offenders In what
number these institutions are to be
established is left wholly to conjec :
ture. 1t is sufficient to say that they
will furnish employment for large
number of superintendent and other
officials, who are to be imported to as
sist in the business Of absorbing the
revenues of the people. Section 20 of
article Il, prescribes that county
boards shall have power to "provide
farms as an Asylum for infrm per
sons. To these may be a ided Boards
of immigration and Agriculture, with
their salaried incumbents.
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HOLDING OFFICE.

In the matter of holding office the
prescription of the whites, in the pro
posed Constitution, is still more
sweeping. The policy of Congress,
harsh as it is, it does not provide for
any restriction on the right of suffrage
besides what is contained in the pro-
posed 14th amendment to the Consti-
tuition of the United States. And in
that form only is it to be prescribed
The 14th amendment provides that
no person shall hold any Federal or
State office, who has taken an oath to
support the Constitution of the United
States and subsequently engaged in
what is termed rebellion. But the 9Th
section of article 7, of the proposed
Constitution, excludes from office
every man who is not willing to make
oath that he gave no ssaid, counsel,
cOuntenance or encouragement to per
sons engaged in hostility against the
United States except as a "private
soldier of the Confederate army. I'm
der the terms of the reconstruction
laws the pre- requisite to prescription,
as to holding office, is to have taken
an oath to support the Constitution of
the United States, and afterwards en-
gagged in what is termed rebellion; but
this is totally disregarded and set aside
for another most sweeping measure.
THE GERRYMANDER.
The mode of apportioning members
of the Legislature, among the several
counties, is part of the general plan
of depriving the whites of voice ia
the government. The character of
the scheme may be best described by
the claim of Radical newspapers, that
under 1t the Radical party are expect
ed to secure II out of 107 members in
the House of Representatives and %
out of 33 Senators. The counties
having negro majorities, as the stats
tic show, are allowed from one fourth
to half larger representation than
the ascendant.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
A part and parcel of the same plan
is displayed in their disposition of
counties the whites are in the ascen-
dant Instead of authorizing elections
they have placed their appointment in
the hands of their expected Governor
until the Legislature chooses to order
elections, that they may foist into these
offices their own retainers, the carpet
bag emissaries and missionaries of
miscegenation.
WHAT THE RADICAL LEGISLATURE is
REQUIRED TO DO.
Having shown that their proposed
government is organized on the plan
of excluding large class, embracing
many thousands of, our meritorious
white population, from the most es
sential privileges of citizenship, let us
examine some of the measures which
they design to carry into operation
Immediately on the adoption of theil
| Constitution.