The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-07-04

perpetuate this military domination
North and West, as well as South, has
been selected in party convention at
Chicago to head the electoral vote for
the Presidency in ten of our States,
which are as much under his feet as
Turkey is under the Sultan or Poland
under the Car of Russia. But, as if
only to add insult TO the injury of this
military outrage upon the popular
government in these ten States, either
by act of Congress or by these Con
gress soldier made State constitutions,
at least 100000 whites have been dis
franchised, while 100000 negroes,
inexperienced in all law making, and
more ignorant than our children, have
been enfranchised in their stead, and
have thus been created absolute mas
tiers and sovereigns over the whole
white population of the South.
Because of all this, and in opposition to
all this, we, representatives of the people
from the free States, in behalf of our con
stituents and of thousands and tens of thou
sands of others who would be represented
| if the popular power without could now
constitutionally act here within, earnestly
| and solemnly protest against this violence
| upon our Constitution and upon our people,
and do hereby counsel and advise all friends
of popular government to submit to this
force only until at the ballot-box, operating
| through the elections, this great wrong can
be put right There is no law in the land
over the constitutional law. There is no
government but constitutional government;
and hence all bayOnet-made, all Congress
| imposed constitutions are of no weight, au
thority, or sanction, save that enforced by
arms-an element of power unknown to
Americans in peace, and never required but
as it acts in under the supreme civil law, the
| Constitution, and the statutes enacted in
| pursuance thereof. We protest, then, in be-
| half of the free people of the North and the
West, against the right of this military oil
| garchy, established in Arkansas or else
| where in the now re-enslaved States of the
| South, to impose upon us, through Congress,
| taxes customs, other laws to maintain
| this oligarchy, or its Freedmen's Bureau
We protest against going into the now pro-
posed copartnership of military dictators
and negroes in the administration of this
| Government. We demand, in the name of
the fathers of the Constitution, and for the
| sake of posterity, not its reconstruction, but
| the restoration of that sacred instrument
which has been to US a pillar of fire from
| 1877 on to its present overthrow; and in all
| solemnity, before God and man, under full
| sense of the responsibility of all we utter
we do hereby affiX our names to this protest
| against the admission of these three persons
| claiming to be members of Congress from
! Arkansas.
| James Brooks, James B. Beck, p. Van Trump
| Charles A. Eldridge, Samuel j. Randall
| A. j. Glossbrenner, Stevenson Archer
/ John A. Nicholson, John Morrissey, ThOs
| Laurens Jones, w. E. Niblack, Julius
Hotchkiss, VIM. III. Barnum, John w
| Chanler, S. B. Axtell, S. S. Marshall, w
| S. Holman, G. w. p. Haight, C. Sitgreaves
| Lewis II. Ross. H. Mccullough, j. Proctor
Knott, w. Mungen, Stephen Taber. Asa P
| Grover L. S. Trimble, Geo. M. Adams, j
S. Golladay, J. w. Humphreys, Fernando
Wood, }. Lawrence Getz, L. Stone, M. c.
Kerr, John Fox, Jas. A Johnson, John V
L. Pruyu, w. f. Robinson, B. M. Boyer
George r. Woodward, G. Z. Phelps, A. G.
Durr, d. M. Van Auken, j. r. McCor
mick, Demas Barnes, James NJ. Kavan
augh.