The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-08
REPEAL OF STATE CONSTITUTION.
REJECTION OF BILL OF RlGHTS-

remarkable body of men.
Ihey claimed aud asserted jurisdiction
over the entire body polItic They have de-
ciared total repeal of the present constitu-
tlon and adopted another radically different
Ia Ia man. vital particulars. Sections L. 2, 5,
u, 20, 20, 27-paIts OF section l9 and 20
anu the conclusion of the Bill of Rights are
entirely omitted. These omissions are as
follows:
SEC. That all freemen, when they form
a social compact, are equal in rights; and
that no men, or set of men, are entitled to
extensive, separate public emoluments or
privileges from the community, but in CON
slderatlon of public services.
SEC. Z. That all political power is in
herent ln the people, aud all free govern
ments are founded on their authority and
estao lshed for their benefit, and therefore
they have, at all times, an inalienable and
lndefeaslble right to alter or abolish their
form OF government in such manner as they
may think expedient
SEC. D. That no person shall be molested
for his opinions on any subject whatever, nor
suffer any civil or political incapacity. OF
acquire any civil or political advantage in
consequence of such opinions except 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. 2l. That the estates of suicides shall
descend or vest as i'll cases Of natural death !;
| and if any person shall be killed by cas-
| uailty, 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. 20. That no hereditary emOluments
privileges or hOnors shall ever be granted or
conferred in this State.
Sec. q. 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 inestime BILE liberties; and as a large
number of Ou1 most useful and valuable
citizens are disfranchised and deprived of
holding office by the proposed Constitution,
we are at liberty to suppose premeditated
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
etectiUe. The Legislature is required to CON
vene soon after the election to be held on
! the 22d of June, next There is no limit
placed on the terms of its 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 in 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, throu gh 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 a subsidized press, which is
provided for in the same Constitution. to
be located in each judicial District,
under Legislative patronage; a standing
army of negro soldiers, with pay ad Hbitum;
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;
school system that will compel the white
people. by taxation, to educate all the ne
groes in the State; system of public works
with large number of salaried
officers, without any occupation what
ever; a forced social, civil and political
equality between the black and white races;
negro officers, spies and detectives, in all
the dep rtHents of the gOvurnment-the
oath bound Loyal League established by
law and protected by military force-a sys-
TEN 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 tesigns that
crop out from the Bill of Rights, and its
connections with the Legislative and Exc
cutive Departments
TEST OATH-WHITES DISFRANCHI3ED.
The test oath for electors, in addition to
the ordinary form, requires the voter to swear
that he is not distranchised in any of the
provlsions of the acts known as the recon
struction acts of the 39th and doth Congress,
and that he admits the political and ciUiL
eqality of all men so help me God"
Any intelligent man knows that all men
are not civi. aud p litical equals-the Afri
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, a large majority of
persons never saw the acts of
the 39th and 10th 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
ton tLen to be held for delegates to said
Convention, and the approaching election,
and not intended as permanent disfran-
chisemeDt 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. sUr COS
This oath is unnecessary, absurd and
wicked TO the last degree. 1t is evidently
intended to confuse and defraud conscien-
tions minds, and to exclude majority of
white men from the polls, while the negroes,
under the supervision of the Loyal Leagues
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