The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-12
hEPEAL OF STATE CONsFTTTTrIoN
KEJECTION OF BILL OF PICunS -

remarkable body of men '1A' must
ney claimed and asserted Jurisdiction
Oyer she entire body polite Tfey have de-
oidleu Total repeal of the present eonstitn-
~, ;ron anu adopted another radically different
IN IN many vital particulars. Sections D :
u, ., 26, 27-parts of section 10 and . 20 a.
ahu Che conclusion of the Bill of Rights are
| follows: 'Ni''iohS are as
SEC. That all freemen. when the, form,
a social compact, are equal in rights: and
thaC no men, or set of men. are entitled to
| eAclusiVe, separate public emeluments or
| privileges from the community. bnt in con-
slderation of public services.
oEC. z That all political power is in.
hefeht III the people, and all free govern
| mentS are founded on their antborGtv o,,d
established for their benefit and tbarafano
they have, at all times, an inaliepable and
ihde1easlble right to alter or abolish their
form OK government in such manner as tbav
may think expedienU. Wy
SEC. D. That no person shall be molested
lo[ MS opinions on any subject whatever. nor
ounet any civil or political incapacity, or
acquire any civil or political ADVANTAGE in
consequence of such opinions except in
cases provided for in this constitution
oec- ~. NO conviction for any offence
shall work corruption of blood or forteiture
OF estate; the Legislature shall pass no bill
| of attainder
Sec. u. That the estates of suicides shall
descend or vest as in cases Of natural death ;
and If any person shall be killed by cas-
uaiIty, there shall be no forfeiture bv 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
a m to lna
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.
lie rejection of all these important pro-
visions of our present bill of rights, neces-
sarlly gives the Legislature supreme control
over all these topics, and would empower
| the Legislature to declare tie reverse of all
these lnestima 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 immediuteIy
ctectlre. Ibe 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 it's session, or the
compensation of it's 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 III office until the Legislature shall
Ill L., 4 q
but no time is limited within which tie
Legislature shall perform this duty. The
Radicals through the lnstrumentality 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 a 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; standing
army of negro soldiers, with pay Gd HbituDl;
a Legislative consent for the federal govern
ment to keep a 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 in 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
Il. 4 Of 4la ff,a
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 enhght-
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 DISFRANCHI5ED.
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 theacts known as the recon-
structon acts of the 39th and 10th Congress,
and that he 'adnlits the political and ciril
eqaHty 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 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 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 elec,,
tion 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 ,a o,d
This oath is unnecessary, absurd and
wicked to the last degree. 1t Is evidently
! intended to confuse and defraud eonsclen-
| 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,