The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-11
REPEAL OF STATE CONSTITUTION
hEJECIION OF BILL OF RIGHTS

| A.
tne ilne OF conduct pursued bv this most
remarkable body of men.
Aueg Claimed and asserted iurisdiction
oyer the entire body polite Tfev have de-
ciared total repeal of the present constitn
eloh ana adopted another radically different
81 81 iianJ Id vital particulars. Sections l. 2, 5,
u, %, 70, 27-parts of section 10 and pa
ana the conclusion of the Bill of RIGHTS are
entirely omitted. These omissions are as
follows: AA' ''io DIS
SEC. ] That all freemen, when they form
social compact, are equal in rights; and
Ihat no men, or set of men, are entitled to
exclusive, separate public emoluments or
privileges from the community, but In CON
sIderatIon of public services.
oEC. z. That all political power is in
herent In the people, aud all free govern
menus are founded on their authority and
established for their benefit, and, therefore
they nave, at all times, an inalienable and
indefeasible right to alter or abolish their
form OF government in such manner as thev
may think expedienJ
SEC. D. That no person shall be molested
Iof his opinions on any subject whatever, nor
suffer any civil or political ineapacity. or
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
VI 0ood.o INC 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 If any person shall be killed bv cas-
uaiity, there shall be no forfeiture by reason
thereof.
Sec. "a. No standing army shall be kent
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 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-
sarlly gives the Legislature supreme control
over all these topics, and would empower
the Legislature to declare tie reverse of all
these inestimeble liberties and as a large
number of oul most useful and valuable
citizens are disfranchised and deprived of
holding office by the proposed Constitutions
we are at liberty to suppose a 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 inmediatelu
efectire. 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 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
stitutlon shall be ratified. All these offices
are to be filed by the Governor, and are to |
continue III 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 Instrumentalty 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; 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 Gd Hbitam; |
a Legislative consent for the federal govern |
ment to keep standing army here also |
continuation of all the county, township |
and precinct officers during the will of the |
Legislature, aud subject to its orders; a
school system that will compel The white |
people by taxation, to educate all the ne |
groes in the State; a system of public works |
with a large number of salaried |
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 rtHents of the govornment-the |
oath bound LOYAL League established by |
TEN of taxation unparalleled and beyond all |
endurance. A brave, viFtuous and enhght- |
ened people reduced to penury and political |
compelled to raise the |
of rebellion and slay the oppressor |
the limits of the State.
Such are some of the leading designs that |
crop out from the Bill of Rights, and it's
with the Legislative and Exc
cutive Departments
TEST OATH-WHITES DISFRAN CHISED. |
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 10th Congress, |
and that he admits the political and ciril |
eqaIity of all men so help me God"
Any intelligent man knows that all men |
are not e1vl. ana y Iltlcal equalS-Une AIfl-
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 clvIIly |
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 elee-
ton tLen to be held for delegates to said
Convention and the approaching election, |
and not intended as a permanent disfran-
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 conscien-
t;0uS p,iuds apd fo exelude a majority of