The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-16

| nr;r;I. iua6 no hereditary emoluments
privileges or honors shall ever he Granted :
conferred in this State. =
Sec q. Emigration from this State sba,
noe De prohibited, nor shall apy free whit
Oielz+n OF this State ever be exiled unda
any pretence whatever. '' '''''-
lie rejection of all these important nro
VISIONS OF our present bill of rights. neces
odllly gives the Legislature supreme contro
utol ali THESE topics. and would empowe
| Leg islature TO declare tie reverse of al
Inese lnestimable liberties; and as a laro,
number of oul most useful and valnah1.
| GlGiZens are disfranchised and deprived q
noluihg once by the proposed Constitution
| we are at liberty to suppose premeditatee
Design OF the Convention to persecute anf
punish this class of persons to any degre,
mat malice may invent. The Legislature
Is also given unrestricted power over thu
| organization of the militia and are required
al their first session to make it imnledidtel,
eUectire. The Legislature is required to con
Vene soon after the election to be held OIL
| the I'D of June, next. There is no limit
| placed on the terms of its session, or the
| compensation Gifts members. The terms ol
| 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
| 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 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 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; standing
army of negro soldiers, with pay dd Hbitunt;
a 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; 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 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
oath bound Loyal League established by
law and protected by military foree-a sys-
TEN of taxation unparalleled and beyond all
endurance brave, virtuous and enlig
ened people reduced to penury and political
degradation, or compelled to raise the
standard of rebellion and Stay 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. rst
TEST-OA H-WHITES DISFRANCHISED
The test oath for electors in addition to
the ordinary form, requires the voter to swear
that he is not DISTINGUISHED in any of the
provisions of the acts known as the recon
struction acts of the Both and 40th Congress,
and that he "ddmits the political and ciUiI
eqalityOf all men so help me God"
Any intelligent man knows that all men
are not civil and political 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, large majority of
persons never saw the acts of
the 39th and 40th Congress-they do not
qualifications of the whites in those acts
were temporary, applying only to the cleo
ton len to be held for delegates to said
Convention, and the approaching election,
and not intended as 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-
tious minds, and to exclude a majority OF
white men from the polls, while the negroes
under the supervision of the Loyal Leagues
and the Convention Election Committees
can be made TO swallow it all in the blind
ness of their unmeasured ignorance.
NEGRO OFFICE-HOLDERS.
In this connection it is also provided
chat no person shall be eligible to any
office of profit trust, or to any office in the
| militia of the State who is not a qualified
| elector" This is intended to put the ne
| groes in the military commands, with the
| whites in the ranks-negroes in the offices
! of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Judges
| of the Supreme Circuit and Chancery Courts
| and all other offices of profit and trust, and
PIoCCoON
| apportioned the Legislative representation
as to give large representation to the ne
| gro counties, and a small representation
where the whites predominate. A more
| shameful gerrymander for a fouler purpose
was never conceived, and yet this system is
proposed as a permanent organization o
| government, and irrepealable at least fol
| twenty-sevep years, if adopted.
/ AMALGAMATION OF RACES.
/
We have thus seen that the late slaves o
| the State are to be exalted to all the offices
honors and emoluments, and hold in thei
power all the appointments and patronag
of the State. They are also, by express pro
vision, thrust into all the public convey
ances and places of entertainment. and thu
socially, as well as civilly and politically
elevated above the educated, refined, chris
tian, and heretofore governing class.
The school lands and educational fund
are all appropriated to this same system o
forcibly uniting and mingling the negroe
among the whites in all the public and pr
vate affairs of life from the cradle to tn
grave
To complete this bill of abomlnations,
contains no prohibition against INTERNAL
rage between the black and white races
This, suppose, is intended as charltabl
eondescension and privilege extended to til
. 4 Al To RO9Dl