The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-08

privilege of voting, is involved in the
pending election. This is not true,
and Democratic canvassers should
take care to instruct him on this point.
The laws of Congress secure to the
freedmen the privilege of voting until
the whole subject is adjusted. Vote
down the Mongrel Constitution, and
the privilege Of suffrage still abides
with him, to be regulated as justice
and enlightened policy may hereafter
dictate. TIE real issue is, shall the
right of voting, and of holding office,
be taken from many thousands OF the
white people of the State Do the
freedmen desire thus to exclude from
privilege, which they have always
enjoyed, half Of our white citizens
They do not Nor will they vote for
a Constitution which is designed to
effect this unjust purpose, if it is
properly explained to them. They will
see It's enormity. They will see that the
policy contains the elements of per
petuel discord. That it places enmity
between them and the white people,
whose interests are identical with their
own, and among whom they are to
live. This great wrong cannot bel per
| petuated against the intelligent classes
of the State, whose property, lives and
liberty, as well as theirs are to be pro-
tected by legislation, without exciting
spirit of revenge. The negroes
know that this injustice ought not to
be committed, and they must be
brought to understand that it is con-
trived and counseled by men who are
seeking to use them as instruments for
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The real point in issue is, whether
the bulk Of the property holders of
the State, the intelligent white people,
who have heretofore enjoyed the
right of suffrage, shall be Invested Of
it. The trainers of the Mongrel Con
stitution propose that they shall be,
! because the practice Of this cruel
wrong secures office and plumber to
them. They are heartless, desperate,
penniless Adventures, who care moth
| ing for the negro. except to use him
to crafty their lust of pelf. Having
nothing at stake, they have everything
to gain and nothing to lose by the
venture. If they fail, they can take
their flight, like the summer birds, to
another climate. If they gain, they
will have achieved the rewards of
office and plumber, and thus enriched,
they can, when their game is played
out to the sorrow of their negro dupes,
and the distress of the whites, and the
impOverishment and desolation of the
whole land, seek other climes to riot
in their Ill gotten gains.
! Under pressure of party necessity,
the Radical ajority in Congress may
! feel compelled to admit the excluded
States with Constitutions, such as the
one that has been framed by the Mon
grel clan for Mississippi; but their
| proceedings show that they are great
ly embarrassed by these schemes
They dread the consequence of recOg-
nizing, as legal, these stupendous
schemes of disfranchisement and op-
preston, and yet they fear the effect
of rejecting them after they have been
framed. In the matter of disfran-
ment, every one Of these Constitutions
have enlarged the disabilities en-
braced in the acts of Congress, and it
was, for this reason, that Gen. Soho
field, who has recently been confirmed
by the Senate as Secretary of War, has
! refused to submit for ratification to
the people of Virginia, the Constitu-
ton framed by the Mongrels in that
State. His action was taken by ad-
vice of Gen. Grant, the Radical can
didate for the Presidency.
The freedmen in Mississippi must
be made to understand that if they
vote for Constitution embodying the
proscriptive provisions of the instru-
ment framed by the Convention, they
will not only violate the acts of Con
gress, but will act in direct opposition
to the doctrine enunciated by the
: ablest and wisest of the Northern
Radicals, who, comprehending the sit
: uation, and realizing the evil con-
sequences to them of depriving the
whites of the elective privilege, have
advised the policy of universal i'm
partial suffrage" This is the doctrine
Of Mr. Graa1v of tho TPibuno IT uoc