The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-13
Gen. TaibeIl's ssFacfs for n Candid
WorIdss - WHAT ne said About
Negro. Loyalty to- the UniOn--.s
Negro TrooPs--and Negro sui.
frage. ~ ~
RADICAL TESTIMONY.

every intelligent man understands to
have been framed with a view not SO
much to benefit the negro race as vim
dictively to prescribe, and to deprive
of their political privileges, the white
population, in order that the carpet
bag adventures may occupy. the
offices of their creation, and satisfy
their greed of plumber at the expense
of the suffering and toiling masses
/ We had thought better of the writer
of these essays. We had cause to
known that he bitterly deprecated, if
he was not assuming virtue which he
did not possess, the ultra measures of
prescription which are embraced in
the proposed constitution. Tt was no
torious that he displayed this feeling
to the extent ofarousing the suspicion
and mourning the wrath of the misera-
BILE crew with whom he is now consort-
ing, for the purpose Of inficting this
great wrong upon the white population
of the State. For long time,he stood
| trem bling upon the brink of the degra-
of these horrible wrongs, before he
could summon resolution to plunge in
to the abyss; and probably he would
have never so far violated his in
stinct of race and his sense of right,as
to take it, but for the glittering prize
in the United States Senate, for which
he is said to be candidate if the as
sembled Mongrel oligarchy should
prove a success.
1t has not been two years since
Gen. Tarbell not only did not advo-
cate the prescription Of the whites, but
he strongly opposed the enfranchise
ment of the blacks. In 1868, he wrote
and published letter for the informa-
ton Of his Northern friends and the
public generally, and as the result of
his observatiors in the South, in ref
erence to Negro suffrage, said that
s'NEGRO SUFFRAGE IS A MEAS
URE OF THE MOST STUPEN-
DOUS WILDNESS AND HUMBUG,
OF THIS OR ANY OTHER AGE"
He said further-that, Gtaa
''All the talk of politicians about the
loyal blacks, and the brave colored
soldiers, is AN INSULT TO
TRUTH"
He said more -
81 is not true that the colored
troops fought bravely, anywhere, or
on any occasion" AH 2
/ And more:
''They (the negroes) no where in
the South, voluntarily enlisted, but
were seized and enrolled Tin the federal
service) with or without consent.
They showed signs of welcome to our
troops, bat mere no less demonstrative
to the rebel armieS.o 81. sl
f. But this was not all that then and
there appeared over the signature OF
i 81. TarbelF'- the same which is
2 now appended to these delightful
} essays. By way of clinching the nail
! which he had driven on the subject Of
e colored loyalty to the Union during
Y the war-he said:
. Il served by the side of colored
= troops before Port Hudson, and know
! their condition Uas POOR 6urles9ue on
soldering, as was Gen. Banks compli
e mentary order on their bravery anC
: good conduct. Al the speeches 4,
g Congress advocating equality betapeea
aohite and black soldiers, WERE KEENLl
RESENTED BY EVERY OFFICER. BUT NOM
DARLD TO SPEAK OUT. No matter
what interested officers, p9rtizans.pO
/ iticions and demog0gues may sag. III
i black soldiers did not earn their r0tions
The Union owes shem nothing for it!
- support as soldiers. They owe deb
of gratitude to the government 70
= maintaining them from IDLENESS
and starvation" s.
: His essays in favor of the constitu
| ton DISTINGUISHING the whites and en-
franchising the blacks, and gerryman
+ dering the State so as 70 give Gao
cording to the boast of Radical news
- papers) the $4,000 negro voters 2
Senators and II Representatives il
- the State Legislature, and the 5000
white voters, 10 Senators and SO Rep
resentatives in the Legislature, whic
will practically reduce the latter rep
resenting nearly all the intelligenc
:, and property, to mere cyphers, lar
' headed, "let facts be submitted to
y candid world" Above, we have
% few specimens of the ''facts' whic
~ he Submitted" in a previous DELHI
il crate publication. And here is some
l. thing more that he wrote directly uI
N on one of the living issues of the pres
u ent canvass. Speaking of the negroe'