The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-08-05

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throughout the South, and more partic
ularly in this State to make political cap
ital out of the Chinese immigration move
: ment is conclusive evidence of the strait
to Which they are put to keep their par
ty ship aHoat. For months it has beer
settling deeper and deeper, being unabl,
to bear up under the cargo of villainy
perjury, fraud, and prescription, that it
leaders have freighted it with to accom-
plish the ends they have most devoutly
wished. They have attempted to lighter
it by throwing some of their prominen
men overheard, and substituting Anei
for them, but he has forced them also 4
take such numbers of imported adventu
rers that it is doubtful if they keep afoat
until the day of the election.
Catching. as drowning men do, al
straws; attempts are being made to lead
the coIored people into the belief that thi,
immigration movement, in which so much
interest is now felt by the Iand-holders OF
the State is to be directed against the col
ored mans interest, and for his detriment.
Until now these same Radical journals
proclaimed, in trumpet tones, that hes
were the representatives of the only par
ty in the State that favored immigration.
With their usual mendacity they asserted
that the old residenters were so wrapped
in the fallacies of the past that they
would not for an instant open their eyes
to the existence of a new order of events,
and the accompanying requirements of
the State. The principal of which is i'm
migration.
In proof of this, they cited the fact
that the carpet-bagger and his family re-
ceived no social attentions at the hands
of the ''rebels" who, with iron hand still
ruled the State. (When none so well as
they know the difference between bona
fde settler and a carpet-bagger.) They
held it prominently up for the attention
of the Northern people, that in the con-
stitution, made by the shining lights of
their party, there was special provision
for the benefit of immigrants and immi-
grafton.
If there is so much injury to come to
the colored man from the Chinese, how is
it that Caucasian immigration would not
injure him also! And how happens it to
be so criminal now in the opinion of this
over-righteous party, when that assembly
of illustrious lawmakers which it gave to
the State of Mississippi thought it proper
to enact the following which is in Article
XII of the defeated Constitution:
'Sec. %. There shall be a Commits
"sioner of immigration and Agriculture,
''who shall be elected by the Legislature
con joint ballot, who shall hold his Office
''for the term of four years unless sooner
removed by law"
They were but following out the avow-
ed principles of the Republican party,
but now it suits them to repudiate it and
it is done accordingly.
To substantiate this we copy from the
Washington Chronicle:
''The class which opposes Chinese i'm
is at present confined to the
Pacific States, but viii undoubtedly soon
be found to extend beyond them. 1t
seems to be composed mainly of the
rougher and more ignorant classes"
And again from another issue of the
same paper:
'On the whole, we do not perceive any
'great reason to dread the prospect be-
'fore us. We have an abiding faith, to
''begin with, that events which are clearly |
provided for in the natural order of things |
'<(of which the present and prospective
immigration from China seems to be one)
fare wisely planned, and will come out all
fright in the end and, moreover, such |
''glimpses as we can get of the probable
future confirm this a priori conviction"
We might give extracts from nearly
every Republican paper in the North to
show that there the Republican party
ooks with favor upon the Chinese immi-
grafton movement, but the above are suf-
icient to show that the RAIDS are not in
with the Republican party on
his issue.
While we are upon this subject we wish
% say to the colored people that there is
10 desire upon the part of the land-hold-
n to interfere with their means of making
! living. They can see that there are
hundreds and hundreds of acres in
very county in the State, lying
die which should be cultivated. They
NOW that there is not o sufficient number
f both races to till these idle acres.
Their numbers cannot be increased by
immigration, it appears that the Caucas-
ion race viii not come here, and there
ore the Chinese are invited. They know
hat year by year the colored men are
procuring farms, either by purchase or by
means Of the homestead act. In the last
ssue of the Brandon Republican we find
hat the Sheriff of Rankin county reports
hat he has. homsteaded five hundred fam
lies. This is so in every county in the
State to greater or less extent. 1t is to
Ii these vacant places for which the Chi
lese are wanted. 1t is not to Gust the
nIorad man huf N eli the YnIaca that ha