The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-10-28


all over the State. not only for our children
but for you're and we want TO be taxed 70
put up those schools every where. with q
fair division OF the money between both
races. We think it best that the schools
should not be mixed. but that the white and
black children should be taught separately.
II they went together. the white children
would quarrel and fight and then the pa
rents would shed blood. and we would have
great difficulty. AS your children are
want them to become learned, that they may
know how to vote and how TO protect them
selves from bad men who might wish to
cheat them. We do not care how much learn
ing they get-the more, the better for u.s.
Some OF your boys may become great men.
If so, we shall be pleased. These are the
views Of the Dent party. Do they not suit
you? Are they not right?
THE RACES NECESSARY TO EACH OTHER.
Colored men! you are necessary TO as,
we are necessary to you. We want you as
laborers, because you are. for MS, the best
laborers in the world. We are necessary TO
you. because you want employment. good
treatment and good wages, and these things
we are ready TO give; and we want you TO
live with us always, as our friends. Now,
we might get as many laborers from China
and other parts of the world as we want.
and we might leave you idle, because the
Yankees have no employment to give. But
we don't want to do this. | hope you will
not force us to that course. IL we refused to
employ you, how could you live? The car
pet-baggers have no employment for you
Now, yoar home folks offer you all of your
rights as freemen. Why not take your
rights from your Southern friends, instead
of trusting our enemies? Do you not know
that if you vote to put us below yourselves.
that we would naturally have bad feelings
for you, and look about for another race to
employ? Why drive us TO this?
WHERE DOES THE COLOKED HAN GET HIS
MONEY?
Don't you know that, ever since you were
free, YOU have lived by US and through our
money? Thlnk little, and tell me how
many dollars you ever made from a carpet
bag man from the north Not much, l reck-
on. Are you going to forsake your real
friends? Now you know how close most of
these Yankees are. They pay very little.
Our people are free with their cash. If you
hold Southern mans horse for an hour
when he comes for the horse, he will run his
hand in his pocket. toss you half dollar, or
some other sum, and drive off. How would
it be with carpet-bagger? Why. for this
same service he would say My dear
brother! | helped to set you free. Here is a
little tract on Gratitude in four pages: it is
very valuable; farewell my friend" You
get tract you can't read. but not red cent
to make the pot boil You see, then, that
YOU are interested in having us for your
friends. l hope you will find out who your
friends are, and that you will stick to them.
We desire to see you get along well. We
hope that colored men will work and make
money, and buy land, and build houses, and
have horses and hogs and every thing COM
Portable.
sCALAwAG PROMISES.
These carpet-bag office seekers promise
well, but they are awful slow in perform
ance. Colored men! Where did you locate
that 40 acres that was promised you over a
ston and Jamison? Is it good land ?
How are you pleased with it? Is the mule
they gave you good one? Is his voice
loud and sweet? All, colOred people, how
men? They tell you now, ''do you just hold
on until Christmas, don't make any con-
tracts, for every man shall have home on
the public land" Are you soft enough to
expect this land? Why, the scamps have
not an inch of land in the world. What
shame it is thus to deceive and trfle with
ignorant men! This land at Christmas is a
bait to catch a November vote with. Will
you never see through these peopleS
Now, my party has no land or mules to
give. We make no promise of the kind, be-
cause we shall keep all the promises we
may make. We do promise you, however,
to be your friends, wish you well,
and we promise you to contend for all
your rights, and grant you our friend
Ship and protection. Lands and mules
are not given away. Men must work
for what they get in this selfish world of
ours.
OUR COUNTRY.
Colored menl l think that this land of
ours is the loveliest and richest in the world.
1t produces more different fruits of the soil
for man and beast, than any land have seen
or read of. 1t is our country, given to your
race, and mine by Providence, as our homes,
Under the sod here, the bones of your peO-
pie and mine are Wondering. We love even
the trees, and streams, and hills of Missis-
sippi. Let us defend our homes and keep
them, for our children, and drive back to
sheir country of ice and rocks the mean
men that came here to rob and plumber both
races. There is no reason why our children
and their children and all coming genera
tiOns of both races, shall not live here to-
gether as friends and prosper and be happy.
Why will you lose your friends and homes
for the empty promises of bad men and
strangers? Why vote in such way as to
degrade the Southern people? | told the
white voters to-day that we have cOlored
man on our ticket for the great office of Sec
rotary of State. We put him there as
pledge of our good intentions to your race.
| know that the Alcorn Bitter Enders have
parson James Lynch on their ticket for the
same office; but they never would have had
a colored man on their ticket, if we had not
set them the example; for they never said
turkey" once to their eolored brethren, as
they call you, when they put out ticket
last year.
LOYAL LEAGUES.
The black men of Mississippi are free in
body. You have no chains on your legs
No man can say to one of you, go and do
IL is-go and work for me. / say that you
are free in body; but still, some of you are
the worst slaves in the world-yes, the worst
kind of slaves. The Northern carpet bag
gers, who live by their wits, have seduced
you into midnight dens, called Loyal
Leagues. Like devils in human form, they
have persuaded you 10 turn your back on
your friends. BY rank lies they have sown
enmity in your hearts towards your old mas
tiers and the good white men you played
with when you were both boys. They have
offended God by the horrid oaths they have
made you take-swOrn you to vote for none
but truly loyal men," and they tell you
they are the truly loyal. They have charg-
ed fees for THIS nasty, mean work. You are
slaves just as long as you stay in those
Leagues. You are nothing but machines
in their hands, and they order you up and
rote you at the ballot box. You Loyal
League men think you vote, but you do not.
You vote as such men as Eggleston. and ia
mison, and Fisher may order. COl0red men!
President Lincoln proclaimed you to be free
and the chains fell from your limbs. Proclaim
yourselves to be free in mind and spirit, by
leaving the Loyal League. Rise up in the
strength of new born liberty, and say, ''ver-
lily, am free in body-I will be free in mind
Il will think and vote for myself hereafter.
l will be no mans man. 1 will hear both
parties speak. ] will no longer be led by
the nose by any mani am son of God.
he gave me the power to reason, and soiu
reason" Don't be afraid to do this. There
is no danger. You will he protected by
your real white friends. The foul oath is
in the nostrils of Deity.
In Conclusion. friends of both races, think