The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-11-18

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the same streams, played together at thu
same games aud grew up together almos
Ike one family. firmly attached TO each 9th
er- Your children and their children wher
In the same graves. The same flower
bloomed over them and the same birds sans
their requiem. [Applause.l Therefore,
say, you are insePeratle and compelled tt
live together. / say that therefore you mus
live together in peace and harmony, for your
destinies are inseperably bound together
What shall say ofthose who darkened the
sky of the North as they took flight for thi:
southern country, when the blood of thirty
thousand Confederate soldiers had been
poured out on the soil. and South was one
vast charnel house? TLey came here &c
fatten on the corpse of the South. Like the
ravens. they had smelled the blood from
afar. The came here on pretended mis-.
sion on the lookout for offices, and instead
of doing something to alleviate the suffer
lings ofthe people OF the South, they did all
| in their power To stir up strife between the
white and the black people. They told the
black people that the Southern men wanted
70 put them back into slavery, but tell you
this is impossible, and all Mississippi CON-
bined could not return one single man q
slavery. aud you viii continue to enjoy
your freedom SO long as the light of the sun
shall battle in glory our bright glorious and
starry flag, tApplause.l You have been
told lies biacker than even the devil himself
could utter, and it hiss been done for the
purpose of separating you from the people
who own the land, who nave their families
here. who are wishful to be your friends in
the future as In the past. and with whom
yonr interest Is inseparably bound up.
warn you colored people not to give atten-
ton to the words of selfish persons who have
come here in order to serve their own sell
fish ends, tor they are your enemies. All
they want Is to ride into office through Your
votes. They want to fill every Office and be
Sheriffs, Judges and all. They want to get
into the Legislature, in order to have the
power to tax the people, and if they ever
get that power the taxes on land, instead oil
being Qne-tenth of one per cent. it will be-
ten per cent. on every dollar. This has been
the case in Alabama, Tennessee and Arkan
sas while under Radical rule; where poor
| widows Oftentimes had their property taxed
for as much as it was worth. When am
Governor of Mississippi / shall see that the
land shall pay its due proportion of the
taxes and other property it's proportion, but
| not so excessively that the taxes win equal
the value of the property. You all know
how the debt has increased in North Carroll
ma. Alabama and Tennessee under Radical
rule for the past three or four years. Help
has been given TO railroads and steamboat
| companies, and to open up rivers at the ex-
pense of the sweat of the brow of the poor
black man, and in such city as Vicksburg.
under Radical rule, under the control of
some Of General Ames' pets. poor man is
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and cart. II you let them go on. they will
tax you out of your boots. tLaughterl 1
| tell YOU that is Just as sure "a God sent Aoam
and Eve out of Paradise. Renewed laugh
| ter.
Gen Alcorn has told the colored people
| that in the number of registered voters OF
| Mississippi they are in majority or twenty
thousand over the whites, and he does not
| want them to array themselves against the
white people. Why did he not tell you to
identify yourselves with those who own the
lands and with whom you have lived from
| infancy? No, he wants you to join with
| those Radicals who smelled the carriOn from
/ afar-away up in the North-and came
down here to suck the hearts blood of the
/ people of the South.
| In referring to the North do not wish to
/ be understood as making the slightest re-
hection on the people of that section of the
/ country. 1t is quite the reverse. / refer to
those who have been as excretiOns and eiec-
lions from the people of the North. who
have spewed them out. The noble and pa
them here; but "theY left their country for
their country's good" tCheers and laugh
ter They came here like so many buzz
yards to fatten on the batfle-fields.
General Alcorn asks you to a,similate with
| those excretions of Northern society, be-
eMse they have lifted him into power, made
him United States Senator and made him
big General. With all these things he wraps
himself about with a cloak, and smiles like
| rfe devil as he sees how he leads them by
the nose. ]laughter.l These men whom
have told you have been spewed out by the
1 N,rth, will tear your flesh like vultures and
aup your substance; and yet Gen. Alcorn
| has the impudence to ask you TO kneel down
| to these "carpet-baggers." He calls me the
| '.prince OF carpet baggers." but 1 never
| thought he would reflect on those whom he
| calls his friends. But you know he changes
| his front, aud no one can tell what he will
dc. [Laughter.l He has the greatest am
| bEion, and by that sin fell the angels
| [Iaughter.l Now, black men, have tried
| GoexpIain many things which / hope you
viii take to heart. Unite yourselves with
/ that class of respectable, worthy men who
| own the soil. You have the muscle and
| therefore you are needful to each other
They offered up their lives and the lives of
| their sons in all sincerity for that which
1 they considered to be right. They offered
their lives in defense of principles which. as
honest men, they believed to be true. 1t Is
your destiny that you must live with them.
and you must do all in your power to do so
| in peace and prosperity, Therefore, gay.
unite yourselves with them. and do not be
| led into antagonism with them, as it will
| lead to civil war that will destroy one or the
other, and you are not likely TO be the con-
querors. gave you this advice In all sin
| cerity.
General Alcorn has told you that he does
| not wish to separate the races, and that the
party to which he belongs is of the same
| feeling. If they are sincere why do they
form loyal leagues into which they get the
| black man and make him take certain Oaths
| liz those loyal leagues only the Lords anoint-
ed, the truly loyal are admitted and the
black men are not allowed to listen to any
one Hnless these truly loyal are present who
have been sancritied for the purpose of get
ting votes. Laughter Why il it that
these loyal leaguers tell the black men that
they must not come here unless one OF their
own number is present? Do you not see
that have been trying to unite the races
together. General Alcorn has been doing
all in his power TO cause separation. Do
you not see that, colored men? A colored
man-"NoP'l That man Is fool. and that
comes from his being member Of the 10y
al League. lLaughter.l
In conclnsion.I tell you that if you do
not wish to invoke civil war, ft will be to
your interest to unite with the white race
the owners of the soil-as in war of
races you certainly viii be conquered. You
will be as nothing before the white race, and
Musgrove and others will leave il to you To
Eight it out. All they want is power, and
YOU colored men will have to fee from the
wrath to come. hope you will consider
these things and act deliberately on them
Act according TO your consciences. Do not
give away the noblest part of your freedom.
Act / say, in obedience TO your consciences.
Do not he led away by those who will be
certain to prove your worst enemies. Unite
with the people Of the South and you will
starry flag waves In the bright light Of the
Southern sun. fCheers.I Gentlemen, ]
thank you for your kind attention. loud
cheers, amid which Judge Dent retired.l
Says Washington Correspondent:
The radicals, taking advantage of Gen1
Grants reticence in the matter of not noti-
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