The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-11

a WORD 40 NUhfgm mmd Eommg Wen
/ Much Is being said Of late In Republics
| journals to Induce old llnc wings 10 descr
the conservatism OF their political ancestors
and TO join the Republican standard, and
great impatienee Is manifested. In soms
quarters al their tardiness 60 join the army
that marches 70 Radical Rome
We are reminded that the ~Republicau
geldIng" Is In fun training, and though net
thorough bred, Is held In terror over all
contestants, and u even now walks over the
great political race-course. for The purse 0l
the nation and OF all the States.
Whiggery, the old war horse ofconserva-
tism, which in the good old times OF Clay,
Webster, Choate, Crittenden and host OF
others. that have gone 10 their. homes after
long life Of well doing, have retired from
the political turf but yet has the same
watchful and paternal eye for the good OF
the nation, for its well-being and integrity
as ofyore. Its members only rest from their
labors. and when the good time shall come.
they win doubtless rise up In the full mag
nitude Of their strength and join In patriotic
alliance with any party, by whatever name
it may be called, to battle against the cor
ruptions of the hour.
1t is lamentably true that some OF the old
Wing chiefs have deserted the faith Of their
fathers and have attached themselves TO the
dominant party, but scarcely an instance
can be named where II has not been done
that ''thrift may follow fawnihg."
This is equally true Of members OF both
of the old national parties, and their con-
sciences will tell them that they are In pur-
suit OF an ignts fdtuds that rather leads to
Office and its emoluments than 70 honor.
Be assured that there are hosts OF @the
old guard" left that can Withstand the allu-
ring temptations before them, and will
''touch not, taste not, handle not the unclean
thing" Conservatism Is the predominant
element OF Wing faith, which Is all save
honor that is left them. The faithful had
rather serve I'm Heaven than reign in Hell,
and must from their very nature, oppose
both the political and social licentiousness
that is enveloping them.
Whiggery has now no positive political
signification, except opposition to extreme
ism. Nor is it ever likely to be revived
under its old party name. Its ancient ad-
vocates still hold TO its great leading moral
1t can never hold 70 the social
equality of the races, nor will they ever, as
a mass, attach themselves to any party that
advocates or encourages doctrine so antag-
onistic to the laws Of natural and revealed
religion.
The Republicans have high hopes Of ac-
cessions to their ranks from the ex-Confed-
crate soldiery, and are swift TO throw 10
them tempting balts OF Office. DO they not
reckon without their hosts Can It be that
the young men of the South, who are LEFT as
living monuments of their lost cause and by
their impuIsive valor illustrated Its justice;
who marched with elastic step TO a thousand
battlefields to protect their homes and fire.
sides, in buoyant love for their mothers,
their sisters and their wives, so far forget
their duty to themselves and their loved
ones, and to the memory of their fallen
as TO ally themselves to this anti
Radical party? God save the
mark.
What think you, Confederate soldiers and
young men of the South, OF the equality Of
the races? How comes It that you would
do ought to demolish the social barriers that
have been established by Divinity itself9
Would you thus add sacrilege to immorali-
typ Are you, forsooth, TO elevate lliterate
blacks TO the Executive, Judicial and Legis-
lative offices Of the country, rather than
those ''of standing that society cannot pre-
sumo to ignore, or than those learned In the
law beyond their fellows
The blacks generally neither expect nor
demand it-some few ofthem would oppose
Jesus Christ on the proposition-some few
whites advocate it solely for political pre-
ferment and filthy lucre.
Are the colored race by your own delib-
crate acts and doin2s TO be made the associ-
ates ofyour mothers and your sisters, their
companions, their messmates at
tiers and sisters, and thea ere long, II you
are not true to all you hold dear, In this hour
of social and political corruption, the Wis
itors ofyour parlOrs?
Your hearts must turn sick at the current
of events, and at the inevitable tendency of
the times. Remember well the RESPONSE
bilities resting upon you, and those that are
accommodating upon the rising generation.
Avert the threatening evils. Hurl from you
the teachings OF even high functionaries
who would drag down the "Caucassian
race to a level with themselves, and have
you unappreciate its slightest types Of
moral, intellectual and physical develop
ment," or else admit that that race "has fur
nished examples of the greatest depravity,
deformity and Ignorance"
Let your standard OF responsibility" be
so high as to bring upon these teachers the
same amount Of scorn and contempt at the
hands Of the "Caucassian race as will surely
be heaped upon them by the very race 10
which they are boot-licking.
Set down naught In malice against the
colored man, but aim your shafts at their
white enemies. Give him equality before
the law. Educate him in moral honesty
and religion. Turn him from the paths that
lead to superstition and moral obliqulty.
You will then have done your duty 10 their
race and have kept in full view the duties
to your own race.
A majority of the colored race will de-
mand no more, and by an uniform system
OF kindness and Justice on your part, they
will become your true friends as you arc
truly theirs.
Waiver not in the true faith. be just and
fear not, and the day ofour deliverance will
soon dawn upon us. VINO.
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