The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-07-14


social Eama1Eny Am nhe CHnmr1fmbne
hmeaihmfioms of the E&Mtes
In all that the Gevernor has said u
his messages, in reference 10 the Repub-
lean theory Of amaIganatiOn and social
equality, he has fallen short Of the prom
ises by which he rtconciled small num-
Der of the intelligent people of the State
to his position IN the canvass. In every
instance in which he has referred to this
vital matter involving the putty of our
social system, he has ignominiously beg
ged the question BY substituting the pitt
full plea Of expediency for the argument
of principle based on high moral grounds,
forbidding the social intermingling of the
races.
In his letter deprecating the wrath of
the New Era, lnegro equality paper) he
plead that our people were the victims of
a prejudice, the qualification of which
would cost enough to cure them ere long
of their opposition to mixed schools.
And here we have his message on the
charitable institutions of the State, in
which the subject is treated as gingerly.
Don't undertake to mix the races in the
Lunatic Asylum, quoth the Governor,
because the Institution would be aban-
doned by the whites. Is he afraid to
put it on the true ground, that such so
cial intermingling would be violation of
natures laws, and a monstrous crime
against humanity?
And in reference to amalgamation in
the cases of the ''blind," and the ''deaf
and dumb" he puts his objection to the
hideous innovation on the ground of the
''ac,tte selssitiueness of hose afflicted peo-
ple." Poor creatures, according to the
Governor, they are so susceptible of
slight impressions, that they are not will
ling to lodge in the same rooms, sleep in
the same beds, and eat at the same tables
with the negroes. They have not been
thoroughly trained in the Republican
school of Sumner, Butler, Revels, Ames,
Morgan q Co., and are the victims of
"mean prejudices," which must be eradi-
Gated by degrees.
But even this 'Facute sensitiveness" is
not an insuperable objection with the
Governor to the mixture of the races in
the institutions for the blind and the
deaf and dumb. He is not willing to
recognize it to the extent of absolute
prohibition in law of a mixture of the
two classes of pupils" in those institu-
lions, and hence he would leave their
to the ''wise discretion" of
Superintendent who, in the course of
events, may or may not be Africans of
the pure blood like Aaron Moore, or of
the mixed breed like Revels, or miscege-
majors like Morgan. To show that we do
not misstate the position of the "Repub-
lican chief" as he has been dubbed by
his organ, we will quote from his message
the following extract, in which he ex-
plains himself:
If mixture of races be made the condi-
ton of participation of our public Chart
y
wisdom of the objection, that condition will
act among the whites, to very great ex-
tent, as virtual exclusion. We must deal
with this fact as we find il. While una1iL-
ling TO recognize 1t to the extent Of an absolute
prohibition, an tG1o, OF Dsi1ture of the ttCo
classes of pupils an the Institution for the
Blind, or in the establishment for the Deaf aud
Dumb, 1 recommend, in consideration of the
acute sensitiUeHess of those afflicted people, |
and on the general ground that an enforced
violation of their opinions, win but serve
as denial of their rights under the State
charities, that the Superintendents of those
Charities shall receiUe ample authority in Tao,
to exercise mise discretion in the Classification
and keeping of the pupils of the too races.
The people of the State have thus
seen the necessity of arousing themselves
for the protection of the Institutions es-
tablished for the care and maintenance of
the unfortunate children of affection, or
they will perish as all other good and
noble Institutions are perishing, under
the curse of Radical Government.