The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-09

and lift up the banner of Am
nesty, without abandoning the Republi- |
can party, how in the name of common |
sense are intelligent, high-minded men in |
the South to believe they can attach |
themselves to that party without stultifi- |
cation and a base abandonment of them |
selves to selfdegradation and to the
championship of Prescription?
Gov. AIcOrn ON Mixed schools
Some of our contemporaries of the Con-
sentative press in their generosity, and
in their eagerness to acquit themselves of a
suspicion that they would not accord praise
where it is due, have been rather hasty
as they will see on second thought, in
their unconditional approval of the letter
of Gov. Alcorn to the Radical imam and
brother" at Washington City on the sub
ject of mixed schools.
This Radical had taken the Governor
severely to task for dissenting from the
plan of Pease, the Superintendent of
L " hD1tC anu
black children without distinction at the
same schools; and has reminded him of
his inconsistency in advocating the creed
which places Revels in the United States
Senate by the side of the white men in
that body and yet in opposing the admis-
sion of Revels' son to the common school
attended by the sons of these same Sena-
tors.
Now, how does Gov. Alcorn meet this
proposition to corrupt our social system
at its fountain-head Does he meet it
by manly argument? Does he meet it
by demonstrating it to be wrong in PRIN-
cIPLE, crime against Nature, contrary
to the ordinances of God whose immuta-
BILE law proclaims the separation of the
races, and the violation of which is atten-
ded with social anarchy and the degenera-
cy of those who engage in it? On the
contrary he surrenders the whole ground
of controversy and yields the point at issue
by admitting that the opposition of our
people to this beastIy and ungodly dogma
of Radicalism is prejudice" which
must be compromised with for the time in
order to consummate Cor in Executive
parlance ''to consolidate'O the work of
reconstruction.
What is ''prejudice?" 1t is an inn
preston of the mind arising from passion
and not reason-"a decision formed
without due examination of the facts
(which are necessary to a just and i'm
partial determination. "-( Webster. }
Now, is it not a SANDER on our people
for whose "prejudices" Gov. Aleorn ven
lures to make a slavish apology in this
very letter deprecating the wrath of his
Radical judges to attribute their invinci-
bic hostility to the system of mixed
schools, to cause so wretchedly puerile
and SO utterly insufficient? For our
selves, and rejecting we believe the SEN
timents of our white population who do
not intend to be dragooned into the sup
port of this Black Republican tenet, we
repudiate the apology" and trample
under foot the cause assigned for their
opposition, as unworthy the subject or
the occasion. Their opposition is not due
to prejudice" 1t is founded on the
rock of principle which will stand the
test of the most thorough and deliberate
examination and against which the winds
and the waves of fanaticism can never
prevail.
But to fill up the measure of the pusilla-
nimity of his plea, or argument, "apoIo-
gy' or whatever else you may call it, he
declares that the most effectual method
of removing this prejudice" which die
tates the separation of the races in the
schools, is to let it have its way until its
practical working demonstrates that sep
crate schools is "l,trury" which the re-
fractory whites ION whom the burthen of
taxation will chiefly falD cannot long
afford. We will quote his own language /:
The really good reason for protesting
against this demand rests not with the coli
| ored man, but with the white man who is
| of the resulting taxation. He concurs now
with the colored people in insisting that the
schools shall be separate; 6ui h0lo long that
concurrence may continue am unable TO sdy
IN presence Of the fact that he 1oiH diSc0uer, by
and BY, that the luxury OF separate schools in
UOlres a tar exceedingly burdenS0nle.
Time makes all things eren.
Thus, we are told this prejudice" is to
cure itself by its fruits of "burdensome
taxation" The whites, poor, miserable,
degraded class, weighing principle and
conscience against the almighty dollar,
and sitting with its jingle the very in
stincts which their Maker has implanted
in their bosoms-have only to taste of the
bitterness of this 'tax" to be cured of
their prejudice" and the practice of sep
arate schools born of it; and thus ''by-
and-by," chastened by the rod and with
minds purged of impure ideas become
prepared to abandon their civilization
and to enter into the higher sphere of
Mongrelism which is being prepared for
them by the apostles of the Radical
party.
This is the logic of the letter which
some of our Conservative cotemporaries
are applauding.
THE q WHITE MEN-In our LAST issna xve