The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-10-13

Itself In Ghe Republican Earty.
The Radical leaders have been active
and INSCRIPTIONS in organizing the me-
groes into a separate political party led
by themselves on the basis of hostility
to the whites with view to perpetuatIng
their power. But they have inflated the
minds of the negroes with ideas which
will in the end prove fatal to their own
schemes. They have taught the black
sufragan a knowledge of his influence,
by reason of numbers, and he now we'll
understands his race comprises Ninety
nine hundredths of the Republican party
in the Southern States. The equal of
the carpet-baggers in intelligence-their
superiors in courage as well as in honesty,
the negro leaders have not been longin
measuring the relative strength of fine
materials that compose the Republican
organization and are beginning to assert
the rights which they are legitimatdy
warranted in claiming in the division of
the Offices at their disposal. They hare
reasonably asked if the Alcorn doctriHe
be true that the face is not to be looked
into to determine the color Of the skin
and if honesty, capacity and Republican
orthodoxy, are to be the only STANDARD
by which selections of public agents are
to be made-why is this doctrine hot
faithfully carried out by the men Who
proclaim it? Without pausing for an
answer, or throwing themselves on he
liberality of their carpet-bag and scala
wag guides, they are taking counsel of
their own strength and are asserting the
claim of recognition for Office which it
gives them.
In South Carolina, the blacks have
made the Mean Whites stand aside, and
have taken to themselves all tire Repub-
lican nominations for Congress.
Florida is entitled to but one Congress
man and the Republican candidate for
that place is negro.
In the Selma (Alabama) District, en-
bracing the City of Mobile and tie
wealthiest portion of the State, the He-
publican nominee is Ned Turner, blak
man who supercedes Buck, the preset
carpet-bag Representative, and who with
two other Low Down Whites were cand-
dates for the nomination. Ned easily
distanced them; and the colored peooh
are represented to be 'jubilant over thei.
victory" Buck, like another striclel
deer, will retire to some sequestered spot,
there to bewail the fate that sends him
away from the Congressional pasture
In the first District of Virginia, the
colored men, unwilling longer to occupy
the relation of mere beasts of burden to
the White Scum, nominated one of their
own race Cob Norton we believe they
call HIM for Congress. Whereupon he
White Scum drifted off into a new cur
rent, and nominated man of their own
tribe.
In the Memphis (Tenn.) District, Ed.
Smith, a citizen of African descent,
throws himself into the race for Congress
as the regular nominee of the blacks
against Jerusalem Smith, the present.
Mean White incumbent.
In New Orleans political society
known as Christian Republicans" hive
cut loose from the carpet-baggers and
thrown their banner to the breeze undr
the lead of one Dumas of the African
race, for Mayor.
In all these contests the blacks are
emboldened by a knowledge of their in
mense numerical advantages as well asof
their superiority in intelligence. Besids,
they know well that in a contest between
them and the carpet-baggers and scalawgs
they will have the sym pathy of the mss
Of white people.