The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-07-28
The -TribuIasions OF n Maj aud
Brother among the Loyal Cadets
ma West PeIma--SThc Lesson.

The -T<fbuIaaions OF n 1zaA and
Brother among fhe Loyal Cadets
ma West Pelna--1-Thc Lesson.
In seems, after all, that negro cadet
who had carpet-bagged into South Caro-
lima, from Connecticut, did succeed in
gaining admission as a Cadet in the
United States Military Institute. The
following letter will show the trials to
which he has been subjected. 1t must
be borne in mind that the young men
who inflicted the cruelties on him, which
he describes, are all of the truly loyal
class. They are fair representatives of
Northern sentiment on the subject of
the Social Equality doctrine embodied in
the creed of the Republican party, and
especially illustrated by its measures in
the ''scalawaged" States of the South.
No one can gain admission into the por-
tails of the Academy without making
oath that he neither participated in the
war against the Federal Government, nor
gave aid or sympathy to persons who
we're thus engaged. Consequently, it is
an affair of the truly loyal exclusively.
The facts convey useful lesson
They show that the sensibilities of the
the white race, uncontaminated by fana-
teal teaching, or lust of Office, instinc-
lively revolt against the amalgamation
doctrines of the party in power. And in
the natural resentment displayed by the
cadets at West Point, and not rebuked
even by their teachers who live by the
breath of the rulers who have inaugu-
rated the Mongrel scheme, the Republic
can leaders may learn a useful lesson.
The School, Militia, and other measures
which they have adopted for Mississippi,
to compel social equality between the
races, will serve to give impetus to the
current of opposition which is moving
resislessly against the entire plan of Mon
grelEm. 1t may be asked if these white
Republicans are the true friends of the
negro they profess to be, would they force
HIM into positions which produce the an
tagmism described in the case of this
bladxamoor at West Point? Would they
not prefer to be guided by the unchangea-
BILE distinctions which Nature has made,
and which cannot be disregarded without
arousing the spirit of caste and involving
botI races in trouble:
From the Washington Chronicle.
DisgracefuI Treatment of the
COIOred Cadet.
The following letter from j. W. Smith,
The colored cadet at West Point, to his home
folks at Hartford certainly makes out pretty
hard times for that young pioneer:
WEST POINT, n. Y, June %, 1870.
DEAR FRIRND: Your kind letter should
have been answered long ere this, but really
l have been so harrassed with examination
and the insults and ill-treatment of these
cadets, that could not write or do ANYTHING
right, and got in, but my companion How
ara failed and was rejected. Since he went
away / have been lonely indeed. And now
these fetlosos appear to be trying their almost to
they continue as they have begun. We went
into camp yesterday, and not a moment has
passed since then but some one of them has
been carsing and abusing me. All night they
were around my tent, cursing and StcedriHg
at ne so that L did not sleep two hours all
night. 1t is just the same at the table, and
and what l get to eat L must snatch for like
a dog. | don't wish to resign if / can get
along at all; but don't think it aciH be best
for me to stay and take all the abuses and in
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ton was very hard this year-harder than
ever beforehand since l have been success
full in getting in will stay as long as pos
sibly can. One Of the cadets refused to drill
the squad because tcds in IL, and they reduc-
ed him from a corporal TO a private for dis
obedience of orders, and they are all mad
about that. The one who drills the squad
now is the meaneSt specimen of humanity
l ever saw. After marching us out to the
drill ground this morning he said to me,
'Stand off one side from the line, you id
black. You are too near that white
man. l want you to remember you are not
on an equal footing with the white men in
your class, and what you learn here YOU
will have to pick up, for wont teach you a
id thing" And thus he kept me standing
until the captain came around inspecting
when he pretended that he put me there to
teach me a movement which / had never
practiced before. And | could say nothing
at all, or l would have been locked up for
ulSODeulencc OI OTuefS OF ulSTeSpecJ 10 e'Sll-
perior officers" If it ever happens again |
shall deny it to his face and then resign.
If l complain of their conduct to the
commandment, L must prove the charges, or
nothing can be done; and where am | to
find one from so many to testify in my be-
half? If this afternoons drill is conducted
as this mornings was, you need not be as
tOnished at hearing that l have resigned
have borne insult upon insult until I am
completely worn out. | have written a
plenty of bad news, and wish had some
good news for you; but alas it seems to
be getting worse and worse. / forgot to tell
you that out of eighty-six appointees, only
thirty-nine passed the examination. They
had prepared it to fix the cOlored candidates,
but it proved most disastrous to the whites
l hope you are all well at home. L saw a
very fine article relating to me in the Hart
ford COurant, and l feel very grateful to Mr..
Capron for his kind words concerning me.
hope my brightest hopes will be realized,
but doubt if they will ever be here.
Give my kind regards to all, and write
soon so your much benefited and thankful
servant, j. w. SMITH.
The Republican War i'm North
Carolina, How the ssFOOIs