The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-12-01

governments Of the South, in defiance Of
public sentiment, devised as a means of
power the scheme Of disfran-
ehising the whites and enfranchising the
blacks and combining them into sepa-
rate organization of antagonism to the
former. They came as mere adventures
to occupy offices created by themselves,
and to fill their pockets at the expense Of
the people. thus downtrodden and impov-
rished Their own acts are their trum-
pet-tongued accusers. acknowledgements
has been their policy from the beginning.
Whatever political rights the whites have
obtained, were won IN spite Of the reso-
lutte and persistent opposition Of tie
spoilsnen-
The people Of Mississippi would now
be the victims of the DISTINGUISHING con-
stitution, adopted and attempted to be en-
forced by the MongreIs in 1868, but for
the success of their almost superhuman
effort to prevent its CT nsummation. 1t Is
well remembered that beaten at the polls,
the conspirators next turned their eyes TO
Congress, and if they failed to force upon
Mississippi the rejected cou-dtution, ii
was because forgeries and perjuries. and
swearing, hard enough to put the Devil
and bis imps to the blush, did not avail
them.
Their scheme to obtain power, however,
did not miscarry. The management of
the farce of an election, was in the hands
of an INSCRIPTIONS shoulder-strap, who
became party to the ring which was
formed for that purpose.
How they have used the authority thus
unrighteously employed, is a familiar
story. In their determination to monopo-
Use the Offices which the people have a
right to fill under the constitution of the
MongrePs own creation, they have tram
pied even that instrument under their
feet. In the whole State of Mississippi,
there is not a single place in the occupa-
ton of men who were chosen by the
free action Of the voters themselves.
Their greed and public plumber and
audacity in providing measures for secur-
ing it, exceed the most extravagant antici
pations. In six months after they were
Installed, they appropriated not less than
MILLION OF DOLLARS, making SIX
HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS in excess
Of the average expenditures of former
years, and to make sure of realizing this
sum, they quintupled the taxes and set
their agents busily at work to collect them.
They provided the severest penalties for
delinquincies which must be numerous
and inevitable, under the present decline
in cotton and the ineficiency oflabor.
| But not content with this wholesale meas
IRE of extortion, the spoilsmen seem to
have organized regular system of down
right stealing. The tale of absconding
,heriGs, with their pockets crammed with
the proceeds Of the taxes they have col
lected, has become threadbare from its
frequent repetition. These multiplied
wrongs, would wear out the forbearance OF
our people, if they did not have before
them the examples of deliverance of THEN
long suffering countrymen of Virginia,
North Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri, and
Alabama. Ifthey are united and reso-
Lutte, their own day viii come ere long.
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Republican, EsuIe ia Louisiana -
The 5GOnsrei school System
We have noticed that since the present
Radical rulers, partly By their own ras-
cally devices and partly by the supineness
and indiferece of the Conservatives, who
are, therefore, not free from blame for
the result-have secured another two
years lease of power in Louisiana, they
have launched their favorite scheme OF
mongrelization in the public schools.
Conway, the Superintendent Of Educa-
ton, has published circular addressed
to the teachers, which contains the fol
lowing paragraph:
4. The public schools Of New Orlcaas.
wheu their respective waui boarGs shall
| laYe assumed control and management oi
rhenl, shall be open tl ali children residing
| III the district ia which said schools are es-
| tabli>hed, and no ward board or any Other
| authority shall issue any rule. resolution, or
| regulation by which any child. entitled Ilu-
| Ter the law and under the Constitution ct
| he State 10 admission into the same, shall De
excluded on account ofrace or color.
In other words, separate schools for
white and black are not admissible; and
the whites who are not willing to ignore
distinctions of race, will not be permitted
to enjoy the benefits of the schools which
will be supported mainly by the taxes
they are required to pay. Of course,
they will decline to send their children to
these mixed schools, and will cooperate
| to establish such others as they are able.
The Picayune and Times newspapers
are furiously denunciatory of this extreme
measure of the Republican rulers; but
we could not fail to observe the remarka-
bic indifference to the result which they
displayed pending the election. They
are now very busy locking the door after
the exit of the stolen steed.
In this action of the Louisiana Radi-
Gals the people of other States who have
not delivered themselves from Radical
misrule may take warning.
From all the information we have been
able to obtain, We are led to the conclu-
sion that the yield of cotton the present
wear will equal that of last season. Some