The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-05-26

of life and society, |
without reference to race or color, is an
other significant step in the march of the |
New Agitation which has been Inaugural
ted by the Radical party.
The bill, as the public have been APP
prised, requires all managers of hotels,
railroads, theatres, churches,
common schools, colleges, academies,
concert halls, &C., to ignore distinctions
of race, and imposes heavy penalties for
a violation of its provisions. 1t is des-
cribed to be so comprehensive as even to
prohibit cemeteries from being devoted
to the sepulture exclusively of white or
colored people.
1t is idle to argue the enormity of this
measure. It is idle to describe the social
chaos which it will produce unless the
party to which its origin is due, is checked
in its licentious career. The measure is
the outgrowth of Puritan intolerance
which from time immemorial has thrust
its iDtermeddling hand into everything
sacred and profane. 1t is simply one of
the malignant manifestations of Radical
ism of which Puritanism is the fruitful
parent. The measure is from the source
which in former times gave birth to the
Blue Laws of New England. The laws
themselves have passed away, but the
meddlesome spirit of the ''unco guild"
disciples of selfrighteousness lives in the
persons of such Radicals leaders as Sum-
ner, Phillips and others, and it is dis
played in this scheme which proposes to
introduce the agency of the Federal
Government even into the domain of
private life.
Under the Blue Laws the Puritans
sentenced Philip Radcliffe, "a servant to
"'Mr Craddock, to be whipped, to be
''fined and have both his ears cut off and
ito be banished for writing foul and
'scandalous tenets against the govern
"ment and church" John Kitchen for
showing books which he was commanded
s'to bring to the Governor, and forbidden
''to show to any other, was fined ten
''shillings." Martha Malbon for con-
''senting to go in the night to venison
''feast with William Harding and Weld
ing to dalliance with said Harding, was
whipped. F" Goodman Hunt and his
''wife for keeping the counsels of the said
William Harding, baking him pastry
''and plum-cake, and keeping company
with him on the Lords day, and she
suffering Harding to kiss her-were
ordered to be sent out of town one month. 3"
1t was part of these laws that ''no wo-
imam should kiss her child, much less
cher husband, on Sabbath or First Day,
"and that to make any motion of marriage
"to any mans daughter or maid-servant,
mot having obtained leave or consent of
"thc parents or masters to do so, was
punishable by fine or whipping accord
Sing to the gravity of the offence.O
These were the laws by which the
Radicals of former times undertook to
reform society. The Radicals of the
present day, having rent the Union asun-
der by trampling under foot the compact
into which its trainers entered, now since
they have knit it together with the bay
onet, propose to thrust the hand of the
Federal Government into the convention
al arrangements of life and to prescribe
how society shall be organized. Propri-
etors of hotels are not to be permitted to
keep them as they choose. The benches
and pews of churches are not to be APP
propriated as the members thereof may
direct. Schools are to be conducted on
the Mongrel plan whether the teachers,
or parents, so wish, or not. And so with
regard to railroads, concert halls, &c.
Even the grave-yards are to be invaded
by these Radical Vandals in search of
fields for the display of their peculiar
dogmas.
1t will not do to say that these move
ments are of trihing import. 1t will not
do for sensible people to overlook, or for
give, or disregard them, in their gratif-
cation that Mr.. Jones, Conservative has
been appointed in place of Mr.. Sneak a
Carpet-bagger, to place on the bench,
which is well enough and is so much
made clear out of this iniquity of Radi-
cal Administration. Sumner is leading
member of the Radical party. He is
Chairman of the Committee on Foreign
Affairs. His doctrine is held by a ma
jority of his party; and has already been
put In practice in several OF the recon.
structed States. They are entertained
by forty-nine fftieths of the Radical party
in our own State of Mississippi. They
are daily preached by Stringer, Jacobs,
Gray and other Radical oracles in the
Legislature, and crop out whenever bill
is introduced to charter a railroad,
school or hotel.
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General Amnesty.
Mr.. Cox offered resolution instructing
the reconstruction committee to report
forthwith a bill for general amnesty. and
moved the previous question. The House
refused TO second it bv 81 to 7S.-Congres-
sional Proceedings. May 18th.
1t is reported further that this meas
ure received only Is votes from the Rad
ical party. Our prescribed people were
promised before the election by apostates
from the Conservative ranks that the sure
method of securing general amnesty was
to vote the Radical ticket and carry the
State into the Union under the control of
the Ames-Alcorn party. From the fore