The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-03-24

socfaI EquaIify..-sHomgrcIism ASS
serffng IfseIG
We are not advised as to the author
ship of the following BILL 1t was intro
duced into the State Senate, however, by
a negro member, Gray, from the county
of Washington:
Section /. Be it enacted by the Legisla-
tlIre of the State of Mississippi. That all
persons shall enjoy equal rights and privi-
leges in travelling and being entertained up
On any conveyance of a public character. or
at place of business where License is re-
quired in this State
Sec. 2. Be IL further enacted. That it shall
be unlawful for any person or persons COM
handing any steam or sailing vessel or wa
ter craft plying in this State, to make any
distinction on board OF any the above men
toned vessels or to refuse accommodation
on account of race or color.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That it shall
be unlawful tor any person or persons con-
Quoting or controlling any Railroad Compa-
ny. Stage Line or Public Vehicle, TO make
any distinction or refuse accommodation on
account of race or color.
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That any per-
son or persons violating the provisions of
this act shall, on conviction thereof be fined
not less than two hundred dollars and not
exceeding six hundred dollars, recoverable
before any ldNIul tribunal IN LDiS SLdJes OF
Ia the failure or fault of payment to be i'm
prisoned not less than six months, and not
| exceeding one year.
Sec. ). BE it further enacted, That all acts,
parts of acts or ordinances in force in this
State, contrary to the provisions of this act.
be and the same are hereby repealed and OF
no effect.
Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That this
act shall take effect from and after its pas
sage.
Gray is consistent Radical. His Re
publicanism cannot be called in question.
He is moreover brave Radical who dares
to put the doctrines of his party into prac-
tice and to read out of it, all who have
not the courage to frame code OF laws
based upon the principles Of the Radical
party for the government of the people.
These principles are that the natural dis
tinctions of the Caucasian and the Afri-
can races should be recognized neither by
the laws of the State, nor the usages of
society. TIE carry them out the consist
ent Radicals boldly assert that common
carriers, hotel keepers and others who
have business with the public, and espe-
cially corporations which receive special
privileges from the State, should be COM
PEELED to know no color or race in the ar
engagements which they may make for the
accommodation of the public. Thus,
steamboat companies must not have sep
arate tables, or separate apartments, for
white and black Nor must Railroad
companies know that God Almighty in
his wisdom made one race white and
another black. Radicalism sets up its
standard and says these natural distinc-
tions shall be put aside and the reign of
mongrelism shall be established in their
place.
The conservative doctrine proclaims
the perfect equality of all men of every
caste before the law; the protection of
every human being, white, black or yell
low, in his rights of person and property,
and consequently in the right of repre-
sentation to go hand in hand with taxa
tion-but it at the same time proclaims
that the welfare of both races demands
that the laws of nature should be observ-
ed in the regulations of society, and that
the folly, and madness, and wickedness
and beastiality of man should not assert
themselves against the wisdom and good
ness of his Maker. History is full of ex-
amples of the ruin and wretchedness
which have followed the reputation of
His laws, and the building of the affairs
of the Baal of Mongrelism in their places
Witness the curse that has fallen upon
Mexico where Mongrelism is the rule and
not the exception and so in the West
Indies, where the sacrilege Of ignoring
Divine laws have established anarchy.
Indebtedness and poverty upon the over
throw of order, intelligence and affiuence.
We do not pretend to predict the fate
of the Gray bill. We only know that it
is Radical doctrine pure and unadultera-
ted; and that some of the worthless who
rode into office on the shoulders of Sam
BIO by preaching it loudly before the cleo
ton are endeavOring to shirk the respon-
sibility of putting it into practice since
their ambition has been gratified bv means
of SambO's votes. And we do know
we are serene in the perfect assurance
that if this altar should be erected to
Mongrelism in our State by the so-caIled
Legislature which was brought into exist
ence by force and corruption, in due time
the indignation of the people whose civ
ilization is assailed, will smite it to the
earth