The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-10


been consulted, and are opposed to Con-
D vention meeting this year. And it is due e
/, the party and themselves that they should
publicly rePudiate the attempt to call q
r Convention, whose chief purpose Will be &c
endeavor to white wash Aleorn SO as TO foo
! some confding brothers of easy faith
What business can that Convention do of q
l legitimate party character? There are no
general elections in this State the present
. year, and no political question that Con-
Yention can aid or advance. The single.
real purpose of such Convention will be TO
2 assist Alcofn in his war upon President
Grant and his administration.
: WHO WILL COMPOSE THE CONVENTION?
Should the proposed Convention ever meet,
and there is no doubt that some sort of a
Convention Will meet, it will be stuffed
affair, filled with Alcorn's creatures. toadies.
oThce-holders, and any thlng good LORD
seekers after crumbs that tall from the rich
mans table, but which he takes very good
care shall be the fruits of the poor tax-pay-
ers of this State, collected out of their hard
earnings; for he grips with a giants grasp
every Individual dollar that ever gets into
his hands. He is very liberal man; oh,
very with other peoples money-uses
| five hundred thousand dollars OF tax mere
ly to buy up few colored men who have
sold out to him and gone back upon their
own race.
THE WHOLE SCHEME OF ALCoRN UNIVERSITY.
| Inc DeCLef name WOaiu De Acorn ; Cegfa-
| datiOn of the cOlOred citizen, was concocted
with no other purpose in view than to aid
| Mr.. Alcorn with half million of the neo-
| pies money, to buy up set of renegades
and traitors to their race. Is there an in
| telligent man in the State that does not know
! that there are not half dozen colored boys.
| natives of the State, who are prepared to
enter the freshman class in any college P
| let, in the face of such a fact, the people
! in addition to their other burthens, are to be
/ faNQ cd We hundred thAnSan0 To ac-
tabllsh University without students, pro-
fessors drawing big salaries without per-
forming duties. Now, l am a national man,
ready to extend the right hand to a man
without regard to what side of Mason and
DixOn's line he might have been born. But
my nationality even does not extend to the
education of children living in other States.
brought here to be taught by taxing the
people of Mississippi. and who, when so ed
ucated, Will return TO their homes. The peo-
pie of this State are not willing nor able to
educate the relations of Lynch and Revels |
living in other States and to be brought here |
for that purpose.
IN FAVOR OF EDUCATING THE BLACKS AT +
OXFORD.
But some may say, "Did you not advo-
cate that negroes should enter Oxford ~ |
Certainly, | did, and do so now. L Insist
that those ten fossiliZed aristOcrats should |
do something for the thirty-siX thousand |
dollars they receive each year of the peo
pies money. / insist that that University
shall be filed before any other is establish
ed. When those men at Oxford came out
in the papers and said no colored student
should be educated there" and MIR. Alcorn
endorsed them, and, in his mock-heroic style
said, IF the Caucasian race were to be I'M
peded, then negro liberty, so far he was
concerned, might take care of ITSELF it be-
came question of principle; and l conten-
ded for the right of the cOlored citizen up
to the letter and spirit of the Constitution
Of the United States, and of the State of
Mississippi. And now Alcorn's plan is to
make the negro admit his inferiority, and
repudiate the Constitution of his country,
and through a few bOught-up men OF his
own race. accept subordinate position
But to return To the proposed Convention.
What will be the effect of its
ENDORSEMENT OF MR. ALCoRN?
First: 1t will indorse his reasonable de-
tense of Gen. Lee; next, his removing Re-
publicans. all over the State, and putting
Democrats in their places. | will inform
Mr.. AIcorn and his toadies, that the touch
stone of a mans politics is, the fact whether
he uses his official patronage TO strengthen
and build up the party he pretends TO be-
long to. or not And what is his record ?
Let the hundreds of misplaced Republicans, ,
turned out to make room for Democrats,
answer. He and his friends may swear I'M
til they are blue. yet they will never satisfy !
that they are true men. Admit ,
that he had the right to turn out Republi-
cans, the party insists that he should have
replaced them with Republicans. Next, the .
endorsement of AlcOrn will be !
a denunciation of Grant and his administra- ,
ton, for it is generally understood that I
Aleorn is seeking place on some opposi- !
ton ticket, for the Weep Presidency, and :
''Barkus is within" ir fact keen, for high :
err position. That he win accept a nomina- J
ton from any source whence he can get it. :
But be will never smell it; he nationally. {
is NOT KNEE HIGH TO A JUNE-BUG. t
The National Party are thankful that he J
has shown his hand, and feel greatly relieved !
does man, claiming to be a Republican,
remove men of their party TO put Democrats e
in their places? Let the Republicans in :
the different counties come out with the
names of Republicans he has removed and
Of Democrats he has put in their places, and |
the damning record will sink million of !
Alcorns.
THIS BoAsTER OF LIBERALITY y
ne has never felt, and of generosity he has I
never practiced-could not. or would not,
establish an organ to do his bidding and il
putting without attempting to use the public G
money for that object. And by an act of c
yrannieal usurpation removed the State b
Printers elected by the Legislature, that o
heir contract might be given to his crea- d
ures. If the Supreme Court maintains a
him, then that Court is not worth a plea h
rune. The public are informed, as / have a
heard, that Alcorn and Powers are. Il
IoING TO CANVASS THIS STATE TOGETHER. !,
Let me say to Col. Powers, that he is not o
Atlas enough to carry that burden upon his 81
houlders, and as soon as the party are h
convinced that he sustainS Alcorn, it will G
lrop him. Many are now surprised that he b
hould have given any cOuntenance to plan fl
f having a packed Convention of office
folders called to sugar-coat Alcorn. Men V
re not going to give hundred dollars TO p
70 to jackson, for an object of no benefit to tl
o the party; but for the servile purpose of Il
licking Alcorn's feet. u
IExT YEAR THERE WILL BE NECESSITY FOR -
A CONVENTION, =
nd the trne men will then meet, and, if ..
hey think il necessary to kick dead cock "
a the pit, they will give James turn. But q,
think long before that time his status will N
'e well fixed. Probably not as Democrat, Fl
ut as man conceited, mean and devoid of hi
incerity, attempting to do that which n
could not have done, which a,
ackson did not do, and which johnson M
allied most egregiously in attempting to do, n
0 build up personal party. / wish every q
republican in this State knew how low n
Acorn stands in the. estimation of the 4,
ational Republican Party. 1t is glad it is h,
id of him, and the Democrats would not
ave him, although he went nosing about in
Democrat he has appointed TO Office that Is
Imports him, yet his egotism is so great \
hat he supposes that all he has got to do is :
D appoint a Democrat to office to convert a,
i'm into an AlcOrn man. Al
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