The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-23

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Letter from william.
EAST MISSISSIPPI
March IL, 1871. I
r,rroRs CLARION: There is need o
.,,,rtiaI law and military bittcl'' at Meri
80 NOT 70 subdue the Ku KluX nor the
-rbi,e trash, but to teach the colored peo'
That white folks have some rights which
iLov are bound to respect. There has been
~. widest excitement here for several
H.. Billy Clopton, Tyler and j. Aaron
Moore. he who would vote against Jesus
Christ. if he vas friendly to white folks
.-on.ed the demon of destruction in their
HACK friends, killed Judge Bramlette, and
# /. feared burned up the town. This Clop-
ian was once placed in the Penitentiary, but
vas.reIeased by military authority, and
,,rned loose upon the community to out
r,ge and insult the sensibilities of a peo-
nj who, Unfortunately, struck too late or
,oo soon to be separated from Government
whose most exquisite luxury is to de fame,
,rsduce and spit upon Southern character
and heroism. As usual the whites have, by
5rbearance and long suffering, prevented a
social war, for the blacks are taught that
bood.hed and destruction are their prerog-
alive.
ASH. Aaron Moore is now in Jackson,
address him few lines throgh you,
AARON: | wish to writeSou a note, and
give you some idea how the thing stands
iust now. Several years ago, the people of
the North had a traffic they called slave
trade They brought over great many
Wild Africans, and among them, your an
cestors and put them to work and kept
them as long as it paid, and then sold them
to the South, whose people cared tor them
and gave them the elements OF civilization,
more than their kindred ever got anywhere
else. As punishment to the South ant
military, they were emancipated and
made citizens. Immediately adventures
from the North came to the South, and in
famed the negro and poisoned what little
mind he had against the only friend he ever
possessed You, with others, were selected
Dbe instruments of insult and oppression,
and placed in positions for which you had
and have no qualifications. Emboldened
aud Intoxicated by so sudden a change, you
have heaped up annoyances upon the white
people. until you have no idea where you
stand \ disposition has been cultivated to
excuse you on the ground that you are ig-
noraut and that others are to blame.
wish to remind you that only few of
he white people of this country have join
ed in with You in tramping under foot the
glorious memories of the past. The South
grn people are the same men and women
you knew, when you were blacksmith and
auseful servant, and have not half the re-
speet for you now which they had them
You are known TO them as is the history of
-FOUR race for the past 5000 years.
Aaron, you have sense enough to know
hat no government can stand, when ignOr-
ance makes laws to Cypress intelligence
The late disturbance at Meridian is a small
flair; but you only have to persevere to in
mgurate such a state of feeling on large
Gale, to bring about a general struggle for
mastery. Our people are determined to
rescue the State government from your
lands, but choose to do so at the ballot box
lou seem determined to precipitate bloody
anAict for supremacy, and if you succeed,
four race, and all your yellow and white
ssOeiates will find quarters with Clopton
aad Tyler. Mississippians, for four years
confronted the government of the United
Mates, without trepidaCion. They never
intend to effect disruption OF the govern
nent but, on the contrary, are for the I'm
ion, now and forever. They do not seek to
tsturb your status as a freedman, but, on
tie contrary, intend to exert themselves
nryOur advantage.
This, Aaron, is the programme of the
white people of this State. Let me tell yons
though, you must learn your place. Ignor-
nee must be subordinate to intelligence.
Negro as you are, ineendiary as you declar-
ayourself at Meridian, in your Sodom and
'omorrah speech, you must feel ashamed,
Wien you look over the Legislature, and see
saorant and strange negroes, unprincipled
40 impecuneous white men, voting to
aOther all material prosperity in the State,
taking property when hardly a quarter
ation of land is held and paid for by your
seed. You certainly can read outrage all
Yer Jim Lynch, every time you see him
Nempting to discharge the functions of the
ScOnd office In the State to the exclusion of
aen who are citizens thereof who have in
%hgence, and who are bound to the soil
Ad people by a community of feeling and
interest. Lynch came herea missionary of
he meek and lowly Jesus, to cry out. as one
the wilderness, to your benighted race.
Lou pretend to be preacher. How does
ans course in Mississippi compare with
aat Of the Apostles, whom Christ personally
"nmissioned to preach the Gospel to
9ery creature:
De wise in time, Aaron, seek to know your
'Paefe OF operations, open you blacksmith
-0p IN Meridian. leave the State House, go
Judge Hamm, Judge Evans and Mr..
+Assdale and ask them to write out an hum
apology 10 the good people, who have
s''ne SO long with your outrageous con-
Dcr aud let Col. Shannon and Col. Horn
s'0iish it in papers that white men read.
:. y WAL be forgiven, respected and protect
wy good and wholesome laws against all
'ehee or wrong. Advise all negroes to
Ae same, and extend your piece suffi-
lAy to urge all the carpet-bag mulattoes
ave Mississippi, with their white con-
y crates in yillainy.
Il could say more, but, for the present,
Z e you and all negro officials to ponder
suggestions already submitted.
an WILLIAM.
Rgret not golden age that it is behind.
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