The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-10-05

HOW THE NEGROES ARE VOTED BY THE
CARPET BAGGERs-GIvE THEM
LIGHT.


EDITORS CLARION lis there no way to
undeceive the solOred voters OF Mississippi
They are deldded with the idea that they
vote, while the obvious truth is that they
| are uOted by the few g fventurers from the
North who have located chiefly in those
counties where they find a numerical ma
joritY of blacks to lift them into situations
favorable to plumber.
1t is a notable fact that in those counties
where the colored vote is small carpet-bag-
gers are either few or totally wanting.
This is the result not of accident but design,
finding full explanation in the eager search
for office by these strangers, aliens to the
South, without ties, without interest, with
out any pledge of responsibility, who pro-
fess devotion they do not feel to the well
fare of the blacks merely to secure their
votes to themselves in their candidacy for
offices of Profit.
Colored men are not put on the Republic
can ticket for offices of profit in any county
in the State that have heard of. Where
| there is large colored vote foreign adven-
turers are candidates for the chief offices
while the blacks are sparsely sandwiched
them as to secure their votes. In counties
where the blacks are in considerable minor
ity there are either no colored candidates or
they are on the ticket for comparatively
unimportant offices.
The negroes, though for the most part
uneducated and unskilled in politics, are
not fools, and, with the facts laid before
them, and attention called to them. will
soon see that they are being used simply as
tools to shape the private fortunes ofaliens
and strangers who have no sympathy with
them and who would utterly ignore them
but for the sinister object of securing their
support tor office.
am in favor of the negroes right to vote.
favor his uoting. But L mourn the fact, so
palpable to all, that, in most instances, the
boosted right of the eolored man to cote is
but flimsy veil over the real fact that he is
UOted at the nod and will of the foreign adj
venturer, who loudly prof, sses devotion to
negro rights and interests, but shows it by
acts in seeking Office aud gain, not for the
object of his devotion, but himself.
Cannot these facts be brought to the minds
of our colored citizens? And will it not be
wise for our people to take more pains to 90
this than has been done? l am persuaded
that the great evil of this time is that while
the negro is unused with the form of voting,
he is in fact voted at the will of imported
avaricious and unprincipled tricksters.
Let any man look at his own county, and
L venture to say that he will, without fail,
find just carpet baggers enough-neither
more nor less-than hold office; and if he
lives where there is a large Conservative
majority, he will find just none at all
One of our ngressmen-one,B arry--was
at Lexington, in Holmes county, protesting
to practice law-ostensibly citizen. But
he found that another arpet-bagger-one
McKee-had the tlturn on him for the nomi
nation to Congress. Lo! by flank move
ment we find him a citizen of another large
ly negro Congressional District which he
at Washington, while Mckee
brings like disgrace upon that which Barry
had quilted. So the thing works. and it is
q curious amusement to watch the distribu-
ton and motions Of these loafing Office |
seekers.
leave Alcorn to Lowry and the Leader. |
Between them he will be politically slaugh- |
tered and quartered.
MISSISSIPPI