The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-04-25

A Convention of colored demagogues
and placemen was recently In session In
New Orleans The harangues of its
speakers were noted fer the luminosity
which they breathed for the white race,
and for the partisan temper of its delib-
erations. Composed for the most part
of stipendiaries OF. the Administration
or creatures of Its power in the Southern
States-as q matter of course, the body
passed resolutions committing its mem
bers TO the support ofthe Grant party in
the Presidential election. Nevertheless
a resolution condennatory of the Cincin-
matt Convention was not passed without
considerable opposition.
The conclave went the whole swine in
favor of compulsory social equality and
did more, on the whole, to arouse the
bitterness and perpetuate the antipathies
of caste, than any other body which has
ever assembled The foolish leaders
seemed bent on their Own destruction by
antagonizing themselves to race which
outnumbers them ten to one f; and whose
ascendency, immigration and the laws of
population, will make the more secure.
While these people are insanely clamor-
ing for the enactment of laws to force
open other peoples doors to them, will
they need no appeal to save themselves
from the consequences of their own mad
ness? The following resolution is the
gist of their platform
6. Having been by solemn legislation of
the American Congress raised to the dignity
| of citizenship, we appeal to law-abidnQ
people of the States, and especially to those
who in the days of the fugitive slave law
| eXhOrted obedience to statutes, howevUr
| offensive. to protect and defend us in the
| enjoyment of our just rights and privileges
| upon all conveyances which are common
| carriers, at all resorts of public amusements.
| where tastes are cultivated and manhood Is
| quickened, and in all places of public char
| acter or corporate associations which owe
! their existence TO the legislation of the
nation on States against the spirit of slave
nv. which attempts To degrade our standard
| II Intelligence and virtue by forcing our
refined ladies and gentlemen into smoking
ears amid obscenity and vugarity; which
huiniliates our pride; by denying us first
| elias accommodations on steam boats. and
compelling us to eat and sleep with servants
for which We are charged the same as those
who have the best accommodations, and
| which closes the door of hotels against
| furnishing colored persons, however wealthy,
| intelligent or respectable they may be,
while all other public places and conveyan-
/ ces welcome and entertain all white persons,
| whatever may be their character, who may
| apply. Now, in view of this disgracefIl
| inconsistency, this atfectatiOn of prejudice,
| this rebellion against the laws of God, hui
manity and the nation, we appeal to the
| Justice of the American people to protect
us in our civil rights in public places and
| upon public conveyances, which are readily
accorded, and very justly. to the most de-
| graded specimens OF our white fellow citi-
| ZenS.
z. That wherever Republicans have be-
| tTayed colored constituencies. we recon-
mend that better men be elected to succeed
| them, and especially do we pledge ourselves
| TO elect successors in Congress, wherever
we hPve the power, to every Republican
| who voted against or lodged the supple
mentary civil rights bill recently introduced
! into the United States Senate by Hon.
! Charles Sumner; and also successors to
those who shall not show satisfactory
| record on the civil rights bill now in the
United States House of Representatives.
The Mean White demagogues will
take notice of the last resolution and
govern themselves accordingly.