The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-08-14

the fast Is puOllshed IN THIS NUMBER.
(By the way, his soubriquet is a mis-
homer. We don't know any one who
more belongs to the PRESENT. We said,
or intended to be understood as saying,
in our comments on his first letter, that
he had pointed out the difficulties in the
way of carrying the elections this fall,
but had failed to prescribe a remedy.
And this he admits, unless he will assert
that his scheme of colonization from
other Southern States would accomplish
within that time what he proposes, and
this we have no idea he would do AS
for its future benefits we have admitted
all he claimed and in order to show that
we approved Certainly not to combat
with him the credit of originating it) We
said it had been repeatedly suggested
through THE CLARION, but had not been
responded to by those whose vital inter
ests were at stake. True we did not pro-
pose it as party scheme, or urge that it
be carried out through party machinery,
but we did so on the broader and higher
ground of promoting the industrial in
terests and enhancing the wealth and
population of the State-well knowing
that the ends desired by our correspond
ent would follow as inevitably as day fol-
lows night To show that this assevera-
ton was not vain boast, we will quote
the following from our files of February,
1872:
ION the subject of immigration into our
State, we will take the liberty of publishing
an extract from late letter of thoughtful
and public spirited citizen, setting forth a
plan for increasing the industrial ana
wealth producing population of the State,
with such elements as would elevate its tone
and maintain its character for manliness
and intelligence. He writes:
If were to embark in an immigration
enterprise | would not leave the Southern
States. | would go into Middle Tennessee
and North and South CarOlinas, GEORGIA
and Virginia, and induce worthy young
men of confederate character (nOt scaIIa-
wags) to come here and rent lands (or labor
OtIISI w ISC OA LIO DiOulISP IndJ
they should have the refusal To buy when
they were able to carry on business for
themselves. To do this, would require the
cooperation OF landowners, which could
easily be had, and men of that character
would receive such encouragement from
landowners that they would be content to
stay. While all worthy men from every
country and cline would be welcomed they
who were Confederate soldiers or the sons
of such who have grown to manhood since
the war. would especially interest them and
meet with encouragement and good neigh
borho Il, without which. no man unless he
is an office seeker or holder of a lucrative
office, would be content TO stay.
The prosecutions of the class here de-
scribcd in South Carolina by the Federal
Government and the bad State Government
which have rendered their citizenship in
tolerable. wonld render that State an in
viting field for such an operation"
The plan here foreshadowed has been
urged ever since its appearance, on every
occasion in our columns until
it has become an oft told tale Our cor
need not fear, therefore, that
we will not be willing coadjutor in car
rying it forward.
He is also assured that we did not in
tend to include him in the class who
make loud professions and are content
with them. Far from it. 1t simply
came in the way of the general discus
sion of the situation to refer to the free
and easy method which some people have
of winning victory before the battle is
fought, by assigning to every white man
the duty of &c voting a nigger;" and
stated that the boosters who laid down
this programme usually did nothing in
that line themselves. We could not
have referred to him, because his letter
was sad confession that the insane UNI
iertaking instigated by broken-dOwn,
politicians who followed in
the wake of Andy johnson, and hoped
to have new life breathed into their nostrils
by him, to defeat the Constitutional
investing the negro with
political rights, had brough hit to nought
Ill the well-meant endeavors of men like
our correspondent and ourselves to OBJ
ain the confidence and cooperation of
he blacks for the the white citizens of
he State in the management Of their
political affairs. Whether he is correct
n saying that this hope is now forever
ost, except by his plan of disbanding
he Democratic party, we will not now
discuss. Even if it be true as he assumes,
hat the negro has not been Influenced |
or good by the teaching Of the few who
ssayed to instruct him before the Car
,et-bagger had instilled the poison of
listrust and enmity into his mind, is it |
wonderful that such was the fact when |
he voices of these teachers, in the be- |
inning of the agitation of 1866-'67,
we're drowned in the boisterous clamors
f the unreasoning multitude? But it is
ut historically true. The canvass of
868, when thousands of negro voters
with the opposition expressed by ma
Drity of the whites TO comforting suf-
loSo upon tieih SUN ringing III lHeIr
ars) needed the appeals Of these same
Thites, came to their rescue and helped
D defeat the DISTINGUISHING Constitution,
isproves the assertion. The election of
50 is not case in point. White men
tho staid away from the polls and there
y aided in the Inauguration of the Car
et-bag regime which has ever since
ursed the State, have no right to cast
eproach on the conduct of the negro in
hat canvass; and the same remark APP
lies to the election of last year. Thou