The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-01-02

Occasionally, but only occasionally,
we have noticed declarations by one Or
two contemporaries in favor Of . white
mans party This is precisely what the
mean white would-be leaders of the
blacks most desire. They have prosper
ed on race organization and by foment-
ing prejudice between the whites and
blacks; and nothing will CRAFTY them so
much as TO receive assistance in this in
direct form from those who are at heart
opposed To their rule "a white man :
party cannot succeed and ought not to
succeed except in the sense that it is de-
signed to secure the same rights, civil
and political to the ostracised class, that
the government has conferred upon the
blacks. Probably in this sense, such a
party has been proposed.
In reference to the blacks, we would
Justice and of Cancellation. 1t will win
in the end. We incurred tempest of
wrath for advising it when he question
of negro suffrage was first mooted III
1867. Subsequent events have confirm
ed us in the propriety of the course we
then advocated. 1t would have spared
our people mot negro suffrage it is true,
buD carpet-bag rule.
Since the long night of reconstruction
strife and littleness set in, things have
occurred that ought to be forgiven and
forgotten on both sides. A new leaf
should be turned. The negro is assured
of his freedom, and the issues legitimate
ly growing out of his changed condition
are all settled. With their settlement
and the removal Of the apprehensions
created by Northern adventures for the
security of his rights-the old feeling of
mutual kindness and good will should be
revived.
In this connection, we will introduce
some appropriate observations from the
Richmond Enquirer, the leading con-
sentative paper in Virginia, where it will
be remembered, the the white popula-
ton is largely in the ascendant
From the Richmond Enquirer.
We believe that there is between the bet
ter portion of the Southern people and the
coloIed race a deep-seated affection and
mutual respect which has been obscured or
overpuwered, but has not been and will
not be destroyed.
The home and true place OF the colored
people is close at the side of the intelligent,
the peaceful, the religious white. That
they will continue to affiliate with the low,
vulgar, and vicious, We do not believe
Nothing in our past experience of them
justifies us in believing So
Only let him become a little familiar with
his freedom, learn the use of his VoIe, and
get a little more experience of the selfish
mscreants who have been using him, and
al his old characteristics and atfnities will
show themselves, and we shall find him the
friend of peace, of good order, of virtue and
religion. and doing his duty as nature has
designed he should.
But the responsibility of the return of
harmony and general good feeling and or
der is not on the cOlored people alone. 1t
is for us, too, to respect all their rights and
see that they have all that is their due.
The whole problem is really resolved in
TO this: Shall the white race, by mean jeal-
ousy and unkindness, degrade the colored
race and make them their most dangerous
enemies, or shall they by just and kind
treatment make them valuable element
in our country and a stay and u help to our
civilization?