The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-03-20
EQUAL RIGHTS.


This part of the orators subject was quite
elaborate. Taking at once most advanced
and positive grounds, he placed himself
squarely on the point of being
OPPOSED TO ALL DISABILITIES.
OF all men. Call it error or otherwise, he
did not believe in the dogma of disabilities,
and was glad that there were but handful
of men in the South laboring under them
He could see no good reason why any citi-
zen's rights should be curtailed.
GOVERNMENT,
He said, were divided intakthree sorts of
kinds--Monarchical, Absolute and Demo-
cratic. The Patriarchcal had passed away
with the time Of Jacob, no more To return
While the mode in vogue in this country APP
prOaches Democratic, pure form of Dem
ocratic government does not exist Refer
ring to Greece and Rome, the speaker said
tley were not Democratic, for they had
their subjects and their slaves. He then ex-
planned his ideas on the forms of govern
ment, and asserted that the great principles
underlying all governments should be mi
nority and majority representation. Major
tiles are omni potent. Ransack all the histo-
ries of all the parties, and it would be found
that all were ruled by majorities. They
must turn this way or that way, as the peO-
pie ordered. The people were the majority.
He then turned to
MISSISSIPPI.
the land. 1t was binding upon every man.
1t declares that there shall be no distinction
in citizens of whatever color or previous
condition. He then asked: How do the
majority stand tonight? You have had
certain rights conferred upon you, but YOU
have had these rights doled out TO yon in
beggarly instruments. You were not con-
tent lou have passed the Civil Rights bill,
which has bad my hearty approval; and
here allow me to thank you for the justice
r-1r De-
| am decidedly in favor of not supporting
two school systems, one for the white and
another for the colored.
MIXED SCHOOLS
Are what you should claim, and what you
should eventually have. I claim the right
of the children of all the people of the State
to receive education in any and all the
schools and colleges in the State All are
entitled to comfortable chool-houses-not
one sort for one color and another for
another color Not fine academy for the
white and shauty for the black What
i'm preston is this separation of pupils TO
leave on the tender minds of the youth of
the freedmen? Is il not that they are still,
Notwithstanding the chains have been
broken and the yoke taken from their necks
that they are part and parcel still of a de-
graded race? IApplause.l
MEETING EXPECTATIONS.
My friends, during the last Presidential
cam paign. II was my privilege to enter the
canvass as opposed to very clever gentle
man. He frequently addressed his audi
ences by reading an extract from the Edin-
burgh Review, which set forth that you, the
colored people of the South. had not come
up TO the expectations of your friends. He
supposed that would prove an extinguish-
ing argument against any further increase
of your rights. That is, that you did not
advance as fast in learning and Intelligence
as your supporters had supposed you would.
/ read in Caesars Commentaries. that this
boosted Caucasian race, to which I am
proud to belong was then sunken in the
most abject and deploFable Ignorance. They
worshipped false gods. They offered human
beings as sacrifices to appease the wrath Of
their angered deities. And even came down
~ late &S the days Of Queen EliKabefh, an