The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-09-03

phis to denounce the horrible massacre
of the sixteen e6lored men by masked
mob at Trenton, West Tennessee. These
men had been nested on mere suspicion
Of insurrectionary designs at time of
great excitement, and lodged in jail, to
await trial; and under these eircum-
stances, they were taken from the jail by
large body of armed marauders and
butchered in a sty 10 that would have dis
graced savages.
The particulars of this cowardly and
infamous butchery, together with the
eloquent comments Of the Memphis
Appeal, will be found on our first page.
A large meeting Of the best citizens
Of Memphis assembled to express their
detestation of the crime; and among
others, our inustrious Ex-President,
jefferson Davis, whose impromtu ut
terances will touch responsive oh ord
in every manly, generous bosom.
1t was fitting that he who had realized
so much of negro fidelity to the South
ern whites in the times that tried them
most-he who so well appreciates the
obligation of the whites to remember
them gratefully, and to treat them kindly
in the changed relation between the two
races, for which, whether for good or evil,
the negro is not responsible who knows
so well that each race here in the South
has need of the other-and that the
common prosperity Of the two demands
that peace should be cultivated between
them. and that he is y public enemy who
for political ends, seeks to engender strife
it was appropriate, we say, that Jeffer-
son D IS, should lift up his voice and
speak On that occasion Here are his
words:
PRESIDENT JEFFERSON DAVIS
who upon ascending the rostrum waa loud
" cheered Mr. Davis then spoke rs fol-
lows:
FRIENDS AND CoUNTRYMEN-Hou have
assem- bl ed tonight. not for the bare pur-
lose OF giving IN expression which human
itv commands. but you have assembled for
a higher and a holier duty. Applause 1t
j. what You owe 70 your sires. what you owe
70 your pOstertty. what you owe 10 the
living and whit you owe to the gallant
dead who fell for the sacred cause of south
ern independence. Never has 81 country
been more truly in condition of having
lo~F II save its honor, and you men Of the
country of Jackson, Grundy, Polk, and
many others of wide reputation, may be
expected 70 denounce whatever would stain
the honor, whatever would tarniSh the fair
name of The living. lApplause.J HOu are
not here then merely TO express your hor-
ror of particular crime; still less are Won
here to argue what is due from one race to
another. 1t ia crime, aud n crime to be
punished as it deserves, hnt that belongs to
Inc law and its officers. That they will do
their duty, those who distruSt our people
can tail TO believe. But you come to appeal
TO the moral sense of the world; your
words are to go abroad to mankind LET If
understand chat you are not race OF assas-
sins; that you are not the m6 n who mask but
si;ltiu III the ulS'11tN Oh your nHnDOnN, and
in the likeness OF your Creator: with ewes
open and exposed you dare assert vour
rights and protect them to the best OF your
ability: and t. the end of your lives will 90
forward with honor which never seeks CON
cealment, wears no mask. and never
biackens its face. Applause was pecu-
liarly struck with the remark Of the negro |
who was called upon by one of the com
mittee sent to South Carolina. and who was
expected to give testimony which wound in |
IL
klux outrsGes He was asked if he knew |
Wade Hampton. He said he did. and had |
known him since the time they were both |
boys together. They then said to him |
= Do you beiieve he has been engaged in |
these KIN klux outragPs p mo do NOT he |
lieve it." why don't YOU helieve?'' "Be- |
cause If Mr.. Wade Hampton have been in |
it, it would have been che white man.
aud not the negro, that he would have |
struck"
The negroes were not our enemies; why
should they become so? We are their |
friends. Yes, and the southern men are the /
only true friends they have to-day i'm any
part of the world. II becomes us to B., their
friends. Every southern man in his memo
~ runs back to the negro woman who
nurSed him to the boy who hunted and
tished with him to the man who first taught
him to ride and TO swim; and as he grew |
IN manhood, the cordial welcome given him
Oy the old nurse, with a tenderness SCARCELY
t.
while he has such memories clustering
around him, he cannot be the enemy of that |
useful race which was the main strength of
BUR country, when we stood i'm this relation |
which believe God intended us to occupy
II we have been diverted from such relation,
and If hostility has sprung up to any extent.
{ has been the work of those incendiarjes
who have come i'll to destroy the natural
Kind relations OF the races, and thus foment-
ng diScord by producing the evils
iafU |
ny friends. 1t rests with YOU Whatever be ,
he result to show To the world that YOU are
Incapable of secret crime, that YOU hate the
n@u WHO wears a mask TAnplause1 and |
whatever it Is necessary tor the public peace
o do. YOU intend to do that. openly and
nanfully.
Now then. let Us say what is the necessary
nture of these two races living together
applause. They require the white man to
provide tor them and protect them as much
IS they ever did; aud believe they will re-
lnire him 10 do sn IL the end OF time. Then.
IS 10 these tchSte SseH TOTO believe IN a toar of
aces thdt the black may be erterDaiaated, and
&c IA thtS future that IS desirable, / hare no |
ynspathy (appiausr]. The negroes were nv
rirn's in the oldPu times. Taey soere our
tcheR our brdreS tceRt 10 the held and
be tc0H1ea and children remained at home Tap-
'lauSel. Ii was they who brought the Mis-
iSsippi valley into cultivation. and by them |
lone can that valley. in INV opinion ever !
e cultivated. They are as necessary to US as |
'e IRE to them and with th4t kind Of relation
EiStng bettcesN US is no ,rIgthe prospey-
y Of The future shall not exceed E.aG Of the past
tut do not Intend u trench upon ques-
on on which every one has undoubr edlV
)rmed his opinion. | would Only say for |
lyself that as cannot have hostility OF these $
eluded people, the only feeling OF indigna- |
on have l. against the tollite men sclo haze
iS'Grrbed tAis kind relation betsceen us who {
ave fomented discord; who have led the I
Imaginative Negro into evil; against them i | 1
" hurl the rhBnderbOlt Of your ven :
2 ance. Applause