The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-06-11

as being himself dishonest. 1t must be
remembered that this intriguing, dishon-
est white man has charmed the colored
man with visions of happiness to be en-
Joyed under the workings of the civil
rights bill. He yields to the present de
mands of the robber in the hope that for
all this the coveted prize of eigl rights
will be delivered TO him bodily by and by.
All men of every race despise inferiority.
Let us not find fault with the cOlored man
/ that he holds his liberty and equality be
+ fore the law above every other earthly
consideration. The liberty and equality
OF the colored people is the talismanic
word of the adventurer who comes South
TO rob us. By this our country has been
plundered, and unless we can end this
fruitful source of licensed larceny the
downward speed of the States south will
not be arrested until ruin shall hold car
nlval over the fairest portion of this great
nation.
How often have heard the old master
remark the fact that in everything except
III the use of the ballot his old slaves re-
posed in him the most implicit confidence!
In trouble, the colored man comes with
his story of distress; when in doubt, he
applies for his judgment; when trespass-
ed upon, the colored man comes with his
appeal for help; but when the day for
voting comes he withdraws from the
presence of the old master and seeks adj
vice of the knave who stands ready with
promises of the happy day of ciVd rights.
How easy the solution of the secret
The old master denies the colored man
his equality before the law; he withholds
from him his ciUil-rights bill; he abuses
the republican party because it is pledged
to grant the coveted prize. Is it strange
that the colored man will not take his ad-
vice, possessed as he is of the purposes
of the old master to thwart the hopes of
himself and his posterity in achieving the
triumph of his soul--his equality before the
lar? Come and let us reason like men
who realize what the revolution hath
wrought, who realize the spirit Ct the age
in which we live, who can discern the |
hand of Providence rs we follow destiny. |
The colored people, intent upon their
liberty, watchful of it, and hearing the |
cry that it Is being assaulted, turn natu- |
rally to the men who promise to guard !
1t, and thus ii is that the men who are |
ever ready with promises are enabled to |
obtain office whereby they rob and plum
der the State 1t is not the colored people |
that have plundered the Souther States;
it is not the colored people that have
wronged the Southern States. Nota col
ored man in the South to-day stands
enriched at the sacrifice Of any of the
white peoples property. They have
been used, [ know, as instruments; and
it is precisely the want Of this civil-rights
bill and the opposition to measures like
this that have enabled these knaves that
wear the skin of white men to rob the
South. Its through these instrumental
tiles that they have been able TO work all
the wrongs they have inflicted upon us
| would remove them out of the way.
[ want to make this law so broad that it
shall reach into every avenue Of society,
touch every man there is in the land,
and lift him up to the dignity Of citizen
Of the United States, and say to him,
THE protection Of the Government rests
upon you. Then sir,we shall have peace,
and then these men can no longer stand
between the white people and the colored
people.