The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-09-24
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In 1ennesSee the hepuOicaHs VIII Ao1
muster a corporaPs guard in the pending
election. The Conservatives have nomi-
mated good man for Governor, and
placed him on a sound platform.
The passage of such resolutions as the
following, by colored convention at
Nashville in May last, under the guidance
of men like Cardozo, has driven
away from them W. G. Brownlow and
twenty thousand other white Republicans
in Tennessee, for telling them frankly
that mixed schools would not do-that
the whites would not consent to support a
system designed to force an innovation on
their social customs; and for opposing that
feature of the se-called Civil Rights bill,
the ambitious men of the Cardozo
stripe, claiming to represent the black
race. denounced Brownlow as unworthy
of the support of the blacks, though he
had been prosecuted for their sake. Now
where are they? Their civil rights Dagon
has fallen upon his face and does not
avail them Brownlow with his twenty
thousand white followers, has left them
to their fate. They are like sheep with
out shepherd, and this resolution ac-
counts for it:
Resolved, That we will use our utmost
endeavor to stamp, upon any demagogue
who seeks to betrav the privileges Of our
children to their full enjoyment of Impair
tial and equal privileges in public
schools, the brand of the traitor Judas as
deserving politically a traitors doom,
whom we will never, never join hands
with or support. but will regard as our
public and political enemy, more terrible
to meet than savage beast, more iniuri-
Gus than any catastrophe that could befall
us, or any calamity that could be devised
by any wicked, unseen power.
Below are the sentiments of Senator
Brownlow, which elected this terrific ex-
plosion from these conceited and demented
demagogues Every man of common
sense and fair dealing must see that he
has spoken the words of truth and of
Justice, and that the course which he has
marked out is the one of peace for the
two races and especially of safety as we'll
as of advancement for the colored
people:
It is the part of wise craftsmanship to
respect the prejudices of the people to a
certain extent and it is entirely evident
that this prejudice must he respected in
Tennessee or the free schools destroyed
and the people of both races, who are too
poor TO send their children to private
schools. left without the means of educa-
ton. The school law in this State does
not in any way affect the equality of the
races in the enjoyment of the public
schools; it only affects them in their social
aspects, by providing that they shall be
educated in separate schools. The law
is in accordance with all the requirements
of Republican principles, embodied in the
doctrine that all men shall participate
equally in the government of the country.
and receive, impartially, without regard
to race, color or previous condition of
servitude, the benefits conferred by the
Government.
If there are States in the Union where
the colored people do not enjoy equally
the benefits of school system supported
by public taxation, let Congress rectify
the wrong. But if the colored people
want to secure substantial benefit in the
the matter of education, they should
abandon the idea of mixed schools, where
there is no race discrimination, and insist
upon a provision guaranteeing to them
equal benefits in every State. This posi-
ton can be sustained by every argument
that could be urged in behalf of their
rights to testify in the courts, to vote and |
hold office, and is sustained by the cardinal
doctrines of Republicanism. As basis
for the sentiment of this question, the
Republicans of the white
race from the South made this proposition
during the late session of Congress; and
in doing so they foretold the disasters
which have come upon the party from a
different policy. This very equitable
did not receive even respectful |
1t was scornfully rejected |
by the bootblacks, BARRIERS, pastry cooks,
bar tenders and thieves from the Cotton
States.