The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-09-24
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'-color line" policy, because, as they al
legged, it would precipitate war ofraees,
must be most agreeably disappointed at
recent results in New Orleansi The color
line has. been very clearly drawn in that
city, and yet, in the recent armed conflict
there, while many white men were killed
and wounded, and only one mulatto, a
/ fellow only half negro, was wounded |!
Governor Brown, Mr.. John W. c. Wat
son, and the editor of THE JACKSON
CLARION, are each and all, doubtless,
very proper persons in their respective
vocations, but in the role of prophets
we must say that they are not likely
to confound the world. -Vicksburg Her
aid.
We imagine that nothing useful nor
agreeable can result from a discussion
with journal which characterizes the
opinion of persons differing With it on
public questions as ga howl" and finds
in such difference reason for the invec-
tive employed in the above paragraph,
Nevertheless, it furnishes US the occasion
to say that if the uprising in Louisiana,
which dethroned Kellogg and his minions,
was a "Color Line" movement in its
objects and its animating principle, then
it is an entirely different thing from the
''Line" here in Mississippi as drawn and
as expounded by its originators and advo-
Gates To illustrate:
AT the general meeting of the Clubs
in Warren county, resolution was offered
that the <'white people organize clubs in
each district" etc. Capt. Barnes moved
that the word ''honesf' be substituted
for the word "white," explaining, how
ever, that if the negro joins, he must
office" The subject was argued at length
and some one of the speakers " limited at
sure and summary methods" of dealing
with the colored element. None of them
concurred with Capt. Barnes.
Mr.. Reed, the mover of the original
resolution, closed the discussion with "a
q telling speech against admitting negroes
&c into clubs, and against any atiliGtion
g political, of course) aUih them" This
view prevailed and the vote against Capt.
Barnes resolution was unanimous. The
vote meant that the cooperation of the
negro would not be admissible on any
terms, even if he promised not ''tO expect
Office" and to be Submissive"
We prefer to take the foregoing author
lied Interpretation of the aims and
objects of the "Color Line" deliberately
put forth by an accredited Council of
its Clubs, to the passionate utterances of
its newspaper organs, with which we
might fill-whole pages of our paper.
Now let us turn to the Louisiana up
rising and see what was the spirit that
animated it, and what would have been
accomplished if its ends had been at
tanned:
LIST. Its object was to eject Kellogg and
install the persons elected on the Fusion
State ticket in 1872. The Fusion ticket
ecas composed of Democrats, Conservatives
and Republicans, ochite and colored. One
of its members, and therefore one of the
persons proposed to be indicted into
Office with McEnery and Penn, was a
negro (Armstcad.) It's not necessary
to add that this success of the mixed
ticket was the product of white and colored
utilization" at the polls.
3D. Acting Gov. Penn in his proclama-
ton recognized no "color line" but on
the contrary, "called upon the militia of
60 the State, embracing all persons be-
i" tween the ages of 10 and As years,
" aCithoM regard to color or previous condi-
" tion. :, arm and assemble under their
+" respective officers for the purpose of
g driving the usurpers from power.
3. Ia order to leave no room for suspi-
cion that ''cOlOr line" was meant in the
new dlspensatioA, Lt.-Gov. Penn took
the precaution to issue an address to
"the colored people" assuring them that
" in the grand movement now on foot
" against the enormities of the
q rule of KeIlogg's usurpation, no
I" harm is meant towards you, your
g property or your rights. The rights of
Z" the colored as we'll as of the white race
g we are determined to uphold and
g defend"
f. The Picayune corroborated these
declarations of the acting Governor, and
stated further that when waited on by |
colored delegations, he Z" gave them the
:. strongest and warmest assurance of his
=" determination to give them every pro-
g lection and security. He was South
:" ern man by birth, and he looked to oar
q colored citizens as has brethren, whose
:" every right would be defended at the
:" risk of his own life and that of his friends
:" and supporters"
5. 1t is a significant fact worthy of
special mention to illustrate the spirit
and intent of the movement, that in
the Kellogg ofice-holders, the
only State officer of that regime who was
permitted by the McEnery- Penn party to
remain in office was DWbuclet, the negro
State Treasurer Not only was this col
ored man excepted from the rule which
was rigidly applied to his colleagues, but
he was the object of special and marked
by the organs of the Nc
government-for example