The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-10-15
Tho Segregation plan.

colored peoples paper in the United
States, has found its way to our desk,
endorsed with request that we would
express our opinion about it. The COM
munication purports to have been writ
ten by colored carpet-bagger, and Is a
complaint sgainst the Government of the
United States that it has denied to the
people of color the rights that free
Americans should enjoy" 1t cites the
failure of Pinchback to obtain a seat In
the Z. Senate and Smiths experience
at West Point Academy, among other
examples, in proof Of the assertion.
The conclusion of the writer Is that the
prejudice of the white man against tthe
q black Is not confined to tie South.
4" 1t is Ito quote the writer from tie
g Lakes of the North TO the Gulf Of
'Mexico-from the Pacific 10 the At
% lantic." The remedy prescribed by
the writer is given as follows;
Noac, DR.. Editor, 1co,sd Il not be better
for US if re could occupy States o. Territories
to olusel0ess Could We not ID ! .e& Year.
have generals and other rep s=atsll.
men in the highest position, d tAe na'ioa.
1t may be asked why we are particular
about having a leader? l say TO be
without one at the head of cur nation Il
| like a ship without a captain. / need
not mention to you the honor achieved
| to nations by the skill OF their generals.
Let US have good generals, and our
| people well drilled in military tactics, and
we can demand our right. | am urged
by many Of our most intelligent people
to call convention to be composed OF
colored men representing every State
and Territory in the Union, to consider
the future welfare of our people. We
wish the world to know that we are men,
and that we will not be satisfied with
anything short of the highest rights OF
American cititizens. We want our rights;
We paid for them on the battle feld-we
paid for them in blood We mean to have
them if we are to 90 to the battlefield
again and buy them with the price of
blood. Let US have the convention. If
you approve of it let me hear at once.
Now, in answer to the anonymous
inquiry "what We think of it" we would
say that it is the silly raving of very
foolish fool, and a malicious one at that.
In another part of his communication he
represents himself as having come to the
South since the war, and in this we have
an explanation of the motive and ami
nous of the TRADE No intelligent col
ored man "tO the manor born" would be
guilty of such stuff
The only thing in the entire production
worth noticing is the suggestion of a
separation, or segregation Of the races
by setting apart certain territory large
enough for the colored race where they
could have their own local government,
customs and institutions and work out
their own civilization in their own way
free from the inter-meddling of the whites.
We know that there are immense diff
culties in the way of this remedy for the
present alarming condition of affairs;
and these difficulties will increase as the
colored people settle down and become
landed proprietors. Besides even after
the plan has been executed and the
negroes all comfortably settled down in
their new Canaan, the AngIo-Saxon
Proclivity to agrees and to invade the
territory of Others and appropriate their
labor in some form would be in the way
Here in Mississippi havewe not witnessed
scores of car load OF negro immigrants
by OR own citizens to work |
their lands with the full knowledge that
they were importing the very class Of vo-
5srs who would be used as instruments to
oerpetuqte the pluaier;ng + which they
nave c.'nPl iaed?
NeVrtnelsss despite ali the difficulties,
he segregation scheme could be carried
out, if attempted with the determination
o make it a success. 'FWhere there is
| will their is way" more especially
With as powerful a government as the
United States.
Impracticable as this remedy seems, it
nay prove to he the only effective pana-
ga for the evils complained Of by both
aces Il may prove to be better for the
blacks whose credulity is 50 played
Pon By INSCRIPTIONS dema gogues that
hey are kept in constant dread least the
whites will not accord to them the rights
+ free American citizens and better u
or the whites who in some of the States
re suffering the evils of what thew
escribe as negro rule" and in others.
re tormented by approximations of negro
ntrusions into their social circles by oper-
ton of ill-advised laws.