The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-03-05


ills which, under the corrupt leadership
of selfseeking adventurers, their race
has been the instrument of committing
in South Carolina While condemning
these guilty carpetbag leaders, and la
menting the faulty of the colored masses,
we did not hold guiltless the whites who,
following the lead of Andy johnson, re-
sented the Reconstruction Measures as an
insult, and foolishly attempted to over
ride the decree of the Nation. We viii
never forget the insane rawlings of Ex-
Governor Perry, of that State, who was
one of JohnsOn's henchmen, and, by the
way, Union-shrieker during the war.
He had been clothed with the brief au-
thority of a sort of satrap by johnson,
and exercised his borrowed influence to
drive the negroes into the hostile camp of
the adventures, who were precipitating
themselves upon the State to become
the leaders of the blacks for the rob
berry and oppression of the lately ruling
class.
The article of Mr.. Beecher, life
long friend of negro freedom, showed
that the outrages perpetrated under the
name of law in South Carolina, by the
colored majority, led on by scheming adj
venturers, had brought disgrace in the
eyes of the Nation upon the parties con-
cerned in it. What better lesson could
be submitted for the thoughtful consid-
GRAFTON of such intelligent and infuen-
tial coIored leaders as Davis, Gleed,
Revels, Carter, Caldwell, Hill and
others What better could we do than
to warn them, while it was yet time,
against the Vaccinations of wicked men,
who might strive to repeat here in Missis-
sippi, through the agency Of the large
colored majority, the crimes that have
brought disgrace upon Republican rule
in South Carolina? What more reason
able than that we should remind them
that they have intelligence superior to the
white adventures to whose guidance
their race has slavishly subjected them
selves-that they have had seven years
experience in political affairs-that they
are backed by numbers-that they should
assert their independence and come to
the rescue of the State in which the des-
TIMES of their race are bound up-and,
that they will be held responsible before
the world for whatever calamities of~evil
government may befall the State2 We
might have gone further, and reminded
these colored leaders that they are on
trial as selfgoverning agents in this Re
public, and point them not only to South
Carolina, as Mr. Beecher and other
champions of negro emancipation in the
North are doing, but to the lesson of ia
maica, where, after many years OF expe-
riment, the British government has
quashed the Constitution by which they
were permitted to make laws for the gov
eminent of the Island.
And now comes a greater than
Beecher to deplore this failure of 'Re-
publican" partlzan rule in South Carolina
and to declare that affairs have come to
such pass in that State as to require the
interposition of the National authority to
save the State from utter chaos and bar
barism, and to preserve to the plundered
inhabitants what little has been left to
them of their wrecked estates by the pub
lie robbers The New York Times, the
ablest Grant organ in the United States,
speaks this warning in the article which
we have copied below and which, in
addition to Mr.. Beecher's words, we
commend to the attention of the colored
leaders of Mississippi. This powerful
Republican journal tells the colored peo-
pie, as THE CLARION, having better OPP
pOrtunities of observation, has often told
them, that they have suffered themselves
:" to be drilled by aciite GdUenturers who
are here to-day and will be gone to-mor-
row, if their pay should be cut otf-that
it is under the bad " tutelage of these
g adventurers" that they have done this
vile work which the earliest and staunchest
friends of emancipation and Reconstruc-
ton are declaring must receive the atten-
ton of the National Government.
Now, we may well ask the colored
leaders of the colored race, on whom will
punishment for these crimes fall? Not
upon " the INSCRIPTIONS white adven-
turers, for they can seek other quar-
tiers with their well-stufed purses; and
disappear from public scorn under as
sumed names The axe viii fall upon
the necks of the colored people themselves
who are here to stay and for whom there
is no avenue of escape. Hence, we have
called on these leaders here in Missis-
sippi, while it is Vet time, to rid them
selves of these adventures assert
their independence, and come to the res
cue of the State. Why should ninety
thousand colored voters remain in the
traces of q bakers dozen of carpet-bag-
gers, when they have men of their own
race, born to the soil, who are capable of |
leading them and whose interests dictate
hat they should lead them in the right
Eay.
And now for what the New York
'ays:
From the New York Times.
NEGRO RULE IN THE SOUTH.
At q moment when the sad condition
# affairs in Louisiana is attracting the
attention of the whole country, and