The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-11-19

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| Washington ;~that the colored voters Will
follow the example of the National gov
eminent, whenever it withdraws its favor
and supporting hand from the outsiders
and transfers its countenance and patron
age to the class of Southern people whom
the negroes heretofore have regarded as
its objects of its prescription, ifnot of ven
gence by the federal government.
The colored people have been taught
that the Great Father at Washington
desiled nothing so much as that they
should be at enmity with the Southern
whites, and in this way the self-seeking
adventures have massed them on their
side, for purposes of plumber and oppres-
sion, against the property and intelligence
of the reconstructed States.
When an Administration is installed
at Washington, which will dismiss these
false prophets from the offices they have
filled-turned them out to grass TO earn
their living by honest toil-put a stop to
the use of United States troops for police
service, and sent them away to guard
| defenceless women and children on the
| frontier, an Administration which will
exhibit a generous confidence in the hith-
erto prescribed class and place them on
duty rs the official representatives OF the
Government to whose allegiance they
have sworn-the colored voters will not
| be slow to discover the error of their way
in pandering to the cupidity Of designing
office-seekers who have fourished on the
discord they have fomented between the
races.
When this time shall have arrived, the
whites will also learn that the colored
voters are an element political strength
to their section in the government, for
the reason that representation, under the
Constitution is in proportion to the voting
population.
The following article from that indie
pendent and very able sagacious journal
the New York Herald (of the 6th) is so
much in the line Of our own thoughts on
this subject that we have inserted it in
our editorial columns:
We have no doubt that the rights of the
negroes will be more secure in Democratic
than in republican hands. 1t is the tenden-
cy and effect of the republican policy to ar
ray the negroes in hostility to the bestca
SEES Of the Southern population, and there
by obstruct the ascendancy of intelligence,
character and property in Southern poll
tics. Negro suffrage has proved To be a great
evil, chiefly on account OF the divorce ctiec-
ted in the South between numbers and in
telligence. The Southern blacks have been
formed into political party under outside
guidance and cOntrol-a party which had a
set of interests, or supposed interests of the
Southern community. In a healthy state
of politics there is a solidarity of feeling
between the prosperous and the poorer class
es, and although there may be two parties
as there always are in free countries
they are composed on both sides of the rich
and the poor, the intelligent and the igno
rant 1t is the prerogative of intelligence
to control ignorance, and the chief evil of
Southern politics since the war has consist
ed in such organization of the blacks as |
has arrayed them in opposition to the en-
lightened local feeling of the communities |
with which their lot is cast But as soon as
federal influence shall cease to control the |
negro mind, intelligence and capacity will |
reas>ert their sway and negro voting in the |
South will be as safe as the immigrant vote |
has always been in the North, The Demo
cratic party will have 10 temptation to
deprive the negroes OF the right of suffrage,
because it will have 10 difficulty ia con-
trolling the negro mind when the potent
federal influence cO-operates with local
intelligence instead of frustrating and de-
feating it,
Even under the great disadvantage of hav-
ing the federal influence opposed to them
the Southern Democrats have made some
Roadway in controlling the negro vote. In
the recent election in Louisiana gu tie a
OF the negro citizens acted with
tire Democratic party. AS soon as Demo-
cratic ascendancy is established in Washing
ton Democratic negroes will be as common
in the South as republican negroes, and The
negro question will then cease to be an eIe-
mcnt OF disturbance. The true interests of
the negroes are identical with the true inter
ests Of Southern whites. The negroes can
not prosper when the community in which
they live is impoverished. They can find
employment only when the
wheels of business are i'm full activity If
capital yields no profits labor cannot expect
constant employment or good wages; and
the most important lesson the Southern ne
groes have yet to learn is that they cannot
thrive on the depression and ruin of the
owners OF property.
The Democratic politicians. both or the
North and the South: have always splayed
A remarkable capacity for controlling igno-
rant voters.
1t has been in former times the dctiue party
n extending the Sufrdges 4; IL has dltCdys been
'oren1ost in defending the political rights Of
citizens Of foreign 6irth; it has alt0dys felt The
most undoubting confidence in its ability to ar
-ay The most despised orders Of The community
~ its oloR side in politics and make them its
aithfut allies. The Democratic party has a {
genius for managing such classes OF voters, {
md it would belle its antesedents and ten
lencies if it should attempt to disfranchise t
he Southern negroes instead of attempting l
o manage them.
From the moment the Democratic party
gains control of the federal government the
epublicans VIII have no advantages for act
ng on the negro mind, which will then fall
inder the control OF local opinion. a war
# races can in no way be so surely averted I
IS by giving the intelligent classes of the |
south an opportunity to exert their natural
scendancy over the negro mind and subor-
Innate it to ideas and public sentiment of
heir section. A war of races would be,
ooner or later, inevitable, If distant out