The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-09-15

o;rmqn Dsm0crattc- rUdttUe CIttI
y; Tan, Miss:
ss r,R SIR: / received several day
w vour letter, in which you state tina
sa are many colored men in you
IN nv. who are convinced that grea
administration and waste Of publ,
IL have characterized the rule Of tn.
g ubIican party in this State, and who
sincerely anxious for reform bu
= tbey doubt the sincerity of the de
ton of principles contained in oui
ii orm, and feel an apprehension, that
- Democrats and Conservatives get
n power, the rights Of colored people
~ Be. in some way, destroyed or abridg-
have similar reports from other parts
81 e State, coupled also with the in
n + alton, that the reason given fer this
II Inst Of the white people, is the aIleg-
q. Biastice Of the legislation Of 1860 in
tla ence to freedmen.
:. be argument presented to the freed
gla bv those who would still further
me the colored people against the
0crats and Conservatives is, that the
\ ocrats were in power in 1865, and
result was the legislation of that
H., ~ and that if they were again in
r, ii is fair presumption they would
y as it was charged they acted then.
e. this charge is made simply against
p Democratic party as a political
a nization, and is intended alone to
iii men who are Democrats, it is
~ answered. There was in this
IL in 1868, no organized Democratic
4 b nor in fact was there any
= nzed political party Of any sort.
nan was elected to the Legislature of
Y because he was then, or ever had
4 a Democrat, though the fact that
had been Democrats and secesionists
ri deemed a sufficient reason in many
! hnces why men, in all respects quail
"a for the position, should not be elect
III The men who had been Democrats,
"a pho claimed to be Democrats then,
III not constitute majority of the Leg
Il lure, nor did such men control or
ri pre- the legislation of that body. In
III year no Democrat was elected to
Fl 8gress, and as far as | now remember,
offered for that position. The same
III true with reference to the Office of
II &ernor-the two most prominent can
Il htss Tor that position being Judge
Der and General Humphreys, neither
= Fhom had ever been a Democrat, and
I'll former is now Republican. The
ators elected by that Legislature
#dge Sharkey and Gen. Alcorn). were
/ PAYS bitterly opposed to the Democrat
Fl party, and one Of them, (Gen1 Al,
! pow, and has been since the first or
patton of the Republican party in
II state, consistent member of it.
hi Alcorn was a member of that Leg
pure, as was also Hon. j. l.. Morphis,
Republican Congressman from the
finct now represented by Col. Lamar,
hon. Robert Leachman, now Re
oaean Judge; and there were others
nave been since, and are now mem
and leaders of the Republican party.
r not remember that there was more
p one man IN that Legislature who
before that time, acquired any emf
Flee as Democratic leader.
Neierence TO these matters is not made
~ 'he view OF throwing whatever odium
r. subsequently may have attached to
ue measures of that Legislature upon
Wings or Republicans of the State
'ae' no party was responsible for them,
mere was no organized party here
gu OF any sort. Whatever response
'''' exists IN reference to these meas
attaches to the white people of the
''e'-those who had been Democrats,
NC VINO had been Wings, and those
~ nave since become attached to the
''n0eratic and Conservative parties,
r nose who became attached to the
'epublican party.
-Here Is nothing then in the Legisla-
u 1903, which can rightly be made
s'ouhd OF dstruSt on the part of the
'O'eo people to the Democrats and
1''''a'iyes of Mississippi, as an organ
party 1t they are to act on preju-
growing out of that legislation,
= seton must be against the whites,
40'Fats' Conservatives and Repukli-
as race, who as l have above
I'M = are responsible for it.
~ can the colored people refuse to
operate with the whites in their efforts
~ 3V'uFe good government, and fair
'4uai administration of the laws,
~ any idea that such cooperation
result in the loss of their rights ?
- 'oey refuse to cooperate with the
Tna Io g and Conservatives upon any
D.,3. 1"i'e men, as such, are to be re-
~ ~ Is enemies of the colored men,
4sfelore not to be trusted in political
i,b. with them, then indeed do the
]0 or~ u the colored race rest for security
hon. unstable and tran founda
white race in the Union outnum
. ~. .ue black, in the proportion of ter
linn - and this proportion, by immigra
p.a.1 u other causes, will from year tC
h. W. pe continually increasing, as agains
aso,a @Sks' The colored people canno
4 !, nus to make race issue with us
= 0e said that they are now in ms