The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-05-05
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New York Times
'Vice-President Wilson has been max
ing a speech at Philadelphia, in which he
expressed his fears that q there is in the
country to-day a counter-revolution
against the colored man. We can only
assure the Nice-President that it must be
very quiet revolution, for IRE hare heard
nothing of He also laid it down as
principle for action that " the condition
Of the eolored man must be improved.
| What improced again A great deal OF
money and some blood have been already
expended on these Improvements" and,
as is the case of a man who is altering
his house, we should be glad to know
,cjten the job Is iikeIg to BE- flushed. Is ii
not almost time 10 think about the desir-
ability Of improving the condition Of the
white man He NAV be inferior TO the
black, but still he is human being.
!. Times.
This is the language of the leading,
and by far the abIest, Radical Republican
newspaper in the United States. 1t will
extort the exclamation from sensible
readers: 4" We think 50 too. 1t is time
this stale nonsense about improving,
taking care Of, and legisIating for the
| special benefit Of the negro, was dispensed
with. 1t has come to be regarded as the
| foolishness of fools, and the cant of dema-
gogues. The negro has been wetnursed
for ten years by the government, and 1t
is now time to let him stand alone and
root hog or die" as other people have to
do.
For the negro's guardianship, the Freed
mans Bureau was established and kept up
at an expense OF untold millions. To make
his freedom a sure thing he was given
the right Of suffrage before he knew what
to do with it and that boon was followed
by the Constitutional amendments in
which every body has acquiesced," so
often that the performance is becoming
bore 70 make assurance doubly sure,
military governments were established in
the late slave States, and a system of
legislation adopted for the exclusive be
hoof Of the negro on the principle that
the Anglo-Saxon who was so unfortunate
as to have had his abode in the South
before the war, had no rights which the
authorities that had been established over
them by the sword were bound to re-
spect.
In Mississippi, Louisiana and South
Carolina, this pernicious system is now
in full blast. Here, the negro has con
troll of the Legislature and emboldened
by continued bayonet interference to give
him the supremacy, and the repugnance
of numerous Democrats and Conserva-
tives to a color-line issue, he acted at our
late session as if the State government
was a close corporation established for
his particular use; and it did not seem
to enter his brain once that he had no
moral nor constitutional right to employ
it to such a purpose.
If it be true, as Vice. President Wilson
would have it inferred, that the colored |
man has not Improved, in the name of |
God, whose fault is it? What in the way of |
special privileges, have the Federal and |
State governments left undone for his |
g improvement" Take Mississippi for
example, and cite for illustration the
fact that the whites, though
denied an equitable share in the admin
of the government, are paying
forty-nine out of every fifty dollars of the
5000, 600 and upwards which are col +
ected for public schools. Upon them
falls the hard task of educating their own
children and those of the blacks; and at
his moment, thousands of white children
IRE kept at home toiling in the fields and
deprived of the privileges of the schools
n order to pay the taxes levied for keep
ng up the system by which the negro
children are being educated.
No wonder the foremost Radical news
PAPER in the country, as above quoted,
las been prompted to enter a protest, and
o Indignantly exclaim: Z" 1t is time
{ to think about the desirabiIity of i'm
proving the condition of the white
man, and that though he may be infe-
Tor to the black, as the sentimentalists
ontend, she is human" and entitled to
t least some consideration.
" e cannot better close this article than
y quoting with our endorsement, a SEN
ment expressed on this same subject, :
ome months ago, by another Republi-
IN newspaper, the New York Tribune u
) follows:
Let the negro be taught that, having
'cured his freedom and his citizenship, "
3 must no longer consider himself h
ard of the nation. He should fight his h
yn battles, the Government charging 4
self only with the duty of seeing that -
; has fair play. He should learn that 81
5 manhood, not his color, was consid- Ia
ed by these who gave him freedom and Ii
frage; that patriotism, not party fealty, M
axes the good citizen that honesty Is !
G tirst qualification for office, and that the -
an who combines honesty acith education u
the man best fitted to be ruler of the d.
ople. He must learn, too, that legisla- 81,
IN can do little if any more than it has 10
ne for his advancement, socially or ::
X < : : Meantime. sil
litical parties cannot do better than A
ep their hands off the negro and give
~ chance to work out his own saliva re
N He knows his rights, and the laws 90
the statute-books are ample for his :
Otectiou." az
-<~~ lie:
SOUTH CAROLINA seems to have a IA
'vernor who will take the responsibility in,
a ct IN .lnfo,,ca nf HE Stato I,rnasnrr