The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-11-10
WORDS AFTER THE INJECTION.
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TO THE DEMOCRATS OF MISSISSIPPI

Every consideration Of justice, good
faith and good policy, demands that the
party which so signally triumphde at
the late election, should pursue the fol-
lowing course:
1st. A rigid and honest adherence to
the whole of the principles and promises
in the platform.
I'd. A magnanimous and forgiving
spirit towards those poor colored men who,
through ignorance. prejudice and the foul
misrepresentation of dishonest carpet
baggers, voted against us, their only real
friends, in the late election. A =
Sd. Rigid protection in all our legisla-
ton and party operations, to the entire
political equality with ourselves, of all
the colored people of the State, including
their property rights, and a full recogni-
ton of their perfect liberties, and their
entire freedom and privileges, as American
citizens.
4th. The maintenance of cheap, but
good, system of education, both for col
ored and white children, under which
system both colors of children shall have
and enjoy equal educational advantages.
9th. A course of kindness and eonclia-
ton towards all colored people of good
character, especially those who had the
intelligence and honesty, in the recent
election, to vote the Democratic onser-
tive ticket, and thus secure to us the
glorious result we achieved.
9th. An enforcement of all the laws,
and the suppression of all violence, blood
shed, riots and invasions of private rights
This course we are bound in good faith
to pursue. We must keep every promise
and pledge of the platform, on which we
fought the late glorious political cam
paign. 4-i7
Adherence to this just policy, will, in
less than one year, bring into our party
ranks every honest and sensible colored
Southern man in the limits of
Mississippi, and thus give permanence
and success to our party and its Princi-
pies. @
Colored men of Mississippi only want
to see and know that the Democratic
Con servative party intend to make no
assailment of their rights, under the
Constitution and laws of the United
States. When they learn this, as they
assuredly will, they VIII naturally and
properly incorporate themselves into our
party, and cast off the dishonest carpet
baggers who made the deluded creatures
actually believe that we are their enemies
and intend, when in power, to degrade
and Cypress them, and reduce them to
practical slavery
Wesubmit these remarks to our friends
in Mississippi, and especially to our
friends of the press, in the hope that the
ideas herein set forth may be acted upon
and promptly disseminated, and recon-
mended for due observance on the part
of our friends throughout the State.
In this connection it affords us pleasure
to reproduce the following from the
Vicksburg Herald, as containing senti-
ments fully in accord with our own:
1t is a commonly received doctrine
that t'to the vietors belong the spoils."
In garnering up the "spoils" of victory
let US not. In our eagerness, forget the
nature and condition of the people over
whom We have triumphed Let. US not
fail to remember, although the negroes
have been the means of suffering to US
and our State, that they themselves were
but dupes and tools in the cunning hands
Of vile leaders. Therefore, let US not
work aught of vengeance upon the colored
race. On the contrary let us, the whole
white people of this State, take especial
pains to convince the negro, by our acts,
that we entertain no luminosity against
him nor against his race. Let us convince
him by our deeds that his rights and
privileges are sacred with us. Nay,
more let us satisfy him that only from
the white people of this State, those
whose homes are here, whose property
and interests are here, can he expect fair
dealing and true prosperity. a@4l