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


} own the land and when they percei,
there Is no other chance for good COVER
ment here, or even to preserve their mr.
perty from confiscation by taxation. the
can and will in less than year. chaDe
Il the majority to their side by free 81
OF their lands to white immigrants. The
Will be prepared then to give away a pa
to save the remainder.
0 Nor can the blacks afford to act on II
: idea, that their rights are unsafe wit
r Democrats and Conservatives. In til
ever-changing condition of parties in tbi
country, no one party can claim A Del
Petual lease OF power. The Republican
have already lost their control in a ma
Ionty Of the States of the Union
and in the United States Con
gress. There is no sound reason to be
lleve that the revulsion of last yea
against the Republicans. will be change,
IN time to save to them the next Presi
dental election. California has JUS
elected Democratic Governor and Leg
isIature by large majorities, the first time
in many years. The outlook in the other
States is equally encouraging, and it re.
qulres no prophet to see, that in the next
Presidential election that party will be
restored to power in the nation
Are the colored people prepared to see
this result brought about against their
united voices, when this unity is based
on the charge that the Democratic party
cannot be trusted to give them their
rights! Are they to select willingly, as
the only firm foundation of their privi-
leges, party merely, which, without
thorough reformation of its practices,
will soon be in the last stages of dissolu-
ton? Why do they not, as the white
race does, place the security of their
rights upon the Constitution and the good
faith of the whole American people
and thus, be restrained bv no benumb-
ing fear, nor false prejudice from per-
forming that highest duty of American
citizenship, active cooperation with any
party or race which is seeking the over
throw of corruption; and reform in
the administration of the government.
If the co.ored race have been led to
believe that the white people of the
North will sustain them in misgovern-
ment they will be sadly mistaken.
The late war, while it engendered bitter
animosities between the whites of the
North and South, also removed the cause
of any sectional difference between them
in future. The bitterness engendered
by the war is fast disappearing, and he is
blind, indeed, who cannot see that the
tendency Of the times is to determination
between the North and South, and COM
plete oblivion Of the past. The Centen-
NAL year, will witness a meeting of the
people of both sections, at the birth place
of the Declaration of Independence, to
the GREAT a"+i0,,s of
Southern and Northern white men i'll
that Declaration good. CUES
tions. nonsectional, will arise, in fact
have already arisen, ON which parties
will divide The Nation in its great
march of progress will not stop to consid-
err the dead issues of the Past, nor will
the people allow this progress to be I'M
peded by any race or section. The
colored people will be expected to contrib
ute their share to this progress. They
were made free, by white men, not for
the purpose OF enslaving other white
men. They were also invested with the
right of suffrage, by white men, not that
they might use the ballot for the destruc-
ton of white men. They are expected
to assume the responsibilities ard dis
charge the duties of freemen, as well as
to enjoy the right and privileges OF free
dom. The people of the North, already
disguised with the miserable governments
which have been established and kept
I'D in the South through the agency OF
negro voters, are now beginning toinqulre,
in what manner the colored people have
exercised the rights of freedom And
whilst great allowance has heretofore
been made for their ignorance aud mex
perisnce, now, at the end of decade
from their emancipation, it is begun to
be insisted on, that the relga of corrup-
ton and 1nisrule which has so cursed the
South shall cease.
1t is expected of the white people. that
thew shall concede to the colored people
all their rights, as defined in the Con
stitution this has been done, fully ana
unreservedly; and it is now expected that
the colored voter, after all this experience
of rnin and disaster caused by his blindly
and implicitly following the adventures,
who have undertaken to rule III this
State. shall not allow his prejudice to the
dominant race in the Union to cause him
to decline to co operate with that race
in securing good government.
The plea that the whites are not to be
trusted, because of the Legislation of
1855. will not be received as a good one.
The answer to it will be found in the
LEGISLATION of the Northern States them
selves. in the action of the L. ). Con
Dress and Executive, preparatory to
emancipation during the late war;
and in the example of Great Britain
when she abolished slavery in the West
Indies.
A short review of this legislation will
he well for It will be found after all,