The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-06-28

which usually gives $500 Republica
majority, was carried by the Democrat
+ by $50.
And who were the men elected
Prominent among the men who, sacritie
+ ing personal interest aud private gain
stood forward bearing the hammer of tina
party, was that distinguished veteran IL
/ the Wing ranks who all his life had beef
a Wing, Hon Amos r. Johnston, ant
/ side by side with him stood George w
Harper and Oliver Clifton and Mary
Dabney, all their lives old-line Wings
Everywhere throughout the State formeI
party distinctions and political difference:
were merged in the common desire, ane
| may say in the common determination
that these corrupt governments such a'
Mr.. Hale described as having existed IL
Mississippi, and which had swelled IT.
governmental expenses from 1850, 900 t.
over 81 $50, 600 annually, should CEASE
to exist
| take this county as one just and
proper to be taken as an evidence OF what
was done | assert the fact and it cannot
be contradieted, that in the lower part
of that county the colored men not only
koteI the OthOCIdlIC liChCLJ DdI AAiN ,
united in the formation of Il club, and
came over to the Conservative party
almost en- masse, not because force or
intimidation or fraud was applied to them,
but because they became satisfied that
the promises which the Republican party
hal been making to them so long prom
ises which had been made to the ear
but broken to the hope; promises which
the government had not the power to
fulfill much less they; promises which
included the idea that some eXtraOrdlna-
ry advantage should be given to the
colored men over other people, and which,
OF course, they had not the power TO car
ry out, the promise, for instance, of forty
acres of land and mule TO each one OF
them-they became satisfied that these
promises were all delusive; and Of their
own accord and voluntarily they entered
into that canvass and cast their ballots
side by side with the old white people of
the country, satisfied that there was a
common destiny for them all, and that
what was for the prosperity OF the one
was for the prosperity of the other.
1t has been said that fraud and force
and intimidation had existed in that
State during that canvass. Sir, in the
district which | have the honor to repre-
sent there was but one county that cast
its vote against me; and there was one
county that gave me every vote in 1T ex-
cept two, though there were probably u
great many colored men in that county.
There was one county lying on the
banks of the Mississippi river which |
visited. 1t was very largely colored
| addressed mixed auditory
of white and eolore1 people in the day
time AT night retired to the residence
Of friend some distance from the village
with no expectation of speaking again.
That night there was an organization OF
colored men OF that neighborhoOd, the
president of the organization being a
colored man and to my surprise, as |
was about preparing to retire, commit
tee of colored men waited upon me and
asked me to address that audience of
colored men. | present this fact to the
House and to the country as an evidence
that the assertion is not true, but is libel
upon both races, that we have hostile
feelings one toward the other.
1t has been sometimes said that the
white people of the Southern States We're
hostile not only to the colored
man, but also to the white men of the
party who came down there
FOR the purpose Of taking part in our
election. Well, sir, | can only say that
We have in Mississippi record upon
hat subject of which we are not ashamed.
In the days Of cur prosperity, in the days
when we were a power in the land in the
lays when our people were wealthy, who
IF all the men Of Mississippi received the
highest honors and distinction of our
people? | call to mind just now that
grand old man John Anthony Quitman,
who came from the KnickerbocKer region
If New ! FORK and settled among us years
tgo. He was advanced to the highest
positions in our State-of chancellor, of
governor, and finally Of Representative
lpon this floor. He was a Northern
man.
[ call to my mind that gallant old |
Charles Clark, yet living and |
about on his crutches. He
came from the banks of the beautiful
Ohio.
l call to my mind thatgreat and gifted |
genius who came from away off down on
he eastern shore of Maine the gallant,
eloquent, and noble Prentiss, who came
Is came those others and hundreds like |
,hem honestly to lend their bone and
;inew and muscle and blood and brain
o build up tue Wa.te.laees Of our coun-
.ry, and to become in deed and In truth |
part and parcel of us. Whenever men
ave come there for that purpose, with
those objects, whether from the East or
rom the West, they have ever been met
With warm hearts and open arms.
But when certain class of men have
come down there, and instead Of ringing
The front-door bell have stolen in at the
kitchen door and attempted to breed bad
blood tand tleEe are yet those who
would do IT'D between the old white peo-
pie of the country and the old slaves, now
treedmeu-when they come with this
purpose and insidiously endeavor to in
still into the minds and hearts of the
colored people hostility and opposition
to the whites, say now as l have said
upon the soil of Mississippi, "the back
Of oqrr hands e dis glass OF people for
ever" and our people say So
may refer as an illustration, and
take him as | took the county of Kinds
rs the best illustration, refer to dis
general who recently has been
Governor of that State; he came there
man. When you sent your
committee down to investigate certain
for which IN the sight Of
God AMI man he was probably more re-
sponsible than any other living man,
when you sent your committee there for
the purpose of making an investigation.
| CHANGED for the first time to see him.
The inquiry was made of him, "Gov-
ernor Ames, when did you first deter
mine to settle in Mississippi" His reply
was, November, 1862 "When we're
,,o,1 alanfod ITnitod Stntoo ConntnrrH