The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-11

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Washington Cspiisil
Among tie Inscriptions o. the boodt
sblrt !. Intimidation VI negro yn;ers b.
heir olf masters AID present employers
We lay before our readers ue niai la tact
and reason iu lngic that initiate ageins- this
hyofte aud false fext OF the stump serni5 5ns
Of the radical aud suti-Hays wing OF the
Republican party.
10 thos aequaii1ted with tie prominent
oJu hrrusTs OF ante besIHHi tiiaes- 10 re-
ferclcr u the v ritter OF the letter J. ueces-
shry. To- thOse who have nos this knoWi-
c ge sc w"uid sss that previous u the war
Governor Brown enjoyed. " reason Of Ais
private and public integrity. itts gersnIEll
ability and experieuce, that rr~pees hich
always Commanded the confidence % and
caTrsel convection To- his cOutrnipOrari :.
Since tie war he IA hot been petitioner
Tor placr, but in quiet aud uaObtrusiye
way has devoted himself 20 "a conservative
course, eniinet.tly consistent wiki his pre-
Tious public career.
For these reasons We regard his tier as
valuable contribution towards dies ip4tir Z
the erroneous impression possessing the
Northern mind 10 REGARD q the relations
existing between white capital and cclOred
labor at the South:
TERRY, HINDs Co, Mss,
September Il, 1876.
b G.LovEJoY. ESQ lily Dear sir: Your
frequent fayOrs. in tle way OF newspapers.
are greatly appreciated, By the mail this
morning received, among other-, The Ma
ton Ii were subscriber, or In any uth-
er way could claim recognition, would adj
dress that journal directly.
Tue NallOu, as il seems TO me. Is not only
what IL claims 10 be-an impartial and in
dependent paper-but it Is edited with
marked ability But II sees Southera socic-
y through a Northern lens. Because Ger
tain things are done at the North il assumes
that the same thiHgs are done at the South.
For Instance. it assumes, or allows irs cor
respondents ~ assume, that Northern capi-
tai,ts put ballots in the hands OF their en-
plOyees and say, vote this, or / Will dis
charge YOU" Then il concludes thar the
Southern land owner does the same thing
with the plantation laborers. Is is all right
50 far a, the Northern capitalist is CON
cerned, but when it comes 10 Southern land
owners il becomes ''iutimidatiOn," violates
the fifteenth amendment, and J. an attempt
to circumvent reconstruction aud OutTag.s
the civil rights VI the man and brother"
That Northern capitalists Ia the mauu'ac-
turing, mining aud other districts do tXer-
else this so5t of ''mid Intimida.iOu" over
their Employees every one knows to be true
And Tie Nation allows 4 CORES p0ndent
In number 5S4, page $50, to justify il. That
correspondent makes q fair argument in
defense of his idea, that no man is under
obligation to give employment to those V no
vote against his interest. He writes from
Philadelphia, under date August 22d. (ni-
tiIlsJ. S. ] must DO him the justice to s2v
he writes as If he thought ''what is sauce
for the goose ought TO be sauce for the gan
der"
Another correspondent of The Nation,
writing from Beaufort, South Carolina, un-
der date l1th August and signing himself
Uniformed" ;" 10 the same Hum Der. states a.
a stubborn fact. that the people of the South
say to the negro laOOrers, ''vote the Demo
cratic ticket or we will discharge YOU"
"luiormed' must be very poorly informed
IL he means 10 apply that remark 10 the
gene raj relation existing between the en-
ployer and the employee in the South. No
such thing is true
That the Southern landowners you'd act
on that idea il they dared, and justify them
selves as -. s." justfies Northern capital
lists who do the same thing, | will not take
IL on myself to deny but that they do act
on the idea, as " Informed alleges, is not
true. They do not, because they dare not
A well known rule of demand and supply
here comes in. The demand FOR labor in
the South, and especially in Mississippi Is
very far in excess of the supply. This is
manifested in our almost united efforts to
secure immi grafton. If we had super
abundance OF labor, SO that we could dis
charge it for light and frivolous causes, we
should hardly be sending agents all over
the world to bring us fresh supply.
No; on this point, If on no other, the ne
gro stands on the vantage ground. Ii his
employer chooses to discharge him because
he does not vote as he is tod, all he has to
do Is to walk over to the next plantation,
aud the owner oft will not only take him
| in, bat send his wagon and team to move
a l.
understands this perfectly well, and he
snaps his fingers in the face of threats to
discharge him ifhe does not vote the DEM
| ocrstic or any other ticket.
have heard this sort of nenscnse talked
of among our people. But l never knew OF
but one man who tried to putt into prac-
| tical operation, He had eight voters of the
colUred persuasion on his place. Through
great trials and tribulatiOns he succeed
ed in converting three Of them to
| the true Democratic faith. The other five
remained stiff-necked and rebellious. So
on the day of the election he concluded lC
play the .mild intimidation" dodge on them
He called thea all up, handed them Demo
cratic tickets, and said. "Hots these ticket;
or don't come back on my place any more
They went to the polls aud the whole eigh
voted the Republican ticket. Five, because
! they wanted to, and the other three "be
| cause they had been told by Democrats tina
every man should vote as he pleased, anC
they didn't like that sort Of talk, 'Then th'
whole eight took the gentleman at hi
word, and not one 9i them went back |
was cotton picking time, and in about
week "miid intimidator" may have beei
seen rushing frautically around trying T.
engage ''hands to pick out his cotton.
\ The "blOody shirt" people must get u
same bet:Ar device for soaring negroes tha
this. The deception IS SO flimsy that tn
most stupid African can see Ii.;s9Sngh II D.
moonlight.
am amazed that so able and thoUghtfu
journal as The Nation should Open il
columns to the discussion of a point S
utterly destitute Of even plausibility.
Very truly, YOUR friend,