The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-02
James Rs.dpath's. Advice so ale
COIOred People.

We have. no reason to doubt the SIN
cerity Of the profession Of concern for the
colored race 3y man who has iabOred
as long as James Redpath has done for
what he seemed to believe would promote
their welfare He was an original Re
publican kansas shrieker," follower
Of John Brown whose ''soul is marching
on - an advocate Of the Amendments,
and a firm believer in the bayonet policy.
He attended the Boutwell, Committee TO
Mississippi in 1876, as special secretary
and confidential adviser Of the Radical
inquisitors, and as a teacher of Republic
canism, to reassure the colored RepublI-
cans of the ultimate restoration of Re
publican rule in the State, and to furnish
communications to the New York Times
intended to kindle afresh the expiring
flames of sectional passion in the North
upon which the abolition party had grown
and fourished.
In the Presidential election the Re-
publicans lost, though Hayes was count
ed in" Mr.. Tilden- received 1856 electo
raj votes out of 1863 The country knew
it; Mr. Hayes and his followers felt it,
and his Administration yielding to
the moral pressure produced by the re-
suit, has not had the power to withstand
it. BY devious path he has reached
the point at which Mr.. Tilden would have
found himself at the instant of his installa
ton. The consequence is the abandon
ment by the Radical party of military
| intervention in the Southern States and
a recognition of their sovereignty equally
with New York, Massachusetts,, Illinois
etc, in the management of their domes
tic affairs
This conformity to Democratic princi-
pie and the popular demand for its oh
servance by the administration, ha:
disorganiz9d the Republican party in thu
two remaining Southern States in which
it retained TIE semblance of foothold
In this emergency, Mr.. Redpath has
addressed his letter to Merriman Howard
(colored,) of Jefferson county, Missis
sippi, advising the colored people tina
they owe no further allegiance to tn
Republican party, and that their welfar
demands that they should attach them
selves to the Democratic party. Omit
ting, as a wholly irrelevant and as mat
| ter which does not concern Us, his com
ments upon the course of Mr.. Hayes il
which the latter is charged with betrayini
his party and his trust, we have pub
lished that portion which points out tn
duty of the colorcd people under existing
circumstances. There is so much pith
force and truth in his observations o.
this point that they need neither com
ment nor calculation. 1t is sufficient t
say, in the most emphatic language
what has been repeated a thousand time
over in the CLARION, and what has bee
practically demonstrated by the Demo
cratic Administrations of the South
that the rights of the colored people ar
safe in the keeping of the Democrat
party.
In republishing the letter of Nh
Redpath and concurring in his advice t
the coIored people to '.join the Demo
cratic party" it is proper that we shout
remind them that it is a party of disciI
|
members Of it, they will incur the obi
CATION TO conform to its rules, to tur
their backs upon malcontents an
independents" and support its nom
nees who will in every Csc be pledge
to a policy of equal rights to all men.
81. @. w, ," IN his Washington di