The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-07

SANDER, reeriminAtion and abuse which for
ages been lavished upon her head
These presages will | am aware, be set at
naught and treated as all things from Nara
reth must be- but time will tell Cool and
foresee.ng men, North and East, tremble for
the future
know. also religious journals will by y
thousand sklllful periods,
Try to make the worse
Appear the better reason,
ami DENY their treason and hatred against
J the people of The South but facts are facts, in
( spite of words. And yet they may tell me of
( the b0uudless generosity of their people
when we were perishing with the great cpl
denic.
And will tell them, as a witness of it all,
that thousands of stout-hearted prayerless
men wept for joy and thankfIlness, chiefly
+ because they felt that the atnletIon on the one
/ hand, and the generous, unparalleled liberallty
and compassion on the other, had cement
| ed both sections of the country into q broth
| erhood of everlasting affection.
! But, because Southern Democratic Con-
I gressmen took up and cOntended for States
Ri ghts as id down in The Republican plat
/ form of 1860 and in 1871 and defended by
1 Edmunds and Hoar and Evarts and Garfield
| and hundreds of their journals, the entire
/ Republican party, and nearly the whole
| Church outside OF the South have set up cry
/ of the hercest tone Dawn with the South
t Down with the South !! Everything we do is
distorted; all our best efforts for the restora-
/ ton Of tie country to industry and religion
to peace and good will are travestied and
/ Turned against us, until the Old World must
| regard us as barbarians of the most vulgar
degraded and shocking character.
! 1t seems to me that Southern gentleman
/ travelling in Europe or England must be re-
! garded tif people believe our American peri
| odicals. Christian and political as leper-
/ an outlaw-a cut-throat-a shameless parlah
"a human ghoul Hence the North is called
/ Gods country.
They must esteem him an incarnated con-
7 ca nj of nj
odoTs of the city of Cologne, from whose
presence all genlility would shrink, with
! whom gentleman would fraternize, and TO
! whose hospitality the meanest ragplcker
| would not admit him.
Either this must be true, or thoughtful peo-
pie over the seas must regard the American
! Christian press, IN IT'S endless traduetlon OF
! the South, a. gigantic falsitier, totally inca
pable of doing justice TO a people without
whose annual products the world would be-
! c a commercial and moral chaos in less
! time than the sun can sweep through the
| zodiac.
Now, do the Northern pc pie reflect on the
effect of these proceedings 1t was this very
course of misrepreseni alton, SANDER and vltu-
peration that forced thousands of the truest
! patriots into the army of the Confederacy-
| And. though the South N never unsheath
another sword she may lose her interest in
people whose religion of hate has poured the
chalice Of NORWOOD into her pallid and
trembling lips.
Before close | ask again whence all this
turmoil, strife and babble, these untruths
and 2 oss falsehoods stories of refugees from
| Kansas, returning for their furniture, being
arrested and Misunderstanding their hands
cut off in one case and their arms i'll another,
and maltreated no inquisItion ever pun
ished its victims? What is the foundation of
| il all? Many causes-chiehy this the
! presence of the colored man in the South.
This is the prolific source of all our woes,
! our weakness, our poverty, our future rum
! For more than seventy years the negro has
| bppD 4 Of theme O
madversion, political wrangling, bitterness
and finally war.
| Had there been no colored men South was
had never been dreamed Of
The cost more than the price OF the
100000 slaves $500 perAead.
| More first-class young men persisted in free
ing the slave than there were able-bodied
| colOred men in bondage.
As a voter he is a commercial article, and
white condescend to grossly repulsive
| fdmiliarities with them in order to secure
his ballot, and thus the negro is not only not
elevated himself, but he brings the miserable
white man down to his own plane.
| As a iuryman he is the reliance for acquit-
| tai in all murder cases, and no criminal fears
| the penalty of the law when Africa rules the
| panel.
Then, over all, stands the roaring cataract
| the sectional strife the "accurSed South,
the murderous South, the South and spe-
cially my gallant State, Mississippi,
| cutting off the arms of poor negroes, chop
|
| when not one pin has really scratched the ne
buIous and undiscovered victims.
But hope remains for the South. De-
| liverance from the wards of other and antag-
onistic people
The colored man is capable under proper
tutelage, ofnOble things. [ am his fast friend.
He don't design mischief to the South. He IS
used to the sworn, implacable enemies of
Southern white men, Southern churches,
| Southern patriots, Southern sinners
| Hence rs l love the South, as l have be-
| slowed half century of toll upon her citi-
zens and faithfully served her colored people,
and as 1 am ready to spend the remainder of
my life for the mutual well-being of the two
races, will do my utmost to remove the col
| ored man into the bosom IF his guardians,
counselors and friends, and l desire to thank
Senator Window and all his coadjutOrs for
The noble work they have undertaken, and
pray that they may not cease until the colored
man can be eliminated from the South, at
least two-thirds of them, and scattered all
over the United States colonized in st.
Domingo or planted in Africa where he may
become the grand regenerator of millions of
his race. Not until then will the South stand
erect G.. l.. MARSHALL.