The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-10-25

dale-wIlllng Tor the organization anu
control Of the next House to be given
to the Republican party with its load Of
guilt and its disposition to wrong? If
there be such, he should hide in shame
for such disloyalty to his race and color
under the peculiar circumstances of
this canvass. 1t is known that the race
feeling dictated Hills nomination, and
it alone is the basis of his fading hopes
of election. Because there is a MAORI
tv of coIored voters in this District it
was determined to impose colored
candidate upon the voters. Intelligent
and respectable white Republicans,
Greenbackers and Independents We're
passed by in the selection of a candidate
to oppose the Democratic nominee; and,
in the mere wantonness Of numerical
strength, a colored man was selected
who has no fitness for the place for
which he was thus made a candidate,
and whose only claim to support is that
he Is a col3red man. He or his friends
may disclaim this, but it remains true
that he was nominated because of his
race, and he can present no appeal to
any voter, except on this ground. His
candidacy is an insult to the whites Of
the District, Of all parties. It origina-
ted in disregard Of the superior fitness
and ju-t claims of white men of his own
party, and of other parties opposing the
Democratic party, and it is continued
in the vain hope that race prejudice,
and unreasoning hate born of it, will
carry him through, despite the sentiment
and opposition of the intelligence and
virtue of the superior race, which
must stand as unit against his
pretensions' 1t is impossible for him or
his supporters to expect any man with
sense enough to form an opinion Of the
qualifications and fitness of a Represen-
tative in Congress deliberately to cast
his vote for him against Barksdale, ex-
cept upon some other ground than
desire to be we'll represented. Nothing
but partisan zeal or the hope of direct
pecuniary gain could dictate vote for
Hill, and, it seems to us, that the cir
cumstances of his nomination and can
didacy release every Republican, Green
backers and Independent from all obi
cations to support him. Nor should he
be supported BY colored men, because
they defy Fate and hazard their own
best interests, when they permit them
selves to be arrayed on the color line or
aroused by race issues. In a contest
with the whites, they will be the suf-
ferers. 1t has ever been so, and must
ever be. Nothing can change it. 1t
results from the unchangable order of
things, and cannot be otherwise 1t
might as we'll be recognized and acted
on by many of the colored race, and
the sooner their counsels and example
are universally accepted and followed
the better.
1t is worse than folly, it is madness
for the colored people to align them
selves by the color line. When they
do this, they fix the position of every
white man true to his race on the other
side of the line. They thus confront
each other the superior in wealth,
in intelligence, in experience and in
against the inferior in every
thing important as factor in the con-
test. We say the white race is superior
in Plumbers, because while in particu-
lar locality this may not be the case, it
is true of the whole country, and, on a
question of race and color, it matters
not where ones home is, if true to his
Instincts, he sympathizes with his race.
God made it so. 1t is born in us, and
Ill the DEGREES of party or government
amt alter it. The wonder is that col
,red men don't see this, and act accord
ngly. They have but to think, and
perceive it. They will always lose by
,eing placed in antagonism to the white
ace 1t matters not why it is so.
seeing that it is so, indisputably, they
hould profit by their observation, and
void the clash that involves harm to
hem.
We are the friend of the colored
,eople. We are acquainted with their
history and condition. We sympathize
nth them in their poverty and igno-
ance and many disadvantages, and,
Ike our candidate, Maj. Barksdale,
1ouId do all that is proper to elevate
nd improve them. We would protect /
hem fully by the strong arm of the
Nv and the still stronger agency of pub |
G sentiment, in all their rights, and !
arnestly desire their welfare and hap
mess; but candor compels Us to say ,
lat when they deliberately place them
Ives on the color line in politics. and
lus array themselves against those ,
Ipable of governing the country. and
lxious to do it in the interest Of all
Ices and classes, they forfeit al just :
aims to sympathy or aid at the hands q