The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-02-05
IN. Y. independently
A FRANK CONFESSION.

The Falcon is Democratic paper,
published at Oxford in Mississippi;
and Oxford is the home of Senator La
mar, who is one Of the United States
Senators from that State. 1t may be
safely assumed that the Falcon under
stands the Democratic politics Of MIS-
sissippi, and that it would not wan
tonly misrepresent the Democracy of
that or any other State 1t not long
since quoted the remark of Mr.. John
r. Lynch, to the effect that twenty-six
electoral votes were stolen by the
Democrats through fraud in the South
aud then said: Hurt how it may, he
tells the truth" The Falcon then
proceeded to philosophize as follows
as follows on the subject:
1T is great pity that the Constitution of ore-
fathers should bleed; for it. is the guardian Of our
citizen that, sovereign. he in Judgment upon
his s his The
Of the South live from year to year in violation of
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rule which has brought us to it. and as we be1ieye
means Calhoun predicted long before the emanetSa- s
freed; me South would be varquishd and he wished
ored man to the pocs Of the United States. He said
would he with them few :proaigste whifes,' who
men,a oaIy have his predictions
people South has bee
stand together and to have control of their offices of
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be domneered over by any other race of people and
fact, because their oppositions are between whites
and and not ee %ntes aen
in the South and that the col0red mans vote has not
Feared sa" f hi@sef Where his voice Should
have equal weight with ours.'
Such is the language of one of the
Democratic papers Of Mississippi. 1t
is frank confession of fact. 1t ad-
mits that 1--WE of the South"-that is
to say, the white people of the South
''live from year to year in open viola
ton of these sacred rights" and that
1.-The instances Of such violation ''are
too numerous for us to deny it. " ''The
protection of the people Of the South"
that is to say again, the white peo-
pie Of the South-"has been their de-
termination to stand together, and to
have control of the offices Of govern
ment"; and this they have done, sal
though" in doing it, "they were
forced to sacrifice some of the consti-
tutional rights of their former slaves
in the attempt" "We know" says
the Falcon, "that there have been nu-
merous election frands in the South,
and that the colored mans vote has
not been fairly counted" We admire
the manliness and candor of this con-
fession.
The gist Of the apology for all this
is that the white people of the South
are, must, and will be the governing
race, even in those States in which
they are in the minority, as in South
Carolina, Mississippi. and Louisiana.
They must have the ''offices," enact
and execute the laws; and the black
people, though under the Constitution
of the United States politically their
equals, must submit to this dispensa-
ton. Take Mississippi. for example,
with population in 1880 composed of
479.398 whites and 650.290 blacks;
and this theory says that the govern
mpnt of the State shall be in the
hands Of the former, and that cleo
tions shall be so manipulated. whether
by violence or fraud, or by both, that
the minority, and not the majority,
shall rule. The minority, being white,
assumes its right to rule the majority,
being black, and proceeds to use all
the measures necessary to assert and
exercise the right. The white man
politically counts for more than the
black man, though the Constitution
says that the two are and shall be Just
equal,
This is the case as presented by the
Falcon; and we have no doubt that its
statement is substantially correct in
! Mississippi, as well as in other South