, 1866-06-22
Sound on the Niger.

A Southern paper on the question of negro
outrage leads forth as follows;
When the Israelites had become tired of jud-
ges, patriarchs and prophets, they made petit
ton to the Almighty for a king. We are told
that Ged sin his wrath gave them king.
Perhaps the same overruling Providence may,
"in wrath" grant the Radicals their prayer for
negro suffrage; for the preachers. And the BIZ
be informs us that the granting of wicked re-
Quests is one of the methods selected by Omnip-
otence to punish sinners who have set at def
ance all laws and holy precepts.
If the South desired negro suffrage to-day,
the Radicals would violently oppose it to-mor-
row. And it strikes us that the South could not
iuAict more awful punishment on the Radi-
calls than to give them what they want. This
negrophobia would wear out in ten days, should
we send twenty-five negroes to the United States
Senate, and about eighty negro Congressman to
the House of Representatives. And as we can
not get white men into that body, we propose
that the whole,.South at once send on negro dele
gates. Let us make it a hanging offence for
white men to run for Congress, or any office
that will bring him il contact with Radical.
1t is time this negro mania had come to an end,
and we propose to bring up negroes even as Mo-
ses brought up locusts and frogs over the land
Egypt, nntfl the Radical heart, like that of Pha-
raoh, shall grow soft and cry for mercy. We
would place negroes in the Cabinet and on the
Bench ofthe Supreme Court by the side of Chief
Justice Chase. We claim for them the right to
be represented in the foreign missions. We
want negro as minister to England, and two
negroes as ministers to France. We want to see
them fill the highest civil and military offices in
the land. We want a cornfeld negro for Presi-
dent. We want three negro Lieutenant Generals,
thirty negro Major Generals, one hundred Brig
adiers, five hundred negro Colonels and one
thousand negro captains. We also want ten
black Commodores, and fifty negro Captains OF
the navy with any number of black Revenue
and Custom House officers. Two negroes must
sit on each side of Sumner, with one in the front
and one in the rear of him.
If this is uot white mans government, we
want Cuffee to have his share of everything.
We claim equality before the law here and ey-
erywhere else. The only way for the South to
head the radicals now is to 60 further on the
negro question than they do. By all means let
Cuffee vote-but the matter must not stop there
He must go to Congress; this is as much black
government as white, and until Congress chan
ges, no man in the South ought to care to go
there. Let us therefore send the negroes on in
swarms droves, crowds-till like the waters Of
the great deep they shall cover the land and go
everywhere.
We cannot get white men in Congress, let us
try the black. Do not let Us be selfish 10 this
matter; ss we cannot get seats in Congress, let
poor Cufee have them. he will not make corn,
tobacco. rice, cotton or sugar now-perhaps he
will make laws. At any rate, we go iu for try
ing him. If there is any man who will do more
for the black man than we are willing to do, we
would like to hear from him. We want negroes
to be so black, so thick in Congress, that man
standing on the wharf at Acqua Greek, with a
favorable wind, could smell them. We want
their wool to be knee deep in the halls Of Con-
gress, and We do not want any one there who is
not five times blaeker than the ace Of spades.