The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-11-01
What Might Happen.

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The Louisville Courier, under the above
caption, has the following remarks. If
by any unfortuitous circumstances the
abomination be forced upon or accepted
by the people Of any Southern State, we
hope they will test the fidelity of the ne,
gro-lovers, by adopting the suggestion Oh
the Courier:
The class of men whom the Jacopins
propose to allow to represent the Soutn,
in the event that they conclude TO permit
that section to have any representatives y,
at all, happen to be the ;hs very men tne
South does not want. They will be quite
as we'll satisfied not to be represented as
to to he compelled to select from set of fell
lows who have proved themselves to be
entirely unworthy of public confidence.
Under the operation of the amendment
now pending, almost every man whom
the Southern people consider fit to repre-
sent them would be disfranchised and in
eligible to public Office, and only those
who took no part in the rebellion and can
take the test oath, would be acceped. The
class to which the selection of representa-
tives would be confined are men who,
while the war was going on, lived in the
South and professed to sympathize with
the Southern cause, and not only to SYM
pathize with it, but to give it all the aid
and assistance in their power They
were either acting the part of unprincl-
pled hypocrites then, or they are perjured
scoundrels when they take the test oath.
In either case, they are utterly unworthy
to represent any honorable people.
Now, suppose for moment that the
constitutional amendment is ratified, and
forced upon the Southern States against
their opposition. The alternative will
then be presented to these States to lose
a portion of their representative strength,
or to invest the negroes with the right OF
suffrage. They want no such representa-
tives as the men who can take the test
oath. Then what are they to do? They
could, in the spirit of retaliation, grant
the negroes suffrage; and they could, in
the same spirit, send up an entire colored
delegation to occupy seats in the Senate
and House of Representatives. How
would it suit the great moral negro party
of the North to have twenty coal black
and sweet-scented darkies in the Senate,
and about fifty in the House? Would
they not hold their noses and stand
aghast at the logical consequences OF their
own schemes Would they not immedi-
ately exhibit general disgust at the as
sociates the South had sent them, and be.
come the laughing stock of tho world !!
They would have no right to complain
that the South preferred honest negroes
to dishonest white men as their represen-
tatiyes. The alternative would have been
forced upon them and they compelled to
make the most of bad bargain. Per
haps, however, this arrangement would
chime il. exactly with the fanatical no.
tions of the Jacobins, and by way of con-
vincing the world of the sincerity of their
professions, they might elect two Cuffies
presiding officers Of the two houses
Then, in the event of the death of the
President and vice-President, we should
have q negro President, who could fill
every Office in the Government, both at
home and abroad, with mon of his own
color. That would, indeed, be a delight
full condition of things, but it would be no
more violative of decency and public
opinion than what these Jacobins are
trying to force upon the South.