The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1866-07-24


THE TEST OATH AND SOUTHERN MEMBERS.
Even were the Southern States admitted into
the Union how they to be represented in Con-
gress while the testeath is required The friends
of the Philadelphia Convention at the North do
not propose to repeal the test oath-they onl y
contend that southern members should be imne-
diately admitted in Congress who can stand the
test of loyalty, or, in the language of the Presi-
dent, whose loyalty is unquestioned by any known
legal test. However loyal to the Union the south
ern people may now be. but very few can take
the test oath-many men who considered
Union men during the war cannot take t-and as
it is legal test can't see how we are To get
our Representatives admitted unless we send men
that majority of the people don't want.
Until the'test oath is repealed or greatly modi
fed, tire South cannot be properly represented in
Congress, even if to morrow she was declared in
the Union. So, it seems to US. that we need not
be extraordinary anxious about the matter at pre-
sent-at least ought not to agree to adopt any
odious constitutional amendments for the sake of
the empty declaration that in the Union.
WHO ARE THEY?-A call has been made by
% persons (who are styled Southern loyalists.'
but who are really nothing but radicals claim
held in Philadelphia on the first Monday in Sep
TENDER. The object is to aid the Northern radi-
Gals in their opposition to the Presidents policy,
and in opposition to the Union Philadelphia Con-
vention. Two persons sign the call North
Carolinans. viz Daniel Il. Goodoe and Byron
Latin. Not uDe in thousand of our citi-
zens know either of these persons. We never
heard before of Byron Latin. DanI. R. Good
loe. before the war. lived in Washington city,
and the editor or assistant editor of an aboli-
ton sheet. Since the closed he appoint
ed, we think U S. Marshal for North Carolina. and
may have been living in the State since then. 1t
is said he is natiue of North Carolina. but he is
representative of her people, He has no right
sign Il call for Convention in behalf Of North
Carolina As for Mr. Latin, whoever heard Of
him before? Is he native resident of
the STATED
OF the other signers of the call, the New York
News says:
Three of them profess to be citizens of Texas
Not one of them is resident of that State
"Governor' Hamilton left it some time ago. de-
claring that he never expected to reside there
again. and he is now in Washington. George
w. Paschall. whose suspected treason to- the
Cnnfederacy was magnimnnSly overlooked by
its Government during the war. is now living in
Washington and practising law there. Lorenzo
Sherwood resides in the City of Brooklyn. and
has law office in this city. These are all the
Texans.
Two Georgians sign the call. G.. w. Ashburn
and Henry @. Cole. Neither of them is known
to hundred men outside Of his county. They
both Northern men by birth aud education.
One of them is the correspondent of Boston pa
per, aud such is the malignant slarderer of
the people among whom he lives. The other
suspected of reasonable correspondence with
General Sherman. and is resenting the impri>on-
ment to which be on that account. sub jected.
Eight sign it citizens of Virginia Except
Underwood, whose infamy has made him noto-
riouS. these utterly insignificant and un-
known. One of them, Lewis Mckenzie, is
rather respectable person. but was the consist
ent enemy of his native State during all the
Another, the Rev. j. w. Hunnicutt, is a crack
Drained. Anticipated sort of fellow whom every
ono laughs at. a South Carolinian by birth. a
loyal Uniuni>t' from want of sense. The re-
manning six are all natives of the North.
The sienRrs from Alabama are with the ex-
cpption of Mr. George Reese, So obscure. and un-
known. that venture to say that they have
never been heard of ten miles from their homes.
We are somewhat surprised that Mr. Reese ap-
pended his name to the call, if. indeed. it was
placed there by his authority. The four Missou-
rians who signed the paper. part Of the scan,
thrown to the surface of the filthy political pool
of that State. by the terrible agitatons of the
war; IF there is a man in all the land who can
tell US ANYTHING about the two North Carolinians
whose names grace the call, we shall be obliged
to him for the information.
These are the men who have called Conven-
ton of the Loyal Unonists of the South" to
meet at Philadelphia on the first Monday in Sep
TENDER. 1t will be wonderful Convention.