The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-11-05

a,pvc.. or uoS MONTGOMERY BLAIR AT LAURE1,-
MD.-ExposE OF THE RADICAL ,,n.rra roLlS1 r.in LIZ
ukRD To TIE CONSTITUTIONAL AMfSDAi1NAo.
Hon. MONTGOMERY BLAIR, WHO "nl W ionichl-
borod os Tho Attorney General Of MIR. LINCOLN,
and who is n Republican OF p[oiiiaohoe' ,eeeh'iS
delivered speech ut Laurc'' "0' iioil' "AA'oA W.
extract Us follows :,
rrbo ,vbo,o scheme of The Radicals, as developed
in Tho hil of Mr. Thaddcus Stovons, and i'll the
constitutional amendment voted 1y nus Party, rs
designed to lead stevens 10 @ in his Closing
sneoch that tho ten States are oSiled because
hor old constitutions were utterly a ydS at ~,
now authorize tho outlawcd States to become re-
publican by freely forming their G constitutions py
The action of all their IG sbe eeis hs 'hs ed ms Us
each Stato. constituted by the votes OF oil male
oitzons above tho ago of twenty-one years, and 1t
is declared that the WORD clzen as useo IN I'M,
indians not taxed) born duly naturalized in the
United states" The sixth section extends the OK:
eSPon as t. SRdye IsaoH who h
Office, either civil or military, under the so-called
Confederate States Of America, and who voiuntari-
E Gy SGHfg deciared S to forfeit their citizenship" &C.
sarhus" (says MIR. Stevens, in his comment on this
billy will The elective franchise DSd s.d}osP bo be
without regard to color. Reject this BILL and see
no way of over giving equal rights TO the south;
The slaves of the South wero, it seems, the only
loyal men. Although it is known, and has been
80 repeatedly declared by Dir. Greeley and other
leading Radicals, that the conspiracy which forced
few leading men, who packed the State Legisla-
tures and seized their goyernments through the
fundamentally Of military associations, and used
the penalties treason to the State to join or con-
tribute to the support Of their armies; yet the
negroes alone arc loyal, Two except some few whito
refugees. It is known that while the usurpation
bore sway in tho South the power Of tho United
States being driven out, the abest and best loyal
men in tho South necessarily contributed in
some way or other to the cause OF the rebellion.
They obeyed tho laws of tho de fdcto govern
ment, and voluntarily, in the same sense in which
every loyal man in tho Union now yields obe-
dience to such laws of the late Rump Congress
as ho holds to bo unjust and unconstitutional The
negroes Of the South, well as the whites, looked
to the nearest government to which they were
accustomed to submit, and which held society to-
gether in the South, as to al authority which, hav-
ing there the whole power and the right to govern
Inc en- negroes literally farsned t thg % anewS 5 Of Maf
that kept it on foot. They dug in the trenches,
and served more Loyalty and more voluntarily for
the usurping Government than the masses Of the
masters The latter, it is known resorted in
greater numbers to our armies and to the North
than the blacks. The Communicating Chief-their
President, Dayis-proclaimed in speech, in Geor-
gia, towards the close of the war, that two-thrds
Of their army had deserted and he conjured the
women of the South, who of all others we're truest
10 CuuSc, UO bcuQ lOVeTB, DrOL0-
ers, back TO their duties This was not said Of the
blacks. They were in no instance complained of
by the rebel power as wanting to it's cause. They
and, therefore although they were throughout the
war tho very vitality Of the rebellion, and most
willingly its support, the Radicals now consider
the the government @ S they opposed, although that at
Government a was fighting the battle 3? which was
the Radicals, because it fits them to their pur-
poses, which is to establish despotsm. The
Rump Congress wants o constituency that will
obey those in power over them, without consider
ing whethor rightfully or wrongfully. Hence, by
the bill introduced by Mr. Stevens, chairman Of
the Caucus Committed of Fifteen, OF the close Of
whole body of the intelligent white race is stripped
of their citizenship and tho black race is to as
sumo it. The bill expressly provides that tho ne
tions which are to form constitutions of tho
Southern States, which are designated by him
.s .soutta,red Sdtes'-they are to choose members Of
the conventions, arc to ratfy the constitu-
tions by their votes whom submitted for adoption
by tho people. The only color of fact which is re-
Lied on in support of this right Of the negroes to
govern the Southern States s, that we had some
negroes in our army, and these negroes, nearly all
of whom were enlisted in the Border States, are
confonnded with those who served the rebels with
in their lines, few of whom escaped or attempted
to escape through those lines to join our armies
There were in al 40 600 negroes in our service and
there were about 4OO, 600 Southern men in our ar
negro. If we are TO assume that all tho negroes in
the Confederacy were loyal because the negroes
were got to the number of 1000 in the Border
States by forcibly taking thom from their masters
here, setting them free and giving them pay and
bounty why may we not argue something for the
masses OF the white race in the Confederacy in
virtue OF the volunteer service Of their brethren of
the border States especially when there were about
three white men in tho service for every negro
It Is Obvious that the preference for the negro over
the white man, which is equally characteristic of
the Rndicals and tho Secessionists, has the sanae
foundation with both Of them-they both want a
submissive, snbseryient class on which to found
Ghelr power They vary only in the mode Of apply
the same-thc subjection Of the masses Of our froo
independent white raco to tho sway of the few
crafty ambitious men, Both sock to control this
1orce for the same purpose. The Radicals have al
Teaoy Provlded oil the machinery for welding it
through tho Freedmen's Bureau, which now e1er-
cises the control over the negroes formerly held by
the master, and will, Of course, direct tho votes
when they arc given, as it does now the labor oi
aia,, rnsse peoPte Ihls point alone Of the Radical
truly characterized that policy in bis letter to The
Cleveland Convention, "as policy not only uncon.
genal 10 our ldoas and principles but pre-eminent
Y dangerous to tho spirit of our Government
HG%eTef r. m humane the onds sought and the motives
Government to DO despotic." To make the dis
tranchsemcnt OF all the whites who have capacity
Ior carrying on government in the South doubly
sure, tne constitutional amendment now submitted
5ao1 @ oos ?; t tol tatilicatlon and now passing tina
ordeal In the Southern States in their Iepglatnre,
elected or to be elected, provides that all who have
ever helq once IN the exiled States shall be foreye,
debarred from holding Office, State or national.
they nave oended M by taking any part in the Iatt
od bu na n.Gvens holds that this penal clause
quires only tho adoption Of three -sonrfhs ~ tb,
States whose Representatives haye voted in Con