The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-03-15
A Richmond R adical Dissatisfied.
Erract from, Letter to tie Washington Chronicle dated
: Richmond March 10Th

Erract from Letter to tie Washington Chronicle, dated
Richmond March 10TH.
This committee called on the President and his
Cabinet officers [Messss. Ould, Crump and Keiiy],
aid after deliberate consultation they received full
assurances that if they could get Congress to pass
an act to place the reorganization in the hands OF
President would at once appoint such mep as would
manipulate the whole affair in the interest Of the
rebels. Phis news makes tho rebel eamp-hres
bJn brightly tonight in Richmond; hilarity is
+ Erd IN the private rooms, Of hotels, The des-
pondng rebel who OH yesterday looked forward to
future disfranchisemcntEfee sure OF being soon
restored to prwer, when h6wll get his heel on the
neck Of the Union man and the negro race once
more.
openly claimed that there are not fifteen hundred
men disqualified in Virginia under the fourteenth
article Of the amended Constitution, large ma
jority of them petty Postmasters who held Office
Virginia in 1849 repealed oil acts and requirements
existing by law at that time for executive and
judicial officers and members Of the General AS
scmbly Oh entering upon Their duties to take the
oath to support tho Constitution OF the United
States tsee Revised Code Of Virginia, 1s49, page
State of Virginia. This code was adopted during
the excitement which followed the election OF Con
eral Taylor in 1848. 1t is well known that the oath
to support the Constitution Of the United States
was DS design letG OuC Dy GIle COuluef5. 1Iodsou
was then being plotted. in Virginia. The oath to
support tue Constitution Of tho United States was
there left out to suit the convenience OF the tcnder
footed. Now the benefit is claimed and the Wis
dom of the mon Of those days extolled.
Congress should Immediately pass an act deca-
ratory of the meaning of the Constitutional Amend
ment declaring that all State officers embraced by
the provision Of the Constitution of the United
Stlres, Legislative judicial and executive, which
requires them to support the Constitution Of the
United States, who have discharged the duties Of
their ofioas. without taking said oath, shall be
deemed disqualified in tho same manner and to all
intents and purposes as if they had taken the said
oath. The result Of this expected action on the
part of Congress and the President has tho most
depressing effect not only on tho original Union
men OF the State, but also on the great body OF
Conservative men who looked to the future welfare
and interest OF the Commonwealth.
lhc Richmond Dispatch, commenting upon the
above, pronounces it a batch of gross falsehoods.
We have room only for the following correction:
The fact is, that all officers who had, previously
to 1S49, taken the oath to support the United
States Constitution, continued to do 40 afterwards
under The United States Constitution itself, which
required it, rs our officers knew. There was no
''dcsiSn in tho matter, as attributed to our peo-
tlc; on the contrary, the vote eeoting members to
yhc convention, the very eve of the war. proved
that u large majority of the people of Virginia
we re fol- the Union and opposed to secession