Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-10-01
From the New York HcraId.I
THE REVOLUTIONARY LAWS OF
CONGRESS-.
Organization of Barbarism in the Nine
teenth Century.

enccs Of the early ages can scarcely afford u
parallel. At one time in the Congress of the
United States Senator from Massachusetts,
presented the "barbarism of slavery" in col
that challenged the resentment of the
South. Personal violence cnsued. Then the
iufancd North, spurred on by incendiary
orators, offered combat by the election of u
candidate for the Presidency at that time
most offensive to the South. That candidate
was elected. The telegram announcing his
election was the sounding Of the tocsiu of
war. War came. The issue was fairly
brought, and the victory was with the North
Then followed, not period OF peace, but the
organization Of a spirit of 'barbarsm in the
North" that has fairly cclipsed in intensity all
the horrors of the "barbarism of slavery."-
The cOmpacts of the constitution, for the time
forgotten in the eXigencies Of the rebellion,
were ignored as far back as the Thirty, eighth
and Thirty. y.ninth Congresses, and it will be
miracle if the same disregard of the solemn
league which made the Union should not
prevail in the Fortieth Congress next winter.
The leaders in this attack upon the foundations
of the government, in time of peace, unblush-
ingly avow that they fight for their cause
outside the constitution. All the laws of Con-
gress affecting the South are passed outside
that bulwark Of our nationality. Hence they
These law makers proclaim their rights TO
enfranchise in twelve month a race just
born into civilization and enlightenment and
if half the stories of those who abhor the
"barbarism Of slavery" are true, a most
melancholy condition must that be in which
the whites Of the South will be placed. The
equality of rights of the negro with the white
is demanded by these outside-of- the. constitu-
ton barbarians. The supremacy Of the black
is required by others. We see, in the nume-
rous outrages committed by the blacks in the
South, the spectacle of liberty run into lcen-
tiOusuess. In Alabama the blacks have over
fifteen thousand majority of registered votes;
in Louisiana they have over thirty. eight
thousand majority in North Carolina they
are running largely ahead of the whites in
South Carolina they have already twenty five
thousand majority; in Mississippi they have
a large majority in Florida their majority is
as two to one; in Georgia they are four thou
sand ahead. The whites have a majority in
Virginia, and probably will have in Arkansas
and Texas-only three out of the ten Southern
States. Knowing that the blacks have the
advantage in point Of numbers in the States
above named, the radicals are moving to
secure their superiority by insisting upon
their being appointed to or nominated for
federal aud local offices. The State Conven-
tions, State Legislatures, other local official
positions the Congress of the United States,
and even the White House at Washington,
areheld out to these uncivilzed and untutored
blacks as objects fit for their aspiratinns.-
States reconstructed upon this system will
become simply waste lands, in which the ig-
nOrant or those in an incipient or in perfect
state of barbarism, or both, will be the ruling
spirits, or they will become like jamaica
,f int oh 10 ii ,r,l
Sambo will be sovereign. The white men
will be nowhere. Many of them are now ex-
cluded by the laws of Congress from voting,
as they will hereafter be debarred from the
privilege of holding Office in these negro-ridden
States.
That the radical power in Congress is re-
volutionary we see in these political affiliations
of the radical whites with the ignorant blacks
of the South. Send blacks as representatives
to Congress, aud it will prove the signal for
another attempt to break up the Union. 1t
will be but an effort to organize barbarism.
anarchy and revolution. 1t will be against
the will OF twenty five millions of American
people, who have never been called upon to
vote upon the qeustiOn of the reconstruction
laws nor that Oi negro suffrage. and is in the
face OF the policy that has actuated every ad.
mlnlstration since the government was forms
ed. California sees in it the ipauparatioD of
Chinese and coolie suffrage, and has already
spoken against it. The men of intelligence
IN Maine have also regarded it in an antago-
nlstlc light. The people of Ohio will sneak
upon 1t on the Sth of next month as a sepa.
rate question; and We suppose in November
the people of New York will have an oppor
tunity to do the same on the question of
adopting or rejecting the new constitution
In no State, with perhaps one or two excep-
tlons, We repeat, have the people had an op-
Portunity to express their views at the ballot
box for or against negro suffrage aud the
laws Of Congress which force upon the South
such tyrannical rule are abominablc, and