Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-11-20
From the New York Herald, November III
Constitution Making in the South--Nig-
ger Rule and Niger Ruin.

From the New York Herald, November III
Constitution Making in the South--Nig-
ger Rule and Niger Ruin.
By the proceedings of the Alabama Con-
vention the nation may see the results OF
Radca! rulc-frst, to drive from the govern
ing couacils OF a community all learning, all
discretion, al regard for the stability OF soci-
ETY., all qualities that men respect; and, sec
ond, to replace these qualities by ignorance,
suvagery and The most intense spirit OF re-
venge. An assembly to make Stale con-
stitution is comp scd of men unknown to the
people Of that State, Or where known known
t. bc men Of indifferent character" Is prom
IN mt white men are political advenlurerS
who were the seam of Northern politics, and
Commended themselves to Ligg:r voters o.;
The extravaganza with which they expressed
hatrcds with which tic Niger 1t an active
sympathy.
in some degree the Convention is mlde up
of that class whose principal qualification Is
that it has always been under the white man
foot, and been content with the place ; whose
qualification for Law making is It's former sla-
very, because it is supposed that slavery has
filed it with bitterness that it will put into
the law. Here are Constitution makers who
not only cannot write their names, but cannot
always tell what their names are. Moses,
possessed ofall the learning Of The Egyptians,
and i;vincly inspired, made a Constructor
for his people, and why should not Sambo
make a Constitution when he gets chance =
Plato was Constitution maker also nations
ut antiquity Sent their Delegates years jour
ney 20 have ,h.ir Constitutions shaped by tie
wis Ion of Inc Stagyrle; Meru, So N, Lycur-
gus were Constitution makers; Rome, before
Inc lime of tile Twelve Tab,s, ireIing tie
necessity for Constitution, sent wise men
into all the ci,ieS "f Greece 10 study the iorns
of government aud frame her law; all the
hnr1l,s of i. & and became constitution makers
IN another ages aud now oil! Tie niygers o.
Aa:ama are l., give the suhj Ct their lofty
c,usidrlalion Madison, lIsnillon, JEFF rSor,
Jay were cous i;ution maker and they have
their success rs. Sambo, C.li' and Pouip
are tie names that our age adds to tie Illus
l!lon, llst tlia;, beginning "i;h Soon, comes
dnwl 10 Sta... Consultation makers were
the wis s: m-n nation, and now they are
t,e I, on hose l-arnicg ccnsiS in the abl liy
IN Distinguish between pork and po,sun.
Happy age!
'i'ac direction and tendency 0. this Aaba.
mi Convent, IN are obyions. lis first move is
10 get the Sta:c Governmen: Into other hands
,hon ttos. that Row hold il. This measure
r,cri7es The support of 't.e negroes and the
cxtr,me members Another proposition Is
to 90 bchiad the record of courts in cases Of
alleged crime and pursue some private feuds
10 public law.
Olc more measure is supported by very
"viulcns speeches." This is measure Of
wholesale prescription and dislrauchisemcat,
and the Convention has determined, By vote
uf sixtv-thrcc u twenty-five, tha; it will have
some such measure AMI will not leave disfian.
chiseneut where i. was left by the military
bill. Tie Convention will carry Radicalisn
further than Congress dared. Prescription
is the word Let the people understand this.
and the relult 1t must have. Remember that
il France, when tie great revolution was
maae,lthe men who made it knew where it
should stop, and desired to stop it there. All
the patriots would have preserved order when
they had secured guarantees Of public liberty,
but this did not satisfy the factions. The
Summers and Wendell Phllipscs of that time
urged on ignorance, brutality anG barbarisn,
ard the revolution became war of classes
anu j Slaughter. 1 uIo 10 luc COulo iaA' hCO
out for US. The American people are salts
fled with the results of the war, and wish to
see order established on the basis laid down
in the constitutional amendment.
But this wise limit is not enough for the
fanatics who have given power to the niger,
and hence these latter are urged forward and
reise the cry of prescription. VIII the people
permit this, or will they save the revolution
by the imperative demand that this nigger
carnival shall come to On end? Congress,
radical as it was, dared only 60 certain d.
tancc in its pursuit of vengeance for fear OF
The people. Bu: it delegated its powers to the
niggers, and they are relied upon to 60 fur
ther. This is the plan that has put the law.
making power of the South iuto the hands OF
o race that, in its .tive land, never met in con-
vention for any other purpose but to roast and
eat its enemies. There is but one remedy against
the evil inherent in this plan, and that Is the
immediate repeal, as soon as Congress comes
together, of the Infamous laws under which
those Southern Conventions are to meet,
and upon which the one in Alabama is now
acting.