The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-11-27
Constitution Making in the South


BY the proceedings of the Alabama
Convention the nation may see the re-
suits of radical rulc-frst, to drive from
the governing councils of community
all learning, all discretion, all regard for
the STABILITY of society, all qualities that
men respect; and, second, to replace these
qualities by ignorance, savagery, and the
most intense spirit Of revenge. An as
sembly to mako State Constitution is
composed of men unknown to the people
of the State, or where known, "known to
be men of Indifferent character" Its
prominent white men arc political adven-
turcrs, who were the scum of Northern
politics, and commended themselves to
niger voters by the extravaganza with
which they expressed hatrcds with which
the niggcr felt an active sympathy. In
some degree the Convention is made up
of that class whose principal qualification
is that it has always been under the white
mans foot, and been contcnted with the
place; whose qualification for law-making
is its slavery, because it is supposed that
slavery has filled it with q bitterness that
it will put into the law. Here are Con-
stitution-makcrs who not only cannot
write their names, but cannot always tell
what their names are.
All the barons of England became con-
stitution-makers in another age; and now
all the niggers of Alabama are to give the
subject their lofty consideration. Mad-
son, Hamilton, Jefferson, and Jay, were
onstituton-makers, and they have their
successors. Sambo, Cuffee, and Pomp.
arc the names that our age adds to the
i]lustrious list that, beginning with Solon,
comes down to Story. Constitntion-ma-
llers wcrc the wsest men Of Il nation, and
now they are the men whose learning
consists in the ability to distinguish be-
tween pork and possum. Happy agc
The direction and tcndercy of this Ala
bama Convention are obvious. Its first
move is to get the State government into
other hands than those that now hold it.
This measure receives the support of "the
negroes and the extreme members" 7"
Another proposition is to go behind the
records of courts in cases of alleged crime,
and pursue some private tcuds in public
law. Ono more measure is supported by
"very violent speeches." This is meas
urc of Wholesale prescription and disfran.
chisement, and the Convention has de,
termined, by vote of siXty-throe to
twenty-five, that it will have some such
measure and will not leave disfranchisc-
ment where it was left by the military
bill x =
Remember that in Franco, when the
great revolution was made, the 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 factious. The
Summers and Wendell Philipses of that
time urged on ignorance. brutality, and
barbarism. and the revolution became q
war of classes and slaughter. This is
the course marked out for us. j;
This is the plan that has pnt the law
making power of the South into the hands
of Il race that in its native land never met
in convention for any other purpose but
to roast and cat its enemies. There is
but one remedy against The evil inherent
in this plan, and that is the immediate re-
peal as soon as Congress comes together,
of the infamous laws under which these
Southern conventions arc to meet, and
upon which the one in Alabama is now
acting.-Nep York Herald.
Removal of Cotton Under Bills