The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-12-06
Recons true tion-AlabaIlla.

Ny Lord sends greeting: and begs you Of oil
love 10 give him no more OF your music
IS.ukSpure iUrOdied.
The communications Of General POPE to
General SwAYNE, ut Montgomery, Ala,
earnestly inuurng if the Radical Conven-
ton Of that State cannot be induced to
adjourn, have taken the nation very much
by surprise. He was believed to be the
most ultra Republican among the southern
generals, and ready to sustain every folly
and excess of which the Alabama negro
Convention could be guilty. But even be
could not stand the oulrageS OF that BODY
of savages, knavcS, and maGmcn. He de-
clarcs that they are doing great harm TO
reconstruction and fearful that the longer
they remain in session the greater the injury
they will nhict upon the country, he begs
that they be induced to retire at once.
1t must have become evident to the
leading Radicals that they have let loose
a wild beast they cannot control. The
Alabama Convention has given them con-
elusive proof of this. Mstaiing the prin-
cipal object of constitutions, they have
directed the provisions Of that they are
making for Alabama to the protection oil
the maiority-themselves. Voters before
registration are to swear that they will
never help to diSfranchise negroes. They
are to swear this aud other things, which
manly and honorable men will not do, and
thus they will be DISTINGUISHED, and the
power be retained in the hands Of the ne
groes. While thus protecting themselves
and putting clauses in the constitution
with the view to curtail the privileges OF
the minority-the whitcS-they further
more give to the Legislature the authority
to pass laws imposing any disabilities for
participation in the rebellion they may
deem proper.
Not content with framing a constitution,
they; take upon themselves to pass sundry
ordinances still further to carry ont their
grand purpose Of permanently retaining
the governing power in their own hands
and relieving themselves Of the burthens
of government. Indeed, their measures,
called " ordinances" were Of such general
nature that it would appear that the Con-
yention was inclined to dispense altogether
with q legislature, and establish itself en-
pe77aQnence, They undertook to continue
their existence at their own pleasure, and
proposed to give to their presiding officer
the authority to convene them when he may
think it necessary!
II is no wonder that General POPE,
ultra Radical though he may be, cannot
stomach all this. Even he can see that
this sort of law making is intoerable, and
must lead to anarcby-that it is a bold and
clear usurpation of all power in the State
oy the inferior aud incompetent race, the
maJorltS-who, in their very laws 70 per-
Pe'uato thelf power, confess that they are
not Mt to retain 1t, and that there NAV be
good reason for taking it out OF their hands.
Alabama has led off; Louisiana follows
WIN the indication that the negro power
An mat State will 60 to still further ex-
s'e"o WITH iutolerant and proscrptive
ses towards the whites. One uropo-
; '.oA ~ Inc Louisiana Convention, quite
SIGNIFICANT, Is to tax private schools = anaau
10 force the whites to SEND their cbildrsn
10 schools along with negroes. pr;v.,a
schools are to be put down.
Whist the Virginia Convention vii, a.
remains to be seen but if not as relent,e, :.
and bitter as those Of the more southern