The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-11-21
ALABAMA SIALE CONNEN-
TON.
Negroes Making Constitutions.

Marcos Making Constitutions.
The Home Journal Is not large
enough by ninety.nine times its pres
Ont size to give one-half ofthe enortni'
ties committed daily by tho Jacobins
Of this country, and which will serve to
damn them in the future to ans eternal
infamy. In disregard Of scientific and
historical light as to the utter ihcapac'
ity of the negro for sclf'government, Oh
government of others, they have for.
ccd him into a position in the South
which he cannot hold a moment lon.
ger than bayonets are used to keep
down u superior race under whose rule
the grandcst form Of governments ever
known have been established and per
petuated, while it is q potent fact that
in Hayti, where for fifty years the ne
gro has been free. he Is in a worse NOR
al, social and political condition than
was the slave of the Southern man.
But in this country the negro has been
taken up by a sett of unprincipled IA
natics, intent alone upon power, and
forced into positions revolving to com.
III IN sense and decent instincts, and all
for the purpose of atfo. ding some sort
of a pretext that the Jacobin is really
his friend. And now we are in an AT.
rican jungle. The Radicals themselves
see it. They see that the negro is no
more a white man than an ass is the
brother of the horse, or the goat ofthe
sheep, ,
Let us see how this African mania
Of the God-and.morality %scoundrels is
working in the satrapy of Alabama
Let us see how the negro is beginning
10 do his work as Constitution-tinker
down there. 1t will serve for our chill.
dr.n to wonder at, and to wonder thai
such fools rs the Radicals have made
themselves, could exist in IN err
which produced Washington, letters On
Madison, and Clay, Calhoun, Webster
ct. ais. True, the work Of such fools
will soon-muSt soon pass away into
mcrited obloquy-but let us record it
for the wonder Of the coming genera
ton. At Montgomery the State Con
ventiou was temporarily organized by
the selection of the editor OF q Radica
newspaper, Griffin, late from Chicago
Illinols, as presiding officer. Peck, O.
Alabama, was then elected permanent
President. When this was done, q mo
ton was made and carried that thu
raemNcrs register their names. OI tn
African delegates, one hay could no
urle their names, but made their marks
This being over, the selection OF Secre
tary took place. Barbour, late agen'
OF the Frcedmcn's Bureau, was one
candidate, and Patrick another. The
vote was taken by count, and when tn
first African was called, he insisted up
oaansw,ring "Asre.' The clerk repeat
ed his name only to get a louder +
guonse, sHlRE." Here wa o hitch, fol
here was not u candidate. AT length
the President explained to the Africans
that they were not a plantation muster
answering ut roll call, but were voting
either for Barbour or Patrick, and the
convention started again. An African
vas then made Assistant Secretary
Some white members then attempted
to get q white door-keeper. This led
to Il vote by count, and the African was
successful. Then came a proposition
hat the members take the iron clad oath
provided by Congress, which all feder
al officers in the North and lawyers in
the federal courts are required to sub
scribe. This made trouble, for many
radical delegates were, during the war
radical rebels. The difficulty, howev
.er, was overcome by the fortunate sug
g~es>ion that, as Gen. Pope had apiro
we'd the selection of, aud called the del
egates, The OATH WAS dispensed Of
Quite n cute dodge! This ended the
first days performance!
Liter in the proceedings Genera
ponc sent to the convention q propo'
sition 70 provide at once for a sort o
provisional government, to remain IN
existence ill Congress acts on the one
10 ue maturcd y by the convention
Cnder the Pope pl.n, all existing Stat
Offices are declared vacated; u provis
ional governor is to be appointed by
the convention, and he is to select nj
needed State officials. This PROPOSE
ton was referred to the proper com
mittee. A motion to lay it on the table
was defeated, but it will ultimately bi
adopted, the Africans and white Radi
Gals approving it. This much for
new constitution for Alabama!
In order that our readers may be in
formed, from a Republican standpoint
Of tie manner in which delegates tt
these conventions have been elected
we give the following extract from /
o,rr,snondent of the New York Times