The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-01-24
Progress of the Radical Niger Whifens
g. ing PrOcess Down south.

I'M t%FPnl AhO @Ach QTh deraku.I
Hie reports Of the proceedings of the
sSoHthern Radical constitutional con-
ventionseontinuesto be diverting and
characteristic both of the humor, ignor-
ance, and desperation of Sambo. 1t is
evident that the nigger whitening pro-
cess is meeting with but equivocal sue
cess, The extreme is attempted in the
Louisiana zebra convention, where the
blacks, encouraged by their white al
lies, are grasping at more than the
privileges extended to the whites. In
all the public places, in all respectable
hotels, travelling cars, and steamboats,,
where the discretion of managers and
agents is exercised in regard to the pro-
prlety ofreceiving and entertaing white
guests, that discretion is not to be per-
mitted in the case of negroes. A white
man drunk can be elected with impu-
nifty by a Louisiana landlord, but a
black man drunk can be visited with
no such lndignity under the new con-
stltution, black lOafer, foul with filth,
can take his seat beside white lady
at a hotel table, i'll the steamboat, sa-
loon, or railway car, while white
loafer would be turned adrift without
ceremony. In public assemblages, a
black barbarian can yell to his hearts
content and commit acts Of disturb
ance without mOlestatiOn, while a
white roWdy is hastily despatched to
the nearest station house. Briefly, the
whole scheme of these Louisiana Rad
icals is to make the black not only the
equal, but the superior, of the white
man; to break down all the rules of So
ciety, looking in their aspiring igno-
rance, to the time when a decent white
woman will esteem it an honor to wed
a lazy and besotted black.
In the Virginia Convention two re-
markable events have just occurred,
and nearly at the same ,time-the rec
ognition of the Deity, and the appear
ance of Ben. Butler. The Conserva-
tives made call for Henry A. Wise,
but he did not appear. The, convention
I has also just decided two other matters,
both of which have already been set
tledand clinched by the Union arms
namely, that secession is null and void
and that slavery is forever abolished.
The opening vapors' of the North
Carolina Convention begin to arise, but
nothing of a tangible shape has yet APP
peared., ,... r... 49,. l,... f..,...,..r =.
The South Carolina Convention, in
which the blacks have some ten major
ity, is laboring which of two evils to
| choose-a South Carolina or. a MaSsa-
chusetts man. for presiding officer. The
latter is said to be the blackest. ft
/ The Georgia Convention is both hun
CRY and desperate. Things are beconl-
! ing more and more gloomy and, intri-
cate in that State. The presence OF
General Meade does notappear to have
SmOothed the ruggedness of the sltua-
| tion or softened the asperities of party
| feeling. There is no money either in
| the State Treasury or the pockets of the
delegates. 1t is a beggarly show all
around, A call, is made to Congress tC
donate the public lands to the negroes
in order to test their capabilities ofself'
| governments. 1t would be good way
I of getting rid of them.
The Mississippi Convention is fioun
| dered between going on with its busl
( ness and smashing upaltogether. The
| proceedings thus far are exceedingly
farcicaI but the negro element predOnl
| mates, at twenty dollars per day each
Meanwhile the starving darkies IL
| the interior, as we'll as in cities, are q
waiting the results of all these efforts
| to hasten them on the road to civiliza
tion; and, when not engaged in pas
| times of a more lively and desperate
cnaracter, they pass their time In catch
| ing catfish, and, stealing sweet potatoes
| They are too lazy to earn even theil
| sol