The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-05-13
A Washington dispatch of the 9th insta1

A Washington dispatch of the 9th instant
says:
Colonel J. P. Thomas, J. G. Gibbes and Colo
mel T., D. Childs representing the State Cen
trail Executive Committe. Of the Democratic
party of South Carolina, came hither to pre-,
sent to Congress remonstrance on the part OF
the white people Of South Carolina against the
constitution recently adopted at the Recon-
struction Convention. To-day the committee
appeared before the Reconstruction Commttee
OF the House OF Representatives: Mr; Stevens
received them with. courtesy. Colonel Ihomas,
chairman Of the committee, and representing
the State Central Executive Committee, re.
marked that in analyzng the Proposition OF
fine constitution for South Carolina, there
were two objections which stood out in
bold relief: unqualified negro suffrage. and
the taxation power. he argued to show
their disastrous effects upon both races.
The constitution established taxation without
representation. Those who have no property
are TO tax those who have all the property.
Under the constitution s., 600 600 might be rails
ed in the way Of taxes, 81 600, 600 Of which ls
for educational purposes, and yet those advan-
taees we're to be enjoyed by the blacks alone,
as white children would not attend black
schools. The State heretofore, in it's most
prosperous days, had not been able to bear Q
tax OF more than from three to four hundred
in conclusion, said he felt it to be his duty to
state to the committee, that while the whites
are willing to concede to the negro all civil
rights and d qualified suffrage, yet the white
race would never acqulesce in negro rule. DE
continued:
stYou may make US pass under the yoke and
We shall have to do 30, but by every means
which God and Congress have LEFT S us under iS:r
the constitution and laws We will resist this
domination of an inferior race by peaceful
means, by political efforts, by industrial agen-,
cies. We will carry on this political contest
until we regain the control which OF right be-
longs to the power 81 mind and the influence
of virtue. Nor can you have prosperity In the
South under your reconstruction scheme; Dut
give the South tair showing, restore the
States to the Union on joint basis, and again
will our people return with willing hearts to
the Union, and the same energy, that same
self-sacrifce, the same valor which they gave
to the lost cause will they give now to the
Union, provided you meet them IN spirit Of
lust magnanimity, and concede to them the
rights to which they deem themselves enti-
tied"
THE ADMISSION oF ARKANSAS.
A Washington dispatch to the New York
World says:
The passage Of the bill to admit Arkansas to
representation in Congress was the important
feature of Fridays session, and it was rushed
through ulder the previou. question. It was
admitted BY members on both sides that they
had never had au opportunity to read the con;
stltution of Arkansas, but Thad.. Stevens did
not seem to think that would make any differ.
ence, and he declined to postpone the bill tc
allow members to become better informed.
Mr.. Eldridge appealed to the House. not
to perpetrate such an infamy as to force
the bill through ct this time. A briel
discussion then followed, when Mr.. Baker,
an illinois Radical member, took the
floor, and opposed the fundamental condition
in the bill which provided that the State Of
Arkansas should never restrict it's present
basis Of suffrage. He claimed that Congress
had no right to enact any such condition, but
the bill was passed by nearly party vote. i
now goes to the Senate for concurrence. It
seems to be the intention OF the Radicals to
pass this bill and the South Carolina bill, which
is precisely similar, and admit the representa-.
tlyes from those States, without waiting fol-
the ratification of the fourteenth amendment
to the Constitution of the United States by
three-fourths OF the States, as required by the
fifth section OF the supplemental act OF 1867
The House adjourned over until Monday.