The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-07-15
Our Negro Legislators.

NneQ tnere arc dS mauy neSAoso 49, WV
gress as there ore now in the hybrid General
Assembly of South Carolina, the Federal
capitol may hope to approach the buying
and selling, cheating and plundering, lying
and equivocating, now rampant in Colum-
bis. AS the negro is below the white man
in reason and intelligence, so is he above
the white man in his faculty for initiating
and improving upon any viciousness set
before him. The carpet-baggers and seal
lawags are bad and mean enough, but the
Congo cohort now in session in the capital
of this State have gone far beyond their
masters, and have proved themselves to pos
sess capacity for intolerance and knavery
which entities them to the admiration of
every genuine Radical.
AS long as the colored Radicals had but
the floor of the Charleston Club House as
their field of operations they condned them
selves to little speculations in State bills
and whiskey. When they entered upon
their new duties at Columbia. they became
greedy Of bigger profits and extended their
scheme of operations.
Our negro legislators are in some respects
incompatible. In eight or ten days time
they have established their just claim to the
possession of all those cranks and weak.
nesses which characterize the negro and
embellish the Radical Congressman. They
have squabbled over the. Constitutional
Amendment which their fathers in Wash
ington had laid before them. They have
attempted to eject the respectable Demo-
Gratis who were elected to the Legislature,
so that their body might be purged of mod.
GRAFTON and good sense. They have discov-
cred the meaning Of oaucuses and private
political meetings. But this is not all.
They have learned how to increase their
per diem, and will double or treble their
pay, by openly selling votes. Look at
the description of the fight among the
would.be senators, given by our special re-
porter. Whiskey-drinking and cigar.smok-
ing may be had to the hearts content of eve
~ negro who has vote. Chaplain FRENCH,
Collector MAckEY and 7. j. ROBERTSON
vie with each other in soft-soaping woolly
heads and greasiug dusky palms. Votes
have their market Price and are firm at from
fifty to three hundred dollars each, with On
upward tendency-the buyer taking the
risk that the seller may make mistake in
delivering his wares. The spoils of Office are
promised by each of the trio of candidates
to every man who will support him. Mr..
Collector MAcKEr calls Mr.. Chaplain
FRENCH hypocrite. Mr.. Chaplain FRENCH
appeals to Mr.. Captain DUTCH, who is cog
nizaut of o little transaction in brandy, and
calls Mr.. Collector MAoKsY q thief. Half
a-million ROBERTSON slaps his pocket, pays
as little as possible, and declares, while his
two-horse chariot is filled with negro swains
and wenches, that it matters not who loses
if only ROBERTSON wins.
The whole City of Columbia is infected
with the malarious influence of the negroes
and their adorers. With perhaps dozen
honest and worthy exceptions, every vote in
the Senate or House of Representatives has
its price. Nearly every man is for sole,
and no man cares jot for anything but his
personal profit and Advancement
This is the negro Legislature of South
Carolina. 1t is from this body Of corrupt,
ignorant, vicious, depraved and abandoned
men,-from this body of knaves, apostates,
renegades, traitors and trimmers, that we
cry unto the Democracy of the country to
speedily deliver US.