The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-07-21
CH TON
TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 21, 1885,.
.Back In the Union.

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The President of the United States has
! proclaimed the ratification by South Caro-
lima Of the fourteenth Constitutional Amend.
ment; Goss, Bowen and WHITrEMoRE have
taken their seats in Congress as our repre-
sentatiyes; the military law of the
! white man is at an end; the civil rule of the
black man is fairly begun. AS far as South
Carolina is concerned, the Reconstruction
acts are no longer Of any force or effect.
The State government called into life by
an usurping Congress-, sustained by the
musket and bsyonet, and administered by
colored BARRIERS, preachers, tinkers and cot
ton pickers and meaner and more vindictive
carpet-bagging white men, is now supreme.
at this moment General CANDY has, by the
laws Of Congress, no authority beyond that
which he derives from the PARTICLES Of War.
True it is that he may still make arrests,
still fli Castle Pinekney and Fort Macon
with private citizens, who were arrested on
suspicion and because they were not negroes;
but in so doing he laughs to scorns the Re-
construction acts, fully as much as
when-in General Orders No. 1S6-he
defines the limits Of the powers Of the
civil authorities, orders prisoners UNDER
going punishment by sentence of mill
tary commissions to be retained in custody,
and directs his subordinates to refuse to
obey. writ OF da5eas corpus issued by State
court. Probably however, another supple
mentary act may remove this unpleasant
ness, and declare that the civil government
is always right save when CASBY says tits
wrong. But for to-day it is glory enough
to know that South Caroline is congress
sionally what she has never ceased to be
constitutionally-a State Of the American
Uaiop. BUTLER, WADE and STEVENS may
now clap their hands and shout with glad
ness, for the halls which have been hon.
ored by the presence Of HAYNB, q PRES
TON and McDUHr1E, are now ornamented
by WKrrEMoRE, the mouthy ex-chaplain Of
the S0th Massachusetts Regiment; by
Bowen, the ex-Confederate captain and
reputed forger and murderer, and by
the too notorious Goss. Worth has given
way to want Of principle, integrity to i'm.
morality, chiyalrye to baseness, honor to in
fanny and shame. The South Carolina Of
the educated white man is replaced by the
South Carolins Of the sdventurer and the
negro; for the Congress Of the people is
substituted a body illegal in organization
and tyrannical in act and intention; for the
free country of eight years ago is given US
the centralized, negro-ridden despotium Of
these present days.
Verify. the Radicals have done well By
fraud. and by wrongs innumerable, by test
oaths aud shoulder straps, by Bureau agents
and pro consuls, by Union Leagues and in
fsmmatory speeches, they have accom-
plished reconstruction-s reconstruction
which will stand forever.s monument Of
what may be done by men so lustful Of
power as to be reckless Of all truth and as
false as dicers' oaths.
The sign is on the wall, and our Scobin
Congress will do well to make the most of
the little time now left them. Their au-
thority is founded on the African and not
upon the Caucasian, and already North and
West cry out that their liberties are threat
ened, and that by the votes Of Southern
negroes they never will be ruled. They see
that the white man Of the North cannet be
free while the white man Of the South is
enslaved. From the Atlantic to the Pacific
have been heard their protests against Rad
ical revolution. They will be encouraged
to renewed and stronger efforts, for the
crisis of their destinies is at hand. The
completion of Congressional reconstruction
will be the signal for the inception of the
work of reconstructing Congress itself.
They who have shown no mercy will receive
none, and the day which sees South Carolina
represented on the floors of Congress by
tricky adventurers, foreign born fools, and
reputed swindlers, will witness the begin
ming of that true reconstruction which will
only be accomplished when every State is
represented under the constitution, and q
constitutional civil government is restore
to the whole American people.
The Contested Elections.