The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-04-22
North Carolina.

the National Iatelligencer contains somuch
truth, and is alike applicable to the con-
dition of affairs in this State, that We
copy entire:
We have before us copies of the consti-
.tutions formed in six. ot5the Southern
States by the Conventions which were
lately held there. These Conventions. it
is well known. did. not reflect the .senti
ments of the white population of these
States. but rested mainly upon the negro
element. reinforced, inspired, and con-
trolled by. as base an element as ever
walked the eartli-the carpel-bag udven-
,turers who have gone to the South to.
make profit by the ruin Of the people.
Examine ali these constitutions, aud you
find one key note pervading each one
negro equality. political and social This
idea goes through them all. We have
seen how one State after anotherat the
North, even those most ultra Radical,
Ohio, Kansas, and others, have rejected
negro suffrage, and now, to crown the
list, we. have Radical Michigan, which.
usually gives that purity fifteen to twenty.
thousund.majority, now refusing by a
large majority the principle of negro sui-
ti:lge. Such arelthe instincts of race in
State where the negroes over twenty
one years number only some 800 votes,
as against 10000 whites. In Michigan.
the question is, hardly practical, save as
the assertion of u principle which white
mcn will, not suffer 10 be compromised
But there is. no community in Michigan,
not even the smallest county, nor ward,
nor village, where the. whi1c population
would : not have the power to.protect
themselves against negro rule. Contrast
this with the condition OF the Southern
States, in fve:of which the negroes regis
tered prepondelate largely over the reg
iisstercl whites; and in others, though in
a minority in.the State, controlsl large Sec
tions, and number Of the most fertile
counties. s
North Carolina is State of this last
descriptions. In heeeastern counties,and
not.a few Of the middle counties. the ne
groes are largely in the ascendant. Ne
gro local government and negro taxation
in these coruties is inevitable. The ques-
ton comes home TO these people in the
most practical and direct form, and can
we wonder that they are excited at the
prospect Of IL ruiil that will be irretriev;-
bic, aud degradation such as the white
race has never suffered in the history OF
mankind!
This constitution of North Carolina is
to be voted on upon the 2lst OF this
month. As we remarked before, the in
strument does not emanate from the
wllite population of North Carolina. II
is the work OF negroes and alien adyen-
turers, and WAS expressly designed to
pcrpetuate their ascendancy. Every me-
yro, therefore, is allowed to vote. Even
crime is no disqualification. And every
negro voter is eligible TO the jury box.
This doctrine Of negro equality runs
through the constitution. and under it
the races are to be commingled ut the
public schools, at the State University,in
churches, public hotels and assemblage,,
land in the militia. All this is matter OF
law and obligation. according to tho.prin-
ciples of this constitution. Such are the
ahhorrent features of this government.
whites of Norlh Carolina. Have we amy
right to expect social order. peace, or sub
missionto The authority of Government
when such degradation is inflicted upor.
the population
Ii there was any doubt as to the intent
|.oi this constitution, tits supplied by the
votes Of the Convention which framed it,.
We find that it was proposed that white
aud black children should not go to the
same schools; that they should not inter
marry that whites and blacks should not
muster in the same companies, aud that
black officers should not command while
men; that poor white children should not
| he bound to negroes that marriages be-
tween whites and Blacks should always
remain void; but all these propositions
werecontelnptuonsly rejected. The great
nn.biiorof the negro is; to IL. @: Z, ::::'
of complete social equality with the
white rare. and they insisted upon these
conditions.
This constitution we may hereafter ex-
anime more in detail. The above are its
more salient iniquities. Its aim is entire
eo ality for the negro, malgamalinn, in
limacy of the children, negro Office hold
ers. jurors. magistrates, shcrilis, police,
and tax lssessors. There is nothing that
makes life valuable thae is not to be held
subject To the degrading contact or op
preston of the African race. 1t is bold
and daring conspiracy against the proper
ty, the intelligence, and the manhood oi
this people. As Il measure of nalignity
these constitutions. suchas we have Seen
framed in Arkansas; Alabama, and North
Carolina, surpass anything that could be
expected from ticnds.
And yet we are told by tho Radical
papers that there is discomfort, "disloya
tty" in the South; the whites are rebel
lious,' &c They fret and are rcstive at
tie prospect, nay. at the actual infiction