The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-02-12

1t has been suggested that the negro Revels
admission as q senator will be opposed on the
ground that he is disqualified under the pro-
visions of clause of article l, section g. of the
constitution, which reads as follows:
mo person shall be senator who shall not
have attained to the age Of thirty years, and
been nine years citizen Of the United States,
and who shall not, when elected, be an inhab-
liant of that State for which he shall be
chosen
The Washington correspondent of the Balti-
more Gazette, speaking of the alleged dis
qualification. says:
I have no idea that the objection. howeve r
sound, will be In the least regarded by Radl-
cal senator's. To be sure, it has been all along
the burden of Summers song that the Civil
Rights bill conferred on the negro, for the first
time, the rights and privileges OF citizenship.
This much had to be claimed In order that the
Radical party might reap the honor Of con.
verting the negroes en- 'nGSSe into citizens by
operatIon of their all-powerful statutes. 1t will
hardly be contended that by any legislation OF
Congress, reaching back so far as nine years
ago, this metamorphose has been effected. BY
the admission Of this man the Radicals Will,
therefore, stultify themselves. They must give
the lie to their professions Of having been in
the political status of the negro race, since 1t
must needs be thus confessed that individuals
composing it were entitled to occupy and pos
sess the highest posts of power In the United
States before the Radical organization had
power, or even an existence
Such is the hourly necessity of eating their
words and repudiating their heresies by the
Radical faction. Of course senators Will swal-
low this negro without e. grimace. suppose
the case to vary as to the personnel. II on
| Irishman or q German. OF any other white
| foreigner, had been naturalized only eight
wears ago, does any one believe he would be
! admitted as member of the Senate Yet
| the 'sCivll Rights" actis obviously OF no more
sanctity or of no more retroactive efficiency
| than our naturalization laws. Irecollect very
well that Schurz was threatened with rejection
until it was found he could prove (whether by
| truthful witnesses or the reverse Is not the
ouestIon) that he had been s'citizen" for the
required time. In the contingency of the
annexation of San Domingo, will Radical SEN
ators gag at the admission of Baez as another
senator?
The carpet-bag senators are working against
Senator Revels In an underhand kind OF way.
They are circulating newspaper extracts charg-
ing Mr. Revels with immoral and disorderly
with unlawful appropriation of the church
funds: with an undue affection for the female
members of his flock, and with having whlskey
bottles broken on his head, &c. OF course such
| immortality Is very Objectionable to the carpet
bag gentry, who are, one and oil, OF uneXcep-
tiOnable moral character, and who do not Wish
to run the risk OF being contaminated by con.
tact with man who has ever done anything
| In violation of the ten commandments. IL is
understood the Democratic senator's generally
are disposed to take no action in the matter,
but Mr.. Yickers, of Maryland, will object to Mr.
Revels on the ground of ineligbility under the
constitution, feeling it to be his duty to do so.
But, after all, it Is probable that the intro
duction of an unequivocal negro Into the Sen
ate will be productive Of final good effect
The end of the tether must of necessity be
the prevailing mania at the. North cannot
| be corrected but by practical extremes God
have mercy upon their dupes when the fever
of madness now possessing the country shall
have subsided The negroes will then recog-
nize their true friends In those who have stead
| lily counselled avoidance of the pending COLL.
| sion. They will have cause enough, by-and-
| by, to curse the mountebanks who have set
| them upon the pretension Of equality.
The citizens of this district have been sub
ected to the ordeal Of perfect political equality
of the whites and blacks, and you see the con-
sequence! The doctrine, in reality, has been
repudiated by the very men who were, but
few months ago, the lustiest IN Its applause
In the movement for o territorial government
here, you perceive Radicals and former Abo
lltionists bent upon breaking up the Radical
organization, but upon false pretence. They
pretend to see In change of the form of gov.
ernment panaeea for existing evils. These
men are not fools. Their aim is manifestly to
break down negro suffrage, but they have moi
the manliness and courage to ayow 1t. By the
time the Fifteenth amendment shall he In op.
Grafton, an overwhelming public opinion will
render it practical nullity!