News Argus of Washington 1870's
By: Cayce Herman (Writer and Editor for the Washington Argus)
African Americans have just recently been elected to Congress. Hiram Revels of Mississippi is the first black Senator ever in the history of the United States of America! Also Joseph Rainey of South Carolina being the first black Representative to serve the United States through Congress. Just a decade before these two men took their new places in Congress they were the seats of the southern slave owners. There has been many changes in the United States in the last decade, but now these two men are able to make their mark in this countries history.
The biggest question now is, "How does everyone feel about this?" We as fellow Americans were the ones to give them the qualifications to be apart of anything we are apart of also. They may be thought of as lesser, but more recently they have been on many of the same standards that we as whites are on. How are we supposed to be separate when we are letting them into everything that we do?
Many of us are upset at the fact that there are those who have been enslaved for as long as we can remember can take the jobs that are meant for whites. We as a country freed them, and that is not the problem at hand. That will not be undone, but there is a problem when those blacks have taken the jobs away from whites who were meant to have that problem. I believe I am speaking for the way that all of Congress feels when I say this.
African Americans have just recently been elected to Congress. Hiram Revels of Mississippi is the first black Senator ever in the history of the United States of America! Also Joseph Rainey of South Carolina being the first black Representative to serve the United States through Congress. Just a decade before these two men took their new places in Congress they were the seats of the southern slave owners. There has been many changes in the United States in the last decade, but now these two men are able to make their mark in this countries history.
The biggest question now is, "How does everyone feel about this?" We as fellow Americans were the ones to give them the qualifications to be apart of anything we are apart of also. They may be thought of as lesser, but more recently they have been on many of the same standards that we as whites are on. How are we supposed to be separate when we are letting them into everything that we do?
Many of us are upset at the fact that there are those who have been enslaved for as long as we can remember can take the jobs that are meant for whites. We as a country freed them, and that is not the problem at hand. That will not be undone, but there is a problem when those blacks have taken the jobs away from whites who were meant to have that problem. I believe I am speaking for the way that all of Congress feels when I say this.