In South Carolina, Negro government appeared at its worst.

A vivid description of the Legislature of this State in which the Negroes largely outnumbered the whites is given by James S.
Pike, a Republican journalist*: *Pike, "The Prostrate State", pp.

12 ff.
"In the place of this old aristocratic society stands the rude form of the most ignorant democracy that mankind ever saw, invested with the functions of government.

It is the dregs of the population habilitated in the robes of their intelligent predecessors, and asserting over them the rule of ignorance and corruption....

It is barbarism overwhelming civilization by physical force.