On Tuesday, the Republicans secured a quorum in the American
House of Representatives—for several days the Democrats refused to help make a House, in order to prevent the carrying on of legislative business—and seated Mr. Langston for Virginia, and Mr. Miller for South Carolina, thus gaining two seats for the Republicans. The fact that Mr. Langston, who is a Negro, and was a slave before the war, sits in Congress for Virginia, is worthy of special remark. Thirty years ago, even John Brown or William Lloyd Garrison, if he had been asked whether such an event were possible, would have answered in the negative. We must not suppose, however, that this event in any way points to a rapid or easy settlement of the Negro question. We note that the new Farmers' Association of South Carolina, discussed in another column, is distinctly anti-Negro, and has declared that "White supremacy is the bulwark of our civilisation."
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