Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-06-11

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the interest Of the negro and to
the injury Of the white man, but
more especially the white man Of
the South. The Fifteenth Amend
ment is no more odious than the
other amendments, but it was
passed to give a semblance of
honesty and justice to Radical
legislation but since it carries
the question Of negro suffrage
home to them, many people Of the
North are much incensed at its
passage, and are moving heaven
and earth to do away with it. Its
repeal would bring to us Of the
South no relief; but its passage
has been to us q source of much
good, since it has aroused the
people Of the North to 4 true con-
ception of Radical policy. But
of the bill of which we have just
written. Let US look at the fifth
section, which reads as follows:
THAT if any person shall pre-
vent, hinder, control, or intimi-
date, or shall attempt to prevent,
hinder, control, or ntimidate any
person from exercising or in eXer-
cising the right Of suffrage, to
whom the right Of suffrage is Sc
cured or guaranteed by the iif.
teenth amendment to the Consti-
of the United States, by
means of bribery, threats, or
threats Of %deprlving such person
of employment or occupation, or
of eiecting such person from rent
ed house, lands, or other property,
or by threats Of refusing to re-
new leases or contracts for labor,
or by threats of violence to him.
self, or family, such person so
offending shall be deemed guilty
Of a misdemeanor, and shall, on
conviction thereof, be fined not
than five hundred dollars, or
be imprisoned not less than one
month, and not more than one
year, or both, at the discretion Of
the court"
This section virtually places the
whole white population Of the
at the mercy OF negro per-
and informers. If a plan.
ter discharges a field hand to-day,
the offended negro may come up
six months hence and swear that
he was paid off for political rea-
sons. The operation will cost the
an enforced journey to
the United States District Court,
perhaps a hundred miles
away, and once there, he has no
escape from fine or Imprisonment.
Or, suppose a gang Of negroes
shall determine to fastcn them.
on q certain employer, and
claim such wages and privileges
IS it suits them to ask. The white
is absolutely powcrless.
The oath of the negroes is pre-
to his, and they have but
70 swear that he threatened or
or inundated or CONTROL.
ed, or attempted to threaten, bride,
Intimidate or control them for po-
purposes, in order to OBJ
from him all they demand.
It is the white man now who is the
put utterly ut the mercy
made to live in daily terror of
us black masters. We do not
zee, in fact, how the relation of
and employed can sub.
list, with any kind of security to
he former, under this new law.
This section, be it observed,
protects from the control and in
inhalation of employers only the
person to whom the right Of suf-
rage is secured or guaranteed by
he fifteenth amendment" The
White employe remains, as before,
to such influences as his
may be able to bring to
pear upon him. The Radical fac,
DRY capitalist of New England
nay still, this law to the contrary
Notwithstanding, vote his en-
like so many cattle under
penalty Of disCharging them if
hey vote the Democratic ticket.
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