The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1871-12-20

country, 50 far rs their c"huuct
mirht affect them. In the DrcH
Scott case, it WAS decided that q
negro WAS not 4 citizen, IN the
judicial sense Of the Constitution.
The same decision was rendered
in Pennsylvania. Whether COR
rect or not, it Huw makes no ditir-
renee. rhc fourteenth aincnd-
mena declares that all persons VITO
are born here, or arc n"tUl'aiIzrd:
sl.:.Il be citizens. But that amend
mcnt does not give the right ot
suffrage. Congress had not Sttii
been educated to the idea. They
tried the persuasive plan. and de-
clarcd that should discrimination
be msde in voting, representation
should be proportionably dimin-
ishcd, thereby concedins that, in
their opinion, the power TO reSu-
late the light Of suffrage remained
entirely to the States. The States,
in that respect. arc s"rcrclSn-
wcro before the Constitution, and
are recognized to be so by the
fourteenth amendment. y O ",
what does the fifteenth amend
ment do? Does it aim to grant
right, or to deal with Il right ai-
ready existing? Where did the
right 10 vote exist? II existed
in the laws Of the several States,
and cannot be considered rs con
i;rrrcd by this amendment? Such
construction wOui,l hr 4 gross ~
Justice to Congress. The counsel
Of the Government have presented
their view OF the case in rs able =
manner AS it is possible 10: ii to
he done. They have spoken IS
well and ahIy-I hope they will
pardon the cundition-as could be
done on that side Of the question.
They hold that tho States, by
adopting the amendment. have con-
tcrred such power on Congress.
TIE most natural question that
here arises is, why they didn't say
so. | an confident may it please
your IIonors, that If the fifteenth
amendment had. in unamblguous
words, attempted to deprive the
States Of the. powor to regulate
suffrage, it never would havo
been ratified. Our ancestors were
Jealous OF this right, and not
only would not give it, but
expressly denied it to Con-
gross. Gan We now undertake to
assume that, by the ratification of
the fifteenth amendment, it was
contemplated to change the very
framework Of our Government,
and that We conceive ourselves so
much wiser than the patriotic
founders Of the Constitution :?
Did not Congress simply say, we
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