Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-11-30
rmnoten, Malice

InpOtent Mdict.
A New York paper Is guilty OF malin7
the following absurd suggestion;
.Tbs, statesman who nov comes FOR
ward H. the Republican Senate OF th'
United States ard demonstrates to the PEG.
plr show and why there were 1913 SOLID
electoral woes for Hendricks aud Cleveland
in The South. ard urges and advocates The
removal Of the niger from politics, o,
what Is equivalent, The strict enforcement
of the foufto cnta amendment. VIII he tae
coming mgD.'
"On The. issue the Republicans eau carry
lie electors 20 The Ffiietb Conyres. IN
1850. and the presidential election IN 1855.
1--WE think We know the man who Is pa
fricttc. able, and courageous enough 10
fake the bull by The horus' at this early
day. and his name we venture to call IT,
Is John sherman, Of Ohio, aud the United
sisics."
JOHN SHERMAN burned his fingers whca
he TOOK up the Dauyile riot; but he knew
the Senate had the right and the ccnslitn'
tioral power 10 investigate that affair. But
.IcHN SHERMAN il not such a fool az TO act
mon the ato,e.quoted silly suggestion
albeit MrRAT llAIsTEAD. the leading GATOR
of bis own State. has In measure endorsed
1t. Let us iook 1T IL.
Whist does the intelligent editor who
made. and the intelligent editor who en-
dorscd, the above proposition mean bv 1t
How Is the negro to be removed from poll
Tics by strict enforcement o, the four
tenth amendment ~ OF course u can't
be done. TIE fifteenth amendment has
made the negro voter, and so rendered
null and void that feature OF the fourteenth
amendment under which Mr.. SHERMAN i
expected TO do great things for The Hepib-
lcan party. But the accomplished editor
aforesaid seem 10 be in bissIul ignorance
Of the facts OF the case. and amd the Scorn-
ful scowls or plying smiles OF their own
party associates, they point to the follow
Ing provision OF the fourteenth amendmen;
a. the rock upon which their proposed
house il TO be built. We quote:
But whtn the right to vote nj ans cleo
ton j. denied to any OF the male
inhabitants Of such State, being twenty
one years OF age and citizens OF the United
states. or in any WAY abridged except for
the basis OF representation therein shall be
reduced in the proportion which the num-
Der OF such male citizens shall bear to the
whole number OF male citizens twenty-one
years Of age IN such state
Every person moi destitute OF judicial
mind will understand at once that the
denial or Infringement spoken OF in the
fourteenth amendment is a denial or
sbridgemcnt effected by the State Itself
effected by law or by constitutional
provision-and not any act that can posi-
bly, be done 10y individual cItizCns. As the
Supreme Court Of the United States DE-
clded as to the fifteenth amendment. 20 Is
TO the iourteenth-it operates upon States.
not upon persons. No individual citizen
can violate either the fifteenth amendment
or that provision which we have quoted
above from the fourteenth. So that the
proposition 10 Z" remove the negro from
politics" hy a. strict enforcement OF the
fourteenth amendment " is discredit Ibe 10
the men who made II aud endorsed it. 4
school.boy ought to be able to instruct such
men.
1.-THE negro is already and all the time
voter within the meaning of both the four
teenih and fifteenth amendments. He i
not denied the right TO vote, nor Is hi, right
10 vote abridged In any manner, within The
meaning OF those amendments.
The soutb's solidlty will never be dis
solved as consequence Of unjust acts and
unjust suspicious and nnkind treatment.
II would dissolve at once in the absence Of
al sectional issues and war preiudices. I,
now seems TO be in a fair way to dissolve
very soon. Blu, Mr.. lIA.STEAD Is doing AL
that he can TO prevent that desirable event