Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-02
NEGRO VOTERS.
Mississippi Wants Them Barred
Out Altogether,
Even at 0 Cost OF Several of
Her Congressman.

The constitutional Convention VIII Me-
morialize Congress to Submit the Ones
tion of the Repeal of the Fifteenth
Amendment to Vote of tho States.
What viii he the Result?
JACKSON, Miss, Oct 2.-In order to
expedite business and curtail a threat
ened long session the constitutional con-
vention decided Tuesday to have night
sessions in the future, The committee
to which was referred the subject me-
moriali2ing congress as to the expedi-
ency and propriety of repeating the fifr
teenth amendment reported i'll part as
follows:
WHEREAS, There are in the state of
| Mississippi and some other states of the
United States, IN Approximately equal
numbers, two distinct races, or types of
mankind, the white and the negro; and
WHEREAS, These two races, though
| friendly and homogeneous for all business
| and industrial purposes, are widely sep
arate by race instincts and prejudices in
all political and social matters; and
whereas, we are without any well-fouud
ed hope of a change in respect to the po-
litical relations of the two races; and
whereas, with such condition the one
| race or the other must have charge of and
control the governments of such states
and to do so there will ever be ever-recur-
ring conflicts of greater or less masni-
tude between them; and
WHEREAS, A government thus main
tanned, existing and resting upon such n
condition, must of necessity be without
permanent efficiency or stability; and
WHEREAS, Such condition of insecurity
is not only great political or social evil,
lat also greatly impedes all industrial de
yelOpments; and inasmuch as the white
people only are capable of conducting and
maintaining the government of such
states, giving security and protection to
the whole people and property thereof,
the negro race, even if its people were edu-
Gated, being wholly unequal to such great
responsibility If they should come into
control of such governments; therefore
be it
RESOLVED, BY the people of the state of
Mississippi, i'll its constitutional conven-
ton assembled, That it is our deliberate
judgment and opinion that the true and
only efficient remedy for the great aud
important difficulties arising out OF the
conditions set forth in the foregoing pre-
amble, lies in the repeal of the fifteenth
amendment Of the constitution Of the
United States, whereby such restrictions
ana limitations may be put upon negro
suffrage e, by the several states, as may
be necessary and proper for the main
tenance of good and stable governments
therein
RESOLVED, That we request that the
congress of the United States cause TO be
submitted to the several states proEosi-
zion to repeal said fifteenth amendment
of the constitution, and that we viii
cheerfully accept as condition to such
repeal such reductions in the house Of
representatives of congress from Missis
sippi as may be reasonable and just in
view of the dminution i'll the number of
voters in the state consequent upon such
repeal of the fifteenth amendment.
The Judiciary report, which had been
been fixed for special Tuesday. was
again postponed, and the convention re-
sumed consideration of the legislative
article of the new constitution.
The following section OF the report
was, after spirited debate. stricken
out by vote of go to AZ: "The legisla-
ture shall have no power to appropriate
any Of the public money for the estab-
lishment and maintenance of u bureau
of immigration, or for any purpose of
bringing immigrants to this state The
vote derives significance from the fact
that the rejected section was copied
from the platform Of the Farmers Ali
uuCp.