The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-10-09

0IdtpaW0O Shall TtCtlNt oAbll OOhif
sation as may be provided by law: Sald
Treasurer and Auditor OF Public Ac-
counts shall be ineligible to immedi-
ately succeed themselves or each other
in office.
Sec. 10. There shall be sheriff,
coroner, treasurer, assessor, and sur
veyor for each county, to be elected as
elsewhere provided herein; shall be
elected in each county by the qualified
electors thereof, who shall hold their
offices for four years. Said sherln ana
treasurer shall be ineligible to i'm
mediately succeed themselves or each
other in Office.
Sec. 90 All officers named in this ar
ticle shall hold their Offices during the
term for which they were selected,
unless removed by impeachment or
otherwise, and until their successors
shall be duly qualified to enter on the
discharge of their respective duties.
The committee to whom was referred
the subject of memorializing Congress
as to the expediency and propriety OF
repeating tho Fifteenth Amendment re-
ported as follows:
Wherereas, There are in the State OF
Mississippi and some other States OF the
CHlJtu DGdJCoy III -
members, two distinct races, or types OIL
mankind, the white and the negro; and
whereas, these two races, though
friendly and homogeneous for all busl-
ness and industrial purposes, are widely
separated by race instincts and pre1u-
dices in all political and social matters;
and whereas, we are without any Well
founded hope of a change in respect to
the political relations of the two races,
but in our opinion they will ever be dl-
vided in all political contests in the
main, on race lines rather than on
economic and other questions OF COM
mon interest to them; and whereas, un-
der such condition the one race or the
other must have charge OF and control
the government of such States, and to
do so there will ever be ever recurring
conflicts of greater or less magnitude
between them; and whereas, Govern
ment thus maintained, existing and
resting upon such condition must OF
necessity be without permanent
efficiency or stability; and whereas,
such condition of insecurity is not only
a great political or social evil, but also
greatly impedes all industrial develop
ments; and inasmuch as the white peo-
pie 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 peo-
pie were educated, being wholly un-
equal to such great responsibility II
they should come into control of such
governments; therefore, be it
Resolved, BY the people of the State
of Mississippi, in it's Constitutional Con-
vention assembled, that it is our de-
| liberate Judgment and opinion that the
true and only efficient remedy for the
great and important difficulties arising
| out of the conditions set forth in tho
| foregoing preamble, lies in the repeal
of the Fifteenth Amendment of the
| Constitution of the United States,
whereby such restrictions and limita-
tions may be put upon negro suffrage
! by the several States, as may be neceS-
sary and proper for the maintenance 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 a
proposition to repeal said Fifteenth
| Amendment to the Constitution, and
| that we will cheerfully accept as con-
dition to such repeal such reductions in
the House of Representatives OF Con-
gress from Mississippi as may be rea-
sonable and just in view of the diminu-
| ton of the number of voters in the
State consequent upon the repeal OF the
Fifteenth Amendment.
Resolved, That the Senators and Rep
resentatives in Congress from Missis-
sippi are requested to bring these resO-
| lutions and preamble to the attention of
| Congress.