Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1895-05-18

time with vehement determination.
'.The reform movement had nothing
to do with the election and registra-
tion laws. Wereceived them as lega-
cy from the administration of 1882. We
have upheld them as the acts Of the
people, and as constitutional means of
self-preservation. Some of the men
who are responsible for, and who have
enjoyed the benefits and honors of Of
fee under these laws, have turned up
on their State since their retirement.
ABUSES HIS ENEMY.
By an appeal to one of the bitterest
enemies of southern civilizations
politician who disgraces the judicial
ermine of the United States Court and
masquerades as a judge-they have
succeeded in having the registration
laws declared unconstitutional, null, and
void. The chief argument made be-
fore him was the defamation of your
State, an insult, if insult could come
from such a source to your State Off
GERS.
"Under this decree the doors have
been thrown open, and the ballot
again placed in the hands of every
man, white or black, of the age of 2l.
The abuse and slander heaped upon the
State by counsel for the plaintiffs was
only surpassed by that of the Judge IN
his document styled a decree in equi-
ty.
CONDEMNS JUDGE sIMoNFoN.
But the pity of it, the humiliation,
and the shame OF it are yet to be told.
Beside this Jefreys on the bench sat
an old man, whose head was gray, who
had fought on the field of battle for
Safes rights, who had been Speaker of
the House Of Representatives of South
Carolina, and IN whose handwriting
part of your registration laws exists in
our archives; there he sat, wearing
alike the judicial ermine, hearing his
State DETAINED, his comrades In arms
denounced as rebels, and his own ham
| diwork adludged crime. If the law
was a crime, was he not the criminal ?
| Should his head have not been bent and
1 his eyes moist with tears of humilia-
| ton? Alas they were not. With a
4 Mephistophelean grin on his wrinkled
| face he nodded assent to the most in
4 famous document ever emanating from
a court in equity, while the black audi
/ ence exclaimed "A Daniel has come
| Co judgement yea, Danielp The ex-
| Senator who has been holding caucus
es in Columbia at private house hav-
ing the ear of the Court, and holding
4 jlc lOOt u OllC tu4tCtllOI returned u
his home feeling that his movement
had not been detected. But the re
! sponsibility shall rest where it belongs
Let the people not blame the poor
lean and hungry counsel, who are bar
king merely for bone, but visit the sil
upon the heads of the arch-conspira
tors.
CALLS FOR BLOOD SHED.
A crisis confronts us: an issue ha
) been thrust upon us without our Wi
or consent, at time when peace wa
! / lowering over the State. South Care
; lima is enjoying an era of industris
| Improvement factories are being bull
= in greater number than elsewhere
( the South the credit of the State ranl
= | higher than ever in its history, OF
D | bonds not being purchasable at a prs
t MUM of less than 10 per cent. I'll
= march of progress is about to be stol
L ped the black hand of Negro dom
}. nation hovers over us; we must mes
i the issue like South Carolinians. Thel
10 are only two flags, the white and I'll
Y black, under which Will you enlis
e The one is the white peaceful flag
d | Anglo-Saxon civilization and progress
h the other the black flag OF the debast
If | and ignorant African, with the viii
!. | traitors who are seeking to marsh
e the Negroes in order TO gain polite
IT power. 1t is fortunate that the iss'
s. comes at this time, when a constit
d tion is to be made guaranteeing whi
il | supremacy.