The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-11-05

cFttS SoluleT 10 prOVlueu lOr. AS one
part of whose body is buried in Vir
ginia, would say that would lose m,
other arm before / would consent /,
disfraucbise any one of them.
My first objection to Mr.. Patton
plan is that all white voters who wer,
too young to go into the war and who's,
fathers did not, and cannot read ant
write, would be dislrauchised.
My second is that the sons of mer
who died before the war and who were
too young themselves to go into it, will
be denied the ballot.
My third objection is that those
whose fathers were invalids and could
not go into the war will be disiran
chised
My fourth is that those whose
fathers were too old to go into the wal
and all good people who have moved
into the State since the war and can.
not read aad write will be shut out
The better element of negroes do
not want the ignorant and vicious me-
gro to vote.
. remember when boy in going to
Charleston with load of cotton we
passed u place where a young man,
while running u horse race. had been
killed. His tombstone was by the side
OF the road and on it these lines:
1e living men as we pass by,
AS you are now SO once was |;
AS am now so you will be;
Prepare for death and follow me"
A man who was something of a
wag, came along and after looking at
it while, wrote:
a. To follow you am not con, mt,
Unless know the road you went
For they do fork and no one can tell
Whetheryou have gone to heaven or hell.
'And that is the way wi4h MIR. Pat
tons plan we do not Frow where IL
will lead u.s." Loud laughter.l
immediately upon the assembling
of the convention at night, vote on
the Patton substitute was taken.
The yeas and nays being called, the
substitute was rejected by a vote of
III to 20, as follows:
Yeas-Bates, II. w. Brice, Burn,
Dent. Graham, Jervey, Willie Jones,
keitt, Klugh, McDermotte, w. j.
Montgomery, Parrott. Patton, Per-
rite, j. FL. Read, Russell, Sheppard,
and Wigg.
Nays-Gov. Jno. Gary Evans, Prcsi-
dent, and Messrs. Alexander, Ander-
son, Austin, Barker, Barton, Behre,
Bellinger, Berry. Bobo, Bowen, Bow
man, Bradham, Breazeale, J. S. Brice,
Bryan, Buist, Cantey, Carver, Connor,
Cooper, Cunning ham, DELAY, Dennis,
Doyle, Dudley, Edrd, Ellerbe, w. d.
Evans, Farrow, Field, Fitch, Floyd,
Fraser, Gage, Gamble, Garris, Gary,
j. l.. Glenn, j. p. Glenn, Gooding,
Gray, Gunter, Hamel, Harris, Harri
son, Hay, Haynsworth, Hemphill, D.
Irbs, L. E Johnson, George Johnstone,
l. B. Jones, Keitt, J. w Kennedy,
Lee, Lowman, Lybrand, McCalla, Nc
Caslan, McCown, MCGOWAN, McKagen,
McMakin, McWhite, Matthews,
Meares, Miller, Mitchell, j. d. Mont
gomery, Moore, Morrison. Mower,
Murray, Nash, Nathans, Nicholson,
Oliver, Otis, Parler, Patterson, Rags
dale, Rosborough, Rowland, Scar
borough, ~Shuler, Singletary, Sloan,
Small, A. j. Smith. jeremiah Smith,
r f.. Smith, w. G. Smith, Smoak,
Stokes, Stribling. Talbert, Taylor, b.
Waters, Watson, Wells, Wharton,
Whipper, A. II. White, S. e. White,
Wiggins, Stanyarne Wilson, w. b.
Wilson, Winkler and Woodward.
Mr.. Stanyarne Wilson moved to
strike out section ic) and insert the
following:
"(c) The person applying for regis
tration must be able to read and write
any sections of this constitution, or
must be possessed of sufficient in
telligence TO understand and explain
1T whom read to him by the registra-
tion officer"
Mr.. Wilson, in speaking OIL his
amendment, said the object Of every
body was to form law which shall
not come in conflict with the constitu-
tion. The committee has taken the
Mississippi plan as a basis, which,
with his amendment, would make
their plan harmoniZe with the four
! teenth and fifteenth amendments.
Unless his amendment was adopted,
there would be wrongs perpetrated
that we could not remedy. Under any
other circumstances the passage of
those amendments would have been
pronounced the greatest crime against
civilization in the history of the world.
! You can scan all the history of the
world aud no crime will compare with
it-a crime at which all in this en-
| lightened age revolts. Men who
were utterly incapable, who were
| just emerging from barbarism and
| saVagery, were given the ballot, and
| by every right we are entitled to re-
pudiate this crime whenever we can.
| |, for one, will never admit that the
white people have been guilty of fraud
We adopted the eight box law, and in
| his county he knows no manager who
did not honestly enforce it. 1t is easy
to charge fraud. but he denied that
South Carolina has been controlled by
fraud. We have come to the point
where something must be done. The
eight box law cannot last always. We
! must make som;, provision which does
not depend upon statutory provisions
| for its enforcement. We are here to
frame q law constitutional and to
render those amendments as harmless
as possible in this State A great
mass of the colOred people are unin-
telligent and not fit for suffrage.
He will not be frightened from doing
his duty because the North did not
like what we are going to do. The
great part OF the negro race has been
and for years will be unf, to exercise
/ the suffrage. The committee says un-
less man can read or write or un-
derstand a clause in the constitution
or own $500 worth Of property he can
not vote. The idea is all right, but it
goes too far. We must look at things
as we see them. Three years from
now, what will be the condition of the
negro? They are being educated
every day. They have great facilities.
AZ long as the races are the white
man will be superior in intellect. Why
not avail ourselves of this superiority?
The negro can place himself on an
| equality with the white man by educa-