The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-05-15

ouoIl oO d iColVcuO VI tuio O1atC az VIC
time of the adoption Of this Copstitu-
ton. or who shall hereafter reside 10
this State one year and 10 the county
10 which he offers to vote sixty days
next preceding any election, shall be
entitled to vote for all officers that are
now or hereafter may be elected by the
people and upon all questions submitted
to the electors at any election f: Pro-
vided, that no person shall be allowed
to vote or hold Office who is DOW or
hereafter may be disqualified therefor
by the Constitution of the United
States until such diequali6cations shall
be removed by the Congress of the
United States provided, further, that
NJ ersou while kept 10 any aims house
6. sylum, or Of uusound miod or con-
fined 10 any public prison, shall be
allowed to vote or hold public Office"
Article g.. Section 3: 1T shall be
the duty Of the General Assembly to
provide, FROM time to time, for the
registration for all electors"
Article 8, Section Z: Every per-
son entitled to vote at any election
shall be eligible to any Office which
now is, or hereafter shall be, elective
by the people in the county where he
shall have resided sixty days previous
to such election, except as otherwise
provided in this Constitution or the
Constitution and laws Of the Uoited
States"
Article 8, Section 8: "The General
Assembly shall never pass any law that
will deprive any of the citizens Of this
State of the right Of suffrage, except
for treason, murder, robbery or duel
ling whereof the person shall have beer
duly tried aod convicted"
Section 2, Article ]. of tee Constitu-
ton Of the United States Is as follows !:
"The House of Representatives shall
be composed of members chosen every
second year by the people of the seve-
raj States, and the electors 10 each
State shall have the qualification
requisite for electors Of the most
numerous branch of the State Legisla-
tnre."
Section /. Article Il, amendment is
in these words: cali persons born
II naturalized in the United States and
subject to the jurisdiction thereof are
citizens of the United States and of
the State wherein they reside. No
State shall make or enforce any law
which shall abridge the privileges or
immuuities OF citizens of the United
States /; dor shall any State deprive
any person Of life, liberty or property,
without due process of law. nor deny
to any person within its jurisdiction the
equal protection Of the laws.
Article is of the amendment to
the Constitution reads:
Section 1. The right Of citizens of
the United States to vote shall not be
denied or abridged by the United States
or BY any State on account Of race,
color or previous condition of servi-
tude.
Section 2. The Congress shall have
power to enforce this article by appro-
pirate legislation. The Congress has
given to the Circuit Courts Of the
Uuited States jurisdiction Of all suits to
enforce the right Of citizens Of the
Uoited States to vote in the several
States.
We End now that a citizen of South
Carolina is a citizen of the United
States residing 10 that State. The
rights, privileges and immuuities
belonging TO him as a free citizen are
bis as a citizen Of the United States,
aud do not depend upon his citizen.
ship of that State. The plaintiff,
Mills, a citizen of African descent. is a
citizen of the United States aud of
South Carolina By the 18th amend
ment be has been made a citizen OF
the United States, and by the 10th
amendment be is a voter 10 the State
10 which be resides. Previous to the
adoption of these amendments the race
to which he belongs had no rights that
the white men of this country were
bound to respect, aud it was uos pos
sible for anyone belonging to it to be
a citizen of the United States. In the
Slaughter House cases the Supreme
Court of the Uoited States. referring to
the time Immediately preceding and
following the adoption Of these amend
ments, said
THE. Institution of African slavery,
as it existed in abeut half the States
of the Union, and the contests pervad-
ing the public mind for many years,
between those who desired its %curtail-
ment and ultimate extinction and those
who desired additional safeguards for
its security and perpetuation, culmi-
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