Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-10-20
ted to freeze out their erroneous and
pernieious notions and then, at least,
one community will live 10 peace.
GNAWING A FILE.


ever before il.
No journal in che Southland is now
suffering from a more severe attack OF
Negro phobis. During its lucid inter-
walls, it SAYS some kind things concern.
ing US. While whetting its AKA, pre-.
psratory to cutting of our political
heads and iojuriug forever our legal
future, it protests that it would not
harm hair OF our heads il is could,
but only asks the national governmen
to permit it to move up the chopping
block to q reasonable distance from
the exc culioaer, and to take away the
10Th Amendment clothes line which
has hung its weapon whenever it was
ready to strike the blow.
Its friendship for Us psrtakes of the
nature of the friendship of the hunter
for the bear,-it seems anxious to feed
upon our carcass.
One reading the articles of the
TINES would presume that all power
in the Southland had been delegated
to it, and that its opinion was an ad-
vance agreemen- OF what every state
south or the NJ son and Dixon line
would agree 20.
What else can be the m Gaming OF it's
self-assertiveness OF what the South
wants and what 1t will and win not ac-
ceptp
In discussing with the New York
Sun it remarks.
"We do net ask that the Negro be
disfrsnchised, because the Negro has
never been enirsnchised IN the sense
OF having the right to vote conferred
upon him. The Fifteenth Amendment
confers the right to vote upon no one.
all that it does is TO forbid that any
person shall be deprived or the right
to vote upon account OF race, color or
previous condition of servitude. This
10 no grant to the Negro OF RICH. to
vete it Is only a prohibition upon
the States so prevent him from voting
because he is Negro"
And you ask the Negro to vote with you
to remove this prohibition upon the
states to prevent him from voting, be-
cause he is Negro2 Mr.. BRYAN may
have this to confront him in the doubt
tul states
The TINES vouchsafes information
which we thought every Intelligent
man understood; nAmely,-that the
Constitution of the United States and
even the Bill of Rights of Virginia con-
ferred upon all male citizens of the
proper age the right to vote and this
carried with it the right to hold offise.
The Fifteenth Amendments provides
that no state shall deny to any person
(eitlzen) the right TO vote on account
OF race, color or previous condition OF
servitude. The TIMRs with it's one
eyed logic would permit an illiterate
white man to vote and deny an Hitter
ate colored man the same privilege.
1t would permit q non-tax-paying
white man to vote, and deny a non-tsx.
paying colored man the same priv
lege.
In other words, it desires to estAb.
Itch a system of caste. based upon race
| and color, and not upon condition.
The law says no state shall do THE.
IL you wish to provide your restric-
tions; do so, but give the colored citi-
gen the same rights and privileges
that you accord TO the white citizen.
No fair minded man can see any reas-
enable basis for disagreement upon
such proposition.
1t Is evident that the TIMES is anx-
ious to wipe out our services to the
government. It would forget ell
about our ESQ years Of unrequited lab
or, the proceeds of which are now
wrapped up in the south's prosperity
and from which we draw no visable
interest.
Itwonld forget our life's blood which
was gwen during the Revolutionary
War, the War OF 1912, the Mexican
War, the War of the Rebellion and the
spanish-American War.
1t would give to foreigners rights
which it would deny to American clti-
zens OF color. Surely, it does not find
excuse for such action in the Holy Bi.
bic, by which chart it Processes to be
guided, or in the declaration OF Inde-
pendence. Where then can it fed an
excuse fer its humiliating argument,
save in the recesses of g venal and cor
rupt mind ?
To argue such, is to overturn every
principle of ethics and to make Jest OF
Justice. 1t sage:
IF the State should forbid all illit-
crate persons to vote, this amendment
| would not interfere with the act. be.
cause there would be no discriminA-
tion against the Negro. The Negro's
right to vote must come, therefore,
from some other quarter. IL does not
come from the Fifteenth Amend
ment."
As it seems to be lost on this prepo-
sition and in need of light as we'll 81
information we viii tell it from whenes
comes the colored citiz sn's right &
vote. Article Section 2 says: