The age-herald., 1901-07-28

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 He had been on both sides of the ques- ton from hearing the argument, and not until yesterday had he finally got straight. He spoke of the arguments es Captain White Governor Jones and President Knox and said that when he heard the latters quiet remark in speaking of the fifteenth amendment that women were citizens and could never be men and vote, he, as a physiologist, agreed with him, and had finally come to the conclusion that the majority report was constitu- tional.
 There were, he thought, four things which went to make up an electorate honesty patriotism. intelligence and prop erty qualification. If we can't get all these ingredients in the pudding, let us get as many as we can, and I believe the report of the majority has embodied most of them.
 There were inherited forces and acquired forces in man. The Aryan race has the highest of both and the African race the lowest The Anglo-Saxon race led them all. America was discovered, settled and its government established by the white man. The negro was brought here against his will. He came not as an emigrant or pioneer, but as a slave, and New England as well as the South is responsible for his being here. He came from a dark conti- nent which will be just as dark 4000 years from now if not illuminated by the Cau- casian sun Heis the inferior of the white race by nature. His very existence in this country depended upon his being slave Had he come here freely he would have fallen before the energy and combative- ness of the white man. His emancipation was the product of revolution, because slavery was authorized by the constitu- tion of the United States and affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States His emancipation was an incident and not the purpose of the war, for when President Lincoln issued his proclama- tion of emancipation it did not apply to Kentucky and Missouri, but only to those states which President Lincoln considered in rebellion. Yet if the question was brought up In this convention of re-estab- fishing slavery 1 don't believe that there would be a single delegate here who would vote to re-establish it. (Applause) I don't believe that slavery Is a natural condition. The humblest insect Is entitled to his freedom as much as the king of the forest.
 Yet the negro has undergone a wonder full change. He has emerged from a sav- age to fairly civilized being, dut to his
 
 ronment, none of 1t is due to his inherent potentiality. The great mistake was the sudden way of his emancipation and the giving him the ballot. The fifteenth amendment is a technical obstruction to the design and current of nature and na- tural law (applause). It was conceived in hate and executed in malise. This is the condition we had to deal with after the war But 1t was met by the white man, and for twenty-five years he has controlled every county and beat In the State (ap- plause). It was his inherent ability that did it. Three white men have controlled the votes of 500 negroes in beat Could three negroes control the votes of 600 white men? Necessity knows no law, and ss- was necessary for the white people to : 7 Il the State (applause). We are here tUCay to do away with this necessity and to fix the law so that elections can be controlled legally. He read from the various constitutions of the State which laid that the constitution was establish d flor ourselves and our posterity,'
 hich showed that the granddaddy idea .ad always existed. The graddaddy clause $ not only in keeping with the laws of nature but with the principles of civiliza- tion (cheers and applause) I cannot my self get in under this clause, unless l go back to the revolution, and 1t will be the proudest moment of my life when so reg lister. It is an honor to be the descendant 2 patriot (applause). He then read ! la, t1e Brooklyn Eagle which said that humanity was higher compact than constitution, and congratulating the Southern states that they were escaping from the snari of the fifteenth amend ment.
 What is the duty of this convention and the people of the South towards the ne- gro? Let us approach it as benefactors and philanthropists rather than in accord with natural laws. The committee recog- nizes this principle and every one who has good character and understands the prin- cipics of good government or who has property of $500 or can read and write. --~ u~ka ct --anoat4 hisa T'hi~ Ia