The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-06-18
Inevitable Decisions.
Atlanta Constitution.

Ex-Governor Daniel IL. Chamber
! lain. who was one of the carpet-bag
executives Of South Carolina and the
only one who tried to stem the tidal
waves of reconstruction rascalitles III
| any of the Southern States: has Just
written his opinion concerning the
more recent decisions OF the Supreme
| Court of the United States in South
ern suffrage cases.
Mr.. Chamberlain lives now i'll Mas
sachusetts and is retired from the
practice Of law, but he yet Yields a
trenchant pen and shows his old
familiarity with the history and
legal precedents Of the last four de-
cadeS
He reviews carefully the pivotal
points OF each decision and declares
that in every case the Supreme Court
decided inevitably as the cases APP
peared before it. In dOingsO he con
tends that the court has not Destroy
ed the negro amendments, but has
explained and construed them as
they stand related to the rights OF
the States, Of Congress and OF the
individual citizen.
1t sounds strange. indeed, to hear
this Republican Ex-Governor OfSouth
Carolina saying that the negro never
was and is not now fit to exercise
with the ballot and that were he per-
mitted to do so in the South the
same crimes and orgies in govern
nlrnt would appear as did in the era
from 1865 to 1871
AstO the amendmentS-fO urteenth
and Fifteenth--he says il they have
failed to accomplish their purposes
the Supreme Court is not to be blamed
for that failure. And he does not
hcsitaic from saying that those
amendments were not adopted, as
has been claimed, ''tO secure Justice
to the negro but OF his own knOwl-
edge, at the time. OF the purposes OF
the leaders who proposed them and
forced their adoption, "those domi-
nant spirits We're moved by greed OF
party power We quote his own
words literally.
SO works the leaven OF righteous
ness. The truth is slowly coming out
and the sensible, president and truly
patriotic people of the nation are be-
ginning to understand how sadly
errant We're the men who III the re-
construction rurnp congresses con
structpd the twin Pandora boxes of
the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend
ments.
IN the history Of the railroads of
the world there was perhaps never a
slide like that OF last week on the
Ashevile & SpartAnburg branch OF
the Southern Railway. \ mountain
side slipped loose and dropped into a
cut and the shortest period OF time
given for its removal, with Il dynamite
and all other available agencies en-
ployed, is ii month. We recall moth
ing like it-Charlotte Observer.
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Stores.
It's nothing to Joke about, but,
honest, the state of the public mind
in Servia, following the murder OF
the King and Queen, suggests, invOl-
UNFAIRLY, the story which has to do
with the death and burial of the
best hated manin the nei@hborhood.
\ stranger on horseback passes the
graveyard and halts the grave-dig-
ger who is at work. ''HIello! Who's
dead?" John Smith, "What com
plaint?' "No complaint at all
everybody satisfied. ''-Charlotte Oh
server.
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