Yazoo City herald. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1976, 1906-10-26

and most glorious work Of re.
pealing the Fifteenth Amend.
ment in the North, having re-
Gently tackled and wiped IL OF
the face Of the earth at Chicago,
annihilated it at one fell swoop.
Having succeeded in repeating
the infamous Constitutional APP
pcudage in Mississippi and other
States Of the South, II is well
right and proper that he should
move across Mason and Dixon
line, and storm the ramparts and
battlements OF the first free
state north Of the Ohio river,
should besiege the citadel and
Gibraltar Of Lincoln, Grant and
Logan, and tear up by root and
branch every yestige Of the
amendment which gave negroes
the right 10 vote, but which did
not make them citizens.
Yes, let the good work, the
grand enterprise, go on; let the
repeating business have full
sway, uninterrupted lee-way.
Clear the track and let her roll; /
get out Of the way and push the
good thing along. You may
have doubts about the ability Of
tho Governor TO repeal the Fiji I
teenth Amendment, but If you !
have, for goodness sake don't
show your ignorance by giving
voice TO such expression. Curb p
your doubts, If you have them.
for the nonce. Watch and wait. q
and see what great things will be {
done.
Ye doubters, ye scoffers, you +
heretics who took issue with the
Governor when he advocated,
urged and demanded, with the
eloquence Of Demosthenese and c,
force Of Cicero, that the school
fund should be divided, forget
not that you declared in stem til
torian voice and with brazen as re
suranoe, that il could not be ~
done. The Governor said il sa '
could, and straightway when the wa
lawmakers assembled he sayeth sh
unto them, Divide" but they pc
'troked their boards and said not Ve
world but "divided'' they not a.,
m the school fund question, but tur
United they stood, one and in tri'
eparable -- stood they thus SIX
against the Governors sugges- ar ar
ion; not only once, but twice; =
we, as often as the proposition rep
vas offered unto them; as a gre
tonewall they stood, without ure
reak or culver in their line. an -
And still, with this record star ed
1g them in the face, there are is 7
nose who have the temerity to an,
i've audible doubt to the ability nfs,
I the Governor to repeal the on
fifteenth Amendment. con
These Doubling Thomases" 100
0 not know what dead easy a %
ling il is to amend the Federal "a
Easiest thing on the
lrth--not the least trouble about wee
when you how the trick is SO
me. But theirs the rub. w 'en,
The question may be asked, mar
ny did not Lamar, George, peri
ooker, Singleton, Barksdale adv,
Walthall make an effort to com
We the Fifteenth Amendment Van'
aealed while they served their Tbe
ople in Congress? They were weip
IN Of pretty fair ability and of age
erage courage. They did not mine
.raot dur;,o tba oro,i, - ,,,l. fami
" or the booming OF cannon. and
ey did not flee inoontinently chas
I'M the field when the enemy 1905
re down upon them, or seek lmpc
slter in tall timber when grape , ,aos :
4 canister burst above them. Tbes
ey had rather good staying cent.
alities, both in war and in third
zee, and occasionally they are were
erred to as brave and able oo,'s'
n--as gallant soldiers, dis and !
smshed statesmen and peer wage
patriots. But it is awful wage
{ they did not repeal the Eff IN lv'
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