The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-15

male citizens 21 years of age in sucn state.
 Sec g. Relates to disenfranchisement of supporters of the Confederate States.
 Sec. 1. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law. including debts incurred for payment or pensions and bounties for services in sup pressing instruction or rebellion, shall hot be questioned. But neither the United States or any State shal .assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim Tor the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts. obligations and claims shall be held Illegal and void
 Sec 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce by appropriate legislation the provisions O. this article"
 The first section was intended to operate in restraint of certain Fundamentals of government, at the time of its adoption, incorporated in the majority of the States of the North and all the Southern States This doubtless Is the section which the text book teaches if considered from "a purely scientific point of view becomes the logical conclusion" of the entire fab ric of federal government in this coun- try.
 For a long time, even from the very be- ginning. there had been a citizenship of the United States. The Congress that adopted the Declaration of Independence offered protection to deserters from the British the same as that enjoyed by Americans. The treaty with Napoleon by which the Louisiana territory was ac- quired pledged the United States to ad- init to it's citizenship the inhabitants. While Congress debated the form of the fourteenth article, the United States was pressing claims against Mexico to satisfy riti "a pasSnDrt isSnpu bV ! the Secretary of State, the flag that float ed on the high seas, the early and late decsons of the federal courts bore tes- timony to a citizenship Of the United States. The sole motive of Sections 1 and 2 was to give to the negro political status that was irreconcilable with the l instincts of the race to attain to on it's own energies, and beyond it's capacity to | uphold of it's own strength if forced upon l its acceptance.
 The Crescent City Live Stock Landing and Slaughter House Company obtained a charter from Louisiana The validity 1 of the charter came up for trial in the 1 United States courts. The company was the plaintiff in error and the great lawyer once of Alabama, John A. Camp bell, was leading counsel: The argu- ment of Campbell was founded on sec tion 1. Counsel said "The purpose (of the section) is manifest to establish through the whole Jurisdiction of the United States one people and that every member of the Empire shall understand and appreciate the fact. that his privi- leges and immunities cannot be abridged by state authority; that state laws must be so framed as to secure life. liberty. property from arbitrary violation and protection of law shall be secured to all." The gravamen of tho complaint In the court below was. that this company had received a charter which gave it the exclusive right to establish and maintain stock yards, ! landing places and slaughter houses i below. The city of New Orleans, where
 fees, prices, etc. were regulated by law. l The complaint in the court below al- l legged that the act was unconstitutional in that it created a monopoly. The de- l fense contended that the act was pub lie regulation, necessary to the public
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