The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-25

scintllla oi the light shed by the cons.i- Our population has increased more than hundred fold. We had property m slaves supposed to possess market value Of scores of millions. The descendants of those freed have built 5000 miles of railroad. have built a score of rich cities, have opened and do operate mines and industries that astonish the world by their prohtabeness and upon the old plan tations make cotton as of old.
 Not dollar of the quintupled wealth accumulated in Alabama since General Pope ruled is to be traced back to nis rule. He left nothing behind him that We have not swept from our lives save the grim memory of the pail he spread and that deirious consciousness of our victory over him.
 In the early proceedings of the conven- ton MT. Daniel H. Bingham Of New York fl om Limestone county, offered resolu- ton that a committee of five should wait oi the major general commanding and propose to him to give the convention a clear field, strike out all semblance of civil laws and civil customs and authority. Mir. R. NJ. Reynolds of Iowa moved to lay or the table, motion carried, 45 to 42. A scalawag from an upper county moved the abolition of the poll tax and all methods of taxation whatever but the property tax Ordinances were offered to make invlo- fate the debt of the state and to promote universal education.
 Mir. Bingham of Talladega wanted an ordinance to adjust the private debts or persons prior to July 21, 1865. when Par sons became governor.
 Mir. Silshy of Massachusetts, from Dai- las, offered to make a test for voting, to | t.-I I t-1 p4f,H H1 the emancipation proclamation, some hNe years before also all who failed to vote or who persuaded others not to vote, on | the ratification of the constitution. | MT Daniel H. Bingham of New York. | from Limestone, offered as separate sec- | tion 10 the elective franchise article. tius: No person shall be demed a qualified | elector or permitted to vote in this state | or at any election under this constitution. unless he will take and subscribe an oath that on the 4th day of March, lS6i he pre- ferred the government of the United States to the government of the so-cailed Confederacy. and would have ahandoncS it's (sic) cause had he had the opportunity to have done so."
 i MT. Springfield of St. Clair wanted to | disfranchse every man who registered as a voter and subsequently, uttered senti-
 ments of disrespect toward the govern- ment at Washington. As the government at Washington consisted of three parts, each at war against two. MT. Sprinsfieldis
 motion was laid over.
 Ali Strother of Dallas, negro. wanted
 back pay, since the emancipation procla-
 mation of January l. 1863, for all persons | held in slavery.
 | The committee on ordinances was in- structed to bring in an ordinance to | change the name of every county called
 for "rebel'' to a loyal name. One county was to stand as ''Brownlow.''
 MT. Carraway, negro. from Mobile was nightly ticxled at the motion to prevent the intermarriage of the races. Ne said the civil rights bill of Congress gave ccuntenance to miscegenation. He could not see why Alabama should pucker her nose. But he would amend the ordinance \ to the effect that every white man found an illicit relation to-a negro woman should