The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-22

The Fourteenth Amendment ana tHe States''-A Study of the Operation Of the Restraint Clauses of Section One of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States-By Charles Wallace Collins. of the Alabama Bar
 This very interesting volume covers a phase of our political and judicial ife-experience-in most readable and attractive style. The author makes apology for much repetition which Is found throughout the work and it Is to be regretted that one so careful painstaking, and saturated as he must be, with the workings of a great table of the law. should not have given the labor necessary to remedy this point in a profound work.
 The book will prove a valuable addi- tion to the library of the lawyer. the student. and writers interested in social and political questions.
 The first impression is the romantic idea of the framers of the Cerberus armed addition to the Federal Consti tuition as applied to the negro and the failure of this uitimathule: the opening of Pandora's Box for the Supreme Court and the states in the matter of corpora ton appeals in countless legal garbs, complexions and conplexity. This last is fully and ably set forth by citations. analyses and charts
 The romantic feature is in the story of the hopes that q great. victorious and vain glorious party set their minds and hearts upon; the investing. by constitu- tional inhibition upon the conquered states, of the negro freedmen with equal political and social rights with the white race of the south: the futile ef- forts by legal process up to the final tribunal, the Supreme Courts and the preservation of the souths social and political life to the control of the white race, by the numerous decisons of that court
 Quotes the Court
 To quote: The adoption of the Four teenth Amendment could not make An glo- -Saxons out of Africans It was un- just to the negro to force him to play role for which by the forces of nature he was unfitted. He neither deserves rid icule or blame for the comedy and the tragedy of the Reconstruction. As 1t now stands, the negro must look to
 
 strongest point in his favor is that he is human and his long sojourn in the midst of a naturally kind hearted pco- pie has brought about certain tacit un- derstandings and adjustments. the written constitution to the contrary notwithstand- ing
 In the year of political revolutions as to the life Of an old party (the repub- lican) and the birth of the new party lthe national pregressive) the final chapter is written, il would seem in the inconclastic destruction of the ideals of Sumner, Matt Carpenter, Thad Stevens and Wendell Phillips and those with sini- liar fanatical hopes, for the Black Re- publican party that fathered the Four teenth Amendment and forced 1t upon the United States has split upon the rock or the negro-at least as to his power in Republican conventions.
 Data on Adoption
 In the introductory chapter of the book we find interesting historical data as to the adoption of the amendment-- it finally passed both houses of the Congress after various alterations and amendments June 1S. 1866. The South promptly rejected it. In 1S66 Ohio, New Jersey and oregon voted for rat ification.
 The democrats having gained control of these states in 1868. they rescinded the former action. This action was re- pudiated by Congress. Maryland, Del