Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1917-12-29
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SATURDAY, DECEMBDR 80, te17.
i'DEINiOOIsAOY BETRAYED BY
THE SOUTH" TIL.

THE greatest chastisement that q,
man max receive who hath outraged
another, Is to have done the outrage;
and there Is no man who Is SO rudely
punished rs he that Is subject to the
whip Of his own repentance
Senaca
trayed by the South, the New York
World, in its issue Of December So,
1917, says:
Section 2 of Article XIV Of the
Constitution of the United States pro-
vides that: 4
Representatives shall be appor-
toned among the several States &C
cording. to their respective numbers,
counting the whole number Of per-
sons In each State. excluding Indians
not taxed But. when the right to
! vote at. any election for the choice Of
electors for President and Vice Pres
ident of the United States, Representa-
tives in Congress, the Executive and
Judicial officers of State or the
members Of tho Legislature thereof
is denied to any Of the male inhabi-
tants Of such State, being twenty-one
years Of age and citizens Of the United
States, or in any way abridged except
for participation in rebellion or other
crime, the basis Of representation
snail be reduced in the proportion
\ which the number OF such male citi-
zens shall bear to the whole number
or male citizens tHentyone years Of
age in such State. IS W.
4 X / H'his provision uf the Constitution,
{ together with the Fifteenth Amend.
ment declaring that the right az citi.
&zens Of the United Statessto vote shall
not be- denied or abridged on account
or race, color or previous condition
4 of seryitude, has been nullified since
the Hayes Administration withdrew
) the Federal troops from the Southern.
States. 54 }1.sl E5 ~ ~
For forty years the right OF Negro
citizens to vote in the South has been
persistently denied and tho penaItl g
/ provided by the Constitution have
never been enforced No Southern
: State has ever suffered a reduction
IN Its representation through It's re,
Iusal to permit Negroes to vote. al
4 Enough the provision of the Constitu.
ton Is mandatory upon Congress.
70 US this appears to be a case Of
chickens coming home to roost." It
continues:
This overrepresentatio which Tho
south has held for more than a gen.
Grafton 1t owes to the Northern Dom.
ocrsts who have. projected the South
ern States from a punishmelpt which
democrats in general have deemed a
gross infringement upon the soye-
reign right of every State to regulate
Its own, life and it's own affairs. But
the Southern States are now prepar-
Anlg to acqu1esce In such infringement
and to nullify the principle OF local
soil government to which the Demo
cratic party has tenaciously adhered
since the time of i Jefferson. Their
senators and Representatives in Con-
gTess 'haye already voted for. such
n =. tlll IN the resolution submit
ting tine to the Legislatures Of the sew
eral States the prohibition amend.
msnt to the Constitution of the
United States, and practically all OF
the Southern Legislatures are ex.
pected to ratify it. N.
Without the votes Of the Southern
senators and Representatives this
resolution could not have been sub
mitted; without the votes of the
southern Legislatures the amend
ment cannot be adopted Nation
wide prohibition, If 1t comes, will be
Imposed by States which have turned
their backs as squarely upon their
ancient principles Of government as
tho Russian Bolsheviki have turned
their backs upon the obligations of
democracy. "a
These are grave and emphatic
charges. We have called attention to 1
the fact that the imperialistic and
centralized form OF government now
being promulgated and supported by
the present administration Is the
same kind Of government advocated
by the alleged advocates Of 4, the
bloody shirt" years ago. What was.
all ssroaag then is all right now. It
was ali wrong then because q Repub-
1lican was In the White House. It. is
all right now because a Demo crat-
a Southerner occupies this same pa
latial residence OF the nation. The
New York World says: