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Suffrage limitations in the South

Suffrage limitations in the South

The editorial writer claims that northern newspapers have not presented an accurate account of suffrage in the South. The article discusses how the requirements for voting registration will “disfranchise only the ignorant and the thriftless negroes.” The author notes that there may be some areas where black citizens meeting these qualifications are still refused the vote. He argues that “the remedy for this condition…is not the repeal of the Constitution, but the just and equable enforcement of the Constitution.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-03-12

Wants to accept the challenge

Wants to accept the challenge

Leonard Phinizy discusses the “southern suffrage plank” of the Republican party, a proposal that would “reduce the representation in Congress of certain southern states who have disfranchised the negro.” Phinizy argues that the Democrats should accept this proposal, because he believes the policy would result in the elimination of black citizens from political participation in the South.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08

Letter from Lyman Abbott to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Lyman Abbott to Theodore Roosevelt

Lyman Abbott discusses the “race plank in the Republican platform.” He is glad that President Roosevelt agrees with him “as to the inexpediency” of the issue and details his opinions about the subject. Abbott further hopes that “the race issue which that plank raised may be forgotten in this campaign.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-04

Mr. Fleming on disfranchisement again

Mr. Fleming on disfranchisement again

William H. Fleming writes to defend himself against an editorial in the Augusta Herald and to criticize the paper’s endorsement of the “fraudulent administration of the proposed disfranchisement law, as explained and advocated by Mr. Hoke Smith.” Fleming notes that, contrary to the claims of the paper, he has received a great deal of support for the speech he made in Athens, Georgia. He further explains that the belief “that such a doctrine of total negro disfranchisement can be harmonized with the Federal Constitution” is not a position any reputable lawyer would take, and hopes that the paper will realize its error in supporting this policy.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-18