The Virginia Constitutional Convention Of 1901 1902 And Negro Suffrage PDF Download

Excerpt from Journal of the Constitutional Convention of Virginia: Held in the City of Richmond, Beginning June 12th, 1901 During the long revolving cycle of intervening time, he had founded no empire, built no towered city, invented no art, dis coyered no truth, bequeathed no everlasting possession to the future, through law-giver, hero, bard or benefactor of man kind Under the circumstances existing at the period of re construction, the bestowal of universal suffrage upon the negro was a grievous wrong to both races It would have been far better for the negro, as well as the white man, that intelligence should be permitted to govern When the era of good feeling between the sections shall be entirely restored and all the hates growmg out of the unhappy fratricidal strife shall be forever in the deep bosom of the ocean buried, it may be that our Northern fellow citizens for the good of our common country and the elevation of American citizenship may consent to the repeal of the fifteenth amendment That would be a con summation devoutly to be Wished, but until that auspicious day shall come, we must adapt ourselves to the conditions in which we are placed The fifteenth amendment provides that the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.