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THE DAILY SUN.
Wkdjomdai Momenta August 2.
IqT Office in the Sun Building, Wes/
tide qf Broad Urmi, Second JLhor South </
Alabama.
t&- New AdcvrlitcmenU aliniyi /omul
on First Page ; Local and Uusinets N dices
on Fourth Page.
Politic* in West Virtinia.
The following is ail address to tlic
voters of this Stale, in the jx-ndiiitf
oauvasB, to strike the word “white
out of their Constitution niton the
matter of suffrage. It clearly indi
cates w hat arc constituting “living is
sues” there:
You are soon to Ite called to the
polls, to decide a question far more
important than the election of uny
ollieer, whoso tenure is hut for a few
years, and whose acts, however repre
hensible they may lte, you have al
ways hitherto had it in your power
to revoke. The question at issue,
Htrqqied of all disguises, is, whether
or not yon will keep this power in
your own hands. W ill you submit
to any tampering with tho right of
suffrage on the part of your public
servants, or will you decide how it
shall be exercised and by whom ?
And if you determine to retain this
liower, will you share it with the
negro? I'ut the question in this
way, and your answer is not uncer
tain—from i>cuk to peak your native
hills would echo und re-echo the
thunder of your No 1 Hut the ene
mies of our race and country dare
not put in so plainly. They tell you
that the word “white” which you are
asked to strike out of your Constitu
tion is already a nullity—a meaning
less blot, on its pages. They toll
you that the “issue is dead,” that ne
gro suffrage is “a fixed fact,” hoping
to conceal from you the great import
ance of your action in the matter,
und and to persuade you that it is a
mere formality, while tho truth is,
that by votiug for this measure, you
assume the whole responsibility of
negro suffrage, and do actually “fir"
the “J'ucF forever within your State,
irrespective of all past legislation,
State or Federal, No wrong is a
“fixed fact” so long as a free people
determine to remain freo. IIiul your
ancestors, who achieved for you the
priceless heritage of free government,
reasoned as do the advocates of this
amendment, you would still bo the
oppressed subjects of kingly power.
l)o you lovo liberty less than they ?
Are yon prepared to surrender this
d'arly bought right of self-govern
ment at the first assault of its ene
mies ? Will you let them lend you,
blindfold and submissive, to your
own and your country’s rain ? Ujien
your eyes, wo beseech you, before it
be too late! If the spirit of your
fathers still survives, if the pride of
nice be not dead, we implore yon to
pause nnd reflect, before you take the
ratal step!
Y’ou are now asked to endorse the
“Flick Amendment,” which is the
immediate offspring of that most
daring and shamless violation of the
F«lerul Constitution, the Bo-called
“Fifteenth Amendment.” Tho Con
gress which proposed, and the legis
lature which presumed to ratify this
measure, are guilty of tho most fla
grant usurpation, and the people who
will tamely submit to it, must al
ready be ripe for slavery. .
A written constitution constitutes
the principal difference between u free
and a despotic government. It is the
supremo law of the lund, binding
upou people and legislators alike.
Knartiiieiits not made in conformity
to it are not laws. If tho people in
fringe this fundamental law, they
oi>eii the gates to anarchy; if they
permit their legislators to infringe it,
they invite and welcome tyranny. It
is the wall of defense against the sel
fish ambition of the few, on tho one
hand, uud the unbridled pussions of
tho multitude and (ho hour on the
other. The importance then, of most
jealously guarding against every
branch of it cannot bo - exaggerated.
Hy the Federal Constitution, the
people of the several States delegated
part of their inherent and sovereign
rights to a government which they
thereby instituted, expressively re
serving to themselves, in the follow
ing carefully chosen words, ALL
POWERS NOT SO IlKTEOATKU: “All
powers not delegated to the United
btates by the Constitution, nor pro
hibited by it to the States, are re
served to THE STATES RESPECTIVELY
or to the people.” Tlie highest of
all rights to u free people is that of
suffrage, w ith all that pertains to it.
It lies at the foundation of all. lie-
sign it, or allow any violation of it,
aud the Uupublio falls at oucc. From
beginning to ond the Federal Consti-
st ii lion contains no word allowing
Congress any power whatever to reg
ulate or control the right of suffrage
in the Status. It is not only one,
but. the first and grertest of those
rights, which, never having beeu part
ed with, still remains exclusively
with the people of the States.
It is true the Constitution provides
Unit amendments may be luado to it,
and prescribes the manner in wiiioli
Congress may propose aud the States
Entity them. * But by such unicnd-
meui as may become port of the Con
stitution upon their ratification by
three-fourths of the States, are not
meant such radical changes in the
form of government us would take re
served rights from the people of the
States. The powers delegated are uot
grants from the Federal Government
to the people, lint from the peo£ ol
the several States to the Government;
consequently all further assumption
of power hy the Government, in any
way, is a usurpation to which the peo
ple must never submit, and by which
they con never be bound, except by
their own content. All powers not
delegated to the Federal Government
" “r prohibited to the States or the
-w*i»ple thereof; remain with the peo-
P‘ e ,°f the several States, nnd are in-
otolable. Each State remains ubso-
mte master of all it# reserved powers.
The right of deciding who shall and
who shall not vote is one which no
Congress, however jierfoctly organ
ized—however complete, can claim,
unless the jieople of each State, either
directly at the polls or hy a conven
tion invested with power to declare
their will, expressly delegate such
new jiower. Let them give even a
tacit consent to so bold and unwar
ranted an assumption of authority as
this so-called Fifteenth Amendment,
and where will you place the limit to
the encroachments of the central gov
ernment? The power that gives can
take away. If the Federal Govern
ment has a right to interfere at all in
this ninlter—if it cun say who shall
vote—it enn ulso say who shall not.—
There needs but another stop to
change our institutions and give us a
king. The article which provides for
amendments closes with these words:
“Provided, that no State, without its
consent, shall be deprived of its equal
suffrage in the Senate.” How then
could tliis power of proposing amend
ments lie claimed by that miserable
fragment of a Congress which ex
cluded the representatives of ten
sovereign States, and presumed to
'govern them while denying them u
voice in the National legislature?—
tho very grievance which, mure
tliunall others, was the cause of that
revolution to which wo owe our na
tional existence.
All that has been said of the fraud
ulent and unconstitutional character
of the “ 10th Amendment” in its
passage by Congress is equally true
of its pretended ratification by the
States. You, the people of West Vir
ginia, have never given your assent to
that act of revolution. YourLcgislq-
ture was not authorized by you to do
so. Y’ou alone have the right to say
who shall vote within your State. If
.you should declare, as you now do in
your Constitution, that none but
white male citizens shall vote within
your borders, no power on earth lias
tho constitutional right to gainsay it.
Your Legislature can do nothing of
the kind. Its so called ratification of
tho “15th Amendment” is unconsti
tutional aud void. It and not the
word “ white” is a nullity. If every
State Legislature but one, should as
sume to ratify such a measure, all to
gether could not control the one
State refusing to ratify. Sucli action
strips the dissenting State of one of
its reserved rights and establishes a
precedent by which u minority of the
States is entirely at the mercy of
three-fourths, should the majority
desire a complete change in the form
of government It also nullities that
clause in the Constitution which de
clares that all powers not delegated
are reserved, and opens wide the door
to misconstruction audltlic most dan
gerous abuse of power by the Federal
Government.
But for what purpose has all this
outrage been jicrpetratcd upon the
States ? What is the excuse for
trampling the Constitution and the
rights of the States in the dust ?
Was it to procure some extraordinary
benefit which could be obtained
only at such an immense sacrifice ?
Or was it to relieve us from some great,
and imminent danger? No, it was
to bind the white race uud loose the
negro, to place an ignorant and half-
civilized jieople in the jiosition of co
rulers with you. Can you submit
quietly to such an insult? Will yon
by voting for the Flick amendment,
seal with your own lmuds your own
dishonor? If by endorsing at the
polls the Flick amendment you strike
out tho word “white,” you uro fully
committed by your own voluntary ac
tion to negro suffrage and revolution
in its worst forms, and your mutila
ted Constitution stands a monument
of your lolly and degradation, no
matter wlmt may be done hereafter
hy either Congress or Legislature, to
retrace their steps. Your action iu
this matter is no mere form. Those
who urge upon you the adoption of
tliis measure ask yon to repudiate the
principles “emblazoned on the planner
ujion which our common splendid
victory has been won.” Teach such
men by your votes that “that banner
has lost nothing in the affections of
true Democrats, when it is now seen
flouting triumphant in victory, least
tattered where it was Lome Boldest
and hold highest in the confliot,”—
Tell them that “victory is tho signal
not for retreat, but for renewed on
sets, each more vigorous that the last,
until the forces of usurpation shall
be driven from their lost refuge. Un
der the inspiration of success true
men become as bold as they are true.”
But a Dcmocralic (?) Legislature
has become wet-nnrso to this Radical
bastard! A few sell-styled leaders of
Democracy have betrayed tho men
whose votes raised them to power by
surrendering in the very hour of vic
tory tho principles iu defense of which
the battle was fought. No sooner
was our triumphant flag intrusted to
their hands than they trailed it in the
dust. What these men mean by cal
ling themselves Democrats would
nuzzle them or any one else to say.
If their idea of Democracy lie consis
tent with negro equality and Federal
usurpation, they had much better go
over openly and at once to the enemy's
camp, for there iuid there alone, are
these things to he found. The hau
lier of Democracy is still unstained
by them. It stilt bears upon its folds
the glorious mottoes of free govern
ment, of white government, of the
rights of the people of the Stutes,
and of resistance to tyrants and usur
ers. “Kmhluzoned with such prin
ciples the true men of the State and
of the land will hear it again and
again to the rescue of the nation from
the hands of its internal foes.” Show
these men that such treason us theirs
shall not go unpunished. Repudi
ate their leaucrship, Let them see
that your principles are not to bo sold
and that our late victory meant free
dom over wrong and oppression, and
not their elevation to office.
If there be a Republican who cares
nothing for the Republic, let him
vote for the Flick amendment. If
there bo a Democrat « ho is tired of
self-government and longs for iui
ebony master, let him vote to strike
out the word white. If there be a
disfranchised citizen meon enough to
covet jiower at the expense of his
country’s freedom and anxious to
crawl to the polls in the protecting
shadow of the negro, let him lend his
influence to the sup)>ort of this iufu-
ltut It
motis measure. Hut let true men
everywhere vote it down.
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CoLAitaiiouKK, Ga., Dccembor 31,1870.
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