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10 lnd.tmrnt of Prr.o-i ComitM,z
Offenses Axal.st the Fra.rhlse8rlb.ry
Intimidation, Prud or. Oth-r Law
lessnessThe Rlht to Vet Oaar.
nteed to All Races Alike.
Special to The Gazette.
Greensboro, N. C., October
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Jrederal court opened to day. Jqdge
Boyd's charge to th srrand jurywas
able and learned. He went Into detail
on the revenue laws; covering every
phase. He said it was commonly gnp
posed that the court bad no jarishic
tlou over crimes other than the reve
nue laws bat this was aT mistake. It
had eight cases of offenseFagainst the
postal laws, operation of the depart
ment of justice for official miscondutt,
counterfeiting cases and offenses
against the elective franchise. The
most interesting portion of the chartre
regarding the frauchise elicited a great
deal of comment and was the talk on
the streets, in hotel lobbies andWslse
where. The JuugeV words on thfs in
teresting.su bject were as follows :
The fourteenth-article of the consti
tution otthe United States provides
that "All persons born or naturalized
in the Uuitedi States, and subjects to
the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens, of
the United States and of tne State
wherein they reside,'.' and the first sec
tion of the fifteenth article of the constitution-is
as follows: ;The rights of
citizens of the United States to vote
shall not be denied or abridged by the
United States or by any State on ac
couut of race, color or previous condi
tion of servitude.' The right to vote
isofce of the most sacred privileges ac
corded to the American citizen, and
the very character of 4ourrgovernment
makes it of tha higneaOwportance
that the citizei. should be protected in
this right.. Under obr form of govern '
ment the people rule; they select their
public servants and instruct them as
to the policy to be pursued in admin
istering our affairs. This is done
through the ballot, and a majority at
. the ballot box declares who are to be
entrusted with the management of the
government and what particular lines
of action shall be taken. If, therefore.
the source of power is corrupted, the
Citizenjs unlawfully deprived of his
right to vote, or of,? the result of his
.vote; if elections are not free or are
controlled by bribery, ' intimidation,
fraud 'or other lawless methods, then
the whole purpose of ' our free institu
tions is th waited, the right guaran
teed by the constitution are ignored,
and the liberties which have come to
us as our inheritance froln those who
fought for, planned arid formed our
government will be overwhelmed in
anarchy and chaos. The freedom and
parity ot the ballot is the foundation
upon which the perpetuation of our
' republican form of government must
rest; and the destruction and impair
ment of this foundation will eventu
ally result in the tuin of the structure.
The constitution leave it to the sev
eral States of the Union .each to pro
vide qualifications for voters, the re
striction being that the laws of suff
rage of a State shall not deny or
. abridge the right of a citizen to vote
because of his race, color, or because
he may have been a slave. The intent
. and purpose of this constitutional
provision is at once apparent. Iu a
number of the. States of the Union an
terior to 1865 the institution ot human
Blavery existed, and persons of the
African or" colored race were held as
property. By the proclamation of the
President and by virtue of the thir
teenth amendment to the constitution,
slavery, was abolished and the former
u ' j ;i,An.Ki..
The purpose, therefore,' of the pro
vision referred to was to place the
f reedinan on the same plane with oth-
ers in so far as his right and privileges
of citizenshiD were concerned. But
the laws of the United States are not
confined to the protection of any one
cl&aa in securing the free exercise of
these rights. They are ample, when
properly obeyed and enforced, to pro
tect every citizen no matter of what
race, in the fall enjoyment' of the
rights, 5 privileges and immunities
guaranteed by the provisions of our
organic and statute law. As 1 stated
before the State can prescribe qualifi
cations for the voter which the citizen
most possess before he is entitled to
vote; bat when the State has pre
scribed such qualifications then every
person having them is edtitled to vote,
and it It a violation of the criminal
laws of the United States for any per
son or persons to deprive such person
of his legal right to vote at any gen-
eral or special election held by Jaw at
which qualified voters are entitled to
vote There is an impression among
. . TTnjtj
tome that the laws of the United
States apply only ta elections at wale
r.rMiantiil Alsctors or candidates for
trr nrft voted for. This U errone-
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and privileges guaranteed to the citi
zen whether such invasion effects his
action in a State election or a federal
election, the object being to bring to
the aid of the citizen the power of the
federal government to shield hiiu in
the eujomeDt of the privileges which'
the law has conferred, and to punish
those who by force, fraud or other un
lawful means interfere with the exer
cise of such privileges. .
"Having called your attention gen
erally to the-provisions and purposes
of the federal laws upon this subject,
I will now cite certain statutes enacted
for the punisnment of those who will- I
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fully infringe the rights of the citizen,
or unjustly deprive him of the oppor
tunity to exercise such rights; Section
5507, Revised Statutes of the United
States, reads as follows: "Every per
son who prevents, hinders, controls or
intimidates another from exercising or
in exercising the rigts of suffrage, to
whom the right is guaranteed by the
fiffAPnth Amendment to the Constitu-
tion of the United States, by means of
bribery or threats of depriving such
person of employment or occupation
or of ejecting such person from a rented
house, lands or other property, or by
threats of refusing to renew leases or
contracts for labor, or by threats of
violeuce to himself or family, shall be
punished as provided in the preceding
section; that is by fine or imprison
ment or both. In accordance - with
what I have said before, you will see
that the right to vote is guaranteed to
all races and colors alike, and the
States are forbidden to make any dis
crimination what ever against any
person on account of race or color.
Under article VI, section 1. of the
Constitution of North Carolina:
'Every male person bora in the United
States and every male person who has
been naturalized, is twenty one years
old or upwards, who shall have re
sided in the State twelve months next
preceding the election, and ninety
days In the county in which he offers
to vot. shall he deemed an elector,
The exception extends only to persons
who have been convicted of f olony or
other infamous crimes and have not
hften restored to citizenship. The con-
atitutlon of the State then makes it
the dqty of the general assembly to
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