Word: negro
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...would not benefit the negro. (a) His ignorance incapacitates him from voting intelligently or independently. (b) It would render his position harder than at present. Hart, Nation, vol. 54, p. 207; Page, N. Am. Rev. vol. 154, p. 401; Nation...
Debate of October 19, 1893.Question: Resolved, That Congress should provide adequate protection for the free exercise of the suffrage by negro voters...
...This deprivation is an evil. Contemporary Review, LIII. p. 465 (Mar. 1888.) Forum, V. p. 517. Cable's Silent South, p. 16.- (a) For the South; bad moral influence of a violation of the Constitution. (b) For the North: disproportionate representation. (c) For the Negro: loss of the educating influence of citizenship...
Question: "Resolved, That Congress should take adequate steps to protect the exercise of the suffrage by negro voters in the South...
...Oxford Hight" by Mabel Norton Evens is the article of chief interest for us. It is not at all technical but is written in a pleasant and very attractive style. There are half a dozen excellent pictures of Oxford and of different parts of the river. "Tony" is a negro story and is rather above the usual New England Magazine stories, though it is not very good. "A Mountain Maid" by John Allen is a good story. "Personal Recollections of Whittier" has some interest although so many articles on the same subject have lately been printed that one coming...