Show THE FIFTEENTH NT QUESTION for the mississippi proposition asking for the repeal repeat of the fifteenth fifteen tili amendment to the constitution to find sufficient favor to its adoption is not an imps impossible i ble event the important feature of the amendment is its enfranchisement of the negroes should each such be the result of the present negro agitation discue eion would necessarily revert to the fourteenth amendment which since the freeing of the slaves 18 liaa has been of no effect following is the provision 2 representatives be apportioned among the several veral states ac according cordin 9 to iolli their clr respective number c counting 1 riling t the 10 whole number nur alier of person persons in e ench aal aol h tate state 0 excluding X indiana hot not taxed but w hen the ri right g bt to ote vote at t any election lot for the choice 0 of edictor el ictor tra for or Il president resident and vice preside nt of the united states tea in con gress the executive and judicial officers cern of a fate or the tire member of the legislature it thereof beof in Is denied to tiny of the malo niale inhabit tante tants of inch such state being twenty one no years ear of age and citizens of the united states or in any way abridged except for bartl cip tion in wal re rebellion ellion or other crime the basis ot of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which atch the number of uch male ci tirena rhall shall ear to the whole num ber of male mate citizen citizens twenty one rear years of age in euch such elate state the south would of course insist upon pon the repeal of this provision also bat such sueh a result cannot be looked for while the north is in in ita its present temper upon the repeal of the fifteenth amendment the states that would be bo likely to avail themselves of their privilege to disfranchise their colored voters may be ila interred inferred from the ilia following table of population from lie the census of 1880 Al white bits blacks items alabama ghow 8 arkansas Arkin nui al 6 5 florid florida 11 I 1 WO AW 2 geora le orgia 1 1 72 10 iu lAuh i lana a 6 I 1 7 north carolina 7 bil WO 9 bouth south carolina Cerol ll lot AX 41 7 virginia virgin I 1 10 0 by excluding the colored vote states would lose not less ban than half of sixty four electors which would all aa come COMO from the democratic tule side thirty two aft votes taken from the pre lent democratic minority in the I 1 house louse would reduce it to or in a presidential election would be equivalent almost to new now york t tinning republican the democrate democrats claim now to be able to elect a 4 president without new york jf if the tile opinion ia is honest they will be very likely to favor negro in the bouth south in any event the agitation following its present coarse course will undoubtedly solve the problem with as much dispatch ae as ie is practicable |