Show WITHOUT CONSENT OF GOVERNED President William A Anderson of the Virginia Bar association in an address to that body with the utmost candor avowed tho purpose of tho constitutional constitu-tional convention about to convene In Richmond Ho openly declared that the object was to devise a constitutional constitu-tional proviso which would allow every white citizen a vote and deprive de-prive the negro citizen of his franchise and at the same time evade the fourteenth four-teenth and fifteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States He says If I the negro Is to vote his race must cither bo exterminate or amalgamated amal-gamated He admits that there arc some negroes hotter fitted for franchise than some of the white voters but these arc the exceptions and one reason rea-son he gives why the colored man should not vole Is that they Imitate the vices as well as the virtues of their vhlte neighbors The question Is wljy a negro should be denied suffrage because of his vices evn1ed the same time It should be sacredly preserved to the white man We know the objections objec-tions of the Southern people to the voting vot-ing of colored men and wo do not care to discuss tho question more than to ay that It seems to us the anxiety should be to disqualify unfit voters white as well as black no one would object to that But It Is not upon that subject we care to dwell at this time The question we want to ask Is on what ground can any Southern orator or editor Justify the taking of the franchise fran-chise from a colored man who was born on this soil who has large property prop-erty Interestsas many of them have In Virginiawho Is a peaceable and Intelligent In-telligent citizen and at the same time arraign the Government of the United States for putting down a tribe of mongrel incendiaries and cutthroats off across the s n That question will come back to haunt tho Democracy all through the coming three months and the people who will ho most anxious to know arc where the Democracy are most anxious to secure votes |