Five years later South Carolina followed the example of Mississippi, and by means of a state convention enacted a new constitution disfranchising negroes; and put it into force without submitting it to popular ratification.
A peaceful method of disfranchising negroes and poor whites was the imposition of a poll tax on voters.
In spite of the opposition, which was rather formidable, the convention was assembled, and ordained a new frame of government (1898) disfranchising negroes and many whites.
As a Senator from North Carolina put it: "The disfranchising amendment would disfranchise ignorant negroes and not disfranchise any white man.
In New York that year there was a definite enactment disfranchising them.
This Court should be bombarded with suits until it makes some definite pronouncement, one way or the other, on the broad question of the constitutionality of the disfranchising Constitutions of the Southern States.
We will hear less of the evils of reconstruction, now that the bugaboo has served its purpose by disfranchising the Negro.
It is a question put to Springfield, Illinois, the old home of Lincoln himself, as directly as to men in Maryland busy with their pitiful disfranchising chicanery.
Whosoever laments the scope of suffrage, and talks of disfranchising men on account of ignorance or poverty, has as little comprehension of the meaning of self-government as a blind man has of the colors of the rainbow.
Slavery is truly re-enacted in those States which have succeeded in disfranchising the Negro.
As restriction is practiced in the South, it breeds contempt for the law: And increasing unrest, for like a snowball it swells and gathers fresh resistance as it goes: And dishonesty, for the disfranchising laws are not being lived up to.
Do the savages of Africa enact disfranchising clauses to keep apes and monkeys out of their political affairs?
In the other four disfranchising states, as well as all other Southern states, they are in the minority.
Does Georgia show any signs of thedisfranchising spirit?
In the group of states disfranchising the colored voters, viz; N.
Take heed that you do not succeed in convincing weak and ignorant minds that there is no more injustice in confiscating his estate than in disfranchising his borough.
No, Sir, there is one way, and only one way, in which those gentlemen who voted for the disfranchising Act of 1829 can clear their fame.
If the elective franchise is property, if to disfranchise voters without a crime proved, or a compensation given, be robbery, was there ever such an act of robbery as the disfranchising of the Irish forty-shilling freeholders?
There is, indeed, a great party which still objects to the disfranchising even of the smallest boroughs.
The practical point is, Did our fathers concede to any State the power of disfranchising citizens on account of color?
In 1827 a bill for disfranchising Penryn had actually been carried by the house of commons in spite of Canning's dissent, and one for disfranchising East Retford would probably have been carried, but that it was introduced too late.
The inevitable rupture was only deferred for a few weeks, and arose out of motions for disfranchising East Retford and Penryn--a premonitory symptom of the great reform bill.
Mr. Colville also spoke at length, amid much tumult, during which he was interrupted by loud yells of various kinds—attacking the Bill for its disfranchising nature, and defending colonial slavery.
The House of Commons had passed the clause disfranchising the Borough.
Then an act was passed providing for submitting that Constitution to the people of Virginia, with the privilege of voting separately on the disfranchising clause, which clause they, of course, rejected.
Harbine and 160 others, asking a constitutional amendment prohibiting the disfranchising of citizens on account of sex.
A clause had been inserted in the Franchise bill disfranchisingany man who had been in receipt of parish medical aid for himself or family.
As for disfranchising the borough, I cannot say that I regard it in the least.
If we go on it will lead to disfranchising the borough, and we none of us want that.
The registrars were reminded to enforce the disfranchising clauses of the acts both as to voters and candidates.
But he believed that the people had a right to a choice from their entire number, and that the convention had no right to violate the equality of citizenship by disfranchising the 223 members of the convention and the legislature.
The minority report[1438] objected to going beyond the acts of Congress in disfranchising whites.
The conservative leaders, like Governors Jones and Oates, were rather opposed to a disfranchising movement.
It was known that the Radicals were bent on giving the ballot to the negro and on disfranchising southern political and military leaders.
An argument used by the more liberal of the Radicals in favor of removal of disabilities was that in some counties the local offices could not be filled on account of the operation of the disfranchising laws.
James Otis said: "To tax a man's property without his consent, is in effect disfranchising him of every civil right.
We have at our disposal the means of moral agitation and influence, that can arouse our country to a saving sense of the wickedness and folly of disfranchising half the people.
Suppose woman, though equal, does differ essentially in her intellect from man, is that any ground for disfranchising her?
III What effect have these disfranchising enactments had upon the status of the Negro?
These disfranchising enactments in that they lower the legal and economic status of the black man, also tend to lower his educational and social status.
In its bearing upon the present disfranchising enactments of the South, the answer to these questions is important.
In the states which have adopted these disfranchising constitutions, more than three hundred thousand citizens have been thereby disqualified as jurors.
Not only has the legal status of the Negro been gravely affected by these disfranchising enactments; his economic status has also been lowered.
The fifth section of it furnishes a true index to the spirit which is behind all of these disfranchising enactments.
The constitutionality of these disfranchising enactments has not been made a direct issue in the Supreme Court of the United States.
The election returns from the three states of Louisiana, South Carolina and Mississippi show how startling is the power which they exercise in Congress by reason of these disfranchising instruments.
How to disfranchise the Negro by an educational test without at the same time disfranchising a very large number of white men, was at first a problem that presented many difficulties to the framers of the Mississippi document.
The Constitution of Mississippi has served as the pattern for the disfranchising enactments of South Carolina and Louisiana.
They are passing laws disfranchising all the citizens of Kansas who do not believe Negro Slavery to be a Christian institution and a national blessing.
This excused from the operation of her disfranchising act all descendants of men who had voted before the Civil War, thus admitting to the suffrage all white men who were illiterate and without property.
As we have seen, South Carolina in 1895 followed Mississippi in the disfranchising program and within the next fifteen years most of the other Southern states did likewise.
About the intention of its disfranchising legislation the South, as represented by more than one spokesman, was very frank.
The later disfranchising acts have had overwhelming importance, the unfair system of national representation controlling the election of 1916 and thus the attitude of America in the world war.
The Relief Bill and the Bill disfranchising the freeholders were both law by the end of April, 1829.
The discussion which followed, based partly on the reports that the ministry contemplated disfranchising the natives, led, however, to no immediate results.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disfranchising" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
