Under the peculiar constructions of the Constitution which prevail in Mississippi what is called an election becomes more mysterious than a chancery suit. and the gentleman comes to tell ns that we have no power to regulate an election. and offers the monstrous heresy that the Federal Government may not inquire into the clebtions on which the foundations of its power and security rest. In the few spots from which the dark veil has been lifted we see a wretched travesty on the sacred Americam franchise. and here. today. at the dictation of a socalled democratic caucus. there is to be stricken (town the last safeguard law has thrown around the machinery by which the President and the Congress of the United States shall be chosen. But a few weeks ago I saw in a railroad depot at Saint Louis some five or six colored refugeesmen. women. and children. with their little bundles. I asked them where they were going. They said they were going from Mississippi to Kansas.
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