When the States of this Union find Federal supervisors and inspectors attending all our elections. and perhaps Federal appointees holding all our elections under this provision. which violates the principle and destroys the rock on which our ship of state was anchored. the rock of local selfgovernment. they may rue the day when they refused to let each State decide for itself this great fundamental question. We first violated this principle when we adopted the fifteenth amendment. Under the fifteenth amendment. not only the negro. for whoniit was adopted. but the sons of every other race under the sun may vote in any State in the Union. provided they or their ancestors have once been naturalized. Our immigration and naturalization laws are in the jurisdiction and control of the Federal Government. What evils may yet come of the fifteenth amendment only the future may unfold. Under it the old force bill was introduced. and defeated only after a long and bitter fight.
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