And since, in the character of things, the vast majority of married ladies by no means earn a dollar by work outdoors of their families, nor inherit a greenback from their fathers, it follows that from the day of their marriage to the day of the loss of life of their husbands, not certainly one of them ever has a greenback, besides it shall please her husband to let her have it. It will not all the time be males combining to disfranchise ladies; native-born men combining to abridge the rights of naturalized residents, as in Rhode Island; it won’t all the time be the wealthy and educated who may mix to cut off the poor and ignorant; but we might stay to see the poor, onerous-working, uncultivated day laborers, overseas and native born, learning the ability of the ballot and their vast majority of numbers, mix and amend State constitutions so as to disfranchise the Vanderbilts and A. T. Stewarts, the Conklings and Fentons. It is a poor rule that won’t work extra ways than one. The very act of taxing exercised over those who usually are not represented appears to me to be depriving them of one in every of their most essential rights, and if continued, seems to be in effect a complete disfranchisement of every civil proper.
But if it was meant to be a prohibition of the States to deny or abridge their proper to vote-which I fully imagine-then it did the same for all persons, white girls included, born or naturalized within the United States, for the modification does not say all male persons of African descent, but all individuals are citizens. Amendment, failing to coerce the rebel States into enfranchising their negroes, and the requirements of the Republican celebration demanding their votes all through the South, to insure the re-election of Grant in 1872, that get together was compelled to put this positive prohibition of the XV. What rule of law or logic would allow the conclusion, that the prohibition of a crime to 1 individual, on extreme pains and penalties, was a sanction of that crime to any and all different individuals save that one? There is no such thing as a escape from the conclusion, that to vote is the citizen’s proper, and the specs of race, shade, or earlier situation of servitude can, in no way, impair the drive of the emphatic assertion, that the citizen’s proper to vote shall not be denied or abridged. The citizen’s right to vote shall not be denied by the United States, nor any State thereof; on account of race, color, or earlier situation of servitude.
If we once set up the false principle, that United States citizenship doesn’t carry with it the correct to vote in every State on this Union, there isn’t any end to the petty freaks and cunning devices that will likely be resorted to, to exclude one and one other class of citizens from the precise of suffrage. Amendment embrace the appropriate of suffrage, the question of the fitting of the citizen to vote is settled eternally by the XV. How can the State deny or abridge the right of the citizen, if the citizen does not possess it? There’s, and might be, but one protected precept of government-equal rights to all. One sees this in chess: varied chess figures extol its applicability to finance, with no evidence; or declare it’s relevant to politics, despite the analogy being tenuous at finest and chess inferior to video games like Go, regardless; or place their hopes in chess training of children transferring to faculties like IQ, despite all such attempts at “far transfer”-even way more plausible ones like early enrichment or (most) nutritional supplements or twin n-again-failing for the last 60 years and the cited chess research being both methodologically suspect or contradictory.
The life of her governess, as she calls her, who had run by means of, it seems, in a number of years, all of the eminent levels of a gentlewoman, a whore, and a bawd; a midwife and a midwife-keeper, as they’re referred to as; a pawnbroker, a childtaker, a receiver of thieves, and of thieves’ buy, that is to say, of stolen goods; and in a word, herself a thief, a breeder up of thieves and the like, and but eventually a penitent. I watched this precious video last evening, titled, “THE BUS MINISTRY,” at Shining Light Baptist Church in Morganton, North Carolina. By the law of each State in this Union to-day, North in addition to South, the married girl has no proper to the custody and control of her individual. By the legislation of Georgia, South Carolina, and all the States of the South, the negro had no proper to the custody and control of his individual. But twenty years ago, when our woman’s rights movement commenced, by the legal guidelines of the State of latest York, and all of the States, the father had the only custody and management of the youngsters. Again, the slave had no right to the earnings of his arms, they belonged to his master; no proper to the custody of his children, they belonged to his grasp; no proper to sue or be sued, or testify within the courts.