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CHAPTER VI. SHALL THE NEGRO BE DISFRANCHISED? 

Let the colored tax-payers and the white tax- payers, both possessing intelligence, get together, and let each swear eternal friendship for the other. Let them build up a fence high, and make it so secure that the worthless political demagogue, owning nothing and having no calling except that of the breeder of dissension and strife, cannot get over or through it.

Let the colored voter decide that there are men enough in the South, born here, to hold all the offices, and vote accordingly. Vote on, being governed by the rule that your interests are identical with your white neighbors, and that you are not only physically but politically free as well.

Vote in the way indicated, and as a free and honest citizen, and as an intelligent handler of the "ballot," you will be regarded as a blessing in the community where you reside.

The man who will sell his vote ought to be from that day forever disfranchised. The man who will purchase a vote should thenceforth be disqualified from holding office. True citizenship, with the right to vote, is that which gives the individual enjoying the same the right to take part in the legislative and judicial proceedings of the community, and requires of him the carrying of an equal share of the community's burdens and responsibilities.