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The “unconstitutional ‘constitutional’ convention in South Carolina” plans to formally disfranchise the black man at the start of the new year.

The Planet accuses the “Democrats of Henrico County” of unconstitutionally disregarding the black vote.

White mobs “drove away” black men attempting to “pay the poll taxes” in order to vote by threatening them with shotguns at the entrance of “the county treasury”.

The Planet criticizes the Constitutional Convention members for a lack of justice and “following a dark and torturous way.”

The Planet comments on the disenfranchisement of black voters in South Carolina.

Federal Election Laws are being repealed,. which brings the possibility of greater voter fraud in elections.

An editor of a newspaper in New York asks John Mitchel’s opinion about the effect of disfranchisement.

An election in Harrisonburg, VA results in the election of a Democratic mayor and Republican treasurer; it is the first election to occur under a new election law that aims to disenfranchise black voters.

The Planet quotes the 14th and 15th amendments explaining just how unconstitutional the “Constitutional” Convention of Virginia actually is.

Nine of the thirteen states which had elections voted overwhelmingly Republican.