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In Smithers precinct, excuses are used to stop eligible black men from voting.

A commentary on voter fraud and disenfranchisement during the 1896 presidential election.

This article speaks of the white reaction to the scandal of the disfranchisement faced by black voters in the 1896 presidential election.

The Planet emphasizes the racism of the Richmond Dispatch and talks about their “chronic attacks of Negro-phobia.”

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

Mitchell condemns the Richmond Times Dispatch for inconsistencies, and says that it has "dropped to the advocacy of a national wrong."

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

Virginian Legislators move to hold a Constitutional convention in order to “disfranchise” African American voters

Ex-Governor Charles O’Ferrall indignantly cries out against implementing a “literacy test” for voters, thus denying the uneducated suffrage.

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