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

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

The Democratic Party of Virginia” holds an “unconstitutional ‘Constitutional’ Convention” to discuss how blacks are the “‘hindering cause’ in the way of a pure election”.

John Mitchell voices his disagreements to the “unconstitutional ‘Constitutional’ Convention”.

Henrico is accused of being “the worst [county] so far as political recognition of the [black] brother is concerned”; the county spreads the notion that black people are “so corrupt and so addicted to selling their votes” and should therefore be…

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”.

Maryland disenfranchises 30,000 “Negroes” through literacy tests.

White men continue to disenfranchise black men while the white newspaper defends the “law abiding” white opinion.

A meeting was held in New York to discuss suffrage, and the goal was to achieve "righteous liberty of political action without distinction or color.

WM. Lloyd Garrison demands equal suffrage and that the constitution should be upheld in a meeting for “colored leaders” in the country.