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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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