. Review of reviews and world's work . portion of theconstitution of the State wiien read to him. Such ingeneral are the terms of the new franchise , for the results. There are by the new census147,205 colored men in Mississippi wiio are above theage of 21, and there are 110,100 white men. All ofthese men under the old arrangements would be en-titled to vote. But the new registration, containingthe names of all the men w^ho vnll be allowed to votethis year, includes only 76,742 men of both races, ofwhom only 8,615 are of African descent while are white nwMi. It has boon assort
. Review of reviews and world's work . portion of theconstitution of the State wiien read to him. Such ingeneral are the terms of the new franchise , for the results. There are by the new census147,205 colored men in Mississippi wiio are above theage of 21, and there are 110,100 white men. All ofthese men under the old arrangements would be en-titled to vote. But the new registration, containingthe names of all the men w^ho vnll be allowed to votethis year, includes only 76,742 men of both races, ofwhom only 8,615 are of African descent while are white nwMi. It has boon assorted that the devicefor admitting illiterates who couM explain the con-stitution was intended to lie used unfairly againstcolored men ; but of tlie tlireeor four tliousan<l voterswho were a<lmitted in this way, a])Out one-half wereactually negroes. The census shows that about white men and :{ colored men can read andwrite, and could tlieiefore have been enrolled if theyhad paid the somewhat heavy poll tax at the pre-. GEN. FRANCIS A. W^ALKER,Member of International Silver Conference. scribed time and taken the necessary steps to secureregistration. As the matter stands, the result hasbeen the practical elimination of the majority racefrom the politics of the State, and this object has beenachieved wnth marvelously little disturbance or op-position. We are inclined to think that the State ofMississippi and both races are to be colored race, though numerically possessed of aconsiderable majority, is not morally entitled to rulein Mississippi, because as yet it possesses a very smallminority of the men who have the intelligence andcapacity to rule properly. Under the circumstances,the test of literacy becomes a fair working rule. Noyoung Mississippi negro who deserves the ballot needdespair of obtaining it. If he is not A\illing to learn 140 THE RE^IEiV OF REVIEWS. to read and write, a id lacks the forethought to stepnp and pay his poll tax, he
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