. Review of reviews and world's work. tate, while disfranchis-ing the illiterate negroes who became voters inaccordance with the Fourteenth and FifteenthAmendments to tlie Constitution of the UnitedStates. As the matter stands under the new ar-rangement, all white citizens of North Carolinawill be allowed to vote, excepting illiterate im-migrants or their illiterate descendants not natu-ralized so long ago as thirty-three years ; and allnegro citizens who are able to read and writewill keep the franchise. Or, to put it the otherway about, those now excluded from the pollsare negro illiterates
. Review of reviews and world's work. tate, while disfranchis-ing the illiterate negroes who became voters inaccordance with the Fourteenth and FifteenthAmendments to tlie Constitution of the UnitedStates. As the matter stands under the new ar-rangement, all white citizens of North Carolinawill be allowed to vote, excepting illiterate im-migrants or their illiterate descendants not natu-ralized so long ago as thirty-three years ; and allnegro citizens who are able to read and writewill keep the franchise. Or, to put it the otherway about, those now excluded from the pollsare negro illiterates and such white illiterates ashave been naturalized since 1867, or are the de-scendants of those who were not American vot-ers in or prior to that year. This arrangement,on the face of it, ought not to be dishearteningto the negro race. It should simply give thema new incentive to overcome obstacles and meetthe new constitutional test. In a few years thediscrimination will have been outlived. The ? NORTH ^^CAROLINIANS TAKE ,. A TRIUMPH FOR WHITE SUPREMACY. Ninety per cent, of the colored vote of North Carolina willbe disfranchised to-day. From the Tribune (New York), August 3. Southern dread of the illiterate negro vote hasheretofore tempted a resort to methods both de-plorable and vicious. It is better to have a re-stricted suffrage than a nominally universal onewhere elections are a farce. All this is not saidby way of apology for the way in which this re-cent North Carolina campaign was is to be assumed that no community will cheer-fully and deliberately vote to disfranchise itselfto a considerable extent for its own highest good;and the narrowing of the political fabric at itsbase is always essentially a revolutionary pro-ceeding. And so this North Carolina electoralcontest was unquestionably accompanied by vio-lence, intimidation, and fraud—to what extentwe do not know—in the securing of a majorityof 60,000 for the new arrangement. ^, „ , It is sa
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