anchorage to the soil was a prominent conception of the times; all else as a necessary qualification for voting, even age, color and sex, seems to have been subordinate, or accidental or exceptional. There was certainly no prejudice then in the good old days because of color; the color idea came from without, from Congress. UNDER THE FIRST CONSTITUTION. The constitution under which Mississippi came into the Union as a state was adopted on the 15th August, 1817, and by the first section of Article three thereof, the following provision is made: "Every free white male person of the age of twenty-one years or upwards, who shall be a citizen of the United States and shall have resided in this state one year, next preceding an election, and the last six months within the county, city or town in which he offers to vote and shall be enrolled in the militia thereof except exempted by law from military service; or having the aforesaid qualifications of citizenship and residence, shall have paid a state or county tax, shall be deemed a qualified elector; but no elector shall be entitled to vote, except in the county, city or town (entitled to separate representation) in which he may reside at the time of election." An analysis of this section shows that in order for a person to be a qualified state and county voter thereunder he must have been, (1) Free, (2) White, (3) Male, (4) Twenty-one years of age or upward, (5) A citizen of the United States, (6) A resident of the state for at least one year, (7) A resident of the county, city or town at least six months, (8) Enrolled in the militia unless exempt therefrom, or he must have had the "aforesaid qualifications of citizenship and residence" and have paid a state or county tax.