Speeches at the Constitutional Convention: With the Right of Suffrage Passed by the Constitutional ConventionSmalls, Robert
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Speeches at the Constitutional Convention: With the Right of Suffrage Passed by the Constitutional Convention
Smalls, Robert
African Americans -- Politics and government; African Americans -- Suffrage; South Carolina. Constitutional Convention (1895)
My Dear General--I am very desirous of procuring a copy of each one of
the speeches delivered in your Convention at Columbia on the suffrage
question. If you have within easy reach any or all of them in print,
I shall esteem it as a favor if you will kindly forward to me here
such of them as you can readily spare. And let me say to you, my dear
General, what has, I presume, been said to you already, that the
dignity, courage and signal ability with which you and your Republican
colleagues at Columbia, have asserted and maintained manhood rights and
the just claims of all citizens to fair play under the supreme law of
the land as well as under the civilization of our times, have touched
the heart of the great North and called forth its soberest approval and
its high admiration.
Indeed, it is felt here that, in your statements, your arguments and
warnings, you have covered the whole case and done lasting honor to the
Negro race and to American patriotism. All hail to you and your noble
band of Spartans at Columbia!
Yours very sincerely,
E. C. BOSSETT.
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NEWBERRY, Oct. 28, 1895.
Hon. Robert Smalls:
Dear Sir: I take the liberty of expressing to you and through you
to your colleagues, Messrs. Miller, Wigg and Whipper my very great
gratification and approval of your and their very able and eloquent
addresses in behalf of sound Republican principles, of justice towards
all classes, and of fair and honest elections. You all did credit
to your race, to the Republican party, and as I hope and believe
to the cause of justice, for I have no doubt your efforts will
have great influence outside the State. The prompt voting down of
everything proposed, however fair and moderate, looked very much like
pre-concerted action, and was not creditable to the Convention, either
Conservatives or “Reformers.” But I should say, keep up the fight at
every point along the line. Propose amendments to every objectionable
section, even if they are voted down.
Very Respectfully,
B. O. DUNCAN.
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ADELPHI HOTEL, }
LIVERPOOL, Oct. 6, 1895. }
Mr. Robert Smalls, Beaufort, S. C.:
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