And while the Republican party hesitates to redeem its solemn pledge made to the people before the elections last November, the tide of intolerable wrong, of imminent peril:—of intolerable wrong to the blacks and of imminent peril to the Republic, is advancing nearer and rising higher and higher toward the point where to ignore it much longer will mean widespread and far-reaching disaster to our industrial democracy, to Republican institutions in America. On its crest I see approaching forces strong enough to subvert the Constitution, not only in the South but in the North—forces strong enough to uprear on its ruins the vast fabric of plutocratic empire and despotism. The warning is sounding in our ears, it is sounding in the ears of the people all over the land. Do we heed it, will they? The Penning of the Negro—_CHARLES CHAUVEAU COOK_ *[The Negro in the States of the Revised Constitutions]* The following States have revised their constitutions for the purpose of excluding colored voters, and in the following order:— (1) MISSISSIPPI. Section 241, Article 12, constitution of Mississippi, defining who are electors: "Every male inhabitant of the state, except idiots, insane persons, and Indians not taxed, who is a citizen of the United States, twenty-one years of age and upwards, who has resided in the state two years, and one year in the election district * * * in which he offers to vote and who is duly registered as provided in this article, and who has never been convicted of bribery, burglary, theft, arson, obtaining money or goods under false pretence, perjury, embezzlement, or bigamy, and who has paid on or before the 1st day of February of the year in which he offers to vote, all taxes which may have been legally required of him and who shall produce to the officer holding the election satisfactory evidence that he has paid his taxes." Section 242 of Article 12, further provides that persons offering to register shall take the following oath: "I do solemnly swear that I am twenty one years old and that I will have resided in the state two years and (this) election district for one year preceding the ensuing election, and am now in good faith a resident of the same, and that I am not disqualified from voting by reason of having been convicted of any of the crimes mentioned in the constitution of this state as a disqualification to be an elector, that I will truly answer _all questions propounded to me concerning my antecedents so far as they relate to my right to vote_ and also as to _my residence before my citizenship in this district,_ that I will support the constitution of the United States and of the state of Mississippi and will bear true faith and allegiance to the same—so help me God.