Q. Is there any other matter which you desire to state to the committee?
A. No, sir; I am ready to answer any question which you think proper to put to me.
NEGRO CITIZENSHIP.
Q. How would an amendment to the Constitution be received by the secessionists, or by the people at large, allowing the colored people, or certain classes of them, to exercise the right of voting at elections?
A. I think, so far as I can form an opinion, in such an event they would object.
Q. They would object to such an amendment?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Suppose an amendment should nevertheless be adopted, conferring on the blacks the right of suffrage, would that, in your opinion, lead to scenes of violence or breaches of the peace between the two races in Virginia?
A. I think it would excite unfriendly feelings between the two races; I cannot pretend to say to what extent it would go, but that would be the result.
Q. Are you acquainted with the proposed amendment now pending in the
Senate of the United States?