Speeches at the Constitutional Convention / With the Right of Suffrage Passed by the Constitutional Convention

by Robert Smalls

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SPEECHES
AT THE
Constitutional Convention,

BY
GEN. ROBT. SMALLS.

WITH THE
RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE
PASSED BY THE
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.

COMPILED BY MISS SARAH V. SMALLS.

ENQUIRER PRINT, 425 KING STREET.
CHARLESTON, S. C.
1896

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Introduction.

Months previous to the time that the recent Constitutional Convention met, Conservatives and Reformers, announced publicly their intention to disfranchise the Negro in South Carolina.

For this pamphlet such portions of the new Constitution have been selected as affect the colored people, together with the speeches made thereon by my father Robert Smalls; several editorials from leading newspapers; also a few of many letters received by him from all parts of the country congratulating him for the manly spirit displayed by him and the other colored delegates, whenever the rights of their race were in jeopardy.