ights are
concerned; but just as easily disclaims jurisdiction where human
rights are involved in cases in which Negroes happen to be the
complainants.

The fairminded man, the patriot of foresight, observes, therefore,
with a feeling of disappointment this prostitution of an important
department of the Federal Government to the use of the reactionary
forces in the United States endeavoring to whittle away the essentials
of the Constitution which guarantees to all persons in this country
all the rights enjoyed under the most progressive democracy on earth.
Since the Civil War the United States Supreme Court instead of
performing the intended function of preserving the Constitution by
democratic interpretation, has by its legislative decisions
practically stricken therefrom so many of its liberal provisions and
read into the Constitution so much caste and autocracy that discontent
and radicalism have developed almost to the point of eruption.

C. G. WOODSON

FOOTNOTES:

[1] _McCulloch_ v. _Maryland_, 4 Wheaton, 416.

[2] _Ibid._, 416.

[3] _Ibid._, 416.

[4] _Dred Scott_ v. _Sanford_, 19 Howard, 399.

[5] 16 Peters, 539, 612.

[6] _Dred Scott_ v. _Sanford_, 19 Howard, 399.

[6a] 21 Howard, 506.

[7] 6 Howard, 344.

[8] 94 U.S., 113.

[9] 16 Wall., 678.

[10] This was held in _Township of Queensburg_ v. _Culver_ (19 Wall.,
83), in _Township of Pine Grove_ v. _Talcott_ (19 Wall., 666), and in
Massachusetts in _Worcester_ v. _Western R. R. Corporation_ (4 Met.,
564).

[11] _Storey on Bailments_, Sec. 475-6, and _Rex_ v. _Ivens_, 7
Carrington & Payne, 213; 32, E. C. L., 495.

[12] 16 Wall., 36.

[13] 100 U. S., 303.

[14] 100 U. S., 306.

[15] 103 U. S., 386.

[16] _Ex Parte Virginia_, 100 U. S., 346-7.

[17] 14 statutes, 27, Chapter 31.

[18] 16 statutes, 140, Chapter 114.

[19] 109 U. S., 1.

[20] _United States_ v. _Cruikshank_, 92 U. S., 542; _Virginia_ v.
_Rives_, 100 U. S., 318; _Ex Parte Virginia_, 100 U. S., 339.

[21] 6 Cranch, 128.

[22] 99 U. S., 418.

[23] _United States_ v. _Reese_, 92 U. S., 214; _Strauder_ v. _West
Virginia_, 100 U. S., 303.

[24] _Ward_ v. _Maryland_, 12 Wall., 418; _Corfield_ v. _Coryell_, 4
Washington, D. C., 371; _Paul_ v. _Virginia_, 8 Wall., 168;
_Slaughter-house cases_, _Ibid._, 36.

[25] 92 U. S., 542.

[26] 95 U. S., 487.

[27] The Louisiana Act was:

_Section--._ All persons engaged wit