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The Daily Phoenix
Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina
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Associate Justice J.J. Wright of South Carolina's Supreme Court gave a two-hour speech at the Colored Men's Convention in Baltimore last Wednesday, advocating for greater civil rights and offices for Black Americans, a constitutional amendment allowing foreign-born presidents, and criticizing the Cincinnati platform's local self-government clause as secessionist.
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Associate Justice J. J. Wright, the colored member of the South Carolina Supreme Court, made a two-hour speech at the Colored Men's Convention, held in Baltimore last Wednesday. He advised his hearers to demand a fuller recognition of their civil rights and a larger share of offices, advocated a constitutional amendment to make a foreigner competent to become President of the United States, and pitched into the Cincinnati platform extensively, especially the fourth article providing for local self-government, which he said was a revival of the doctrines of secession.
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Baltimore
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Last Wednesday
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Associate Justice J. J. Wright, the colored member of the South Carolina Supreme Court, made a two-hour speech at the Colored Men's Convention, held in Baltimore last Wednesday. He advised his hearers to demand a fuller recognition of their civil rights and a larger share of offices, advocated a constitutional amendment to make a foreigner competent to become President of the United States, and pitched into the Cincinnati platform extensively, especially the fourth article providing for local self-government, which he said was a revival of the doctrines of secession.