And yet because he has not grown learned and wealthy in twenty years, because he does not own broad acres and a large bank account, people are not wanting who declare he has no capacity, that he is improvident by nature and mendacious from inclination.
FOOTNOTES: [3] Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction .-- Art.

XIII.Sec.1 of the Constitution.
[4] All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State in which they reside.

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; _nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws_--XIVth Amendment, Section 1.
[5] The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by any State, on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude .-- XVth Amendment, Sec.

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[6] While I write these lines, the daily newspapers furnish the following paragraph.

It is but one of the _waifs_ that are to be found in the newspapers day by day.