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Rev. Melvin L ShaL^peare
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EDITORIALS
The views expressed in these columns
are those ot the writer and not necessarily
a reflection of the policy oi The Voice.—
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BRASS FACTS
By M. L. SHAKESPEARE
A recent bill of legislation
passed in the state of Alabama,
which was bent on the dis
franchisement of the Negro, is
further evidence that the South
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does not intend to righten their
evil of race hatred, so again I
say that the state rights law is
not a good law when it would
allow a state to commit such
wrong. This law is that every
citizen must be able to read and
understand a portion of the Con
stitution to the satisfaction of a
special committee. This I am
afraid that no Negro would ever
be able to do, they would see to
that. Since the law is aimed di
rectly at the Negro.-' So the su
preme court stepped in and saved
both the Negro and the law
makers of the state, because it is
evident that the lawmakers of
Alabama, did not know the con
stitution, for their law was ruled
unconstitutional. I’ll bet their
faces are quite scarlet.
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•TATI HISTORICAL SOC3RTV
A highly controversial figure in
Nebraska territorial politics was
Mark W. Izard, governor of the
territory during the years 1855-57.
Governor Izard was born in
Kentucky and reared in Alabama.
At the age of 23 he married the
daughter of George Shackelford, a
prominent resident of Charles
town, South Carolina, and moved
to Mount Vernon, Arkansas, then
on the edge of the wilderness. He
acquired considerable property,
including a rather large number
of slaves, and rose to prominence
in Arkansas politics, serving both
as speaker of the house and presi
dent of the Senate in the Arkan
sas legislature.
He was appointed United States
marshal for Nebraska territory in
October, 1854, and about two
months later won appointment as
the second governor of Nebraska
from a long list of applicants.
The new governor’s oath was ad
ministered in Washington, and
after a long and arduous trip he
arrived in Nebraska, February 20,
1855, to take over the reins of
territorial government from Sec
retary Thomas B. Cuming, who
had served as acting governor
since the death of Governor Burt.
Governor Izard encountered
serious opposition from the very
beginning. In the first place, he
was looked upon as a “carpet
bagger” by many disappointed ap
plicants for his job—including
Cuming—who had lived in the
second place, he was accused of
forming an alliance with Omaha
interests to the detriment of the
rest of the territory.
This charge was levied against
virtually every territorial execu
tive (Acting Governor Cuming,
you will recall, had been bitterly
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Captain Hurd
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On Wednesday evening at the
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assailed on the same grounds) but
Governor Izard gave substance to
the charge by his failure to travel
about the territory as much as his
constituents thought he should and
by his veto of a bill removing
the capital from Omaha.
Governor Izard’s capacity for
the job of chief executive fre
quently was called into question
by his contemporaries, and the
territorial press often referred to
him contemptuously as “Gov
ernor Lizard.” Weary of this sort
of criticism, he resigned in 1857
and returned to Arkansas, where
he died in August, 1866.
Although never achieving the
brilliance exhibited by men like
Cuming, Richardson and Morton,
j it is evident from the record that
Governor Izard made a conscien
tious effort to effect an efficient
administration of the territory’s
affairs.
His chance for a permanent
place of the map of Nebraska was
removed when the county orig
nally named after him was named
Stanton in honor of Lincoln’s
Secretary of War,
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