restored and delivered to the proper authorities and persons to
whom they respectively belong. Such of the islands on the Bay of
Passama-Quoddy as are claimed by both parties shall remain in the
possession of the party in whose occupation they may be at the
time of the exchange of the ratifications of this treaty, until
the decision respecting the title to the said islands shall have
been made in conformity with the fourth article of this treaty. No
disposition made by this treaty as to such possession of the
islands and territories claimed by both parties, shall in any
manner whatever be construed to effect the right of either...."

[63] _American State Papers, Foreign Relations_, Vol. III, p. 750.

[64] _Ibid._, Vol. III, page 751.

[65] Moore's _International Arbitration_, page 350.

[66] _Naval Chronicle_, Vol. XXIV, page 213.

[67] Moore's _International Arbitration_, p. 352.

[68] _American State Papers_, Vol. IV, p. 105.

[69] _Ibid._, p. 108.

[70] _American State Papers_, Vol. IV, p. 126.

[71] Moore's _International Arbitration_, p. 363.

[72] _American State Papers, Foreign Relations_, Vol. V, p. 214.

[73] Maryland, 714; Va., 1721; S.C., 10; Ga., 833; La., 259; Miss.,
22; Del., 2; Ala., 18; D. C., 3--page 801, Vol. V, _American State
Papers_.

[74] Moore, _International Arbitration_, p. 377.

[75] _Ibid._, p. 377.

[76] _American State Papers, Foreign Relations_, Volume VI, page 344;
746.

[77] _Ibid._, Vol. VI, p. 746.

[78] _American State Papers, Foreign Relations_, Vol. VI, p. 348.

[79] _Ibid._, Vol. VI, p. 352.

[80] _Ibid._, Vol. VI, p. 372.

[81] _Ibid._, Vol. VI, p. 339

[82] _American State Papers, Foreign Relations_, Vol. VI, page 855.

[83] _Four Statutes at Large_, page 269.

THE NEGRO IN POLITICS[1]

A treatise on the Negro in politics since the emancipation of the race
may be divided into three periods; that of the Reconstruction, when
the Negroes in connection with the interlopers and sympathetic whites
controlled the Southern States, the one of repression following the
restoration of the radical whites to power, and the new day when the
Negro counts as a figure in politics as a result of his worth in the
community and his ability to render the parties and the government
valuable service.

While the echoes of the Civil War were dying away, the South attempted
to reduce the Negro to a position of peonage by the passage