Negro Has No Right to Govern According to the Law of God

Negro lacks that combination of character and intelligence necessary for civilization but have been given by God as slaves forever to Shem and Japeth. 
    ...any man having one drop of the seed of Cain... in him cannot hold the Priesthood and if no other Prophet ever spake it before I will say it now in the name of Jesus Christ I know it is true and others know it. (Brigham Young, quoted in "Race Problems--As They Affect the Church," by Mark E. Petersen, p. 7)
If perchance under discussion on some Negro problem, the question arose as to how a Negro would vote if only one drop of Negro blood run in his veins which way would that drop of blood vote on a question, white or black?
        Without hesitation he [Dr. Booker T. Washington] said, "If there was one drop of blood in a person and such a question arose, it would always vote with the Negro." I was struck with his ready answer, showing he had thought out almost every conceivable connection white and black. (Daily Journal of John M. Whitaker, March 27, 1913, U of U Library)

    It is for this reason that men who are of partially mixed blood with the Canaanite will not vote or sustain the laws or principles that pertain to the covenants and Priesthood of the House of Israel. Therefore, men must be particularly certain as to where, how and by whom the Priesthood is handled. President Young held to the doctrine that no man tainted with Negro blood was eligible to have the priesthood; that President Taylor held to the same doctrine, claiming to have been taught it by the Prophet Joseph Smith. (Council Minutes, Aug. 22, 1900, Bennion Papers)  These factors governing the Priesthood are so critical that men, in any position, can lose their own Priesthood and calling by disobedience to them.