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Negro Suffrage

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Parent Issue
Day
21
Month
July
Year
1865
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Citase, Wilsfn and Company school of politieiana have at once suddenly discoverse! Ibat it necessary, in order to havo "arepublioan iorm of gov ernment" in the Southern State, that the froed negro should have a right to vote. By their new dcfinition of a ropublio, Ohio, Maesnchusetts, and many of the Northern Stntcs, cannot be oallod of republican form. In Masaachusetts, Ehode Island, Connectiout, Pennsylvan'm, North Carolina, and öeorgifi, all voters mu.t havo a property qualification, and in Maiuo aud New llampshire, paupers are excluded. The negro is not alíoived to roto under nny eircumstances ín any of tlio Stutcs which oomposod the Union, in 1860, exeepting fice, and in only two States (Vermout and New Hampshire) is a colored perso-n allowed to voio without a proporty qualification. In New Ilampshiro there waro in 1860, one hundred and ninety coloTed votersv and in Vennoot only eightj. In Masaachusetls, every voter must, wilhin two yenrs, have paid a State or County tax, unless esoused trom taxatioo. In Rhodo Island a voter must own renl estáte of om hundred and thirtyfour dollars value, or of the clear yearly value of sevon dollars over nny ground rent. A colored person is not allo-wed to vote iu New York unltss lio has raBidod in tho State three yeurs, and is a freeholder in value of two liundred ar.d fifty dollars, aud paid tases theroon. Even in tho State of Ohio which once honored Mr. Chase by making hiin hor f-tovernor, a negro is not allowed tho right of Ruffrfige. And in the homo of Prof. Parsons and Wondell Phillips, where oratory, statesmanship, philosopby, religión nnd liberty exist in perfectioh, no ono can vote unless he paya a slate or county tax. It is not uven proposed by the radicáis lo require the frecd aogroes to bo citizons of the fjnited States for five yeará bofore they can be deenied capab e of exörcisÏDg the privilege of raaking lavvs for us to live linde,

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Michigan Argus