New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-12-18

sources. We cordially recommend the Journal 10
all who desire Information respecting this new mode
OF curing disease. Published by Ceuhell s. Whit
marsh, 63 Barclay street, at 81 per annum.
Education and s,,o Right Of Suffrage.
To TIE Editor Of The Tribune:
Though attached to one Of the two great 20.
litical parties of the day and generally voting fer
it's candidates. am mol 81 far its slave and trust
never may be s, FAR the slave of any party as
not to sec and be ready 10 correct an evil that
threatens common country. I aiiuao to Tie
admission Of ooterS at our important elections
tcho can neither read nor write. In nearly all
the governments of the world political power is
withheld, in whole or in part, f.om the people
In ours they are tho source of all power. In an
absolute Monarchy no intelligence is necessary
on the part of the masses because they have no
voice in legislation. The create, thelrignorance
tho more passive their subsection to dcspoic will.
In limited Monarchy the interests OF thc md
die classes alone require intelligence amoag the
people, and that ony to 4 limited extent, because
universal suffrage is not allowed. But ina pure
" Republican Gopernmeat, like ours, the true
interest of every man is best subservcd by goii
eral intelligence among all classes.
With us the sovereign power rests exclusively
with the people. They make cur laws and they
repeal them. They appoint ous rulers and they
DISMISS them How vastly important then ls-it
that our Constitution should be thoroughly
studied and the principles of our Government
well understood by every man entitled TO vote
aud yet how true 1t is, and pity It's It's true,
that hundreds, ay thousands, are admitted to
tue exercise of that high privilege, VITO can mei-
Their read single sentence nor write single
word in the English language.
1t is Il notifying reflection to every intelligent
rigat minded man that when he casts his vote
at the balut-boX 1t may be neuirazed the next
,iomeni by one who is profoundly Ignorant OF
the nature of this or any other government, ana
who knows nothing of the men he votes Tor OK
cept Is he may have been taught by designing
Gemagoquts to shout the names oil henry Clay
or James h. Folk.
am opposed to a property test IN our election
laws, because if the poor man has less than the
rich at stake in this worlds goods, he has what
is quite as valuable to him, the labor OF his Names
which claims the greater care AID protecion
from government the more he is SECURED 10 de-
pend upon it for his support, AS man strug-
cling honestly in his own humb'a way, ms poilti,
cal rights should DC at least equal with those OF
i, should certainly be In favor ot tue pJor man:
I'm ooposed also 10 the exacton OF length
cncd residence of Foreigners in our country De-
fire bsinr admitted 10 citizenship. II they are
intelligent, it certainly does not require twenty
one vea,s TO learn that their interests are ltenti
fed with our own. and If they are profoundly
IGNORANT then ought not to be dll9os@ 10 po'e
at all. 81 ~.
AWAY then with the extreme notions ci The
Naive American party-awsy with properly
Tsst-but let us have an Education Iest. Let
cverv man be required at least To WRITE HIS
..Mr AND READ THE CONSTITUTION OF TIE oNi-
rrp STATES before being allowed to deposite nus
vol. Let this, or some other similar conolloh
ro, carving essentially from 1t, be once estao,
i;shed vs. the law of tho land, and a new and
powerful impulse will be given TO the cause OF UNI
,rcrs.l education, while the vocation OF the DEM
o,roone will be destroyed and the exercise o. Inc
s,sc5;ve franchise enjoyed BY all good cl'izehs
Nth Greater satisfaction than 1t ever mas oeen OF
ever will be under our present 81 stem.
II may be ursed that the adoption OF I'D ECU
c,,;on Test would disfranchise some worthy
men. who, though unable TO read ano VINE arc
still better Informed ON political suolsSS 'i"t1
many who have acquired that amount "a .uuI a.
ton. To tins would reply ina, tne'e n'ay "
executions to all genera! rules 'ha' III .n1 ~
they would be- found exceedingly rare eh,s ma mo-
the}efors while we adopt as our pohncs! fsi.h IN
the Democratic maxim, 1.-The Creates geoa .,
the creates. number" we ought not to let lnese
,arc executions deter US frem psssug III" 'A''
promises to be of general public advantage Ill,
have thrown out this crude idea oi an r.uu-
cation Test in the hope that The SUBJECT MAJ 81.
res. the attention OF those better qusii'iea Ina.
mfself to Go it justice. Should 1t nave sas
effect my object is accomplished, as l nave he,,
tbcr the iime talents nor inclination 10 carry os
NV views farther through the medium OF pun