New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-04-01
Suffrage and Citizenship.

Il Our nresept Constitution provides that "every male
"CTTIZEN, Of the age OF tweuty-one years, who email
have been an nhabant the State one year next pre-
cedinp any election and for the last six months resi-
dent of the county where be may offer his vote Is en-
titled to VOTE &C." Thus 1t will be perceived that the
primary qualification in all cases Is citizenship ana In
our opinion very properly So But the demagogues
who succeeded In procuring the passage OF a law LOT
calling Convention to revise the present Constitution
are determined, II possible that every ForesTa
without regard color language, shall be entitled 10
vote In this State after residence OF year. and with
out becoming citizen of the United States We hap
pen 10 know that this purpose has not Its origin IN any
conviction Of the justice proprety OF such course
that 1, Is not boon be granted to those from whom
Justice has been whhed-but that the sole and emily OBJ
ect Of those who advocate so unwise and anti repub!
can measure 10 the hope Of thereby appearing to be
greater lovers OF the people-more Democratic--than
their political opponents Such unQuestoDab!y are the
motives and objects of those who attempting to force
this ultra rsdicalsn upon the Wing party and the time
has arrived when every Wing in the city and State must
put himself the question. whether he is prepared to
abandon his principles ct the pse dirt of the Albany
Evening Journal aud the Tribune. or whether they will
adhere their principles regardless alike OF tue dcta
ton of Denagoeues the action OF their Committees
who mar have been seduced from their allegiance to
Whig Principles by views of abolition Whis ezp.diene
EYs The above paragraph is the more material
portion OF the leading column in yesterdays Cour
ier and is based on quotation of the first two ar
cles in our Reforms to be Struggled for Our
readers know already that by citizens we do not
mean aliens and that we have said nothing
whatever in favor of the policy of admitting the lat
ter to vote prior to their regular Naturalization 1t
is not true that the advocates Of more cordial
reception to and confidence in Immigrants are
governed by any such motives as the Courier
happens to know they are, but that is their own
r.. MT, u r,:
anaH' AUG 1ui'oA Va '"o No1'iS.' IL VIC "'o'S "a
tract is simply logging one OF his own most eulo-
,;xed frienda oyer our hack ss be has often dome
Set,ro We ,ri.b he cou,d have the manness IN
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General Committeo to this subject majority of that
body are devoted to Whis principles they are necessa
ty ct onea to denounce IT, If on the contrary nsority
ofsse from motives , OF dishonest
them II |. The duty ofthe miaory 10 Withdraw from the
committee, and re-organize upon purely Wing prin-
cip.es;
abominabls doctrine of AntiRent-a doctrine which
amounts to Reputation in It's broadess sense and which
70 The msnera of Van Rsnssesar ard o,hsr. tb;s
otoeo- A.o AAS'sS VI lus uocUlne, euouu uihhc
wSs, public or private win NO, the
doctrine political erpedescy compel Its advocates
hs os,sns 80 Ths on + question unoo
our Whls General Committee and the Wings ma,ss
sheuid speak GU, msnfaiy E1r ourselves, we WISE y
ons,s Anti Renters and the advocates of such univer
sal Suffrage have referred to, we are no longer
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Whether there is any necessity for or proprety in
an in.erposition of our Whig General Committee to
denounce the views of two or three Wing Jour.
nals-not one of them published in in this city
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ton Of our day are so grave in their nature and 80
utterly foreign TO our usual Party divisions that We
would have them approached and considered with
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