Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-06-11

site qualifications Under this opinion as q
guide, no question being then made before the
higher and binding authority of the Circuit
Court, all oitissns ever twenty.one years Of
age preceding Slst of December, naturalised
at any time previous to Offering their votes,
were permitted to exercise their rights with.
ont question, if they had the other requisite
qualification Of . twelvemonth residence in
Washington. Neither the Corporation eoun.
sol nor Commissioners dreamed of questioning
that right up to 20 recently. The .sopinion''
We publish below proves that, to question it,
was an afterthought Only, arising out of no
change in the law, but from the growth of 60.
cret associations In our midst, sworn to make
war on the constitutional guarantee Of 70.
ligious and civil equality among all citisens
Of the United States.
1t will also be perceived that this opinion
afirms that citizen does not lose his right to
vote because the assessor fails to return him
as subject to the school tax, which annuncia-
ton Of the law was 80 shamelessly and ia.
gravity set at defiance in the late Washington
election in tho First Ward.
1t will further be perceived, that in tho two
particulars above referred to, this " opinion
is in exact coincidence with the subseq uent
ruling Of the Circuit Court in the c. S. Wal.
lach and Grouen cases.
1t will still further be perceived from those
facts, that any opinions which may conflict
with these settled rulings of the law, amount
simply to straining Of wits to shield, aid, and
abet the agents of the oath bound, secret, pro.
scriptive, political society, in carrying out its
orders to give Ger ifioates of election to its
nominees, by defrauding their fellow citizens
of their rights, as the judges of the Circuit
Court declare them to DO.
GENTLEMEN: Before the charter Of l84s
every citizen of Washington (who had he
other quallhcations) and who was assessed
ton, on the 3lst day Of Dscem Der preceding
day of election was entitled to vote.
Also every such citizen as had personal
property assessed as aforesaid and had paid
tho tax
The charter Of 1s4S extends the oualifca
ton to all such ss shall have been returned
on the books of the corporation, during tho
year ending the 3lst of December, preceding
he day of election, as subject to q school tax
for that year, and who shall have paid the
school taxes, and all taxes on personal prop.
srty-" So that there may DO three quali6ca.
tiOns-
Let Real property assessed 31st December
last.
I'd. Personal property assessed do and tax
PAID lsthough not returned as subject to Q
school tax, in either Of these cases)
81. School tax for those WIN were &c re-.
turned" during" the last gear, and have
paia the scnool tax and personal tax, if any.
Those and none others can vote
Jos II BRADLEY,
Attorney for Corporation.
Messrs. D. Saunders and others, Judges DC.
The Effort to Indict Messrs Blair and
Whitmau.-It will be recollected that in the
course of the trial for commitment Of OK. Post.
master Kendall at New Orleans it came out
In sviienco that Messrs Blair and Whitman.
the detective agents of the Post Office Depart.
ment, had opened and examined letters ad.
dressed to Marshall Hanson" the fictitious
named person who committed the robberie,
and Wao is charged to DO ex Postmaster K
whe;supon an effort was made to get the
grand jury to indict them for taking that
means OF ferreting ont tho robbcr. We have
a letter from New Orleans, bearing date 4tb
inst, announcing that the grand jury ignored
the charges, refusing to bring in bills of indict-
ment against them. A few moments after the
receipt Of this letter by mail, telegraphic dis
patch arrived from New Orleans giving similar
Information sent from thence on the same dav
the letter left in the mail. There is something
wrong in that teegr aph line south Of this CITY,
or messages would not be actually longer in
coming over ii than by mail Really, this ia
too bad to be borne
Shaking in thsir Shoes talented,
amiable, courteous, entertaining, ingenious,
modest, truthful, and knowing neighbor is in
a terrible way about the suits of the voters
who were deffauded on Monday last by tho
Know Nothing Commissioners of tho election,
10y pre-arrangementi in the lodges) against the
agen.s of the lodges to commit the frauds.
Our bashful neighbor has examined tho
records, and has found NO evidence there
bearing out our statement of the fact of the
commencement Of the suits in question Our
30 universally beloved and respected neighbor
thsreupon gees into ecstscies, and tells those
whom it has in part induced to do as they had
sworn not to do, under the law, but to do, in
tho lodgss-thas they may DO of good heart as
those defrauded by them will probably quiet
ly put up with the wrongs done them under
our neighbours silly cry Of "barratry. barra.
try!! barratry!!" Our neighbor always|
tells the truth about things in the future, as is
amply proved in the exactitude of its anti |
Virginia election representation, and in this
'ase it knows, past peradventure, that no pro. |
seedlings at Law are commenced-are being
they have not yet reached |
the Court Our neighbor always tells the |
ruth, but it strikes US it would be somewhat |
wiser on this subject, if it had psep into the |
,faces Of quito dozen attorneys at law prac
Using before the Washington bar