The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-03-06

own people desire il, and Great Britain can maintain
her sway am willing Cuba shall remain subject TO
spain SO long the people of Cuba desire IL and the
OF Spain can maintain her authority over them l am
willing that Mexico that Central America that every other
portion OF the continent shall subject to the gov
ernments which they allegiance go long as
those gov may be able TO maintain their rights
there not ia favor OF aggressive policy, OF
hotbed policy of manufacturing States but sir
close my eyes the fact that this people grow
ing people Our numbers daily increase and will increase
by natural causes in spite Of bachelor friend from Ken
lucky Laughter lie stop that law Of progress
God forbid that he should be able to stop or restrict H.
must have Territories from time TO time or the dement,
of our own children and willing that those children
should follow the example of the bee, and swarm from
10 time hives in order 10 leave room Tor
the old people live and die in happiness while they
here
am willing TO carry cut also the other great provis-
IONS of the constitution which made America he only
public earth at that time fit to be called epublc) the
asylum OF the oppressed Of nations earth The fra
OF the constitution provided for encouraging imm
grafton End for na,1niising immigrants when they came
here, and admitting them to social rights with IL was
of the of complaint forth by revolution
airy fathers In the Declaration of Independence against the
British Crown that the government OF Great Britain re-
fused pass laws encouraging Immigration these colo
ecs. Sir, am not willing now to laydown line of
policy in regard to immigration which odious in
the days Of the revolution to force fathers to rebel
lion against their mother country. content with our
naturalization laws they would not put In further
provision against them but when these people here
would let them choose the State Territory they will
make their home When they get there they must be
obedent the local laws which they find existing in the
place OF their residence They may go Kentucky to
Illinois; they may go TO old State to State !;
they may go to Territory State and they must be
obeden to the laws OF the land wherever they locate and
dwell
Tuis principle has been recognised hds far and
tended TO Minnesota in the provisions of her organic act
When organized the Minnesota Territory provided
that all the male white inhabitants should the first
election and that at subs quent elections the legislature
should prescribe the qualifications Of voters for themselves
provided no should vote who @ns not twenty-one
years of age who not white and who not citi-
Of the United States who had hot taken oath to
support the constitution and the preliminary oath for
coning citizen Congress authorized the people Of Min
ncsota by their organic act to prescribe hef own qua
cations Of voters subject to these limitations You organ
zed that Territory with view to enable her to prepare her
seif for admission into the Union Why did you give her
people the right then to make their qualifications of
voters subject to the restrictions imposed unless be-
eved them capable of prescribing those qualifications
properly? Under that authority given them by Congress
they have passed election law FROM which will read
Section show what the qualifications of
in the Territory of Minnesota what they would be
under the bill passed by the House of Representatives and
approved by the Committee Territories of the Senate
1t had not been amended the other day the motion of
the senator from North Carolina The law Of Minnesota is
sSEo All white male inhabitants over the age Of
years. who shall have resided within this Ter
to vote the election for delegate Congress- and for
ritors cosaty and precinct officers PSoodsd That they
shall be citizens Of the United States shall have resided
witha the United States period Of years pre-
cedng election, declared before court Of
record having seal and clerk time Of vacation before
the clerk thereof h intention become SUCH shall
taken oath support the constitution Of the United States
and the provisions the act of Congress entitled
establish the territorial Minnesota approved
March ls4s Provided, That nothing this chapter shall
be construed all of mixed white and
Indian blood who have adopted the customs and habits
civilization, from voting"
AS my friend from Missouri Mr. GREEN suggests, they
swear TO support lawust what is done in Kansasthe
organic law The reason why Minnesota requires them
swear 70 support the organic law is first that the organic
law their constitution and second that the organic law
itself provided that should vote unless he had Ia
ken cath to support it That is just what is done in
Kansas and 1t right in Kansas to require
support the organic law and il right in Minnesota
require them to support the organic law.
But Mr. President the point which was directing
the attention of the Senate ihs eight years Com
gcss adopted organic law for the government of the
Nrrory OF Minnesota by which they authorized TO
prescribe the qualifications of elections that
Territory, with aprovso that they should allow any
persons but citizens such had declared oath their
intention TO become citizens and had certain other qna
cations to vote Under that authority they have passed
organic law, which restricts the right Of suffrage
czns Of the United States who have resided there for six
months, persons who being citizens have resided
years in the United States and months the Ter
ritory and have also taken oath support the const
tuition of the United States and declared their intention
become citizens of the United States and taken oath
to support the organic act Are those not safeguards
enough 10 prevent any person from voting who may not
be well permitted to come within the class of persons
properly authorized to vote 81
The from Kentucky afraid that under this prn
ciple quantity OF emgrants will come in from abroad,
land shores and 60 directly Minnesota vote
They cannot in that Territory until they have been
here two years. until they have travelled thousand five
hundred miles into tho western wilderness and have resi-
ded there six months Sir tell you that whenever for
egner landing shores has shown the energy and the
perseverance 10 leave the eastern cities aud their haunt
aud into the wilderness thousand five hundred miles
from the ocean, plant himself upon land build house and
become resident capable OF voting and ought be
permitted enjoy the elective franchise The reg
uatons that might be well adapted to your Atlantic cities
might be very i'll adapted to interior Territories and
States 1t may be that you require greater restrictions
and cautions against abuses where immigrants land by
the thousands and hundreds of Thousands in your cities
than in the interior thousand thousand FIVE hun
dd miles distant where the panper and beggar never
errves and where only the who is willing to work,
and is DESTROYS OF making home and honest living by
his labor, goes.
Why should we not allow the present legal voters of
Minnesota to vote Permit me to say injustice
il not breach of faith in inviting these people eight years
ago 90 there and SETTLE with the guarantee extended 10
them of this privilege of sefgovernment and to VIC
late the law and your PROMISE when the time arrives for
them to come into the Union State IL is odio us.
What be given for this odous discrimination
against the people Of that Territory Can you complain
that the people of that Territory have been rebeous
against your laws? Have they caused you any disturb
ance Have they been loyal to the constitution loyal
to the Union loyal the laws of the land While you
lion and military force other Territories hui
being has heard complaint that the people OF Min
loyal peaceabe industrious, honest rival
ing any community earth in their regard for good order
These the fruits of your organic law which allowed
these people establish their institutions prescribe
their qualifications Of voters, and regulate their own
affairs 1.-THE law has yielded such fruits why should You