Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1857-03-26
,peech, rose to express his regret

felt so great an anxiety 10 participate as lne !
one now on the tapis. know am unable
to proceed; but protest against the passage !
of this bill without the amendments pro-
posed 1t is all can do" .
Mr.. Crittenden said The
Constitution which established this Govern
ment made all the provisions necessary, and
il made them for the people of the United
States, and nobody else. Nobody had a
right to interfere in this Government, by
suffrage or otherwise, except the people of
the United States, in the manner provided
by the Constitution. There is no mode pro-
vided by the Constitution whereby any 9TH
er than the original parties-the people OF
the United States--shal vote, except
through the medium of the naturalization
laws. When you attempt to confer it, then,
on others, ask you for your power TO do
so. The Constitution says nothing about
comforting the right of suffrage; but it speaks
of citizenship. That is the character to
which the right of suffrage belongs: it is
part and parcel Of it. That is the instru-
ment by which the sovereign people exer-
else their sovereignty. 1t is their crown,
their sceptre; and none shall take it from
them, SO far as / am concerned and my vote
is concerned. Do you think the people Of
the United States, if they could hear and
and witness this question being put, and
know that the Senate of the United States,
on clear case, whether aliens should vote
in the formation Of constitution OF one Of
the future States of this Republic, had deci
ded that aliens should vote as well as A
merican citizens, would view with calmness
or Indifference that question? No, sir
Every American heart, it seems TO me, would
feel natural repugnance to it. II is no
small question in the popular estimation.
1t may be overruled, it may be forgotten in
the wild hurrah of Presidential election;
but let it stand naked by itself, and the sim
pie question be put, Shall we American
citizens be, IN effect, deprived, to some ex-
tent, of our right of suffrage by neutralizing
it with the vote of aiens!" think it is in
consistent with the just pride Of an Amer
l can citizen, TO suppose that he would not
consider it as matter of grave consequence
, to him; and so it is 10 the country.
e The foundations of an American
Republic member of this Union, are to be
r laid; and whose hands are fit TO lay them?
. To whose hands does the Constitution give
= this great work? To American citizens
n bN uii 1Ou piOposO " SiNS ~ " u'iShS'
e Is the Senate prepared for this? Is it a
I question Of expediency when presented in
S this point of view. and with reference to
o such a subject? 1t is TO establish constitu-
ton; TO make Republic. Is that small
= matter, in regard to which we may be gov
n erned by mere temporary eXpediency, and
. the little circumstances of the day, which
:. TO this party or that party, may seem to re-
: quire that they should urge on TO precipi.
i tate conclusion measure of this sort? l.
9 that little matter TO be governed by con.
:. siderations SO small? No, sir; it is prin-
ciple.
i Bu: in spite Of all these eloquent remon'
c strances, the Stewards, the Wades, the
F. Doug glasses, the Hales, the Touceys, &C., o
: the North-with the Toombses of the South
n doomed the bill 10 pass and unnaturalzec
d aliens in Minnesota are on par with the
American born and adopted citizens in ere
y ating State of the Union!
This achievement Of Foreign influence, tc
d allow every person, whether an American
1t or na,uralized citizen, or not, TO vote il
Minnesota, was accompishedcd by cor
$ dial cooperation of the Democrat Senators
x from the Free States, and those calling
. themselves Republicans. Though differing
y. widely from each other on other questions
Is Cass and Seward, Douglas and Wilson, Big
l. Ter and Hale, can, and do harmoniously re
! cord their votes together against American
X ism, each apparently striving TO outdo th'
Y other in toadying to Foreign influence
e The vote by which the alien prohibition wa'
m struck out Of the bill was as follows:
= YEAs--Messrs. Allen, Bell, of New
y Hampshire; Bigler, Bright, Cass, Collamer
y Dodge, Douglas, Durkee, Fessenden, Fitch
= Foot, Foster, Green Hale, Harlan, James
i Johnson, Jones, of Iowa; Nourse, Pugh, Sc
~ bastian, Seward, Stuart, Toombs, Toucey
v, " Trumbull, Wade, Weller, Wilson, and Yu
" lee-3l.
IL NAYs--Messrs. Adams, Bayard, Bell, o
Tennessee; Benjamin, Biggs, Brodhead
&c &c Bro xn, Clay, Criltenden, Evans, Fish, Fitz
&c &c patrick, Geyer, Gwin, Houston, Hunter
o. iverson, Jones, of Tennessee; Mason, Pratt
u u Reid, Rusk, Slidell and Thompson, of Ken
20 20 tucky--24;