Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1858-04-16
DAILY APPEAL.
FRIpAY MoRNING, =. APRIL ID, IS.
FRoH WASHINGTON CITY.
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WAsHIS0roE, Aprn 3. 1858.
In the last campaign 10 Tennessee, the Know
Nothing party was olamorOus against the
practice Of permitting aliens to vote, as is the
case in some Of the States and Territories.
Mr.. Hstton, your Know-Notbing candidate for
Governor, if I mistake not, dramatically sx-
claimed in each particular speech that be
N ade, that the doctrine Of Alien Suffrage 81 was
OdiOus and smet to heaven" or words to that
effect. What viii be and his party, Of which
be was The standard bearer, say When they
find that the union between the Black Rspubli-
cans, Six SOUTH AMERICANS and anti-Le-
compton Democrats to defeat the Senate Kan
sas bill and adopt the Crittsndeu- Montgomery
amendment, was The result OF concession Of
The doctrine Of Alien Suffrage in the Terrific
ries BY taese six South Americans And re-
collect that this, too, was IN Territory where
Congress had ample power to prescribe alien
inhabitants from voting. The Crittenden
amendment, as proposed in the Senate, restrict
ed The exercise Of suffrage on the question to
citizens Of tAs United States.
When the Senate bill reached the House its
enemies held conference and agreed upon a
modification of he Crittenden amendmsnt, as
the bill upon which they would stand in the
House. A part Of that modification was to
strike out so much Of the amendment Of Mr.
CTittenden as limited the exercise Of suffrage
to citizens Of the United States, and insert the
following;
& That IN the election hereby asihorized, al
tUiite NAL iahsbfants Of said Territory, Orer
ths age Of tl0eHtg one years. loh0 are legal U0iers
uRder fhs latrs Of the Territory Of KaHsas, and
noHs other shall B. aH0soed to r0is, and this shall
Be the Oaig qualii -afiOA required 70 entitls fhe
rOieT to The right of safrdgs"
This clause, it will be seen, permits alien III
habitants, who are voters under the law Of the
Territory, to vots on the question Of the adOP-
ton or rejection Of The LscomPton Constitu-
.iOn, and in the event Of its rejection, to vo.e
Tor delegates a new convention, and upon the
Of t-t work of the new Constitution
when completed.
When the CTittenden-Mon.gomery amend
nent was agreed upon by its supporters, it was
printed In pamph ct fOrR and circulated around
he House BY Mr Montgomery, with caption
stating it to be an amendment agreed upon by
he opponents Of the Senate bill in conference.
The inference is that they all met together, and
be amendment shows that the following con-
SESSIONS must have been made by each of the
'srties to the conference
The six South Americans agreed to surren-
er all opposition 20 Alien Suffsags," and TOts
or the same, in consideration Of the Repdbli-
ans and Douglas men uniting with them to
efest the leading measure Of the Democratic
The Black Republicans sur
endsred in this instance opposition 10 the sd-
mission Of any mere slave States, in consider
tion Of the Know -Nothings uniting with Them
o keep the Kansas agitation alive. {
The Douglas msn agreed to stand the Odium
{ a coalition with the Black Republicans and