The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-07-14

In the Jurisdiction Of the United states, FOR
TWO YEARS SUBSEQUENT TO HIS NATU-
RALIZATION, and shall be Otherwise qualified,
according TO the constitution and laws Of this
Commonwealth; Py0pidsd, That this amend.
ment shall not affect the rights which any per-
son Of foreign birth possessed st the time Of the
adoption thereof and, Prortdfd (Srfhty, that
II shall not Affect the rights Of any child OF .
citizen OF the United States, born during the
temporary absence Of the psren, therefrom.
This constitutional provision Of Massa.
chusetts, We need not aver, 10 aimed direct.
ly against single class Of the people oil
Masachusctts--those whose misfortune it
was 10 have been born outside the jarisdc-
ton Of the United States. That was the
whole end and aim Of the provision--to dc.
grade the foreign-born citizen-to place
disabilities upon him such a. are imposed
upon no other class-to debase him by
mark Of inferiority, and to make him
wear the mark on his forehead and feel
its debasement In his soul. The degra.
dalton thus cast upon the naturalized cit
ien was rendered all the more CALLING
by the fact that 10 the same State the
American. born niger Is elevated to full
equality with the Amer ican.born white
man. 10 Massachusetts, the niger votes !;
niger piccaninnies and white children as.
sociate together indiscriminately-attending
the same public schools niggers and whites
intermarry; niggers can sit on juries /; and
10 oil respects the niger stands on per.
feet equality with the white man, except
that he is disabled from service in the
militia, and for this disability, as the Dos
ton Courier observes, the United States are
responsible, and not Black Republican
Massachusetts,
SO II will be seen that when Q Black
Republican convention 10 this State, resolves
that the recent proscriptive action OF their
Black Republican associates In Massa.
chusetts, against uaturalized citizens, was
" initiative Of the increased probation
imposed by the laws Of South Carolina, !"
such convention resolves lie, both direct
and iniercntial. The convention resolves
lie direct when it says that the action Of
Massachusetts 10 initiative Of any action
Of South Carolina for imitation involves
similarity, and there is nothing in common
in the letter or spirit Of the suffrage acts or
laws Of the two States. And the conven-
ton resolves lie inferential when II talks
about the increased probation imposed by
the laws OF South Carolina upon natural.
lied citizens No Increased probation, y
nor any special probation" whatever, has
been imposed BY the laws Of South Caro-.
lima upon uaturalized citizens" Instead OF
this, the laws Of south Carolina on the sub.
jcct Of suffrage have been literally progress.
sive from the period Of the adoption OF the
State Constitution, in or about 1890. The
amendment Of 1910 greatly extended the
privileges heretofore existing, and the
amendment Of 1856 extended those then ex-
listing to still greater degree. Sou,h
Carolina, iire-eatipg. pro-sIavery, as she is,
has steadily advanced from the first in
grants Of increased suffrage rights to her
citizens.
Black Republican conventions or papers
will make but little by their attempts to
set oil South Carolina Us foil for the lcgis.
latvc sins Of Massachusetts, For, whatever
wrongs may have been perpetrated in South
Carolina by degrading the Black man be.
low the White. her people have never been
guilty Of the reverse monstrosity. perpe,ra,cd
IN Massachusetts,, of debasing the White
man below tho Rlack