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house unless he has been citizen of South Caro- |
ina for three years, Senate for five years, Cover
nor or Lieutenant Governor for ten years See
constitution of 1870.
Nor can aliens at all, nor naturalized until they
have been citizen for two years,) serve as jurors
for Jurors must be voters. See Acts OF Assembly.
Except as to potes and as to being eligible to tho
legislature and erscutipe departments, and as to
serving a. jurors, there is not recalled at present
any discrimination between native born ana natu-
rallied in South Carolina.
Perhaps some capital may be made of this ezra
tum, but this is our law. Our Northern friends
must in future be more cautious.
This last observation Of the Southern Quar-
dian is piece of advice which the conduct
ors of the Pioneer will do well to lay to heart,
'Our Northern friends must in future be more
cautious" in stating what are the laws about
foreigners in Democratic South carolina =
Very true. But how coolly those Democratic
Journals of the South take the existence of
such a law discriminating between citizens.
While every Republican press in the land, in
Massachusetts, and out of it, has denounced
as unjust the recent similar enactment in that
State, the Democratic Journals Of South Car
DINA seem to consider it all right; and the
leading Democratic organ at the Capital OF the
State very coolly observes that EXCEPT as
to yotes @ and as to being eligible to the Leg
islature and Executive Departments, and as to
serving as jurors, there is not recalled, at pre-
sent, any discrimination between native born
and naturalized in So 18th Cardinal Truly,
these exceptions, seem to US to cover the
whole ground.
But word now, with our friends of the
Pioneer. They have for. some time back seen
fit to indulge in great deal Of coarse abuse
of men and presses who made the allegation,
which is now established to be true, rs to the
two years discrimination against foreign born
citizens" existing also in South Carolina, the
strongest Democratic State of the Union
For instance, on the 18th Of July, it abused
Aldermen BRANCH of this city for offering
resolution in the Ramsey County Republican
Convention in which it was truly set forth that
Massachusetts, had only simulated" Demo
cratic South Carolina in the two years amend
ment clause against foreigners; and the organ
therefore denounced that gentleman as guilty
of an inexcusable falsehood "a " falsehood
in letter and spirit" Again, on the 10th, it
| accused the editor of the St. Anthony Neos OF
deliberately classifying the public laws Of
State of the Union to manufacture political
capital for the Republican party" though as
it now turns out, it was the Pioneer that was
guilty of deliberate Justification to make
political capital for the Democracy! In the
same paper the Pioneer editors, after quoting
resolution adopted by the Rice County Re-
publican Convention, which denounced both
South Carolina and Massachusetts, for their
laws discriminating between "citizens," &C.
cused Senator Cook and Editor Brown (who
were on the committee on resolutions,) with
having "uttered wicked falsehood," and
that "the Convention in adopting the resolu-
ton they recommended endorsed the lie and
assumed it's proportion of the guilt"
After all this abuse of presses, conventions,
and individuals, by the Pioneer, the position
in which it is placed by the confessions of the
South Carolina Democratic paper, above quo
ted, that the law of that state is just what the
Republicans have represented it to be, is Ger.
tainly an unenviable one The lie has re-
turned to plague the inventors. Its curses,
like chickens, have come home to roost." Its
own party papers in South Carolina brand
"falsehood" and falsifers" upon their very
foreheads. And this they do, when those pa
pers give us to understand that notwithstand-
ing man born abroad may haze iUed Jfve or
ten or t,oenty gears in the Democratic State
of South Carolina, yet when he takes out his
naturalization papers, and becomes a Citizen,
he must still reside too gears longer before he
can cote, or be eligible to office, or serve on Ju
ries! But an American, from another State,
can come in, and as soon as he has resided
two years in the State can vote, hold office,
and be juror!
We await with anxiety to see whether the
Pioneer will now "make the necessary cor
rection respecting what are really those laws
of South Carolina which unequally dscrimi-
nate between native and foreign born "Citi-
zens as to the period of probation before vo-
ting,
And We shall look eagerly, also, for de-
nunciation Of this action of Democratic South
Carolina, just as the Republican presses eve
rywt'ere have denounced and repudiated the
same action in Anti-Democratic Massachu-
sets Let us have the necessary correc-
tiOn,''
Eligibility Of Foreign Citizens TO ONCE
I'm South Carolina.
The Southern Guardian, the leading Dem