The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-08-04


or legally authorized volunteer company in
which he may have served or done duty. that
he has been equipped and done duty according
TO law, or by the certificate OF the commission
ers upon military claims that he has performed
military service, shall have . right TO vote in
the election Of all civil officers and on oil ques.
tons in all legally organized town or ward
meetings, until the end Of the first year after
the adoption of this constitution. or until the
end OF the year eighteen hundred and forty.
three. From and after that time every such
IL. {. native citizen who has had the residence
herein required. and whose name shall be reg.
istered in the town where he resides, ON or be.
fore the last day OF December in the year ne xt
preceding the time of his voting and who shall
show by legal proof that he has for and within
the year next preceding the time he shall offer
TO vote, paid tax or taxes assessed against
him in any town or city In this State, TO the
amount Of one dollar, or that lac has been EN-
rolled in a military company in this state, been
equipped and done duty therein according TO
law, and al least for one day during such year Z,
shall have right to vote in the election Of all
civil officers, aud on all questions in legally
organized town or ward meetings Provided,
that no person shall at any time be allowed 10
vote in the election Of the city council OF the
city OF Providence, or upon any proposition to
impose tax, or for the expenditure OF money
in any town or city, unless he shall. within the
year next preceding, have paid tax assessed
upon his property therein, valued at least al
one hundred and thirty four dollars.
That is the end TO section 2, and in it
the hostility to adopted citizens shows it.
self palpably and prominently. It's a good
provision, however, in one sense-it saves
the naturalzed citizen the trouble Of study
ing to find out whittier he can vote under it
Lao az 81 ni
registered and the expense of one dollar reg.
istry fee :; and for this he can forego the
privilege OF bearing arms, and let the na-
tivcs do oil the military service, of which
they have the monnpoly according to sec.
ton =.
Now submit that such manner OF ex.
pressing right to people-the mass of
any people on earth-is outrageous and in.
sulting, and intended TO deter them from the
exercise of the privilege it actually gives
them. 1t is part OF the arlstocratic ma
chine through which voters must pass in the
Republican State OF Rhode Island ! may
be told that it is written in plain English
and that it is my fault ii do not under
stand il, but that will not answer. IL re-
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this State, who took ride out OF town and
stopped in the evening at country tavern
where boy came out to hold his horse.
To this boy the student thus delivered him.
self, after striking an attitude
Dear adolescence Detach this equine
quadruped from the vehicle with which he
is now OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES bini-do-
nate to him the requisite quautum Of nu,ri-
tious allment wherewith 10 recuperatc his
exhausted energies, aud when the el!ulgent
Aurora shall next have gilded the horizon
with the rays of paradise, will award to
thee a pccunary consideration"
Now this was "plain English" but the
poor boy didn't know what it meant, and
after short vacant stare be ran into the
house and cried, Father, there is Dutch
men out there that wants to see qou,
A celebrated poet says:
The wise men Of Egypt were silent a. DUN
mics,
And even when they condescended to teach
They wrappd up their meaning as they did
their mummies.
In so many covers, twas out oil one sIeach."
am making this letter too long Tor any
further remark except that ! wish all
adopted citizens to take warning and in or
der not to get into the Republican trap to
keep clear OF it altogether. 1t is well
enough to look at it, but not to touch it,
L" Forewarned, iorearmed -
There are four other sections TO this ar
ticle on suffrage. Section 3 provides Il at
the assessors OF each town and city shall an
nually assess tax Of one dollar on every
person whose Hame shall be registered as
voter and section tells who shall not vote
in the State Of Rhode Island, but no colorcd
persons are mentioned as disqualified except
members Of the Narragansett tribe Of lndi-
ans, Of whom it says they b" shall not be
permitted TO he registered or to vote So
it seems there are some native" whom
l34 dollars will not ennoble, according to
the Republican standard This qual6ca-
ton of Sl3i is remnant Of the charter Of
King Charles H. and means thirty pounds
sterling at 81 4G2, TO the pound.
Your fellow -ci'Izen,
4 HorIASDvs.