Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1865-09-13


,ge Who shall have resided six mcnth- ia
the STATE, qualified voter in The districi
where lie resides, except that no soldier
seap-n or marine in the United State,
service ran vote in the State
TEXAS
gives the vote 10 "every free male person
who shall have attained the age of TWEEN.
ty-one years, a citizen of thr United
States or of the Republic of Texas, one
year "a resident of the State Hnd six
months of the county, Indiana not taxed,
Africans. and the descendants of Africans
excepted
SUFFRAGE LAWS AT THE NORTH.
MAINE,
by her Constitution adopted October 29th,
1919. gives the ballot to every male citi-
zen of the United State Of the age OF
twentv-one wears and upwards Indians
not taxed. having resided in the State
three months. But persons IN the mill
tary, naval. OF marine service, quariered
iE the State, and students attending a
seminary Of learning, do not acquire a
residence thereby. tIncluding negroes.
NEW HANPsnER, -
10y her Constitution, adopted in 1892.
gives the ballot To every male Inhablt-
ant" cf twenIy-one years, except paupers
and persons excused from paying taxes
AT their own request Freehold property
qualifications were formerly required for
office holders. but these are abOlishPd.-
New Hampsbier never excluded colored
men from voting or holding office.
VERMONT,
which abolished slavery by her Constitu-
tion, adopted July 4th. 1913, declared in
her Bill of Rights that ''all freemen, hav-
ing sufficient evidence of common inter
est with an attachment TO the communi
ty, having right to elect officers and be
elected into office" BY article 81, every
man tSenty-one years of age, who has
resided in the State. who behaved himself
quietly and peaceably, and who will still
take an oath TO vote $50 rs in yOur con
science you shall judge will most con-
duce to the best good" of the State, may
vote. In Vermont, therefore, "a white
man is as good as a negro, if he behaves
himself as welP'-nOt otherwise.
MASSACHUSETTS,
by her original Constitution, adopted in
1880, gave the ballot to every male per-
son twenty one years of age, resident in
the Commonwealth, having an annual
income of three pounds from freehold,
or any estate worth eco.
BY the amendment now in force, the
ballot belongs to every male citizen
twenty-One years of age, lexcept paupers
and persons under guardianship who
shall have paid any tax assessed within
two years, or who shall be exempted from
taxation But by Art 90 of the Amend
ments, mo person shall have right tC
vote, or be eligible to office under the
of this Commonwealth who
shall not be able to read the Constitution
in the English language, and write his
name: Provided, however. that the pro
visions of this amendment shall not APP
ply 10 any person prevented by physical
disability from complying with its requi
'itions, nor to any person who now has
The right TO vote, nor to any persons who
shall be sixty years OF age and upwards
It the time this amendment shall take
sffect" Massachusetts,, therefore, never
excluded any man from voting on account
If color.
RHODE ISLAND,
,y her Constitution of 1912, gives the
light of suffrage:
/. To every male citizen, of full age.
me year in the State, six months in the
own, owning real estate worth Sl34, or
'enting for 81 per annum.
.. To every natice male citizen of full
.ge, two years in the State, six months in
he town, who is duly registered, who
las paid 81 tax, or done militia service
within the year. Hence in Rhode Island
native negro votes without a property
qualification, while foreign-bOrn white
itizen cannot.
CONNECTICUT
ives the ballot TO all persons, white or
lack, who were freemen at the adoption |
# her Constitution, llSlS.) and suhse-
Iuently to "every white male citizen OF
he United States" of full age, resident |
TX months IN the town, and owning 3 |
reehold of the yearly value of 81, or
Who shall have performed militia duty, |
,aid a State tax, and sustained a good |
moral character within the year. This |
7as amended in lS45 by striking out the
property and tax-paying qualifications,
nd fixing the residence at one year IN |
he State and six months in the town.
Dnly those negroes have voted IN Con
lecticut who were admitted freemen /
'rior to 1878.
NEW YORK
dmits 10 the suffrage every male citi |
en-, of full age, who shall have been ten
ays a citizen, one year in the State, four
months in the county, and thirty days
n the district. But no man of color
hall vote unless he has been three years
citizen of the State, and for one wear
he owner of freehold worth $3.50 over
on which he shan have
aid a tax, and he is to be subject TO no
irect tax unless he owns such freehold.
Avs are authorized and have been pas
ed, excluding from the suffrage persons
onvicted of bribery, larceny, or any in
lmous crime, also persons betting on the
lection. No person gains az loses res
ience by reason of presence or absence
n the service of the United States-nor
n navigation-nor as student in sem
lary-nor in any asylum or prison. A
egistery law also exists.
NEW JERSEY,
he first of those enumerated which ab-
olutely make color the test of voting,
nd in which slavery existed up to a very
ecent period, gives the ballot, 10y It's con
titution of 1874, to 'every white male
itizen" of the United States of full age.
esiding one year in the State and five
months in the country, except that no
older or marine quartered therein shall
cquire the right, and no pauper, idiot.
nsane person, or person convicted of Il
rime which excludes him from being
fitness, shall vote.
PENNSYLVANIA
ives a vote to every white freeman"
f full age, who has resided one year in
ne State and ten days in the election
istrict, and has within two years paid a
Ak; except that a once qualified voter
4turning into the State after an absence
-hich disqualifies him from voting re-
aims his vote by six months residence,
nd except that white free citizens under
yenty-one vote without paying taxes.
OHIO,
Y her Constitution of 1851, limits the
lectiVe franchise TO every white male
itizen" of the United States, of full age,
esident one year in the State, excluding
ersons in the military and naval service,
nd idiots and insane persons. But the
ourts of Ohio having held, that every
erson of one-half white blood is white