The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-11-20
THE LAW or SUFFRAGE.

Constitution of tho United States reads
as follows:
The Congress, whenever two-thirds of both
Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose
amendments to this Constitution. or, on applica-
ton of twothirds of the several States, shall call
n convention for proposing amendments, which
in either case, shall be valid to all intents and
purposes part of this Constitution, when rati-
fed by the Legislatures of three -fourths of the
several States by conventions in three-fourths
thereof as the other mode of ratification
may be proposed by Congress.
Amendments incorporated into the
| Constitution in strict accordance with the
provisions of the said first clause of arti-
Gle 5, are binding upon all the States,
the State Constitutions to the contrary
Notwithstanding.
In strict pursuance with said 5th arti-
/ Gle, the so-called 14th amendment be-
came part of the Constitution of the
| United States, section first of which
reads as follows:
All persons born or naturalized in the United
States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof
citizens of the United States. and of the State
| wherein they reside. No State shall make or
enforce any law which shall abridge the privi-
| legcs immunities of citizens of the United
Sta,es shall any State deprive any person of
! life, liberty or property without due process of
4 law. nor deny to any person within its jurisdic-
! tion the equal protection of the laws.
This first section of this said 14th
amendment provides how those who are
not already citizens may become citizens
of the United States, and secures to the
citizen, and to every person within its
jurisdiction, equal protection before the
laws. It contains two provisions by
which persons may become citizens of the
United States
1st, "All persons born in the United
States and subject to the jurisdiction
thereof"
I'd, Or, s'all persons naturalized in the
United States, are subject to the juris-
diction thereof"
BY the first, all persons born (whether
negroes or Chinamen, or any person OF
any race whatever) in the United States,
aye subject to the jurisdiction thereof,
are citizens of the same, and can enjoy
all the rights ard immunities provided in
said section of 14th amendment.
And by no other means can any per-
son whatsoever, not native-born, become
a citizen, except as by said second pro-
vision-by 90 naturalization. Here the
question naturally arises, Who can be-
come naturalized? Can negroes, China
men, and any person whatsoever coming
to the United States become naturalized
A clause of SECTION of the Constitu-
ton of the United States provides
"The Congress shall have power to es-
tablish a uniform rule of naturalization
throughout the United St4tes." In pur,
suance of this article in the Constitu.
ton, section first of the laws of the
/ United States, in relation to the natural
ization of aliens, reads as follows:
Any alien. being a free WHITE person, may be
admitted TO become citizen of the United States
or any of them, the following conditions, and
not otherwise.
| Consequently under our naturalization
law, no negro, Chinaman, nor any person
not schite, (under the legal Interpretation
of the word aohite), and free. can be nat
uralized and thus become citizen ane
not being citizen, cannot vote, even i
the proposed fifteenth apendment be
comes law.
Section first of the proposed amend
ment not yet ratified, provides that, "Th'
right of citizens of the United State
to vote shall not be denied or abridged
by the United States, or by any State, OF
account of race, color, or previous con
dition of seryitude." This fifteenth
amendment simply and only7 provide
that the citizens of the United State
shall not be denied the right of suffrag
on account of race, color. or previous con
dition of servitude, and as no forelg
born negro, Chinaman, or Kanaka, is
A citizen or can become citizen, according
) to the naturalization law as above quo; &c
the idea apparently entertained by man
, that vast multitudes of different races
many of whom are slaves, will be throw
into our country, become citizens an
4 control and degrade the ballot-box, ha
}, no precedent in law, either enacted
e proposed to be enacted.
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