Session #46 · 1879–81

Speech #460024953

In these States residence is superadded by State authority as a qualification to voting for all officers. State as well as Federal. In Massachusetts two years. in Pennsylvania thirty days. and in New York ten days are added by State authority to the qualification of five years. and in Rhode Island ownership of real estate must be in the naturalized foreigner before he is a voter. Are all these distinctions. are all the restrictions imposed by State authority aid State constitutions as to residence. naturalization. qualification. registration. ag-. tax. and property to be obliterated in this effort for the "universality of the security of equal suffrage" in this renewed and earnest effort for a consolidated government? The late Senator from Indiana. ir. Morton. did not agree with the view of national duty now proposed by the President and the stalwarts.
Keywords matched
naturalized naturalization

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
WILLIAM WALLACE
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
PA
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
460024953
Paragraph
#4
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