He deducts it from the not result as follows: 86.258-.-122.51236.254. Now. his brothers attention was called to this in the committee room. and he simply repeats it with variations. To show the folly of attempting to screen the disfranchisement by making the same deduction twice. let us recall that the Massachusetts census of 1875 gives returns asVoters. native ............................................................ 281.842 Foreign voters who can read and write ..................................6. 69.21 Naturalized voters. illiterate .............................................. 13. 478 Native voters. illiterate ................................................... 3.153 367. 744 Voting in 1878 ............................................................ 256.332 Allowing all the 9 per cent. census growth to have remained :at home is still ................................................................... 111.412 Allowing 9 instead of 4 per cent. to stay at home. and then adding ten thousand more leaves over one hundred thousand free white citizens of Massachusetts. made such by the supreme law of the nation in its fourteenth constitutional amendment. disfranchised by Massachusetts in defiance of her obligations. I ask you to do what your official oaths require you to do. give force to the supreme law of the land. that Massachusetts adopted first. and that Massachusetts. as well as the other States. is bound by. and it is but just if you are going to apply the strict State laws to this case. that you apply also the ballot law which disfranchises one hundred and thirtyeiglrt citizens of that State. rather than one hundred times that number of good. honest citizens. many of whom served on sea and land in the service of their country duringtke war. Whichistke worst ?
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