If any gentlemaa has done me the. honor of reading it. he will kndw my views. I have stated as carefully as I can all the statistics of Massachusetts that enable anybody to determine the number of paupers. the number of convicts. the number of insane. and the number of male illiterates over twentyone years of age. The number of persons not included in these classes. being naturalized or nativeborn males over twentyone years of age who do not choose to register. or who do not choose to vote. or who have not the requisite residence in the city or district. or who have not paid a tax. now not exceeding one dollar. within two years. it is an utter impossibility to ascertain. and it varies with different elections. I have only one or two things to say. In the first place. it is not. as has been stated by the gentleman from Iowa. the law of Massachusetts that a man who has once been a pauper shall never vote.
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