Speech #460147343

The constitution of North Carolina required that the male person entitled to vote shall be twentyone years of age and a citizen . that he shall have resided in that State for twelve months next preceding the election. and for thirty days in the county in which he offered to vote. and that he should take a certain oath therein prescribed. The constitution of South Carolina provided that the male citizen offering to vote shall have been a resident of the State at the time of the adoption of this constitution. and that he shall have resided therein for one year. and in the county in which he offers to vote for sixty days. The constitution of Louisiana provides that all male persons twentyone years of age and upward. already naturalized in the United States. resident of this State for one year next preceding the election. and not less than ten days within the parish in which he offers to vote. except those disfranchised under this constitution and persons under interdiction. That is the constitution of Louisiana at the present day. Persons under interdiction are persons under prohibition. known technically as persons that are denied their rights otherwise given them. denied by the probate court of the State.