Session #46 · 1879–81

Speech #460162061

The gentleman seemed to think that the right to vote at the elections named belongs to every adult male citizen of the United States and by virtue of its Constitution. And the gentleman from -Indiana asserted that roundly. His language was: I do not care what may have been the narrow. the selfish. or the grand purposes of any party. that was what the amendment did. it established a nations citizen. ship. and made it as broad as the nation. - The purpose was to declare that every man. nativehorn or naturalized. whether among the pine trees of Maine or on the bad. No naw voters were necessarily made by it. Indirectly it may have had that golden shores of the PacificwhatherresidingamongthefrozenakesOf the North- effect. because it may have increased the number .of citizens entitled to suffrage west or among the orango blossom sof Florida. was a citizen. clothed in the panoply uder the Constitution and laws of the States. but it operates for this purpose. if of American citizenship. at all. through the States and the State laws. and not directly upon the citizen.
Keywords matched
naturalized

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
NATHANIEL HAMMOND
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
GA
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
460162061
Paragraph
#0
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