Speech #470005772

I read from the census. page 34: It will be seen that 351.113. or 21i per cent. of the whole population. are legal voters. Of the whole male population 44 per cent. are voters. 50 par cent.. or 449.086. are ratable polls. The naturalized voters compose 19.7 per cent.. or69.271. of the whole number of voters. and the number of native voters is 281.842. or 80.3 per cent. of the whole number. The nativeborn voters constitute 47 + per cent. of the nativeborn males. and the naturalized voters 35 per cent of the foreignborn males. The aliens or foreignbirth. that is of males over twenty years of age who have not been naturalized. number 79.136. Of the 297.997 nativeborn males over twenty years of age 281.842 are legal voters. while of the 161.88 foreign.born males overtwentyone years of age 09.271. or 42 per cent.. are legal voters. If the honorable Senators will add Those two figures together of the nativeborn voters and the naturalized foreignborn voters they will find the exact figures stated in General Butlers brief and by me of 351.000 voters in 1875. and the rest is the natural rate of increase according to the population of the State of Massachusetts. Not only that. but this is further confirmed by the census of 1870. which declares the whole number of all classes of male population twentyone years and upward to be 398.157. and the number of male citizens at that date to be 312.770. So that it will be perceived that here is not only the authority of the census of Massachusetts for the exact statement that was madethat there were in the State of Massachnsetts in 1878 more than one hundred and thirty thousand people. citizens of Massachusetts. entitled to vote under the laws but for illiteracy. failure to pay a tax. and pauperismh. who did not vote in the election of 1878but we find still further that the number of voters in the election of 1878. as stated by General Butler. was 256.332. Table froe Masachuseetfs cemsus of 1875.yages 34. 94. Native voters ............................................................. 84 Increase to 1878 (estimatednot in census) ............................... 25.366 Foreignborn voters ....................................................... 69.271 Increase (estimated to 1878) ............................................ 6.234 Nativeborn illiterates ............................................... 6.075 Total ............................................................... 388. 788 NOTE.-Tho above result appears from the census of 1875. without adding the foreignborn illiterates naturalized which General Butier adds in his brief. and XII22 which he puts down. on what authority I do not know. at 14.691. This will make the number of legal voters 403.479. of whom 256.332 voted in 1878. leaving 147.147 persons who did not vote In 1878. The difference between 388.788 and 449.686 and increase. (estimated in 1878 to be 490.158.) who were not returned as voters in the census of 1875. who were disfranchised from some cause. either front laws of naturalization. from illiteracy. from nontaxpaying. pauperism. or from some causethis ascertained number. affirmed by the census in the State of Massachusetts and by a reasonable estimate of increase. is 101.370 adult males. Now the Senators of Massachusetts are proclaiming here a now crusade for a freer vote in the State of Virginia. when as stated by their own census there is only 44 per cent. of her entire male population who are voters. and 16.000 of her adult nativeborn males above the age of twentyone years who are not allowed to vote under her laws. while there are of foreigners naturalized only 42 per cent.. or 69.271 are legal voters oat of 161.885 foreignborn males over twenty years of ago. leaving 92.613 persons of foreign birth who are not voters. and making. with the 16.000 nativeborn above the age of twenty years who are not voters. 108.614 adult males of her population who have no voice in her public affairs. This may be somewhat explained by the statement of the census of Massachusetts of 1875. which states as follows. (see page 94 :) Of the whole number of illiterates the balance. or 90.789. more than 86 per cent. of the whole. are over twentyone years of age. The nativeborn illiterates number 12.150. more than half being above twentyone years of age.