I happen to know one man. and I know but one nativeborn citizen of Massachusetts over twentyone years of age who cannot read and write. I never saw in Massachusetts a man excluded from the ballotbox. of any nationality in the world because he could not read and write. Doubtless there have been some who have voluntarily given it up. but in all my experience in Massachusetts I never saw an instance. Foreigners are naturalized there. as they are everywhere else. just before election. and they qualify themselves. They voluntarily go to school and their political friends are the schoolteachers. All that is required of a man is to write his name and read the constitution in the English language.
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