I will state to the Senator from Florida that every State prescribes the qualifications of its voters. It has a right to say that a woman may or may not vote. it has a right to say that a man convicted of murder shall not vote. it has a right to say that one who does not pay taxes shall not vote. it has a right to say that certain property qualifications shall exist. and some States do so. I am not speaking of the question of what they ought to do. but of the question of power. Today there are States in this Union in which those who are 21 years of age. naturalized citizens of the United States. are not permitted to vote. and there are in other States men who because they can not read the Constitution are not permitted to vote. If the Government of the United States sees proper to say as a question of public policy that certain parties shall not vote in a Territory. have wc not the power to do it?
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