Speech #490035489

Thereupon she becomes entitled to vote because she is a woman. Her husband is entitled to vote because he is a nativeborn American. If her husband were an Irishman who had been naturalized or who had filed his papers declaring his intention to become naturalized. be would be entitled to vote on the performance of those conditions. one of which that he was naturalized. and the other that he had filed his papers of intention. and here is the wife entitled to vote because she is a woman nd is naturalized by reason of the fact that she marries a man who is a native citizen. though she may not have been in the Territory three days before the time for voting arrives. There is a great deal of uncertainty about this. I would rather the question had not been raised. so far as I am concerned. for I am extremely anxious that Washington Territory should be admitted into the Union. but I suggest. as I remarked when I first took the floor on this bill. that it is hasty and unwise legislation to have this State brought into the brotherhood of States until Congress shall have had an opportunity of passing upon the Constitution and giving to it its approbation. and it is extremely unsafe to take any other course.