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xceptionable ; bul there are oilier features vhich meet uilh our decided disapprobation. Foremost, and beyond every thing else of an objectionable character, is the; provision in Section C, which wholly excludes from the right of voting all persons Mho arc not native or naturalized citizens of the United States. This we regard as Jt\rji£ hi the highest degree unjust and impolitic. A strange beginning, indeed, for the management of a proud city of freemen in the free and mighty West! Every particle of American feeling wdhin us exclaims against it. Must the confiding ai-^ ntachrnent of nearly half our Jtliow citizens be thus refjtriU'ii? No matter how lung Au'X may have refilled among us ; no matte f how numerous they niav be« :r \vh:it•* rl)iay be their peroi a! or mural worth ; no matter what tivy n ay have v jntributni- to the wealth anJ prosperity of the [iuclt;' ; no Better what the am^uat of taxes they pay; iio matti-r how lur^ely, or in how many ways their interims n.ay bj involved,” not one of tli^in in\y be? **L:gibI e to any office, not one of them may vote, not one of thi *m may be allowed any .slidre, or any sort of influence in the of ourc*inuniiK'ipal concern*. The rvt worthies* ami abanjlt;nelt;! in^rviJua! ui our native population is n^'b- superior, in a civil ca-uaeity, t4 cur onine population of foreign birth. .Set a n.ark* v. o a;\, on evc-ry man, high or low,, uln» slt; c-U* to ib.* rant bi^i* tin' fiirei^ner. 3 Is- eu T'-e miM* in il.ie time,c? ■lt;■ 'work out Usov, n .r retribution.
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Milwaukie Democrat
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US
Fri, Jan 26, 1844
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