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ai.eten,7 Gt *aeni’sl-nll-nuldi to i theVal*. in-this! de-Ihe*V rrlau1 cr rcetrictthe right ol the lame.2. If, howercr, the reasons of expediency, or to prevent double voting, a temporaiy rwider.ee should bo considered necessary for the United States citizens to exercise their elective franchise in the Siatoe, It istt wur with justice and nsuon to Id fringe the principle of equality of rights ho tween tho emigrated and native cititcna. This would amount to a sanction of a double kind of citizenship, and there is no United 8tatea law that could excuse such a nonsense and such an Injustice.3. Viewed from the moral point of view, the amendment is unjust,because it traffics away the guaranteed rights ol emigrants for party service* hoped for at the bind* of blind prejudice, and be* cause it punishes new comers of the present and fururo for alleged abuses of old comers—abuses which, indeed, arc merely taken for a pretext.4. The amendment, sanctioned by a dangerous abiue or the power of a majority for the restriction of the rights of majority, defiles the Democratic principle. If a State Legislature claims the right of debarring, for two jfars, a class of citizens of tb'o^Jqited States from their elective franchise, they may.claim to do the same thingour I a leefrom*•offer exclc of .Vdock:Pagasevcsto tlprem or 1?Calc the 1 cansvent Stat. the tiho I
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Indianapolis Weekly Indiana State Sentinel
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Wed, Mar 30, 1859
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