ELECTIVE FRANCHISE.
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The period of our State Election is at
the door-Our views of that subject are
the same as they have been for years. We
have always said, that every coloured man
who possesses the right, with becoming
modesty, should approach the poles, and
there judiciously throw his weight into
the political scale; and | cannot but deep
ytGon WHO t9 are fbfitessed WITH TIE 7doua
necessary comforts of life, and yet have
not secured to themselves this privilege.
We have but few coloured voters, yet we
have more than 1000 individuals in this
city, who could with ease, secure to them
selves that privilege-and were they in
this particular to act as men and republi-
cans, they would soon find themselves more
respected.


True it is, the convention who altered
the constitution of this State, acted IN my
opinion, very wrong and illegally, in re-
quiring Of the coloured man, qualifications
which were not required of the white.


It's plain, that State has the right OF
appointing the qualifications of its voters,
and it is equally plain, that it has no legal
right to require of A. six feet stature
and not require of B the same requisite,
and if this prescription had been con tested
by the coloured people, before the Supreme
Court, it must Of necessity have been re-
moved Yet, as it was no doubt consider
ed by the hon. Convention, as matter of
expediency, rather than one of law and
justice, and as the coloured population at
that time, had been rendered politically
insane, BY some designing political dema-
gogues among the wiites. it was more ju-


dicious TO submit to the injustice, and Sc