The evening telegraph

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struggling as we are doing here, and as they

are doing in England to find some golden

mean between a restricted ana an unqualified

suffrage. Under the provisos in the new fran

chise law, the citizen of Hayti, claiming the

right to vote, must show that, besides being of

legal age, he ii either the owner of real estate,

has been engaged in the cultivation of a farm,

has a profession, is employed in the publio

service, or follows some industrial calling.

Such limits to the exercise of the franchise

here in New York would reduoe the registered

voters' list by ten odd thousand easily all

taken from that class of our population who

cannot show that they follow any industrial

calling whatever.

The liberal-conservative character of this

Haytian instrument may be looked at in view

of our own political position. We are about

to introduce half a million of negro votes at

a single sweep. We are about to iutroduce

them, not as a distributed political force, but

as a compact sectional power. The logio of

their emancipation has forced the issue upon

ns, and it cannot be met by evasion or delay.

The raw material will have to be used, and it

is not improbable that we may gather ex

perience of some value from these negro

islanders. They have tried something ap

proaching to universal suffrage, under condi

tions where they were entirely relieved from

hn restraints or uie luteriereuue 01 a bu

perior race. iuey mm k"o imuugu a

sufficient amount of domestic trouble for the

last sixty years to have gathered some politi

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The evening telegraph. (1867). Philadelphia [Pa.], 1867-08-12. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83025925/1867-08-12/ed-1/?sp=2

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The evening telegraph, 1867-08-12.