The Decline of Aristocracy in the Politics of New York
The Decline of Aristocracy in the Politics of New York
Dixon Ryan Fox
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, 1847) ; G. Bancroft, Martin Van Buren, pp. 86-87. Van Buren was not averse to a small property qualification. Debates, p. 258. * Page 267. * He was answered that if personalty were made a basis for the fran- chise, it would benefit the commercial interests, allies of the agricul- tural as much as the manufacturing. Buel, p. 243. PROPERTY OR PEOPLE 259 the holders of securities and money whom Van Biiren had commiserated, let them invest two hundred and fifty dollars in real estate, said Abraha...m Van Vechten ; ^ nineteen- twentieths of them had done so already, added Van Ness.^ But J. R. Van Rensselaer finally admitted that these inter- ests in New York state were not so disparate, and proposed a new amendment in which personal estate of the required sum was mentioned as alternative to freeholds held " in law or equity. " ^ The Federalists found in the freehold qualification a stimulus to thrift. If you hestozv on the idle and profligate [asked Elisha Wil- liams] the privileges which should be purchased only by in- dustry, frugality and character, will they ever be at the trouble and pains to earn those privileges ?
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