The Filibustering Policy of the Sham Democracy volume 2
The Filibustering Policy of the Sham Democracy volume 2
John Jasiel Perry
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The purity of the ballot-box is the only safety of a Republic. Destroy this, and you destroy the whole superstructure. Virtue and intelli- gence are our only safeguards in this uespect. Men, to vote understandiiigly, must possess in- telligence ; 'they should understand, at least, something of our language, our manners, cus- toms, and laws ; and, as a requisite, absolutely necessary to the right discharge of this duty, they should understand th^ theory and practical operation of our Government.... No intelligent statesman will controvert the premises here assumed. ArguiDg from these, let us look at the condition of things that would follow the annexation of all or any of the terri- tory above referred to. In order to a right un- derstanding of this, the character of the population the territory would bring with it should be ex- plained. In Cuba, according to Colton's Geography, there were, in 1850, one million nine thousand and sixty (1, 009, 0(10) inhabitants. Of this pop- ulation, five hundred and Dine thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight were whites, one hun- dred and seventy- six thousand six hundred and for y-seven free blacks, and two hundred and sixty-eight thousand seven hundred and seven- teen slaves.
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