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Oroville Daily Butte Record
Oroville, Butte County, California
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Massachusetts Senate passes constitutional amendment requiring two-year post-naturalization residency for adopted citizens to vote (25-9), dubbed Know Nothingism. New York plans to abolish property qualification and three-year residence for negroes, termed Republicanism, highlighting inconsistent racial standards.
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In the Senate of Massachusetts, says the New Haven Register, the proposed constitutional amendment requiring adopted citizens to reside in the State two years after being naturalized, before being allowed to vote, was adopted by a vote of 25 to 9. This is Massachusetts Know Nothingism. In New York the property qualification for negroes is not only to be abolished, says the Albany Argus, but the three years residence heretofore required of that class. This is New York Republicanism. In one State five years is too short a term for a white man, and in another three years is too short a term for a negro!
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Massachusetts And New York
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massachusetts amendment adopted 25-9; new york to abolish negro property and residence qualifications.
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Massachusetts Senate adopts constitutional amendment requiring two years residency after naturalization for voting rights, cited from New Haven Register as Know Nothingism. New York to remove property qualification and three-year residence for negroes, per Albany Argus, labeled Republicanism. Contrasts five-year term too short for white men in one state versus three years for negroes in another.