Republican Herald

THE JOURNAL on SUFFRAGE. - The Providence Journal habitually reckless of the obligation of veracity, frequently exposes itself to the mortification,-if not entirely hardened against that emotion-of being detected and condemned in paltry equivocations or downright falsehoods. In the course of a controversy with the Journal, on the New Hampshire religious and property tests for public officers, Mr. Greene of the Boston Post alluded to the real property qualification for voters, which, as he understood, still exists in Rhode Island. To this the Journal,-supposing that the Post could be put down with an assertion, and that so common a thing with it as the falsification of a fact would not be noticed here.-replied.- "We have no property qualification in Rhode Island," and again, in another number, "The real estate qualification existed under the Charter; but it was abrogated by the Constitution;" conveying and intending to convey the assertion that the present Constitution contains no real estate qualification of voters! Whereas on the contrary, every one knows that it does; that naturalized citizens have no other mode of voting: that all others possessing $134 worth of real estate may vote, whether taxed or not, and that the owner of real estate can vote on a year's residence, instead of two, as required of those who vote on military service or the payment of taxes

The Journal now attempts to escape by asserting that it was only correcting an assertion, that a man cannot vote-here unless he holds real property; whereas he can vote on other qualifications beside. But this is a quibble, and the Journal cannot evade one falsehood by telling another. The editor did not assert that real property was one of the real qualifications now existing and not exclusive: but he asserted that "we have no property qualification in Rhode Island" and that though it once existed under the Charter, "it was abrogated by the Constitution." The comment of the Post on this mean attempt at imposition is just but lenient, when he says-"We are reminded by it for the hundredth time, that all political statements from Whig sources must be cautiously examined before they are received as facts."