Yet at that time in America manhood suffrage did not exist excepting in three States, a large part of the people could not read or write, imprisonment for debt was universal, convicted persons were sentenced to be whipped in public and subjected to other cruel and disgraceful punishments.
Beveridge highlights the limited suffrage and widespread illiteracy in early America, alongside harsh punishments for crimes.
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The Experiment, with its foundations laid on universal Suffrage and an unfettered and licentious Press is of too violent a nature for our excitable People.
What a gloom will spread over the nation when he is gone!
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