The only persons required to own property in order to enjoy suffrage and the right to hold office were negroes, who continued to rest under the ban until the adoption of the fifteenth amendment to the Federal Constitution.
This quote highlights the racial discrimination in suffrage laws that persisted until the adoption of the fifteenth amendment.
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The act and the veto amounted to an appeal to the people, and in an instant the country was on fire.
But Tilden, conscious of the need of an anti-Tweed legislature, had surmised the Ring's plan as early as Tweed devised it, and he replied with firmness that everything beside the legislative ticket was of minor importance to him.
He represented Republican principles and aims more fully than any man in the country, but Thurlow Weed, looking into the future through the eyes of a practical politician, disbelieved in Republican success.
Of imposing appearance, he looked like a man formed to rule.
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