Andrew Johnson actually said...

I yield to no one in attachment to that rule of general suffrage which distinguishes our policy as a nation.

Nor does it accord with our republican ideas that the principle of self-government should lose its force when applied to the residents of th...

The exercise of the elective franchise is the highest attribute of an American citizen, and when guided by virtue, intelligence, patriotism,...

Great danger is therefore to be apprehended from an untimely extension of the elective franchise to any new class in our country.