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Show PlU-SIDENT GH AST'S BLUNDER, Hia suggestion that illiterates and toreigners who have not learned the American language Bhouid be disfranchised dis-franchised for the future may or may not be a reasonable one, but it is certainly cer-tainly most inconsistent as coming from the chief of a party which insisted in-sisted upon the enfranchisement of tho uero. The lowest and most ignorant emigrants ore far better fitted for politics! privilege than any but a very few exceptional negroes, and those who would be disfranchised by the requisition of knowledge of the language of the country would be not the lowest but the highest class of emigrants; not the Irish peasantry, but the educated, sensible, sober and reasonable emigrants from Germany , Scandinavia with the exception ofa certain proportion of English and Scotch settlers the very best of the foreign elements which Europe constantly con-stantly contributes to the population of the United States. London Standard. |