There Is No Such
Relation As That Of Landlord And Tenant As Regards Agricultural
Holdings.
Every male citizen of New York may vote who is twenty-one, who has
been a citizen for ten days, who has lived in the State for a year,
and for four months in the county in which he votes.
He can vote
for all "officers that now are, or hereafter may be, elective by
the people." Art, II. Sec. 1. "But," the section goes on to say,
"no man of color, unless he shall have been for three years a
citizen of the State, and for one year next preceding any election
shall have been possessed of a freehold estate of the value of 250
dollars, (50l.,) and shall have been actually rated, and paid a tax
thereon, shall be entitled to vote at such election." This is the
only embargo with which universal suffrage is laden in the State of
New York.
The third article provides for the election of the Senate and the
Assembly. The Senate consists of thirty-two members. And it may
here be remarked that large as is the State of New York, and great
as is its population, its Senate is less numerous than that of many
other States. In Massachusetts, for instance, there are forty
Senators, though the population of Massachusetts is barely one-
third that of New York. In Virginia, there are fifty Senators,
whereas the free population is not one-third of that of New York.
As a consequence, the Senate of New York is said to be filled with
men of a higher class than are generally found in the Senates of
other States.
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