...session of the legislature, through the exertions of General Downs and his democratic fellow members, я resolution for the extension of the suffrage to every...and its opponents, all whigs. On the 8th of January, 3842, the democrats of Lousiana met in New-Orleans, in State Convention, and nominating Governor Mouton...

...State election that may be in force on the said eighteenth day of March ; — provided, that every white male citizen of the United States, above the age of twenty-one years, who shall have resided within this State for one year next preceding the said election, and shall be...

...of insurrection of such slave. ARTICLE VIII. — Elections and Kights of Suffrage. SECTION 1. Every male citizen of the United States, above the age of twenty-one years, having resided in this State one year, and in the county, city, or town in which he may öfter to vote,...

...insurrection of such slave. • ARTICLE VIII. — Elections and Rights if Suffrage. SECTION 1. Every male citizen of the United States, above the age of twenty-one years, having resided in this State one year, and in the county, city, or town in which he may offer to vote,...

...insurrection of such slave. • ARTICLE VIII.—Elections and Rights (f Suffrage. SECTION 1. Every male citizen of the United States, above the age of twenty-one years, having resided in this State one year, and in the county, city, or town in which he may offer to vote,...

...record in this State prior to the first day of January, in the year of our Lord 1870, or who shall be a male citizen of the United States, above the age of twenty-one years, shall be entitled to vote at such election. RESIDENCE.] [Section 66, original act.] Section 2. A permanent...

...which may be extended to sixty days, but no longer. SEC. f>. And be it further enacted, That every male citizen of the United States above the age of twenty-one years, and [including] persons who shall have declared their intention to become citizens of the United States,...

...Every white male inhabitant who was a voter in this State on the first day of April, AD 1848, and every evious to the who shall have beeu a resident of this State one year next preceding any election, shall be entitled...

...record in this State prior to the 1st day of January, in the year of our Lord 187O, or who shall be a male citizen of the United States above the age of twenty-one years, shall be entitled to vote nt such election." There are three classes of persons "mentioned" in said...

...study the laws of their own States in these respects, and to satisfy themselves, in the case of each male citizen of the United States above the age of twenty-one years, whether he does or does not come within one of these classes. As the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution,...