...if born in North Carolma, are citizens of North Carolina, and all free persons in the State are jorn citizens of the State. The Constitution extended the elective franchise to every free man who had arrived at the age of twenty-one, and paid a public tax : and it is a matter of universal...

...North Carolina, are citizens of North Carolina, and all free persons born within the state are born citizens of the state. . . . The constitution extended...claimed and exercised the franchise, until it was taken away from free men of color a few years since by our amended constitution/ 1 No man was excluded from...

...North Carolina, are citizens of North Carolina, and all free persons born within the state are born citizens of the state. . . . The constitution extended...claimed and exercised the franchise, until it was taken away from free men of color a few years since by our amended constitution.' 1 No man was excluded from...

...case of The State v. Manuel, in 1838, he said : — and all free persons bom within the State are bora citizens of the State The Constitution extended the...color, claimed and exercised the franchise, until it VMS taken from free men of color a few years since by ow amended Constitution."1 There is still another...

...admirable Judge Gaston, of North Carolina, who, describing the State Constitution of 1776, says, that it "extended the elective franchise to every freeman...and exercised the franchise, until it was taken from 1 Act to prevent the Importation of Negroes and Indians, June 7, 1712: Laws, ed. Dallas (Philadelphia,...

...which negroes could vote, and in a case about 1840 Judge Gaston said : " The Constitution extended the franchise to every freeman who had arrived at the age of twenty-one and paid a public tax." The number of negro voters disfranchised by the new Constitution of 1835 was several hundred, and they...

...under their State constitution every freeman who had arrived at the age of 21 and paid a public tax. without regard to color, " claimed and exercised the franchise until it was taken from freemen of color a few years since by our amended constitution.'' It would thus seem that the ratification...

...that "it is a matter of universal notoriety that under it (the original constitution of the State) free persons without regard to color claimed and exercised the franchise until it was taken away from free men of color a few years since by our amended constitution." " Her most eminent magistrate,"...

...state are born citizens of the State." Negroes had been permitted to vote under the old constitution: "And it is a matter of universal notoriety that under it, free persons, without regard to colour, claimed and exercised the franchise until it was taken from freemen of colour a few years since...

...11 : " It is a matter of universal notoriety that under it [the North Carolina constitution of 1776] free persons, without regard to color, claimed and exercised the franchise" until it was taken away from colored persons by the amended constitution of 1835. See sections vii, viii, ix. of the constitution,...