...North Carolina, are citizens of North Carolina, and all free persons born within the State are born citizens of the State. The Constitution extended the elective franchise to every freeman wbo had arrived at the age of twenty-one, and paid a public tax; and it is a matter of universal notoriety,...

...North Carolina, are citizens of North Carolina, and all free persons born within the State are born citizens of the State. The Constitution extended the...matter of universal notoriety, that, under it free perrons, without regard to color, claimed and exercised the franchise, until it was taken from free...