Note 26 — BOOK I. HISTORY OF THE POLITICAL PARTIES OF THE UNITED STATES. (continued 9)
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In 1860 a vote was had in the State of New York on a proposition to permit negro suffrage without a property qualification. The result of the city was—yeas 1,640. nays 37,471. In the State—yeas 197,505, nays 337,984. In 1864 a like proposition was defeated—yeas 85,406, nays 224,336.
In 1862, in August, a vote was had in the State of Illinois, on several propositions relating to negroes and mulattoes, with this result:
For excluding them from the State 171,893
Against 71,306
100,587
Against granting them suffrage or right to office 21,920
For 35,649
176,271
For the enactment of laws to prohibit them from going to, or voting in, the State 198,938
Against 44,414
154,524
—From McPherson’s History of the Great Rebellion.