Chapter XXI · —Negro Suffrage.
Reading edition
(Page 483-501.)
Review of the preceding action — Efforts of Mr. Yates for Unrestricted Suffrage — Davis's Amendment to Cuvier — The "Propitious Hour" — The Mayor's Remonstrance — Mr. Willey's Amendment — Mr. Cowan's Amendment for Female Suffrage — Attempt to out-radical the Radicals — Opinions for and against Female Suffrage — Reading and Writing as a Qualification — Passage of the Bill — Objections of the President — Two Senators on the Opinions of the People — The Suffrage Bill becomes a Law.