The United States Senate discusses bringing in coolie and contract labor, as if we had not demonstrated our unfitness to deal with less advanced peoples, and as if a republic could live comfortably with a class of disfranchised workers.

Hundreds of low-born persons have, in a single day, been declared noble, and thus disfranchised.

"In the second Punic war also, after the battle of Cannae, of the ten Romans whom Hannibal sent to Rome bound by an oath that they would return unless they obtained an agreement for the redemption of prisoners, the censors kept disfranchised those who perjured themselves, making no exception in favor of him who had devised a fraudulent evasion of his oath.

They were outlawed as felons, and disfranchised as infidels.

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more than one borough convicted of gross and habitual corruption, as has been mentioned, was disfranchised.

And, since the Duke had been in office, two more boroughs, Penrhyn and East Retford, had also been disfranchised; though the Reformers failed in their endeavor to get the seats thus vacated transferred to Manchester and Birmingham.

Fifty-six boroughs were wholly disfranchised; those in which the population fell short of a certain number (2000), and where the amount of assessed taxes paid by the inhabitants was correspondingly small.

Such of these and of the above-mentioned as had horses at the public expense were deprived of them, and all were degraded from their tribes and disfranchised.

Those too, amounting to more than two thousand names, were numbered among the disfranchised, and were all degraded.

In the preceding year, when he was quaestor, they had deprived him of his horse, removed him from his tribe, and disfranchised him, on account of the conspiracy entered into at Cannae to abandon Italy.

Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and Kentucky disfranchised all Negroes not long after the Revolution.

They were disfranchised in New Jersey in 1807, in Connecticut in 1814, and in Pennsylvania in 1838.

It is well to note here that this riot occurred the year the Negroes in Pennsylvania were disfranchised.

In short, it all comes to this, that many M.P.'s are afraid of losing their seats by a dissolution, and many others whose boroughs are disfranchised hate the Reform Bill, and many more are anti-Reformers by nature, and all these combine to stifle it....

In 1852 there were in existence The Colored American, The Struggler, The Watchman, The Ram's Horn, The Demosthenian Shield, The National Reformer, The Pittsburg Mystery, The Palladium of Liberty, The Disfranchised American, The Colored Citizen, The National Watchman, The Excelsior, The Christian Herald, The Farmer, The Impartial Citizen, The Northern Star of Albany, and The North Star of Rochester.

I would rather have that ballot on election day than the prayers of all the disfranchised women in the universe.

Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee: A recent writer in an English magazine, in speaking of the great advantage which to-day flows to the laboring classes of that nation from having received the right of suffrage, made the statement that disfranchised classes are oppressed, not because there is any desire whatever to do injustice to them, but because they are forgotten.

It is asking too much of a moneyless class of people, disfranchised by the constitution of every State in the Union.

Now, were all you men disfranchised because that class or sect up in New York would not vote?

Gladly I leave that unpleasant subject, hoping that nothing in our past history will serve to becloud the bright future beginning to dawn on the prospects of our disfranchised and oppressed countrymen.

While the disfranchised counties had a comparatively sparse population, the number of voters in them was too considerable to be justly denied their due representation.

After declaring "that no just government can be formed without the consent of the governed," "that taxation without representation is tyranny," it is difficult to see on what basis one-half the people are disfranchised.

That by such a bye-law he may be disfranchised of his vote in electing officers, or of the right to hold office, will be freely admitted.

Under assurances to that effect, the Free-State men, for the first time since the great original fraud which had disfranchised them, consented to enter into an electoral contest with their foes and oppressors.