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The Marshall expounder has discovered why it is tha1 Clay wil! get a popular majority inRhode Islnnd - beca use ''■tkere negroes are (tllmoed to vote!" We du not know why f h e negro voters of that State shoald have aliy great partiality for Mr. Clay, the man who is fór banishing the free part of their race to África, and kecping the remainder in slaven' at home. But read the article itself:"This State, it is generally conceded, will vote for Clay; and it is doubt ful about his gelting the vote of any other State. The reason why Rhode Island is so whiggish. may be found in the fact that there negroes are allowed to vote; but Germans and Irishmen must own a large amonnt of real estafe before thev can be enlitled to the of f ree men! Many an idlé, worthless, and drunken negro will deposite his vote íbr "Massa Clay," in Rhode Island ballot boxes; whüc worthy and iudustrious adopted eilizens v?iïï be deprived of their natural right to a voice in the government which they help to support, because they have not the prescribed omouut cí real &átateí This s Clay whiggery." The xvliole tenor of this article is most exceedingly illiberal. Are there not ':idle, worthless, and drunken" Gerraans and Irishmen, as wcll as negroes1? The Expounder rejjresents the admission of negro suflrage as a Whig principie. - This is giving fhem more than their just due. Besides, íf Rhode Island is Whiggish because negroes vote there, why are Maine and New ílarnpshire Democratie, vhere negroes also vote?