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and .justice, has the right to quit his original domicile at his pleasure he has not the equal right to acquire a new residence in another community against its consent. "The bird has tin- right t<- leave its parent-nest." hut has not for that rea- son, the equal right to occupy the nest of another hird. A man may dtnniml his rights, and justly complain when they an- denied; l>ut lie can not demand favors, and can not rea- sonably complain when they are refused. The principle is no doubt correct that when a State, for r.-asons satisfactory to itself, denies the right of suffrage and < Hice to a certain class, it is sometimes the best humanity also to deny the privilege of a residence. If the prejudices or the just reasons of a community are so great that they can not or will not trust a certain class with those privileges that are indispensable to the improvement and elevation of such class, it is most consistent in some cases to refuse that class a residence. Placed in a degraded and subordinate political and social position, which continually reminds them of their inferiority, ami of the utter hopelessness of all attempts to improve their condition as a class, they are left without adequate motive to, [or?] waste their labor for, that improve- ment which, when attained, brings them no reward. To have such ;i class of men in their midst is injurious to the dominant class itself, as such a degraded and practically defenseless condition offers so many temptations to tyrannical abuse. < Mie of the irreat objections to the institution of slavery was its had inHiience upon the governing race. Had I foreseen the civil war, and the changes it has pro- <lu 1. I would not have supported such a measure. But at the time I did not suppose such changes could be brought ahull : and the fiimhinu nlnl error was then found in the organic laws of Oregon adopted in 1H4.'J. Article IV., Sec- tion '2 of those laws conferred the right to vote and hold office upon every free male descendant of a white man. in- habitant of Oregon Territory, of the age of 21 years and up- ward. ."Cray's Oregon." :{.">4. ) While the organic laws of 1S4:? professedly admitted nil of the disfranchised class