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The new military statute of 1874 withdrew from the retired Jewish soldiers this reward for faithfully performed duty, and in 1885 the Senate sustained the disfranchisement of these Jews who had spent years of their life in the service of their fatherland. A Jew from Berdychev, Vilna, or Odessa, who had served five or six years somewhere in St.
From Ohio alone has evidence been found of the actual enforcement of the disfranchisement provision. In this state nearly 1,800 bribed voters of Adams County were disfranchised in 1910 for scandalous and well-remembered corruption but in 1915 they were restored to citizenship.
Quarrel between Alva and Queen Elizabeth of England Spanish funds seized by the English government Non-intercourse between England and the Netherlands Stringent measures against heresy Continued persecution Individual cases Present of hat and sword to Alva from the Pope Determination of the Governor general to establish a system of arbitrary taxation in the provinces Assembly of estates at Brussels Alva's decrees laid before them The hundredth, tenth, and fifth pence Opposition of Viglius to the project Estates of various provinces give a reluctant consent Determined resistance of Utrecht The city and province cited before the Blood Council Sentence of confiscation and disfranchisement against both Appeal to the King Difficulty of collecting the new tax Commutation for two years Projects for a pardon-general Growing disfavour of the Duke His desire to resign his post Secret hostility between the Governor and Viglius Altered sentiments of the President Opinions expressed by Granvelle The pardon pompously proclaimed by the Duke at Antwerp Character of the amnesty Dissatisfaction of the people with the act Complaints of Alva to the King Fortunes and fate of Baron Montigny in Spain His confinement at Segovia His attempt to escape Its failure His mock trial His wife's appeal to Philip His condemnation His secret assassination determined upon Its details, as carefully prescribed and superintended by the King Terrible inundation throughout the Netherlands Immense destruction of life and property in Friesland Lowestein Castle taken by De Ruyter, by stratagem Recapture of the place by the Spaniards Desperate resistance and death of De Ruyter.
The system of conscription which annually wrenched thousands of youths and lads from the bosom of their families, the barracks which served as mission houses, the method of stimulating and even forcing the conversion of recruits, the establishment of Crown schools for the same covert purpose, the abolition of communal autonomy, civil disfranchisement, persecution and oppression, all were set in motion against the citadel of Judaism.
Although Lord John supported the amended bill on the principle that half a loaf is better than no bread he at the same time announced that 'in a future session he proposed to call attention to the claims of large towns to send members to this House. He was determined to do all in his power to deprive what he termed the 'dead bones of a former state of England' of political influence, and to give representation to what he termed the 'living energy and industry of the England of the nineteenth century, with its steam-engines and its factories, its cotton and woollen cloths, its cutlery and its coal-mines, its wealth and its intelligence. Whilst the bill about Grampound was being discussed by the Lords he took further action in this direction, and presented four resolutions for the discovery and punishment of bribery, the disfranchisement of corrupt boroughs, and the enfranchisement of wealthy and populous towns.
Vane wished it to have been made by the Rump; Clarendon wished it to be made by the King. Clarendon's language on this subject is most remarkable. For he was no rash innovator. The bias of his mind was altogether on the side of antiquity and prescription. Yet he describes that great disfranchisement of boroughs as an improvement fit to be made in a more warrantable method and at a better time.
They then returned to the work of petitioning Congress for a Sixteenth Amendment to the National Constitution which should prohibit disfranchisement on account of sex. They continued also the original plan of endeavoring to secure amendments to the constitutions of the different States abolishing the word "male" as a qualification for voting.
But upon the voluntary system the London Tories, who are far more than 1000 in number, may combine; they may make a constituency, and return a member. In many existing constituencies the disfranchisement of minorities is hopeless and chronic.
Overtures came fast from England, from Spain, from France every monarch wished some share in the pacification between these courts of Rome and Venice. Meanwhile, in Venice life went on superbly. There was no question of any spiritual disfranchisement; these sons of the Church were not under interdict, having committed no sin which laid them open to that charge.
If we put these two elements together we are enabled to understand why the Union land policy in Ireland was such a portentous muddle and scandal. In 1829 the question assumed a fresh urgency, in consequence of the eviction campaign which followed the disfranchisement of the small holders under Catholic Emancipation.
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