Universal Suffrage
I have already observed that universal suffrage has been
adopted in all the States of the Union; it consequently occurs
amongst different populations which occupy very different
positions in the scale of society. I have had opportunities of
observing its effects in different localities, and amongst races
of men who are nearly strangers to each other by their language,
their religion, and their manner of life; in Louisiana as well as
in New England, in Georgia and in Canada. I have remarked that
Universal Suffrage is far from producing in America either all
the good or all the evil consequences which are assigned to it in
Europe, and that its effects differ very widely from those which
are usually attributed to it.
