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Collection: African American Newspapers
Publication: THE NATIONAL ERA
Date: February 11, 1858
Title: CITIZENSHIP: STATE CITIZENS, GENERAL CITIZENS. SPEECH OF HON. PHILEMON BLISS, OF OHIO, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, JANUARY 7, 1858
Location: Washington, D.C.

CITIZENSHIP: STATE CITIZENS, GENERAL CITIZENS. SPEECH OF HON. PHILEMON BLISS, OF OHIO, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, JANUARY 7, 1858.

"...The words translated citizen were originally used to designate the privileged inhabitants of the chief city and their immediate descendants. Aristotle, the apostle of conservative democracy, defines a citizen to be one born of citizen parents , who has a right to participate in the judicial and executive part of government..."