The proposition to disfranchise the coloured voter of the South in order to solve the race problem, I therefore denounce as a false and cowardly proposition, utterly unworthy of an honest and grateful nation.
Douglass denounces the idea of disenfranchising Black voters as cowardly and unworthy of a just nation.
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