The favour with which this proposition of disfranchisement has been received by public men, white and black, by republicans as well as democrats, has shaken my faith in the nobility of the nation.
He reflects on how the acceptance of disenfranchisement has diminished his faith in the nation's nobility.
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We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.
A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.
We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.
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