On the record
I ask gentlemen to reflect and say whether such a law, opposed to the ideas, the passions, the views, and the affections of the people of the Southern States, can be executed?
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Du Bois questions the feasibility of enforcing laws that contradict the sentiments of Southern states.
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