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A great race, numbering four millions of souls, has been suddenly enfranchised.
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Whitelaw Reid
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gutenberg.orgWhitelaw Reid: “A great race, numbering four millions of souls, has been suddenly enfranchised.”
Editor's note · Context
Reid notes the significant change in status for four million newly enfranchised individuals following the war.
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Never was there a problem more serious or difficult than that which is now before the Nation, as to this race, whose destiny has been confided to the wisdom and honor of our Government.
They should strive for distinction by economy, by industry, by sobriety, by patient perseverance in well-doing, by constant improvement of religious instruction, and by the constant practice of Christian virtues.
They should persist in this claim respectfully, but firmly, taking care to bring no discredit upon it by their own action.
Ordinarily the simple performance of duty is so blessed of God, that men who live in the doing of it, are the best off, in all respects, even in this world.