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How could men representing this country, jealous of its honor, or with an adequate comprehension either of its duty or its rights, do otherwise?
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Whitelaw Reid
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Reid questions how representatives of the U.S. could act without regard for the nation's honor and duty.
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Let me repeat, that I think it best for all men—white men, black men, and brown men, if you make that distinction, that all men of proper age and unconvicted of crime, should have the right of suffrage.
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.
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.
Our national experience has demonstrated that public order reposes most securely on the broad base of universal suffrage.