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Ben Harrison: “I earnestly invoke the attention of Congress to the consideration of such measures within its well-defined…”

On the recordDecember 2, 1889
I earnestly invoke the attention of Congress to the consideration of such measures within its well-defined constitutional powers as will secure to all our people a free exercise of the right of suffrage and every other civil right under the Constitution and laws of the United States.
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Ben Harrison
Republican · Indiana

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