That this act shall take effect with the fundamental and perpetual condition that within said State of Nebraska there shall be no abridgment or denial of the exercise of the elective franchise or of any other right to any person by reason of race or color, excepting Indians not taxed.
This statement emphasizes the importance of voting rights and equality regardless of race in Nebraska.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
I am opposed to a tariff for protection merely, and not for revenue."--Letter to John K.
It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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