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Vain also while Equal Rights are without a sure defence against the oppressor.
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He asserts that without protection for equal rights, efforts toward reconstruction are in vain.
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I am opposed to a tariff for protection merely, and not for revenue."--Letter to John K.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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