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Now, how can any Senator, recognizing the constitutionality of the original Civil Rights Act, doubt the present supplementary measure?
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He questions how any senator could doubt the constitutionality of a civil rights measure already accepted.
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Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
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.
Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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