On the record
Be it enacted, &c., That in the District of Columbia no person shall be excluded from any office by reason of race or color, and all parts of laws making any such discrimination are hereby repealed.
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This legislative proposal aims to eliminate racial discrimination in office holding in the District of Columbia.
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I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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