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Why should the example of such a State be quoted to justify refusing suffrage to men who have been denied the privilege of education, and whom it has been a crime to teach?
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gutenberg.orgGeorge Boutwell: “Why should the example of such a State be quoted to justify refusing suffrage to men who have been denied the privilege…”
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Boutwell questions the justification for denying voting rights to those who have been historically denied education.
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Shall your representative stand for Nathan Dane and Abraham Lincoln and Freedom, or for William McKinley and Despotism?
Shall the avoidance of the Amendment in States of this Union be tendered as a reason for a denial of equality and the right of self-government in the Philippine Islands?
Here are the assertion of power and the promise of goodness that have attended the origin and movement of every despotism that has risen to curse mankind.
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