On the record
The law of the State made it a penal offence to teach a colored child to read.
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Hoar discusses the legal barriers that prevented the education of African American children.
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The honor and good fame of our beloved State is far above any question of party.
Never rode to the wrong's redressing A worthier paladin.
It is utterly impossible for me to support the Buffalo nomination.
But I confess I like to leave on record, if I may, some evidence which will contradict the charge so constantly made by critics near home, that I am a man of intense partisan and personal bitterness.
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