To Congress is committed the authority to enforce every provision of the Fourteenth Amendment, and the humblest man who is denied the equal protection of the laws of a State can have his wrongs redressed before the Supreme Judiciary of the Nation.
Blaine asserts Congress's role in enforcing the Fourteenth Amendment to protect citizens' rights.
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The Northern people shrank from the responsibility of transferring the government of States to the control of men who had already shown themselves capable of desperate deeds.
This ratio of influence went into the Electoral College, and gave to the white men of South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana double the power of that enjoyed by white men in New York, Illinois and California.
Crises often arise in the conduct of National affairs when cherished opinions must be sacrificed and new departures taken.
I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
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