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But the entire country suffered, and probably endured a serious and permanent loss, from the false step taken by men who claimed what they could not defend and did not mean to defend.
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The wisdom of maintaining that institution was abundantly vindicated by the results of the war.
The deep-seated prejudice against color is assiduously cultivated by the public journals and leads to acts of cruelty, oppression, and murder, which the local authorities are at no pains to prevent or punish.
With whatever strength or prestige the President left Washington, he certainly returned to the Capital personally discredited and politically ruined.
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