Within the limits of the Union as originally formed the slavery question had therefore been compromised, the common territory partitioned, and the Republic, half slave, half free, organized and sent forth upon its mission.
Blaine reflects on the historical compromise regarding slavery in the early United States.
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In Congressional districts where the colored race constituted one-half of the total population (and in many instances the proportion was even larger), the vote of one white man offset the vote of two in a Northern district where suffrage…
If you are not ready to be the Moses of an oppressed people, do not become their Pharaoh.
Such an opportunity would have been a menace to the public credit, and would have proved a constant source of corruption.
But in the treatment of the colored man, now proposed, there was absolute heartlessness and rank injustice.
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