The list of requirements might be enlarged, but the three which are given represent primary and indisputable necessities, without the concession and free establishment of which the negro, with nominal freedom, would be in a worse condition than if he had been left in slavery.
Blaine asserts that without fundamental rights, African Americans would remain in a state worse than slavery despite being free.
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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.
I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
Another theory and another practice were now to prevail; for it had been demonstrated to the thoughtful statesmen who then controlled the Government, that every thing which may be done by either Nation or State may be better and more…
But in the treatment of the colored man, now proposed, there was absolute heartlessness and rank injustice.
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