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More than forty Democratic representatives from the North flatly defied party discipline and voted against the repeal.
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Blaine highlights the defiance of Northern Democratic representatives against party discipline regarding the repeal.
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Their success as civil magistrates, as legislators, as executives was not less marked and meritorious than their illustrious service in war.
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…
That is his work and it cannot properly be taken out of his hands.
The haste with which the question was brought to a decision can hardly be justified, and is a striking illustration of the intense party-feeling which had been engendered by the war.
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