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No such fees were exacted of white men and no such fees were exacted of the free black man during the era of slavery.
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Blaine contrasts the fees imposed on African Americans with those on white men, illustrating economic discrimination.
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But in the treatment of the colored man, now proposed, there was absolute heartlessness and rank injustice.
Observing men in the loyal States regarded such a policy not only as weak and maudlin, but as utterly insufficient and assuredly dangerous to the future safety of the Government.
As slavery had been the chief inciting cause of disunion, slavery should die.
I refer myself not to the men of my time, but to the judgment of history.
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