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It was thus ordained that the negroes, who had no property at all, should pay one-third as much as the white men, who had two hundred and fifty millions of property in possession.
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Blaine critiques the unfairness of taxing African Americans who had no property compared to wealthy white men.
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That is his work and it cannot properly be taken out of his hands.
In all the revolted states, upon the testimony of your ablest generals, there is no safety to the property or lives of loyal men.
The need of action and of energy so pressed upon him that he found no time to utter lamentation, none to indulge even in the most sacred personal grief.
I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
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