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The close vote on the Civil Rights Bill admonished the Republicans of their danger.
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Blaine warns Republicans about the precariousness of their position following a close vote on civil rights legislation.
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He was a lawyer in full practice, a man of the highest integrity, without fear and without reproach.
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.
Such an opportunity would have been a menace to the public credit, and would have proved a constant source of corruption.
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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