Nothing was more natural than that the negroes, with their social and even gregarious habits, should, in their new estate of freedom, be disposed to assemble for the purpose of considering their own interests and their future prospects.
Blaine observes that freed African Americans naturally sought to gather and discuss their future.
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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.
The Northern people shrank from the responsibility of transferring the government of States to the control of men who had already shown themselves capable of desperate deeds.
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…
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