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To recognize an insurgent as a belligerent is not to recognize him as fully the equal of the government from which he secedes.
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Blaine discusses the implications of recognizing insurgents in a legal context during the Civil War.
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The deep-seated prejudice against color is assiduously cultivated by the public journals and leads to acts of cruelty, oppression, and murder, which the local authorities are at no pains to prevent or punish.
I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
It is to the eminent credit of the Republican members of Congress that they stood in a crisis of this magnitude true to principle, firm against all the power and all the patronage of the Administration.
But in the treatment of the colored man, now proposed, there was absolute heartlessness and rank injustice.
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