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I will have equality or war." He denounced Mr.
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Blaine expresses a strong stance on equality and the potential for conflict over rights.
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Their success as civil magistrates, as legislators, as executives was not less marked and meritorious than their illustrious service in war.
Durant speaks of no duty, apparently thinks of none resting upon Southern Union men.
An attempt to guarantee and protect a revived State government constructed in whole or in preponderating part from the very element against whose hostility and violence it is to be protected is simply absurd.
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.
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