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Suffrage without education is an edged tool in the hands of a child,--dangerous to others and destructive to himself.
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Blaine warns that granting suffrage without education can be dangerous and harmful.
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The feeling in many portions of the country toward the emancipated slaves, especially among the ignorant and uneducated, is one of vindictive and malicious hatred.
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.
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