They know if they can once divest the Negro of the elective franchise and nullify his citizenship, the partition wall between him and slavery will no longer exist, and no man can tell where the reaction will stop.
He warns that stripping Black people of their voting rights would lead to a regression to slavery-like conditions.
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The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.
Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.
It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.