There is a growing recognition of the duty and obligation of the American people to guard, protect, and defend the personal and political rights of all the people of all the States; to uphold the principles upon which rebellion was suppressed, slavery abolished, and the country saved from dismemberment and ruin.
From his autobiography, observing a growing national commitment to protecting civil rights and upholding the outcomes of the Civil War, on national duty and Reconstruction principles.
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A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.
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