Whitelaw Reid: “We’ll unite with the opposition up North, and between us we’ll make a…”

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We’ll unite with the opposition up North, and between us we’ll make a majority.

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Reid discusses the potential political alliance between Southern and Northern opposition groups post-war.

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Our national experience has demonstrated that public order reposes most securely on the broad base of universal suffrage.

It has proved, also, that universal suffrage is the surest guarantee and most powerful stimulus of individual, social and political progress.

It is my firm conviction, that suffrage is not only the best security for freedom, but the most potent agent of amelioration and civilization.

And it is both natural and right that colored Americans, entitled to the rights of citizens, should claim their exercise.

Whitelaw Reid: “We’ll unite with the opposition up North, and between us we’ll make a majority.”