Whitelaw Reid: “It is my firm conviction, that suffrage is not only the best security…”

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

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Whitelaw Reid

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Reid asserts that suffrage is crucial for freedom and societal improvement.

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It seems to me, then, idle to thresh over old straw when the grain is not only winnowed, but gone to the mill.

Isn’t it better to have the laws in some way take the matter out of their hands and make them work?

That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.

We are all washed under, and the most of us only live peaceable lives by the sufferance of our Rebel neighbors.

Whitelaw Reid: “It is my firm conviction, that suffrage is not only the best security for freedom, but the most potent agent of…”