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If you shrink from giving the ballot to a few thousand negroes at home, it was asked, why do you insist that it should be conferred on millions in the South?
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
This rhetorical question challenges the inconsistency in attitudes toward voting rights for African Americans.
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