Nearly three-fourths of the voters of the State withheld it in 1846; and, six years after President Lincoln's emancipation proclamation, when the black soldier had served his country throughout the Civil War with a fidelity and courage that awoke the strongest emotions of a patriotic people, it was again refused.
This passage discusses the significant resistance to granting voting rights to black citizens even after the Civil War.
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Perhaps, on the whole, nothing in Van Buren's official life showed greater political courage or discernment.
And, Governor Seward, I have made it, though it be conceited in me to say so.
Of imposing appearance, he looked like a man formed to rule.
But Tilden, conscious of the need of an anti-Tweed legislature, had surmised the Ring's plan as early as Tweed devised it, and he replied with firmness that everything beside the legislative ticket was of minor importance to him.
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