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This simple remedy, easily enforced by Congress, would have secured the right of all persons, without distinction of race or color, to vote at all elections.
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He proposes a straightforward solution for Congress to ensure voting rights for all, regardless of race.
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Resolved, That the Democratic party will resist all attempts at renewing in Congress, or out of it, the agitation of the slavery question, under whatever shape or color the attempt may be made.
God forbid that the despots of the Old World should ever adorn their infernal logic by pointing to a disrupted Union here!
I have given my views, speaking for no other man, frankly and fearlessly, and I will stand by them now and in the future.
The policy of this country ought to be to make everything national as far as possible.
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