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I suggest for your consideration the enactment of a law to better secure the civil rights which freedom should secure, but has not effectually secured, to the enfranchised slave.
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gutenberg.orgUlysses S. Grant: “I suggest for your consideration the enactment of a law to better secure the civil rights which freedom should secure…”
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Grant calls for legislation to secure civil rights for formerly enslaved individuals.
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