"...we did more than merely break the chains of the slaves. The abolition of slavery added 4 million citizens to the Republic...I know of nothing more dangerous to a republic than to put into its midst 4 million people stripped of the rights of citizenship, robbed of the
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right of representation, but bound to pay taxes to the government. If they can endure it, we cannot...I say that the inequality of rights before the law, which is now a part of our system, is more dangerous to us that to the black man whom it disfranchises. It is like
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a foreign substance in the body, a thorn in the flesh; it will wound and disease the body politic." ~Congressman James A. Garfield, "Speech on the Restoration of the Southern States," U.S. House of Representatives, Feb. 1, 1866.
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