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force. It bought and sold Ins body like a chattel. It denied him all education. It did not even recognize him as.a man. It plunged the country into the horrors of an awful civil War, and sought to destroy the National Government in order that it might perpetuate this infamous, and unholy, and cruel system of human bondage. Its efforts did not cease with the defeat of the South and the emancipation of the black man from Demo ratio bondage. It has steadily opposed every measure instituted by the Republicans to secure the negro m his simple' \ts. It has attempted, in theSoath, to j away Ins right of suffrage, to prevent his education, apd to strip him of all rights in property; It has organised its followers into Dnditti, and White I*eagnes, and Ku-Klux Ktens, which have hunted and murdered him, and established a reign of terror in many of the Southern States. The Republican
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Harvard Independent
Harvard, Illinois, US
Wed, Dec 15, 1875
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