The Policy of Congress in Reference to the Restoration of the Union
The Policy of Congress in Reference to the Restoration of the Union
1867 1869 Republican Congressional Committee
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By the acts of the 2d of March, and of the 23d of March, 18G7, provision is made for the enjoyment of the right of voting by all mnle citizens, twenty-one years of age, except, those who have been convicted of felony and a small class of rebtls who are excluded from office by the third article of the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The negroes of the South by the measures of the Republican party, as ex- pressed in thcseactsof Congress, are elevated to the full and e...qual rights of citizens of the States to which they belong, and of the country which hereafter will recognize no distinctions on account of race or color. The nation is indebted to the negro race for services rendeied during the late war ; the negro race is indebted to the country, controlled in its policy by the Republican party, for the emancipation of the race from slavery, and now, by these acts of Congress, for its elevation to a position of equality. From these reciprocal services arise mutual obligations and dntieo.
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