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President Grant, in his message to Congress March 30th, 1870, on the
adoption of the fifteenth amendment, said:
"A measure which makes at once four millions of people voters, is
indeed a measure of greater importance than any act of the kind
from the foundation of the Government to the present time."
How could _four_ millions negroes be made voters if _two_ millions were
not included?
The California State Republican convention said:
"Among the many practical and substantial triumphs of the
principles achieved by the Republican party during the past twelve
years, it enumerated with pride and pleasure, the prohibiting of
any State from abridging the privileges of any citizen of the
Republic, the declaring the civil and political equality of every
citizen, and the establishing all these principles in the federal
constitution by amendments thereto, as the permanent law."
Benjamin F. Butler, in a recent letter to me, said:
"I do not believe anybody in Congress doubts that the Constitution
authorizes the right of women to vote, precisely as it authorizes
trial by jury and many other like rights guaranteed to citizens."
And again, General Butler said:
"It is not laws we want; there are plenty of laws--good enough,
too.
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