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“My course is a firm assertion and maintenance of the rights of the colored people of the South according to the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, coupled with a readiness to recognize all Southern people, without regard to past political conduct, who will now go with me heartily and in good faith in support of these principles.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)
“No man is good enough to govern another man, without that others consent. I say this is the leading principlethe sheet anchor of American republicanism.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)
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