Black and White - Land, Labor, and Politics in the South by Timothy Thomas Fortune
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such is the case at this time--that legislatures are manipulated in
the interest of a few, and that the great mass of the people feel only the burdens placed upon them by their servants, who are more properly speaking become their masters--that to such perversion of popular sovereignty we have come, is admitted by candid men. Therefore, that the people may more clearly know their rights and how best to preserve them and reap their fullest benefits, they should be instructed in the language which is the medium through which to interpret their grand _Magna Charta_. FOOTNOTES: [11] Since all sensible men know that the evil lies in a protective tariff and the bulky catalogue of monopoly. CHAPTER VI _Education--Professional or Industrial_ The "Religious Training of the Freedmen" and the "Education of the Freedmen" have raised up an army of people more _peculiar_ in many respects than any other like class in all the history of mankind. They stand off by themselves; they are not to be approached by any counter method of "advocating a cause" or "building up the Kingdom of Christ" |
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