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Joseph A. Dugdale correspondence on women's suffrage, 1870
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tion of human rights. It is a question between aristocracy and privilege on the one hand, and Democracy on the other. It is the question between those who stand in the history and tradition of the Republic and believe in the Declaration of Independence, and those who pass by on the other side. There is no middle ground here. No man who believes in Democracy as a principle can find any decent or manly escape from this logic of that principle, in the full sweep of its application to all citizens, regardless alike of race, color, or sex. This, with me, has been not an opinion merely, but a decided conviction, ever since I first gave the subject my attention twenty odd years ago. Hence it was that I proposed in the last Congress, as I have done in the present, a six-
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tion of human rights. It is a question between aristocracy and privilege on the one hand, and Democracy on the other. It is the question between those who stand in the history and tradition of the Republic and believe in the Declaration of Independence, and those who pass by on the other side. There is no middle ground here. No man who believes in Democracy as a principle can find any decent or manly escape from this logic of that principle, in the full sweep of its application to all citizens, regardless alike of race, color, or sex. This, with me, has been not an opinion merely, but a decided conviction, ever since I first gave the subject my attention twenty odd years ago. Hence it was that I proposed in the last Congress, as I have done in the present, a six-
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