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The New York Evening Post Sick Of The Negro

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Day
1
Month
September
Year
1865
Copyright
Public Domain
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The New York Evening .Post has a . very remavkable leading arliolo, oomI uieüting upon a proposition Tiiade by . Geu. Scheuck to disturb the present ! basis of representatioD by changing it i from population to voterp,, and says : " Special legislutiou for particular or exceptional cases is almost aUvays misebievous, and the poliey proposud by Mr. Sühenck, wbüe uudoubtedly it is iuduced by a special case, ouht to bo1 examinud upon its genorul luerita and its relations to general principies. We havo liad ennugb special legixlation on account of the negros. IA.r huif a centnry no important poliey could bo adopted without ÏQ fome way being limited or changed iu ita appltca'tioa to tho slavory cjuestion. 'J'o use a western phrase, there was a negro in every wood-pilo. We hope we are nearly done with special legislatioo, uud witb tho negro question."

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Old News
Michigan Argus