M _____ , John: St. Louis, Missouri, to James Alphonsus McMaster: New York, New York, 1865 July 18
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Rev. Henry Ward Beecher knows that the Southern country is a fine place to make money. No money can be made out of the white population, but there is money in the negro. The Yankees can make something out of him. Chief Justice Chase has been paving the way for negro suffrage there. Although Oberlin, Ohio has had a negro college for 30 years, there is still no suffrage for negroes in Ohio. David Dale Owen advocates negro voting in the South, but the State of Indiana forbids a negro living in the state, as does the constitution of Illinois. Clipping from the Hartford, Connecticut, Press giving extract from speech by Henry Ward Beecher, in which he says that the blacks are kings and princes now, and he does not know what will become of the whites who are too lazy to work :: I-1-m - A.L.S.clipping - 2pp. - 8vo. - 2
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- Creation: 1865 July 18
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English.
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