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these the election laws could not guard. Congress attempted
some laws to secure the Southern Republicans against such
crimes under the authority conferred by the Fourteenth Amendment
to the Constitution. But the Supreme Court held that these
laws were unconstitutional, it not appearing that the States
had by any affirmative action denied protection against such
offences to any class of their citizens by reason of race,
color, or previous condition. It was idle to expect Southern
jurors, or State officers to enforce the law against such
crimes in the condition of sentiment existing there.
Further, the people of the North would not maintain the Republican
Party in power forever on this one issue alone. They were
interested in other things. They could not be expected, year
after year, election after election, and perhaps generation
after generation, to hold together by reason of this one question,
differing on other things. So whenever the Democratic Party
should come into power it was apparent that all the vigor
would be taken out of the election laws.


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