He was, in effect, approving disenfranchisement of the poor and ignorant in both races.
Although both major parties complained about this disenfranchisement and condemned it as being unconstitutional, neither party took any action.
When he spoke before the Congressional comittee early in 1895, he expressed his opposition to disenfranchisement on a racial basis.
The reason was that some persisted in disregarding the disenfranchisement stated as a penalty for such conduct.
We protest against the subjection and disenfranchisement of woman as injurious to society, destructive of morals, corrupting to politics, and a reproach to civilization.
That the disenfranchisement of the women of '76 destroyed the moral guarantee of a pure republic, or that their enfranchisement would early have broken the chains of the slave, I may not now discuss.
