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By James Garfield
There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.
- Source
- Inaugural Address, March 4, 1881 · Inaugural Address, p. 790
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- Internet Archive (scan of The Works of James Abram Garfield, vol. II, ed. Burke A. Hinsdale, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883, the original edition)
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From James A. Garfield's Inaugural Address, delivered March 4, 1881, in his passage on the rights of the freed slaves as citizens. The text is from the 1883 edition of his collected works.