If the Negro knows enough to pay taxes to support the government, he knows enough to vote; taxation and representation should go together. If he knows enough to shoulder a musket and fight for the flag, fight for the government, he knows enough to vote.
Abolitionist, orator
Speech "What the Black Man Wants" at the Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in Boston
1865
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