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Source: Senator Lot Morrill (R-Maine), speech in Congress, February 1, 1866.
I admit that this species of legislation [Civil Rights Act of 1866] is absolutely revolutionary. But are we not in
the midst of a revolution? Is the Senator from Kentucky utterly oblivious to the grand results of four years of
war? Are we not in the midst of a civil and political revolution which has changed the fundamental principles of
our government in some respects?... There was a civilization based on servitude. . . . Where is that? . . . Gone
forever.... We have revolutionized this Constitution of ours to that extent and every substantial change in the
fundamental constitution of a country is a revolution.
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Transcribed Image Text:Document F Source: Senator Lot Morrill (R-Maine), speech in Congress, February 1, 1866. I admit that this species of legislation [Civil Rights Act of 1866] is absolutely revolutionary. But are we not in the midst of a revolution? Is the Senator from Kentucky utterly oblivious to the grand results of four years of war? Are we not in the midst of a civil and political revolution which has changed the fundamental principles of our government in some respects?... There was a civilization based on servitude. . . . Where is that? . . . Gone forever.... We have revolutionized this Constitution of ours to that extent and every substantial change in the fundamental constitution of a country is a revolution.
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