The Southern States. as well as the Northern and Western States. agreed at the end of the struggle that slavery should be abolished. and we put into the Constitution a provision that forever guaranteed the abolition. Then the negro had taken one more step. From a. slave he was a freedman without the rights of a citizen. Then followed a proposition by Congress to the States to adopt the fourteenth amendment. That amendment declared him to be a citizen. In other words. it declared all pqrsons born or naturalized in the United States to be citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. Then the negro had made one more advance step. From being a freedman hewasnow acitizen.
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