It was intended to overturn and tear up by the roots that doctrine which was promulgated in the Dred Scott decision by ChiefJustice Taney. it was to declare a national citizenship. that was the object of the amendment. I do not care what may have been the narrow. the selfish. or the grand purposes of any party. that was what the amendment (lid. it established a national citizenship. and made it as broad as the nation. The purpose was to declare that every man. nativeborn or naturalized. whether among the pine trees of Maine or on the golden shores of the Pacific. whether residing among the frozen lakes of the Northwest or among the orange blossoms of Florida. was a citizen. clothed in the panoply of American citizenship. A MENBER. It established "manhood suffrage."
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