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"I wonder if here does not lie the 'terrible wrong'...of which the woman suffragist complains. The wrongly educated woman thinks her duties a disgrace, and frets, or shirks them if she can. She sees man triumphantly pursuing his vocations, and thinks it is the kind of work he does which makes him grand and regnant; whereas it is not the kind of work at all, but the way in which, and the spirit in which, he does it"

"Even the Indians of our country, in whose welfare the president had been so deeply interested, were profoundly touched by the appalling news of his shooting… All classes, parties, and sects, except some Mormons and socialists, appeared to feel deeply the calamity

"Even the Indians of our country, in whose welfare the president had been so deeply interested, were profoundly touched by the appalling news of his shooting… All classes, parties, and sects, except some Mormons and socialists, appeared to feel deeply the calamity

Pro-slavery democrats pervaded New Hampshire, repulsing Garfield and leading him to seek employment elsewhere

Garfield expressed his contempt for slavery as, "A covenant with death, and an agreement with hell, that will destroy the authors of it. The cry of the oppressed and down-trodden will appeal to the Almighty for retribution, like that of the blood of Abel!"

Garfield expressed his contempt for slavery as, "A covenant with death, and an agreement with hell, that will destroy the authors of it. The cry of the oppressed and down-trodden will appeal to the Almighty for retribution, like that of the blood of Abel!"

"Slavery is a disgrace to the nation", he said. "People fighting to be free, and then reducing others to a worse slavery than that which they fought! It is a burning shame! "