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Show The Kurt of a Chapter In American Hlatory. New York KvenlnK Post. ' When a man has emerged from slavery," sla-very," said the supreme oourt of the United States in annulling for unconstitutionality uncon-stitutionality the civil rights aot, "and by the aid of boneficicnt legislation has shaken off the iuseperable concomitants of that stage, there must be some stage in the progress of his elevation when takes the rank of a mere citizen and ceases to be the special favtirite of the laws, and when his rights as- a citien or a man are to be protected in the ordinary or-dinary modes by which other men's rights are protected." The rejectiou of the force bill means that his "stage" has been reached, and consequently that "tho mission of the republican party" has been discharged. The future of political organizations caunot be forecast, but Senator Hoar is right in regarding the action in tho senate sen-ate as ending a chapter in our history. |